The Message Bible

[Ryan Thames]

We don't need a NEW Bible!!! The Holy Bible is refreshing! It is alive! Much of the language used in The Message is just plain vulgar. Warren W. Wiersbe accurately described the tone of The Message when he called it the "…boldest and most provocative rendering of the New Testatment…" he had ever read! The language used in The Message is not the language of a Christian. It is the language of darkness and depravity. I have heard throughout my Christian walk of people using different versions of the Bible to understand it better and to make it more of an easy-to-read book. Be careful!! Not every translation of the Bible stays true to what the original text was intended to say. If you have trouble understanding the King James Version of the Holy Bible, I encourage you to use the New King James Version, which does not pervert the Word of God, but simply removes some of the Old English language.

In order for you to see what I am talking about, here are some excerpts from the Holy Bible from the King James Version and from The Message. See for yourself how vulgar, sick, and twisted the Word of God has become in this translation. I would not even call this a Bible. It is a disgrace.

Ezekiel 16:24
King James: "That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street."
The Message: "At every major intersection you built your bold brothels and exposed your very *friendly* persontish sex, spreading your legs for everyone who passed by."

Jeremiah 8:14
King James: "Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD."
The Message: "So why are we sitting here, doing nothing? Let's get organized. Let's go the big city and at least die fighting. We've gotten God's ultimatum: We're damned if we do and damned if we don't – damned because of our sin against him."

Psalms 68:6
King James: "God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land."
The Message: "Father of orphans, champion of widows, is God in his holy house. God makes homes for the homeless, leads prisoners to freedom, but leaves rebels to rot in hell."

Lamentations 3:47
King James: "Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction."
The Message: "We've been to hell and back. We've nowhere to turn, nowhere to go."

Acts 8:20
King James: "But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money."
The Message: "Peter said, "To hell with your money! And you along with it. Why, that's unthinkable – trying to buy God's gift!"

Ezekiel 23:49
King James: "And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD."
The Message: "I'll put an end to very *friendly* persontish sex in this country so that all women will be well warned and not copy you. You'll pay the price for all your obsessive sex. You'll pay in full for your promiscuous affairs with idols. And you'll realize that I am God, the Master. (note New Age term, "Master")

Hosea 4:19
King James: "The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices."
The Message: "When the beer runs out, it's sex, sex, and more sex. Bold and sordid debauchery – how they love it! The whirlwind has them in its clutches. Their sex-worship leaves them finally impotent."

Hosea 2:10
King James: "And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand."
The Message: "I'll expose her genitals to the public. All her fly-by-night lovers will be helpless to help her. Party time is over. I'm calling a halt to the whole business, her wild weekends and unholy holidays."

Proverbs 1:11
King James: "If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause."
The Message: "If they say – "Let's go out and raise some hell. Let's beat up some old man, mug some old woman. Let's pick them clean and get them ready for their funerals."

Jeremiah 5:7
King James: "How shall I pardon thee for this? Thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses."
The Message: "Why should I even bother with you any longer? Your children wander off, leaving me, Taking up with gods that aren't even gods. I satisfied their deepest needs, and then they went off with the 'sacred' sleepers, left me for orgies in sex shrines!"

These are just a few of the vulgar, distorted scriptures that are in THE MESSage Bible. I hope you will warn your brothers and sisters in Christ of the dangers of this gross translation. God's Word is holy and pure and we must keep it that way.

[Eric Williamson]

THANK YOU!!

I can not stand the Message "Bible." And I hate how on the front of them (some of them at least, don't know if all) it just says "The Book." It's not just some book. It's God's Holy Word. When my wife and I got together she was doing a good deal of her reading from one of those, but luckily I was able to explain to her that they are just not right.

I agree, if you have difficulties reading the King James Version, please give the New King James version a try, as it only makes small grammatical changes.

Some of the things, like those listed above, in the Message Bible are basically heresy IMHO.

[Robert Bishop]

Is it possible that satan cant stop the word so the next best thing in this country is to twist it in many diferent versions to confuse those who dont know any better?

[Robert Bishop]

REV 22 verse 18and19

[Bob Paradis]

Pretty sad stuff!

[Johnny Edwards]

I think that is Blasphemy!

[Ryan Thames]

I have a friend who preaches from the message, he said its easier to understand....HA

The purpose driven life endorses and qoutes the message bible......infact it qoutes 15 different version of the bible so that it is easier to twist and manipulate the word.

[Brittany Bordelon]

The Message also uses the term "Master Jesus" repeatedly, which is very New Age terminology.

Also, how can anything"innocent" (the Message) completely fail to recognize Jesus as "Lord"? In the King James translation of the Bible, "Lord" occures 7,970 times, more than any other noun, but The Message only says "Lord" 71 times. In the King James version, the phrase "Lord Jesus" occurs 118 times, and the phrase, "Lord Jesus Christ," occurs 84 times. Neither of these occurs in the Message at all!

[Ryan Thames]

other religions look at jesus as a master, but not as god, lord or savior.

[Eric Williamson]

Ryan do you listen to JSM (Son Life Radio)?
My dad has it playing at the house throughout almost the entire day while he's working in the yard etc. They have some helpful teachings regarding things such as this!

[Brittany Bordelon]

Hey Eric, Ryan won't be up for another hour so I figured I would go ahead and answer your question. Yes, he does listen to Sonlife Radio. The main station is actually right down the road from us and we have just begun attending Family Worship Center. The magazine that they have been distributing (The Evangelist) has been doing an extensive study on the Message bible and all it's garbage.

[Ryan Thames]

YEa we attend that church whenever we can.......you might not like jimmy swaggert for whatever reason....you might disagree with his opinions on a few issues...but noone can argue that he isnt preaching the word and preachin the gospel as it should be preached.


www.jsm.org

[Ryan Thames]

i bet you and brittany hear the same station she isnt far from you , she is in ruston