The Voice - The Word
Ok… I have found how The Voice are going to retell the story of God into a narrative:
A careful process is followed to assure that the spiritual, emotional, and artistic goals of the project are met. First, the retelling of the Bible has been designed to be readable and enjoyable by emphasizing the narrative nature of Scripture. Beyond being simply a set of accurately translated individual words, phrases, and sentences, we have asked our teams to render the biblical texts with sensitivity to the flow of the unfolding story. We asked them to see themselves not only as guardians of the sacred text, but also as story tellers, because we believe that the Bible has always been intended to be heard as the sacred story of the people of God.
Artistic goals… does that imply artistic license… it would have to wouldn’t it? And this bit about being guardians of the text… I thought that God was to keep His promise about His Word being unchanged. Isn’t God the guardian of His Word. If artistic license is brought into it, then this should be classed as a novel, or at best mans interpretation of what he/she considers to be Gods story to mankind.
It certainly won’t be God’s Word to man, but rather mans understanding of a story about God.
This is in no way the bible, it is a narrative… they are right in saying that!
Their premise as stated is that this narrative is the way that God intended His Word to be understood in the first place, when they say:
[...] we believe that the Bible has always been intended to be heard as the sacred story of the people of God.
I thought the main point and the focus of the bible was to point to Jesus and His work done on the cross - not the story about the people of God - but Jesus and His purpose for being on this earth.
Or maybe I am like others who seem Old Hat and behind the times because I believe that all scripture is God breathed and is inspired by God and can be used for reproof and correction, instruction etc. If it is brought down to mans narrative and made into a story, then no longer can scripture be used to correct or reproof because it is all under mans scrutiny as it is looking through the lens of mans traditions and stories and interpretations. As their web-site implies … this book is only a narrative a story, therefore not the bible at all.
