Eugene Peterson author of "The Message" responses in interview
I wouldn’t have said this 20 years ago, but now I know a lot of people who are gay and lesbian and they seem to have as good a spiritual life as I do. I think that kind of debate about lesbians and gays might be over. People who disapprove of it, they’ll probably just go to another church. So we’re in a transition and I think it’s a transition for the best, for the good. I don’t think it’s something that you can parade, but it’s not a right or wrong thing as far as I’m concerned.
Question: If you were pastoring today and a gay couple in your church who were Christians of good faith asked you to perform their same-sex wedding ceremony, is that something you would do?
Answer: Yes.
Pastor for 29 years over a Presbyterian Church USA (which formally approves of sodomite “marriage” in their church constitution).
He has also authored several emergent church books including:
- Traveling Light: Modern Meditations on St. Paul’s Letter of Freedom (Helmers & Howard Publishing, 1988)
- Wisdom of Each Other: A Conversation Between Spiritual Friends (Zondervan, 2001)
- The Contemplative Pastor: Returning to the Art of Spiritual Direction (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1980)
Peterson is most famously known as the author of “The Message”
The Message flat out omits the sin of sodomy from several key passages including 1 Cor 6:9-11, and also in 1 Tim 1: 8-11.
Who is the "god of green hope" in Rom 15:13? While omitting abominable acts the Lord has condemned as immoral, it invents a new morality as crimes against the environment such as "those who ... use and abuse the earth ..." in 1 Cor 6:10-11.
Who is the "god of green hope" in Rom 15:13? While omitting abominable acts the Lord has condemned as immoral, it invents a new morality as crimes against the environment such as "those who ... use and abuse the earth ..." in 1 Cor 6:10-11.
The Message eliminates 7899 usages of "Lord" and omits all 118 usages of the “LORD JESUS CHRIST”, replacing that and other titles for Jesus with “Master”(400 times) or “Master Jesus” (76 times).
The term “Master Jesus” is a uniquely NEW AGE term that is found in the “The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus Christ”.
The Message also uses other NEW AGE terms such as “The ONE” (102 times), “Oneness”, the “Presence” (34 times), “Energy” (40 times).
Also replaces
Mt 6:9 (KJB) - Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven
With the blatantly occult phrase
Mt 6:9 (Msg) - Do what’s best - as above, so below
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