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Summary: A Must for all teen girls!!!
Review: Revolve is AWESOME!!! It's a New Testament that actually looks like a fashion magazine and it's wonderful!!! I got several copies and started giving them to the teens I know and they love it! This Bible lets teens know that the Bible can be hip and applicable to where they are in life! And the New Century Version is really easy to read, so people actually understand the Bible! I'd recommend it to anyone!
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Summary: Awesome Idea!
Review: Jesus isn't in the grave anymore...He's alive! And this contemporary packaging of the New Testament is alive with color and joy. It's amazing how much we do "judge a book by its cover." Whoever came up with this idea obviously knows teenagers and how to reach them. This is a "magazine" you can leave anywhere and expect unbelievers to pick up. It takes a while to figure out your holding a New Testament and by the time you do you are hooked and reading the Truth of God's Word! As a youth pastor with over 5 years experience I can say I think the publisher has hit a home run! This item will prove to be an effective tool in both evangelism and discipleship. Buy this product and give it away!
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Summary: Jesus is not dead he rose baby! This book rocks !
Review: People, People, People, lets get real here. Do you think that Jesus cares if you read the King James,New King James, NIV or whatever? The man who wrote the other review started his statement wrong, Jesus is not in a grave he rose baby! This book is great, as a youth pastor of tne years I am giving one to every girl I have in my youth group. It is my prayer and hope that this will help them in reading God's word. I have seen and read over this book and trust me it does not "water down" or make Jesus some "hippie dude" it releates God's word to today's teen in a very real way. If you have questions I would love to help you please email me ...
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Summary: Couldn't put it down!
Review: I cannot put this Bible down! I am used to reading NIV translation on my own and KJV in church, but reading in the New Century Version makes everything so clear. Passages that I didn't understand in other translations make total sense in this one. I honestly do not want to put it down once I pick it up! Plus it looks like a magazine, so it's just natural to carry it around to class, to work, wherever and read it whenever you get a chance. This Bible has blessed my life incredibly.
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Summary: Jesus must be spinning in his grave.
Review: Let's contribute to the dumbing-down of American youth even more by turning the Bible into an easily accessible Teen Beat: Religion.I can only hope that they altered Jesus' character to be more appealing to today's youth. He should be, like, a radical surfer hippy dude! Who's all like, "Pharisees! Chill!" and stuff!
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Summary: crap
Review: sorry I have not read this but I jsut want to say that this idea made me laugh. So funny how the old try to push their views on the young. screw this crap!
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Summary: Strange and Disturbing
Review: I went through this book from front to back and I am amazed that this is seriously being sold at major bookstores in this country. It is in my opinion the equivelent of the Taliban for the Christian religion for teens. I found it to be sexist and demeaning to women. Girls are being advised to be quiet, cover up, that they are sinners with sinful thoughts. The boys version does not seem to have the same harsh moral standards and judgement, merely requesting them to act like gentlemen. This is supposedly the new testiment, yet it has 2 versions, telling 2 different stories, the male version and the female version. I think you can find "gods" version in the religious studies section within the bible!
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Summary: Is "evil" too strong a word?
Review: Finally we have sunk to the bottom of barrel in a BIBLE-FOR-PROFIT industry! Here is a Bible that leads one to believe that the primary message of the Gospel is teenage girls in their adolescent self absorption. I have always been against Bibles that cater to a specific market, but this Bible manages to take an already bad concept to an all time low, with a glossy model cover and beauty tips for teenage girls. Inside one will find teenagers skimpily clad in bikinis. I was under the impression that the Bible served to correct the egocentricity and demonic consumerism of our times. I had no idea that we were to pretend this egocentricity were all the while about Almighty God! It gets worse. If one goes to the Thomas Nelson website, one gets the official justification for this rubbish as being the fact that many teenage girls think that the ordinary Bible is just too "big and freaky looking." Perhaps the cross of our Lord is also too freaky looking? The truth is that most of these teenagers are a figment of the publisher's imagination. My experience as a Minister is that teens seek for the deep things in life, and that we should not believe profit driven companies who stereotype teenage girls as being shallow and self absorbed. Are we truly to believe that the only way to reach a teenage girl is to make the Gospel funky like her lipstick? I have taken a personal decision with this publication, and that is no longer to support Thomas Nelson publishers, either by buying or reviewing their products. They have lost all credibility in my eyes with what can only be described as utter refuse, and they have prostituted their once good name with sheer devilish tripe.
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Summary: The disturbing evolution of scipture
Review: Though I am not a devout Christian, as many reviewers here are, I am very open to many concepts in the Bible, as well as encouraging of the intellectual study of the New and Old Testaments as vital historical documents. However, Revolve strays so far from the "word of god" that it is almost sacreligious. The biggest problem I have with this zine is the sidebars. Take out the "blab," the quizzeses, etc. and you have a New Testament marketable to teenagers. Many followers of Christianity are raised to read the New Testament with the disclaimer that it was written centuries ago and that not all rules necessarily apply to modern day. However, the writers and editors of revolve have taken the New Testament and applied it literally to modern day situations. This is a very dangerous enterprise, people. For example: one "reader's question" discusses what one should do if they are being sexually abused by a parent or family member. Yet nearly one third of the moral dilemas presented in Revolve can be allegedly solved by simply submitting to what your parents tell you. How can this piece of literature in good conscience acknowledge the existence of abusive and destructive parents, and then turn around and preach the infalliability of thy mother and thy father. At a time when teens need to learn to think for themselves and make their own decisions, revolve is teaching them that this ability is unecessary--and in some cases sacreligious. This is an outrage--and I am one reader whose disgust has nothing to do with lack of faith in god
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Summary: Revolve portrays young women as "second best"
Review: Getting young people interested in religion seems to be getting more and more difficult daily. But "Revolve" goes about it in all the wrong ways. Encouraging young women to think it is OK to be subserivient to males may have been encouraged by our Puritan ancestors, but I think almost every woman, Christian or otherwise, would agree that the idea doesn't fly today. Racist issues illustrated by this publication have also come to my attention, with sidebar "facts" declaring that African-American teens are 40% more likely to have had premarital sex than Caucasian teens. Nowhere are these "facts" credited or sourced. If your family's ideals and values include women following their husbands instead of walking beside them, or a skewed idea that African-Americans, Hispanics, and any other minority is "less moral" than whites, or "unclean", then this could be the book to give your daughters, nieces, or granddaughters. However, if you would rather raise your daughter (or any other young female you may know) in a more equalized (and as far as I'm concerned, Christ was the most "equal" human being to ever walk the planet) environment, then I suggest you stay away from this book and maybe purchase her a copy of the timeless "Our Bodies, Ourselves", or maybe even a standard bible that isn't geared towards one demographic as a moneymaking scheme designed to pull teenage girls in with a pretty cover.
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