Re: Bible Translations: Which do You Use? Your Church?

Incidentally, I found this rather interesting webpage on the subject
-- presented by a certain Rev. Keith H. McIlwain, apparently a
Wesleyan pastor (?):

http://www.geocities.com/pastorkeith/bible_translations.html

"Pastor Keith's" main page:

http://www.geocities.com/pastorkeith/atonement.html

Though I am hardly in a position to evaluate his individual numeric
ratings of the different versions -- I simply note two things about
his treatment that (to me) are interesting:

1) He seems to have positive things to say about most of the
translations -- if he maintained that all but one of them are the work
of the devil, I would be less convinced of his objectivity!

2) His "Dynamic Equivalence" continuum (in the arrow graphic:
http://www.geocities.com/pastorkeith/bible_translations.jpg ) is
interesting. I am certainly more interested in "thought for thought"
accuracy than "word for word" accuracy.

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Brett
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