Frank Turk at Team Pyro takes on the TNIV today:

The NIV takes some liberty with the literal source text — for the sake of communicating idioms or putting some statements into modern day terms. I guess there’s not much wrong with that if you understand that it is going on.

But TNIV has a problem in that it seems to make no assumptions about inspiration in applying its translation methodology. Rather than striking a balance between dynamic equivalence and formal equivalence, it veers toward paraphrastic or idiomatic translation which abjectly removes significant meanings from the text and replaces them with other less-precise meanings.”

And Jim Bublitz at Old Truth tackles subject of the broad spectrum of bible translations today, as well:

My first bible (over 20 years ago) was a Living Bible, and I remember how dramatic the differences were when I finally gave that up for the NIV. It left me scratching my head saying “the bible doesn’t even say what I thought it said in some parts”.

Me? I use the NKJV, because I think it’s a nice middle ground between the poetry of the KJV and the readability and accuracy of a modern translation. I also use NASB and ESV for study, as well, and sometimes the NCV.

John MacArthur comments at Pulpit Magazine on The Faith of the Evolutionist:

The notion that natural evolutionary processes can account for the origin of all living species has never been and never will be established as fact. Nor is it “scientific” in any true sense of the word. Science deals with what can be observed and reproduced by experimentation. The origin of life can be neither observed nor reproduced in any laboratory. By definition, then, true science can give us no knowledge whatsoever about where we came from or how we got here. Belief in evolutionary theory is a matter of sheer faith. And dogmatic belief in any naturalistic theory is no more “scientific” than any other kind of religious faith.

Bonus points: The very first comment on the post there gives you an excellent opportunity to enjoy saying, “ad hominem.” Try singing it in place of “manamana” in that song from the Muppet Show.

Update: The comment on the original post has been deleted by the Pulpit Magazine administrator. The comment was, in a nutshell, pointless, insubstantial, and rude, even for a blog comment. In other words, you’re not missing anything. I’m keeping my comments above, however, because they link to that really cool Muppet clip.