I recently heard from a friend that Talarico’s leftist church – the St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas — told its parishioners to throw away their Bibles and purchase the “Inclusive Bible” by the Priests for Equality, which was quite an odd translation of the Bible.
I first confirmed Talarico preached there:
I then confirmed it uses the Inclusive Bible:
I then looked up that “bible” and whoa, is it weird:
I flipped through it just briefly:
Adam is an “it” the “first creature” until Eve is created, the first human.
Marriage is not between a “man and woman” but between “two persons”.
God is seldom “the Father” but “your Parent”.
Well, except for garbage like this:
“It is God the only Child, who is close to the bosom of the Father-Mother…” (“~John” 1:18) (or in the later version “bosom of Abba”) “Abba” literally means “daddy” in Aramaic/Hebrew, but I guess it’s OK to use non-English words to hide that. They probably think it’s kinky.
Proverbs, which is largely about young men’s proper behavior, is so gutted and weakened I can’t make heads or tales of it.
The Holy Spirit (which is technically an “it” in the Greek, so any gendered English translation has issues) is a “she” throughout the Gospel of John. I guess that’s no less accurate than “he”, but that’s the female gender bias throughout.
And this female-centric bend continues throughout. Women are generally listed before men in genealogies, for example.
Or like this in “~Genesis 1:27” the phrase “male and female” becomes “female and male”. It doesn’t matter, I suppose. But why the change from the original Hebrew? Equality? Or because women are better?
In fact, women are generally elevated over men throughout the translation. It’s not “inclusive”. It’s misandrist. For example, Paul address in letters is changed to “sisters and brothers”.
And men are generally erased:
“Son of Man” becomes “the Human One”.
“Son of God” becomes “the Chosen One”.
“Don’t call anyone on earth your ‘Mother’ or ‘Father.’ You have only one Parent—our loving God in heaven. (The original text says “Father”.)
Ephesians had this gem “to those of you in a committed relationship” and erases both male and female. (It’s supposed to be about marriage. My only surprise is it didn’t say “top” and “bottom”.)
I can’t even figure out what 1 Peter instructions for a household says. I think it says “the woman is the boss”.
The “Whore of Babylon” is, well, go read it (or not) yourself.
TLDR: Talrico’s preferred Bible does its best to erase men or sex. Promotes women over men. And is super gay and weird. It’s like if Disney under Kathleen Kennedy wrote the Bible: “put a chick in it and make it gay and lame.”
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