An Anglicostal Connecting to a Real World
The average “Bible consumer” owns NINE Bibles and is looking for more! (Guilty as charged!)
“This a mute but powerful testimony to a deep and abiding sense of LACK — a sense that we have not really achieved a grasp of the Bible that is adequate to our needs.” (Richard Foster, Life with God)
The man has a point. I think I have 16 or 17 in my collection, and all that time I was looking for “the” Bible, the one that said everything the way I wanted and the one that made everything clear.
Now I’m using my 2011 NIV nearly all the time, and I have lost most of that desire for new translations, because I figure the NIV is probably as close as I’m going to get. Now I’m satisfied.
But now I wonder what would happen if somebody came out with another new one that seemed to be even better. Would I have to get one of those, too?
I like to read a variety of translations – particularly when reading the psalms.
As do I. I think Foster’s point is more to our lack of reading while we accumulate stuff and LOOK like we’re reading. (And, while I have multiple translations, I ALSO have several copies of particular translations… I just collect Bibles! lol)
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