Product Description

The World's first Study Bible for the Gay and Lesbian community. Deep in the shuddering guts of that religion known as Christianity is a rich and troubling history of persecution. Bullying. The singling out of those the church professes to be anti-God, such as gay, lesbian, bi and transgendered people. All built up from the foundation that is God's Word, the Bible. Only it isn't. There is no Scriptural foundation for this persecution, no anti-gay passages in the Bible that the Church professes there are. There have been mistranslations. Check. Persecutions. Check. Bullying. Check. But none of this is set down in the original languages and context of the Bible as God's Way.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #322628 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-10
• Released on: 2007-10-10
• Binding: Paperback
• 422 pages

Customer Reviews

Brilliant
I find it interesting that The Source New Testament has received a wonderful rating, yet the LGBT version of the exact same text has not. Virtually no changes were made between the two save the notes explaining the verses that are used to promote homophobia.

Amusingly the opening quote of the introduction is from the early church father St. Jerome, which says:

"Is there a man, learned or unlearned, who will not, when he takes the volume into his hands, and perceives that what he reads does not suit his traditional tastes, break out immediately into violent language, and call me a forger, and a profane person for having the nerve to add anything to the ancient books, or to make any changes or corrections to them? It is useless to play the lyre for a donkey. So great is the strength of established usage that even acknowledged corruptions please most people, for they prefer to have their copies nice rather than accurate."

This referring of course to the Latin Vulgate Bible which became the standard of Western Christendom from the 4th century until the German translation of Martin Luther in the 1530s and the Revised Latin Version of Erasmus in 1516.

The Bible has been translated for so long by ridged dogmatic rules that the actual meaning of the Greek is almost abandoned in favour of what tradition mandates, which is essentially not on par with the actual scripture. The LGBT version of The Source New Testament is bound for harsh criticism, as are most influential versions of the Bible. The King James Version, which became the standard bible of English speakers for centuries, was seen for decades by the majority of Christians as borderline heresy in favour of the Geneva Bible. The New Source Translation brings to light a Christianity that seems as if it has been lost underneath the creeds, superstitions, and ignorance that has plagued it for so many centuries.

My only hope/criticism for this Bible is that it will rearrange the structure of the text so that it is more easily studied. The translation is magnificent, as are the notes, but its layout could use some revising. Also, it might be beneficial to the readers to include ecumenical positive statements to the LGBT community, as at the moment it's essentially a linguistic study rather than spiritual. Nevertheless I highly recommend this translation to anyone who wishes to actually understand Christianity in a true and pleasant form. As a suggested book to guide a reader of The Source New Testament I highly suggest A New Christianity for A New World, by John Shelby Spong. I feel the two seem to go nicely together, but that is just my personal opinion.

Simply a Perversion of God's Word
As a previous commenter has said this man blatantly changes the Bible to justify sin.

Extending God's love to all!
This Bible translation has been a blessing and is very helpful to reaching out to people who are normally considered outcasts by those who are "religious". The notes (on meanings of the Greek words as well as context) are enlightening and give me a deeper understanding of that historical time period so that I do not make the mistake of reading into the text a 21st century cultural bias. It is important for me to seek God's truth in scripture (and be transformed by it) rather than twist the words of the Bible to support my prejudice and bigotry. This translation is a great tool for study no matter what one believes concerning the "GLBT" issue. I hope that we can all turn away from judgement and instead simply tell the love of Jesus to All people. May the peace, love, and joy of Christ be with us all.