Ok. Get your barf bags ready. Take your heart pills. Get some cold water. I have something that will make you want to go crazy.

There is a relatively new “Bible” out that depicts Jesus Christ as a woman named “Judith Christ of Nazareth”…… I know, I know, you want to jump out your window into oncoming traffic right now. But don’t do that just yet. PR Newswire reports on the revision of the Gospels titled “Judith Christ of Nazareth, The Gospels of the Bible, Corrected to Reflect that Christ Was a Woman, Extracted from Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.” This new “translation” is supposed to be empowering to women. The only changes made to the texts were to Jesus’ name and his gender.

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Sorry, I gagged.

Anyway, you ought to take a look at this, because this is an example of the direction that liberals want to take believers. To liberals, Scripture exists for them to manipulate as they see fit in order to suit their desires and/or lifestyle. There is no objective reality to Scripture. It is not historic. It is not inspired or authoritative. It is not special revelation. To these people Scripture is merely a tool that they they subject for their personal use. I actually feel sad for these people because of what God has in store for them. The Bible is clear on the penalty for addition to or removal from the words of Scripture – “I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to that person the plagues described in this book; 19if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away that person’s share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.” (Revelation 22:18-19) Only in a postmodern world would critics move from debating the words stated in the Bible to recreating them altogether.

With all that said, I doubt that this recent version will have any lasting effect. It will appeal to a small niche of power-hungry liberal women, but other than that who would give this the light of day?

Thank-you LBI Institute for the comic relief!

Check out the Agape Press’ take here and here.