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Originally Posted by TheLegalist
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Yes, refreshing. More than once, have I read a verse into The Message that accentuated the emotion and relevance in a passage that included things so far removed from my present reality. Refreshing for sure.
Your link is from an advocacy group, whose soul purpose is anti-ecumenicalism. I have no problem with it. Let them poke and prod into Peterson's qualifications. I can tell you, there are many scholars who use his remarkable work, that many refer to as a bridge between a translation and a paraphrase (intellgent paraphrase it is called).
Way to Google search criticisms of The Message though (seekinggod was the first group that popped up). At the end of the day, they only have questions. No concrete info. Similar to our thread about DKB and LS.
Peterson, prior to the message, authored almost 30 booksseveral of which were Gold Medallion winners. One of them
A Long Obedience in the Same Direction is an award-winning book on Biblical interpretation.
From Wikipedia, Peterson's own reasoning behind his 9-year project:
While I was teaching a class on Galatians, I began to realize that the adults in my class weren't feeling the vitality and directness that I sensed as I read and studied the New Testament in its original Greek. Writing straight from the original text, I began to attempt to bring into English the rhythms and idioms of the original language. I knew that the early readers of the New Testament were captured and engaged by these writings and I wanted my congregation to be impacted in the same way. I hoped to bring the New Testament to life for two different types of people: those who hadn't read the Bible because it seemed too distant and irrelevant and those who had read the Bible so much that it had become 'old hat.'[1]
His handling of many verses is up to par of some of the greatest exegetes (many of whom he referenced), yet his gift with bringing a meaningful, timeless message into the present is to be commended.
No one has suggested on this thread that The Message should be used as a Bible Study tool.
So anyhow, still not sure why "refreshing" caused you to cackle so loudly.