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Summary: Praise Jesus!
Review: I was really worried about giving the Bible to my children until now! With all that sexual perverseness, violence and vindictiveness the Holy Book is filled with I'd hate for my daughter to start questioning why God behaves more like genocidal tyrant than a loving father. Leave it up to those wonderful creatures in marketing and commercially-applied child psychology to formulate the perfect revision to the Bible!Instead of looking at those beautiful tramps that fill the entertainment industry with sexual promiscuity, she can have her anorexic eye candy (wonderfully selected from stock photography) sandwiched between the good scriptures! And it teaches her to be such a lovely, compliant lady! Let's hope our friends in marketing continue to synthesize these body images and submissive ideals and perhaps we'll have a glorious return to the 50's!
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Summary: A real translation of the Bible and then some!
Review: I can only wish this book had exsisted when I was a junior high or high school girl. Its very creative and it puts information in a format that young girls think in and can therefore understand. I know there are some controversies about it. But this is a Bible Genesis through Revelations with notes added in. This is a GREAT thing to buy for young girls.
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Summary: Great idea, use with caution
Review: This idea for a New Tesatament is excellent. Every book of the Bible was first written in the language that the average person could understand at that time and it is only appropriate for our modern translations to do the same. And the NCV is an excellent, accurate, readable translation. Still we need to be cautious about not letting our freedom in Christ lead us into the things of the world. 1 John 2:15 in this version says: Do not love the world or the things in the world. If you love the world, the love of the Father is not in you. So as an effective way to communicate God's Word, I would give this five stars. But for the risks it poses, I hold one back. As this NT is used to lead young women into a greater knowledge of the Lord Jesus, may it be done with the wisdom that comes from heaven: 13 Are there those among you who are truly wise and understanding? Then they should show it by living right and doing good things with a gentleness that comes from wisdom. 14 But if you are selfish and have bitter jealousy in your hearts, do not brag. Your bragging is a lie that hides the truth. 15 That kind of "wisdom" does not come from God but from the world. It is not spiritual; it is from the devil. 16 Where jealousy and selfishness are, there will be confusion and every kind of evil. ***17 But the wisdom that comes from God is first of all pure, then peaceful, gentle, and easy to please. This wisdom is always ready to help those who are troubled and to do good for others. It is always fair and honest. 18 People who work for peace in a peaceful way plant a good crop of right-living.*** (James 3)
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Summary: www.SloppyNoodle.com Youth Review - REVOLVE
Review: Girls it has finally arrived! A New Testament that every one of us Princesses have dreamed about but has never been reality! Gods opinion from the bible itself and also amazing advice on hundreds of questions that us girls long to ask, but don't dare utter are all jammed into REVOLVE. At first glance, this New Testament looked like a funky, upbeat girls mag. When I saw it lying on my kitchen table, I thought "cool someone's left a mag behind for me to read!" Yet this was no ordinary magazine, - God's word printed on cool pages surrounded by 100+ ways to apply your faith, Guys honest comments on important issues that matter most to us girls. Who would have thought that quizzes, beauty secrets and radical faith questions and answers could become part of your quiet time, attract your friends to Christ and make reading your bible not only exciting, but oh so desirable! :-) I have had so many bibles growing up, but I can say REVOLVE is a must, - its one bible you will want a bag big enough to carry it around in and your friends will buy it too the moment they see it. My friends have, - as they couldn't put mine down. Reviewed by Ruth (edited)
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Summary: What would Jesus or Paul say?
Review: Jesus said: "Let the children come, and do not hinder them from coming to Me; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." (Mt 19:14, NASB)
Hmmm... Do not hinder them - So maybe we need to make sure they feel welcome when they approach God? And can understand what He says to them? This book does that!
Paul said: "I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some." (I Cor. 9:22b, NASB)
Paul says that to the Jew he was a Jew; to those under the Law as one under the Law (though he was set free from the law ); to those without law as one without law (though he considered himself under the law of Christ); to the weak as one who was weak.
In other words: Tailor your witness as necessary to get their attention & trust turned toward God, in order to save some!
THIS BOOK DOES THAT! (Yes, I'm shouting it.)
I, too, will be buying multiple copies for the teenaged girls in my sphere of influence.
(And we really DO need a male version of this! Maybe a sports magazine format?)
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Summary: Be not deceived
Review: If you want to know what the Bible says, read it for yourself. When you let commercially motivated writers interpret the Bible for you, you leave yourself wide open for exploitation. What they are telling you is what women have been told for years to keep them in their place. This book is for the weak-minded.
