Title: Plagiarism? Or just plain blasphemy? Horrible, either way.
Product review: If I didn't know any better--specifically if this book didn't carry a 2003 publishing date--I would have assumed that the un-worthies at LBI Institute had cribbed from either (a) the NIV Committee ("Committee on Bible Translation") or (b) Shane Johnson's /A Form of Godliness/. This cannot empower anyone, for one can derive no legitimate power from lies. When St. Paul told the Galatians that he was positively gawping at the spectacle of their turning to follow a gospel so far off the road that it wasn't the same road (Galatians 1:6), even he would never have thought of this. He would not have merely gawped; he would have had a heart attack. (Or maybe not. He finally told his apprentice, Timothy, that a time would come when men and women would tell one another whatever their itching ears wanted to hear. This would probably have been merely the most shocking example.)
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