the Rubicon on the Green Bible

Another great group blog, and a good friend of mine, Geoff Ryan talks about the new Green Bible that's been released. I blog on it partly to highlight his whit, and partly because I ran across it yesterday at a bookstore with a friend who really liked the idea. I did not. Conversation ensued. Quotes from the Rubicon:

I understand that this is just the latest in a long line of niche-market Bibles. Meanwhile the Roman Catholics have been at it for ages with the Apocrypha, of course. It’s a kind of extra revelation just for them. Growing up as an evangelical, the impression given to me was that the Apocrypha fell vaguely in the same category as porn – a thing mysterious and fascinating, but dangerously corrupting and definitely off-limits for any true follower of Jesus...

I can theme my Bible too. For example, I can create a Salvation Army Bible, full of quotes by William and Catherine Booth, Samuel Logan Brengle, George Scott Railton and other worthies from our glorious past. I can diminish the Matthew 26 account of the Last Supper down to 8-point type and highlight in red type John’s account Jesus washing the feet of his disciples. I can put in bold type every passage that supports women in ministry, highlight every military metaphor and include illustrated sections on uniforms and brass trumpets. I can focus on whatever subjects most interest and concern me. In fact, it seems that I will be able to make the Bible say whatever I want it to and serve my purposes perfectly.