Catholics in Britain launch campaign against using the English Standard Version (ESV) Bible at mass: Objections to the "gender-exclusive" translation

Christian Post ^ | 10/12/2020 | Anugrah Kumar

[Campion]

The ESV is actually a descendant of the KJV. The KJV begat the Revised Standard Version which begat the ESV. ESV is allegedly 94% identical to the RSV.

The New Jerusalem Bible is basically a translation of a French Bible. The old Jerusalem Bible was not awful (considering it was a translation-of-a-translation); the New Jerusalem Bible is not very good; heavily inclusivised for one thing.

[vladimir998]

“I thought Catholic’s used the Catholic bible with the 5 extra non-canonical books.”

There are no non-canonical books in Catholic Bibles. Protestants Bibles are routinely published without several canonical books.

[GreyFriar]

I was surprised by this, since my main translation of the Bible is the New Jerusalem and I’ve never noticed “inclusion” regarding gender nouns. I checked and my American edition is dated 1985, thus the one the English are using must be a newer edition. I’ll stick with this version. I also cross-reference with the KJV and a NIV study Bible from the 1990’s.

[GreyFriar]

See my post # 23. It appears that the newer editions of Bibles are being edited to be politically correct gender/inclusion versions.

I was raised on the KJV, thus have had no problem; plus I was taught to use the dictionary to look up words I didn’t understand.

[Trillian]

They can’t continue to ignore that people have sexes, male or female. Language has gender (feminine, masculine and neuter). You can’t erase that.

[TopDog2]

The LCMS, a conservative synod, uses the ESV. I don’t know how different that version is from the Catholic version, but I doubt the LCMS would use a version that deviates from scripture.

[Mr Rogers]

People have come in male & female since before the KJV. So what? Just translate the text into English. Don’t need to change standard translating in order to artificially inject liberal views of inclusion.

[Samuel Smiles]

Thank you, catholics of whatever stripe, but I shall remain true to the real English bible, the one approved by King James I.

“Thy Word Is a Lamp Unto My Feet and Light Unto My Path.

Deo gratias

[Samuel Smiles]

Is that truly the text? If so, it is for me beyond the pale of heresy, and firmly on the path to damnation. And I know that prayer well, and have done for over sixty years:

Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum
Benedicta tu in mulieribus
et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Jesus

Sancta Maria, Mater Dei,
Ora pro nobis peccatoribus,
Nunc et in hora mortis nostrae.