(CIEF-Chile, November 19, 2006) A group of 52 "biblical specialists" has released a politically correct German Bible called "The Bible in a More Just Language." It uses inclusive language to refer to God as "our Mother and Father" and replaces the title "Lord" with "the Eternal One." It is designed to remove language that is offensive to homosexuals, feminists, and other "marginalized" groups. Luise Metzler, who raised 400,000 euros to finance the project said, "A Bible in the German language has to be sensitive about racism and ethnic discrimination..." ("German Bible in Inclusive Language," Ecumenical News International, Nov. 1, 2006).

The new "translation" appeared on "Reformation Day" (October 1) and the first run of 20,000 copies quickly sold out. Lutheran bishop Baerbel Wartenberg-Potter welcomed the new "translation," saying, "The Bible is not a museum but a living book." Wartenberg-Potter is the wife of Philip Potter, the former general secretary of the World Council of Churches, and in the year 2000 became the third woman elected to the office of bishop in the Lutheran Church in Germany. It is appropriate that this "Bible" was produced in Germany, the birthplace of theological modernism.

It illustrates the complete lack of the fear of God on the part of large numbers of professing Christians today and is a fulfillment of Bible prophecy. "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables" (2 Timothy 4:3-4). The "Bible in a More Just Language" is not more perverted than The Message and The Today's English Bible and The New Living Bible and other "dynamic equivalency" versions used by Southern Baptist mega-church pastor Rick Warren and other influential evangelical
leaders.

Friday Church News Notes, November 17, 2006, www.wayoflife.org