Featured pleasantly surprised so far

People tend to get what they focus on.

 

Just an FYI, if you haven't already spotted it in his commentaries.

Jimmy Carter supports same-sex ‘marriage’ as he launches his new Bible
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/ji...ame-sex-marriage-as-he-launches-his-new-bible

Jimmy Carter: we’ve had a black president, now it’s time for a gay one
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/jimmy-carter-weve-had-a-black-president-now-its-time-for-a-gay-one

 

Carter is right in line with what I saw at HBU and Baylor. HBU had a regular practice of publishing the horoscope even under the conservative resurgence led by a conservative president at the university. Baylor openly hires non-Christians.

 

I am a democrat, but this man needs to go back to his Georgia peanut farm, and stay.......he'd be with his own, a bunch of nuts.

 

And women get short-changed again.

Oh wait. If a gay president is elected, would that count?

 

Gay as in lesbian or gay as in Fella?

 

I would be interested in other opinions on this but I cannot figure out why Zondervan decided to take on this project. The only thing I can think of is that Zondervan is at war with their core customer group and this is one of their offensive battles.

Think about it, the NIV is marketed to Evangelicals. Evangelicals who are responsible for the bulk of Bible sales are not going to buy a Jimmy Carter Study Bible. Likewise, liberals are not going to spend money on Bibles of any configuration. So who is going to buy them? What is their target audience?

As much as I like the NIV (1984), it is hard to imagine why a company would discontinue the best selling translation for a revision that is responsible (right or wrong) for the creation of several new competing translations (ESV in particular) and that has no chance of maintaining it's #1 spot in the market.

I understand that Zondervan publishes more than Bibles and is part of a huge publishing enterprise but how can the Jimmy Carter Study Bible, which I believe will be a high profile sales fiasco help Zondervan with its core mission? A political favor makes sense here for there is little theological benefit in such a product. Unless you want to irritate your fellow SBCer, there is no one who will tuck such a volume under their arm and proudly prance into Sunday School.

I'm no big fan of the ESV but Crossways has to be credited for their agressive and long term marketing plan that seems to be working at the expense of the NIV family of products. I'm not ready to dig the NIV's grave but I believe the market is already past saturation with both translations and specialized editions. Again, my opinion but what I think the market really needs and wants are Bibles that are easy to transport and have premium and or long lasting bindings, not so much targeted inspirational study notes, charts and maps.

 

What exactly is your point?

 

Not to insult!

My point, which went right over your head is that every SS class has their liberal smarty pants (one who knows the truth but perfers to ignore it) who is the source of irritation to all and would be the person most likely to show up with a Jimmy Carter Study Bible simply to get a reaction out of everyone else.

Not to change the subject but would you be kind enough to explain to me the relationship between Jimmy Carter and the SBC?

 

double post

 

Every church has practical atheists too. They claim to have conservative theology and live like atheists--as though there is no God.

What about a study Bible from divorced men--Charles Stanley and Charles Ryrie?

 

Ok, lets all run out and buy a Jimmy Carter Study Bible because Charles Stanley's wife divorced him! Yea!

 

why not have three, a Stanley, Carter, and Ryrie study Bible.

 

In a sane world, the names Charles Stanley and Charles Ryrie would not appear in the same sentence with Jimmy Carter.

 

You are right. Carter is happily married while Ryrie and Stanley are divorced. Carter was pres. of the U.S. and Stanley was pres. of the SBC.