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Revolve 2: The Complete New Testament

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When you receive a gift, the wrapping may not be as important as the gift itself, but it sure can enhance the joy you receive from the gift. You know, I wish that my dad's knowledge of Greek, Aramaic and Hebrew had passed to me genetically; however it did not. Looking at a Greek New Testament would pretty much be a waste of time for me. So basically any Bible that I read in the English language will be either a translation or a paraphrase. The New Century Version is a translation from a group of editors that I know and trust. Did you note that the entire New Testament text is given in this magazine? The fact that it comes in a great package with lots of helpful tidbits of knowledge that the girls need to know anyway, well, that is just icing on the proverbial cake. Remember Smead, love is not easily offended. Try not to create condescension where none was intended. Quite frankly if it would get my children to read their Bibles I would dress up in a clown suit, stand on my head, blow bubbles and whistle. Fortunately, because these publishers have provided this magazine, I don't have to.

I love how all the adults love to wax poetically about how this is a piece of trash and how it degrades girls. Newsflash, people. Girls are degraded on a daily basis by everyone. Jesus (and I'm assuming you're interested in this Bible because you're a christian) met people where they were, and talked to them in a language they all understood. That's why he talked in Aramaic and not Hebrew to them, so they could understand how much God loved them. Girls? What do your girls talk about? How fat do I look. How good do I look. How do I get him to like me. My parents hate me. Why do I not feel good enough. My friends all turned their back on me. What should I do if I feel pressured into a sexual situation. Why doesn't anyone love me? That's what are thinking. Trust me, I hear it everyday.

So you give them a Bible, and yeah, it looks like a magazine. Why? Because they READ magazines, they want authenticity - they want something they can understand. Hey, you adults have bought all kinds of crap marketed at you. "How to raise a Christian Teen". "Read the Bible like a Novel". Why? Because you don't understand it half the time, and none of you have gotten through 1 Chronicles without falling asleep. Be truthful. Teens spend more time on myspace.com and read each other's blogs more than they spend at the mall.

So ask your girls. Don't write a review unless you hand them a copy and ask them what they think. Don't talk to them about how you feel. Really, don't offer your "insight". Just hand it over and walk away. Then you can post a review about how stupid you think this Bible is. Me? I did. All 100 girls in my youth group thought it was awesome to finally have the whole Bible instead of just the new testament.

This is an excellent book which has hit its target incredibly well. A bible teens will actually read! To the author of 'Please not another one' I would like to point out that girls are not so stupid they need their own bible, there is also A BOYS VERSION. Who's a moron now? And complaining about the message being changed as its translated? How many times has it already been translated. If you think that changes the message maybe you shouldnt be reading any sort of bible because incase you dont remember, Jesus was not american or indeed english for that matter. HE DIDNT SPEAK ENGLISH. Its been translated already to make it relevant to people who speak english so whats the harm in making it relevant to teenagers???

My kids found out about this Bible at school.They are not allowed to take bibles to school and this looks like a magazine.....what a great idea.

This is WONDERFUL! I gave it to the girls in my youth group and they went crazy! Revolve 2 makes the Bible approachable and helps girls make it a part of their lives. THis is not an intimidating Bible, but it is THE REAL Bible. It has the entire New Testament with fun side bars and features that help teens apply the Bible to their daily life! Thank you Thomas Nelson for bringing out another edition! (Refuel is for teen guys and it's great too!)

As if the first version wasn't bad enough- this is like making a sequal Gigli.

I've never been more embarrassed to be raised Christian. Why not change all the words in the bible? Why not change all the meaning? Bit by bit its original message is degraded in a whisper chain of translations until the person at the end is left with something resembling The Book of Mormon. There are all sorts of people who interpret the bible for any number of reasons, including Nazi's, cultists and well meaning fund raisers, but the problem is the same no matter what the purpose. To change the words inevitably in some way alters the meaning. To interpret the words gives you only one point of view- the interpreters. God wanted you to have your own point of view.

The author says that girls are intimidated by the big words and the old language of the bible. Why girls? Are they so stupid? Are they so much lesser than other parts of human culture that they need a bible written especially for them in the language of pre-adolescent morons? If girls are so pathetically ignorant, that they can't understand things people educated and uneducated alike have understood for over 1000 years, maybe they should spend a little less time shrinking their pores and a little more time paying attention at school. All this book does is say that girls are freaking idiots and so much so that they need their own version of the bible (with lots of pictures) to be able to hold their short lived brainless attention for more than 5 minutes. So anyone supporting this book supports the empty brains of girls everywhere saying "it's ok pretty thing, if you don't understand the big mean complex world, we'll just make it conform to you so you can go about putting on your make up and not have to deal with anything so bad as reality."

The best a girl who relates to this book can hope for is a husband who understands how practical yet conversationally useless she really is. That way she won't have to understand anything past simple "godly" commands. "Go make my dinner and fold my clothes and when you're done with that and putting the kids to bed go lay down on the bed naked. I'll be in eventually to please myself then you can know you've done gods work. Oh yeah... and I love you."

Girls please don't short change your self ever by thinking you are too stupid to understand something as complex as a book. There is more to you than make-up and boy angst. You were born with a brain because God wanted you to use it, not so that it could be used by those around you. If you want to start your own religion, rewrite the bible (or any religious text) in your own interpretation. If you want to be a Christian read the bible. If you want to be a Muslim read the Koran. If you want to be an idiot read this book.