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The Bible According to Zondervan Changes Again

Zondervan Publishing Co. (the publisher) and Biblica (the copyright holder) are creating another new version of the New International Version (NIV) of the Bible. This is something like version 12 in the quarter-century history of the NIV. Apparently the Word of God keeps changing: no one can get the Apostle Paul to stop making redline changes in Microsoft Word to his second letter to the Corinthians.

WORLD Magazine's Joel Belz praises the decision to create a new version after no one liked the last one, the so-called Today's New International Version (TNIV). In his column in the Sept. 26, 2009 issue, Belz quotes Biblica CEO Keith Danby as saying, in essence, the TNIV failure was a marketing failure: "We failed to make the case for revisions and we made some important errors in the way we brought the translation to publication."

Errors in the way you brought the translation to publication? Did you take a wrong turn on the way to the printing press? I don't get it.

Oh, well, like the computer company's yearly software update, Zondervan is doing its part to jump start the economy.

One Paragraph Review: What He Must Be by Voddie Baucham

What He Must Be: ...If He Wants to Marry My Daughter by Voddie T. Baucham Jr.

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

In What He Must Be, Voddie Baucham gives us a Biblical model for what our sons must be to fulfill their roles as husbands and fathers, and what our daughters must expect in a future husband. This book is primarily written for fathers. It challenges current dating and parenting models as unbiblical. It calls us to reevaluate how we train our children. For if we care at all about the lives our children lead as adults and about our grandchildren and great-greatchildren, we must care deeply about the spouses our children choose and how they go about making those choices. As Baucham notes, it is a father's duty to protect his daughter, provide for his daughter, and lead his family in worship of God and in Biblical instruction. As a result, when a father gives away his daughter to another man, he must be certain that man will assume those roles. To be so certain, a father must play a significant part in assisting in his daughter's choice of a husband (and protecting her physically, emotionally, and spiritually until that time). Not just any one will do. There are clear things "he must be."

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