New Jane Anderson Website

[Evangelical]

Originally Posted by Koinonia

Jane Carole Anderson, author of The Thread of Gold has a new website and blog at: When Lemons Become Grapes.... The website appears to be focused on Jane's thoughts regarding Christian women. It looks like it will also be a repository for her other writings.

She's just picked out all the verses of the Bible that disagree with her views and claims they are lemons.

I don't know how she can trust the Bible to be inspired if she thinks it has so many (logical, doctrinal) errors.

[Drake]

Originally Posted by Evangelical

She's just picked out all the verses of the Bible that disagree with her views and claims they are lemons.

I don't know how she can trust the Bible to be inspired if she thinks it has so many (logical, doctrinal) errors.

Like the aphorism "the kind of Bible you have depends on the kind of person you are".

[Evangelical]

Originally Posted by Drake

Like the aphorism "the kind of Bible you have depends on the kind of person you are".

So what sort of person has a "lemon bible"? he he he

[Drake]

Originally Posted by Evangelical

So what sort of person has a "lemon bible"? he he he

She'd probably argue that she has a grape Bible and its everyone else that has a lemon Bible and that she is just "raisin" the issue.

I know, its a groaner.

[aron]

Originally Posted by Evangelical

She's just picked out all the verses of the Bible that disagree with her views and claims they are lemons.

I don't know how she can trust the Bible to be inspired if she thinks it has so many (logical, doctrinal) errors.

Perhaps the issue was more of translation & transmission & interpretation, not composition. (I'm guessing, here).

Compare this to Lee, who said something like 75% of the composition of the Psalms was "natural", "fallen human concepts" & not revelatory of God.

[Evangelical]

Originally Posted by aron

Perhaps the issue was more of translation & transmission & interpretation, not composition. (I'm guessing, here).

Compare this to Lee, who said something like 75% of the composition of the Psalms was "natural", "fallen human concepts" & not revelatory of God.

Whatever the reason, I can't find much support in the Christian scholarly literature for the idea that all of these passages are mistranslated, other than Bushnell. She doesn't really have a case unless all of the verses that disprove her view are "lemons" and I don't think it is likely that all of them are mistranslated to the degree claimed.

Before I came to the Recovery and still now I believe in the doctrine of biblical preservation:

https://www.gotquestions.org/preservation-Bible.html

The doctrine of preservation in regard to Scripture means that the Lord has kept His Word intact as to its original meaning. Preservation simply means that we can trust the Scriptures because God has sovereignly overseen the process of transmission over the centuries.

the differences are extremely small and insignificant and do not in any way affect the basic teachings or meaning of God’s Word

If Scripture were not supernaturally preserved, there would be no way to ensure the consistency of the message it contains.


The claims of mistranslations I think go beyond "extremely small and insignificant differences".

[awareness]

Let's all praise Jane Carole Anderson.

Witness Lee made me sensitive to big egos. So I'm cautious whenever I bump into one.

[UntoHim]

Low blow Mr A, really low blow. Just because Jane starts a website she has a big ego...even like Witness Lee? Enjoy while you can.
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[awareness]

Originally Posted by UntoHim

Low blow Mr A, really low blow. Just because Jane starts a website she has a big ego...even like Witness Lee? Enjoy while you can.
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Brother Untohim, I don't know Jane Anderson from Adams' cat. But from what I see from her so far, and know of a little bit, she seems quite taken with herself. Sorry, if I'm wrong about that. She's doing the writings, so if I'm wrong, I'm either reading her wrong, or she's presenting her writings wrong.

Hey, she's got a website. Let her come out here and explain how she doesn't have a disproportionately sized ego. Ma Culpa if I am. Like I said I'm cautious.

I'd love to be wrong.

[Nell]

Originally Posted by UntoHim

Low blow Mr A, really low blow. Just because Jane starts a website she has a big ego...even like Witness Lee? Enjoy while you can.
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Unto---

That's rich...JANE has a big ego. The pots calling the kettle black?

Nell

[awareness]

Originally Posted by Nell

Unto---

it's rich...the pots are calling the kettle black...don't you think?

Nell

Oh I agree. I'm a kettle in a glass house throwing the first stone.

But doesn't sister Jane have a cult following? Sisters of the traveling pants, so to speak?

I know someone out here said cults are everywhere to be found, but that doesn't mean I should like them, male or female.