{"id":6633,"date":"2004-08-26T13:20:55","date_gmt":"2004-08-26T18:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/08\/26\/the-holy-pidgeon\/"},"modified":"2004-08-26T13:20:55","modified_gmt":"2004-08-26T18:20:55","slug":"the-holy-pidgeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/08\/the-holy-pidgeon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Holy Pidgeon?"},"content":{"rendered":"

After Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist, he saw ‘‘the Spirit descending upon him like a dove; and a voice came from heaven, ‘Thou art my beloved Son; with thee I am well pleased”’ (Mark 1:10-11, Revised Standard Version).<\/p>\n

Compare that with this new translation:<\/p>\n

‘‘A pigeon flew down and perched on him. Jesus took this as a sign that God’s Spirit was with him. A voice from overhead was heard saying, ‘That’s my boy!”’<\/p>\n

There are many such chatty or doctrinally denuded passages in ‘‘Good as New: A Radical Retelling of the Scriptures” (O Books), an exceedingly loose New Testament paraphrase by Britain’s John Henson, a fundamentalist-hating Baptist. [Source<\/a>]<\/p>\n

I have covered the "Good as New" Bible in the past <\/a>but I didn’t see the above quote before and that is pretty whacked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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