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Summary: A great start for getting into real satanism
Review: Well I'm not a Christian, but I have no problem with Christians as long as they aren't doing anything to harm anyone. This book, however, can apparently do nothing but serious mental harm, and the fact that it is being marketed to clueless girls is utterly repulsive. This is much more like the Devil's bible then anything else. Why would God create girls in the first place if he was just going to control them with this mindless filth? This book is the type of thing that simply lowers your intelligence just to look at. Girls should be thinking for themselves, not doing what God apparently tells them to do. I will tell you though, if God exists he surely wouldn't want his creations reading this garbage...in fact I wouldn't go around recommending this book to anyone, for that seems like a sure ticket to Hell.
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Summary: DANGER!
Review: My fellow classmates and I recenlty obtained a copy of Revolve which quickly became the entertainment at a recent event. Though I cannot speak for my classmates I agree 100% with the review posted by Jan Chapman. This "Bible," though it appears to be updating the New Testament and presenting it in an appealing fashion for young women, I belive, in actuallity that it will prove to do more harm than good. Through out there are quotes and quizes and top ten lists that if taken seriously will send young women back into a previous life. Young women can do anything they set their minds on and don't need the help of a man unlike the opinions of the aformentioned side bars. There are very few people of color and all of the young women are stick thin. What message is this sending especially to pre-teen girls? This "Bible" needs to be used with EXTREME caution, if used at all. This publication deserves much lower than an F but since the scale only goes that low I am forced to give it that.
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Summary: Good Stuff
Review: I work with teens full time and have found that they love this New Testament. It is very well put together! It is a great way to get teenagers who are apathetic about the Bible to give it a second look.
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Summary: Revolve is a BAD IDEA!
Review: I am a Christian (Lutheran) and a librarian who has been hearing a lot of talk about Revolve--good and bad--so I decided to research it, knowing that there will be parents who will want to purchase it for their teenage daughters. I review books professionally and as a librarian, one of my jobs is to evaluate books for such things as accuracy, consistency, and lack of bias. On that scale alone, Revolve earns a solid F. First of all, the premise of this new "Bible" is in itself alarming. Are we assuming that the majority of teen girls are so shallow and easily manipulated by commercial fashion magazines that we have to create a Bible that mimics them? Certainly, teen girls enjoy reading fashion magazines, just as adults occasionally enjoy a mindless TV show or movie. Does that mean that adults should just chuck carefully researched and translated editions of the Bible and just reach for a dumbed down version? I see it as sort of analogous to reading Shakespeare. A lot of teens have difficulty with Shakespeare because of the language and because they are not familiar with the cultural context of the plays. Does that mean we should
teach comic book versions of Shakespeare so kids can understand what is going on? I think we are doing our young women a disservice by assuming that they do not have the intellectual ability to appreciate an authoritative Bible. Recognizing that the Bible is an incredibly complex, difficult, and but ultimately rewarding work that conveys the greatest truths of mankind, we should (and do) offer Bible studies for people of all ages, including teens, to help them understand what they are reading. That,in my opinion, is the way to go, rather than giving our young people this idiotic excuse for a Bible. Some people have acknowledged that Revolve is flawed, but rationalize it as a good idea because they feel it is better
that teens read this version than not read the Bible at all. But the obviously fundamentalist cultural and political agendas that saturate this book are extremely troubling. Further, the advice that is peppered throughout the pages of Revolve is confusing, contradictory, and sometimes just plain loony. Take this advice column, for example: Top Ten Things to Know About Being a Revolve Girl: 1. Revolve girls don't call boys
2. Revolve girls don't talk with food in their mouths
3. Revolve girls have good posture
4. Revolve girls are not argumentative
5. Revolve girls should never gossip
6. Revolve girls know their bodies are temples of God
7. Revolve girls are respectful of others
8. Revolve girls enjoy spending time with family
9. Revolve girls don't kiss and tell
10. Revolve girls are fabulous friends This is typical. Very good advice (be respectful of others, be a good friend) is mixed in with proscriptive fundamentalist dictums, like don't be argumentative or call boys, because they are supposed to call you. And don't talk with food in your mouth? How did that get on the top ten list? That's just really bizarre. The advice about not being argumentative is repeated constantly, but phrased in different ways, like don't be "aggressive" or "bossy" or "pushy"--all anti-feminist code words. And sometimes it's stated very baldly--Revolve tells girls that boys are the natural leaders and that girls should wait for overtures from boys, not the other way around. And how do you like this one? Don't get too involved in crushes on boys, because "God's gonna provide a man when the time is right." I didn't know God ran a dating service! Sometimes the advice is completely contradictory. For example, girls are told to wear a minimum of makeup or no makeup at all because that's what God and guys want. A few pages later, the advice is to think about God while applying your foundation! There are lots of other examples I could quote, but I'll stop in the interest of time. Re: homosexuality--I won't even start on that one. But the idea is just pray hard enough and you'll be cured. So if you are interested in sending your daughter back to the Dark Ages or creating a new generation of Stepford Wives, by all means, do buy this right wing fundamentalist propaganda disguised as a "Bible." The "good news" never sounded so bad.
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