When is the Bible not the Bible?

The answer would seem to be: "When it is The Princess Diana Bible"!

Earlier this evening, I received a weekly e-mail from the Evangelical Alliance. It's called FNT (Friday Night Theology) and seeks to give a Christian slant to items of news that might be talked about by non-Christians. That was when I learned of this new "version" of the Bible that is, apparently, to be published in the Spring of 2009.

This "version" - which appears to be a perversion - is, according to an article in the Guardian newspaper

(http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/01/princess-diana-gay-bible)

"A gay version of the Bible, in which God says it is better to be gay than straight,..."

This article continues: "New Mexico-based Revision Studios will publish The Princess Diana Bible – so named because of Diana's "many good works", it says – online at princessdianabible.com in spring 2009. A preview of Genesis is already available, in which instead of creating Adam and Eve, God creates Aida and Eve.

'And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Aida, and she slept: and he took one of her ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from woman, made he another woman, and brought her unto the first. And Aida said, 'This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of me. Therefore shall a woman leave her mother, and shall cleave unto her wife: and they shall be one flesh.' And they were both naked, the woman and her wife, and were not ashamed'."

I have already posted on the EA site suggesting that they use Consumer Protection legislation to deal with this issue. After all, if I buy a bar of chocolate that is labelled "Plain", I don't expect it to be full of nuts! Likewise, if I buy a book entitled "The Bible" (Holy or otherwise), I don't expect it to contain that which clearly, and plainly, contradicts the real thing!

Of course, even the most rudimentary knowledge of biology would lead one to the conclusion that, if God had created "Aida and Eve", or even "Adam and Steve", then the human race would have stopped right there! Contrary to the apparent belief of some, no two people of the same gender are capable of producing offspring. Whether they use a surrogate mother, or a surrogate father, the fact remains that both a female egg and male sperm are required for conception. It's the way in which God designed it, and there's no getting away from it.

Let the real Bible - which, in its many translations and versions, always proclaims the same message - have the last word: "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap." (Gal 6:7, NKJV).