2 Cor 5:17Open in Logos Bible Software (if available). The new NIV says: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” I am not as troubled by the way they rendered that verse as I am by the reasoning they gave for how they did it. This is what their translator notes say (the link takes you to the PDF download of them):
“This time it is the Greek that is elliptical, reading simply ‟new creation.” Is it the person in Christ who is the new creation? Yes, of course. But if that’s all Paul meant, there are other more natural ways he could have said it. Given his overall theology that the coming of Christ and the new era he inaugurated began the period of the restoration of all things that would culminate in new heavens and new earth, it is likely that Paul is making a much more sweeping claim than just the salvation of the individual believer. A new universe is in the works!”
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Farewell, NIV | The Cripplegate
The commitee include Bethel, and the mystical element of changing the translation
is their real intent.
As cc members have demonstrated dominionism and mystical gnosticism is alive and kicking.
It is no surprise this will influence people, but also it show how open things are with
the internet and the open availability of different versions, which will make these
changes obvious.