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 Answer:
While it has proven both necessary and useful to provide translation
of the original text; the 'Gender Neutral Bible' goes beyond translating
to twisting and corrupting the original text. It
is such twisting to conform to worldly opinion that the Apostle Paul
warns us to avoid when he tells us to, "See to it that no one takes
you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on
human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on
Christ." The Bible
even predicts this kind of thing will happen by telling us, "For
the time will come
when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own
desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say
what their itching ears want to hear."
Jesus gave a ringing endorsement of the accuracy of Holy
Scripture when he said, "For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and
earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law,
till all be fulfilled." Therefore,
to change even one letter or comma to please the prevailing worldly
wisdom of the day is the height of arrogance. What incredible disrespect it is for God's Holy, inspired and
inerrant word. The Apostle
Paul said the following about Holy Scripture in 2 Timothy 3:16: “All
Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking,
correcting and training in righteousness.”
The Bible in Rev. 22:18-19 tells us there will be serious
consequences in adding to or taking away from the words of Holy
Scripture. Also see John
10:35 and 2 Peter 1:20-21.
Anytime the Scripture is added to or taken from, the resulting work
always fails to meet the righteousness and holiness found in God's
original word. For example,
by changing the meaning of the original text, the Gender Neutral Bible
redefines divinely ordained distinctions between males
and females and goes on to deny the principle of headship, whereby it
detracts from the federal relationship between Christ and his church, it
usurps the role and authority of the husband in the home and undermines
the biblical foundations of both the home and society.
When one attempts to improve or edit God's Word, one attacks the
authority, inerrancy, and sufficiency of God's Word.
Disagreeing with God is not a good thing as Isaiah tells us,
"Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker, to him who is but a
potsherd among the potsherds on the ground."
Therefore, the people who advocate and promote a gender neutral
Bible probably would have no problem revising and editing the Bible in
other ways to suit their itchy ears.
The Apostle Paul describes them well in 1 Corinthians: Do not
deceive yourselves. If any one of you thinks he is wise by the standards
of this age, he should become a "fool" so that he may become
wise. 19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's
sight. As it is written:
"He catches the wise in their craftiness.”
This whole issue is just another reason that Christians should
put on the whole armor of God as described in Ephesians 6.
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