The Green Bible?
What is the MOST important problem that world faces? Well, according to the editors of the Green Letter Bible the MOST important problem that we face is the problem that our planet is dying. So...in order to solve the problem they've put together the Green Letter Edition of the Bible. This Bible has all the verses that talk about the care of the planet in green, soy based ink.
Forget Red Letter editions that draw our attention to the words of Jesus. We no longer need to focus on the 'sin problem'. We need to find Bible verses that encourage us to lower our ecological footprint.
We wonder if there will be church-wide campaigns that spring from the Green Bible like the "40 Days of Recycling" campaign or the "Live Like the Planet is Dying" campaign.
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Alert - Chris Rosebrough Discusses the Problems with the Green Bible on the September 22nd Installment of Fighting for the Faith. Click Here to Listen.
What to say? This generation would rather worship the creation than the Creator. We need a true revival or rapture,I don't feel at home in this world anymore!(I havn't for a long time)
Posted by: pastorharold | September 23, 2008 at 12:14 PM
This is wild! I remember years ago, seeing an ad for a "Green Letter Edition" of the Bible with the words of Christ in green ("in the color of eternal spring," I think the ad said) but I guess that one did not get off the ground. And now this. You just cannot make this stuff up.
Posted by: Pastor Rick | September 23, 2008 at 02:17 PM
Please do not let them know that this world is going to go out in flames and God has plans for a new earth. Don't let them know that the Messiah is coming back VERY soon, that all the signs are there, especially the main sign , Israel and the Jews back in their own land, and HE is going to do what He pleases. Don't let them know that Jesus do not require help to transform this world, He can very well do it on His own.
Posted by: Lygia | September 23, 2008 at 05:41 PM
"Understand the Bible's powerful message for the earth"?! How about, "Read this until your eyes fall out and do what it says so you don't go to hell"? How about that? Sounds like a plan to me.
Posted by: walksbyf8h | September 23, 2008 at 10:21 PM
I read somewhere (it may have been here) that if you don't like what's happening to the planet, wait till you see what God does to it! :)
Posted by: Christy | September 23, 2008 at 11:37 PM
Where's chapter 66?
I was looking at the preview and I noticed the last chapter is missing...
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Posted by: mark | September 24, 2008 at 02:58 PM
They call this an ecumenical Bible? And it is endorsed by Brian Mclaren and Desmund Tutu?
hehe WOW!
Posted by: Don | September 28, 2008 at 10:50 PM
I feel the green letters a bit much, but I am all about being a good steward of God's earth. I think it is a mistake we Christians make to think that caring for the environment is not important or relevant.
Adam was a gardener.
Posted by: aaron | October 07, 2008 at 04:47 PM
But that's the point, isn't it, Aaron? Adam was not a good steward of this beautiful planet because he brought sin into the world, and the world was cursed. Despite the media's oft-stated claims that the planet would be better off without us, many more of the earth's creatures would be extinct if it weren't for man's efforts to save them. But the problem is much greater than that. When one species (humans) sees no contradiction in aborting millions of its own kind while saving a subspecies of owl, there is a definitely a problem. Priorities.
Posted by: J.W. | October 15, 2008 at 03:15 AM
The green lettering is bad, but everything else seems fine...If I have two NRSV Bibles in my hand and one was easier on the environment, would it be so bad to get the one that's more eco-friendly?
Or is the criticism here based solely on the fact that there's green letters instead of red ones? Cause I can understand that.
Posted by: Brendan | October 15, 2008 at 11:05 AM
I was appalled to see the green Bible on a bookstore shelf this evening, I am thankful for a website like this that upholds the God-inspired, unchangeable, inerrant Word of the Living God! I wonder if Matthew 24:35 is highlighted in green?
"Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away"
Posted by: Nate Short | October 17, 2008 at 10:36 PM
My kids were sent home with a curriculum that talked a little bit about Adam naming the animals, and encouraged the parents to either: clean up some trash this week, discuss cool animal facts, or imagine if Adam hadn't wanted to name the animals? Then what?
I sent an email sharing my concerns about the curriculum and after discovering this site I will be looking at the teachings of our church more closely.
Posted by: Sarah S. Chicken | May 12, 2009 at 12:58 AM