{"id":15542,"date":"2012-01-31T09:08:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T14:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=15542"},"modified":"2012-01-31T09:08:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T14:08:22","slug":"what-weve-all-been-waiting-for-a-muslim-friendly-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/what-weve-all-been-waiting-for-a-muslim-friendly-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"What we\u2019ve all been waiting for: a Muslim-friendly Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If a Muslim gave me a Christian-friendly Koran, I would congratulate him on doubting his faith and hand him a New Testament. Why anyone thinks that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2012\/01\/new-bible-yanks-father-jesus-as-son-of-god\/\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> would earn anything but contempt from Muslims is beyond me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>now there is a major controversy developing as the latest altered Bibles are being created by organizations that most would think of as being more conservative and reasonable. At the forefront of the controversy are the Wycliffe Bible Translators, the Summer Institute of Linguistics and Frontiers, all of which are producing Bible translations that remove or modify terms which they have deemed offensive to Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right: Muslim-friendly Bibles.<\/p>\n<p>Included in the controversial development is the removal of any references to God as \u201cFather,\u201d to Jesus as the \u201cSon\u201d or \u201cthe Son of God.\u201d One example of such a change can be seen in an Arabic version of the Gospel of Matthew produced and promoted by Frontiers and SIL. It changes Matthew 28:19 from this:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cbaptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit\u201d<\/p>\n<p>to this:<\/p>\n<p>\u201ccleanse them by water in the name of Allah, his Messiah and his Holy Spirit.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a Muslim gave me a Christian-friendly Koran, I would congratulate him on doubting his faith and hand him a New Testament. Why anyone thinks that this would earn anything but contempt from Muslims is beyond me: now there is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/what-weve-all-been-waiting-for-a-muslim-friendly-bible\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[2178],"class_list":["post-15542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","tag-islam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}