Mere Christianity or Degraded Christianity?

[DistantStar]

Originally Posted by UntoHim

The actual translation of the Recovery Version New Testament is relatively good. It's actually very similar to the New American Standard Version. I'm not sure if this was intentional or not. I cannot comment on the Recovery Version Old Testament. I'm not a student of biblical Hebrew. Maybe others can comment on this. Of course the "disturbing" part is the copious amount of footnotes from the teachings of Witness Lee. Many of these footnotes contain the more "questionable" teachings of Lee. Actually, most of the footnotes are simply cliffsnotes of the "Life Studies" - the printed messages of Witness Lee during the various bi-annual trainings and conferences.

I agree that the translation itself may be very good. I just find it nonetheless unnecessary for them to make their own translation. What would be the point thereof? Either you want to update the language or you want to emphasise certain doctrines, or perhaps even change a few things. We should be very wary of the latter two reasons.
I haven't read the NASV, but if it's similar, why didn't they just stick with the NASV (if it was published back then)?

By the way, thank you for your and everyone else's thoughts so far.

And thank you specifically for your work on this forum. I guess you've been here for quite a while.