Accused of Heresy

Joel Watts has accused me of heresy. I know what you’re thinking: “This is news?!” Of course I’m a heretic.

But I must dispute the reason for the accusation. It is mere sleight of hand. He suggests that I described 1996 New Living Translation of the Bible as boring. In fact, I described its title as boring, and I stand by that.

The title under which this particular edition was published was The Book.

Yawn.

The title is about as non-descript and uninteresting as a title could be (although this one is more boring in a strictly literal sense). The contents of the aforementioned translation of the Bible, however, as far as I know, contain all the violence, sex, and other things readers tend to find interesting in books. Indeed, the NLT seems to add explicit mention of sex in passages where other translations lack it – and that’s not at all boring!

At any rate, I also have my doubts about the truthfulness of one other statement Joel Watts made in that same post. He wrote: “I don’t ask this question lightly…” Ha!  🙂