In a message dated 8/10/2002 2:10:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Subj:Just wondering? > Date:8/10/2002 2:10:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time > From:<A HREF="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</A> > > Hi folks, > Got a newspaper clipping from sister Martha in Kings Mountain, NC that > appeared in one of their local papers, - "The Shelby Star" of Shelby, NC, > on August 2, 2002. > > The article under the title "Eugene Peterson parapharases the Bible in > every day language" written by Tom Laceky, Associated Prfess Writer -- > > I wont quote the full article, but in the text is '2' paragraphs as > follows: > > quote: .... "Vern Poythress, a New Testament professor at Westminister > Theological Seminary in Glenside, Pa., says he and fellow conservatives may > quibble with many of Peterson's renderings but have leveled few attacks > because "The Message" isn't a Bible and isn't presented as such. > He sees it as useful for evangelism amoung people who know nothing > about the Bible, so long as they realize it's merely one writer's > interpretation of the biblical message. He says Peterson's work is at the > far end of the spectrum, not only in paraphrasing but coltural updating." > .........unquote > Now my Dad would say "Vern, being a professor at a seminary simply could > not have been any kin of his!" > > What say you folks? Any connections with this fellow that you know of? > Bud > > > Bud: nope not a chance he is kin to we Pharisees. I even asked him once. > His name is all over just about any search engine you can find. He is > widely published and very much in the thick of matters theological which > are usually a free for all among academics. I would be proud to claim kinship given his theology. He is so conservative he actually uses good King James' version and eschews the new, modern and revised (aka Hip Hop) Bible. Maynard