I believe today's NLT is a new and (much) improved version over The Way.
Unity and Uniformity 2
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Hello MM;
The Way was published by Tyndale and circulated back in 1972, and was connected (inspired?) by the Living Bible. Wasn't The Way a Bible used during the Jesus People Movement and Teen Challenge of the early 70's?
From what I may remember it was a "watered down" "casual language" version of the Bible.
I honestly don't know much about The Way but I feel this version of the Bible does not really challenge the serious student of the Word. But to defend this translation, if it brings a believer closer to Christ?
Any other thoughts?
I believe the author was Kenneth Taylor who originally wrote for his children to understand.
I thought The Way International was the organization that put out The Way Bible. Hmm. Well, that was a long time ago.
Not sure, but those who became followers of Jesus Christ were spoken of as belonging to “The Way,” that is, they kept a way of life centered on faith in Jesus Christ,
Back in '73, they gave me a Bible that said "The Way" on the front cover, but I never read it since I was already in BMA (Bible Memory Association), which had all the weekly series of memory verses in each booklet we had to memorize and recite each and every week. The more advanced booklets had more verses per week for us to memorize, which we did so that we could go to the BMA camps, one in Louisiana and another in Michigan.
Boy, those were the days...
MM
If any thing, being a paraphrase, The Way would have messed up your memory regimen since it read so much different from the other major translations.
Ahhh yes. The good old days. No A/C in school, out houses for bathrooms, spam for lunch, and supper, going to the well 5 times a day for water....
Boy do I miss those good old days.....
.Ahhh yes. The good old days. No A/C in school, out houses for bathrooms, spam for lunch, and supper, going to the well 5 times a day for water....
Boy do I miss those good old days.....
My grandparents still had an outhouse, with a seat that, if not utilized properly, could give one splinters, while the chickens clucked and pecking around outside. Had to watch out for one mean old rooster that loved to go around flogging people with its spurs. I remember the night he became dinner after flogging my little sister...
There was a children's Bible that the publishers decided not to call a Bible at all but they named it Level 66.
?!
For 66 books of the Bible...
Reading many youth Bibles now I cringe at how some of the commentary talks down to children. Also for some reason, publishers think that if they put cartoons in a Bible or a bright cover on it but leave the rest of the Bible as it is, with heaps of footnotes and maybe a few stick figures, it makes it appealing for children.
No no no.
Publishers seem to have no idea how children go about reading the Bible. If they add EXTRA stuff to it, it's just even MORE to read.
?!
For 66 books of the Bible...
Reading many youth Bibles now I cringe at how some of the commentary talks down to children. Also for some reason, publishers think that if they put cartoons in a Bible or a bright cover on it but leave the rest of the Bible as it is, with heaps of footnotes and maybe a few stick figures, it makes it appealing for children.
No no no.
Publishers seem to have no idea how children go about reading the Bible. If they add EXTRA stuff to it, it's just even MORE to read.
And the outhouses were clearly marked GIRLS and BOYS.Ahhh yes. The good old days. No A/C in school, out houses for bathrooms, spam for lunch, and supper, going to the well 5 times a day for water....
Boy do I miss those good old days.....
Can I pick up LEVEL 66 on Amazon? LOL
Not out there among the country folk...
Just an expression stating they knew the difference back then.
Understood. When it came to the country folk like my grandparents, one size fit all when it came to the outhouse.
My grandpa especially hated it when it came time shell out some money to call the "outhouse specialists" of his day who brought the "digger" out to dig a new hole, move the shack over the new hole, and bury the old one over with the soil from the new hole.
MM
Plumber phobia never changes.
Not in the Promised Land! There was only ONE and it had ONE door.
and it swung only ONE WAY!
Correct.
Ahhh yes. The good old days. No A/C in school, out houses for bathrooms, spam for lunch, and supper, going to the well 5 times a day for water....
Boy do I miss those good old days.....
Before electric water fountains were invented, the kids lined up after recess and lunch just to drink lukewarm to cold water.
I didn't know permanent outhouses hired a "specialists digger" but that makes sense. I always thought a wagon or "today's truck" would come out and empty the toilet basin.
There is a sense of unity and uniformity in this and The Way it used to be. lol!