Question about ESV and CSB versions

[Craig Betts]

So this one is for my calvinist brothers and sisters out there (I am not a calvinist). I need your input on something that I read somewhere online.

Is it true that most reformed/calvinist folks prefer to use the ESV and CSB because they are translated more with a bent towards a calvinistic perspective? Is that a rumor or is that factual?

Honestly, I like the ESV becauase I simply enjoy the way that it reads.

Thanks for any input.

PS. I don't want this to become a heated debate. I just need to know if and why you use it.

 

[McCree79]

So this one is for my calvinist brothers and sisters out there (I am not a calvinist). I need your input on something that I read somewhere online.

Is it true that most reformed/calvinist folks prefer to use the ESV and CSB because they are translated more with a bent towards a calvinistic perspective? Is that a rumor or is that factual?

Honestly, I like the ESV becauase I simply enjoy the way that it reads.

Thanks for any input.

PS. I don't want this to become a heated debate. I just need to know if and why you use it.

I use both. I have never heard the CSB was "bent" toward calvinism. The co-chair of the translation committee is David Allen....who is far from a Calvinist. It is just a good and faithful translations. The ESV does get accused of being the Calvinist Bible (Elect Standard Version). The reason many for the reformed beleivers jump on the ESV was timing. It wasn't the TNIV(gender language) which many balked at. The NIV 1984 was going away and the TNIV was unacceptable....the ESV had just came out I believe the year before. It was in the right place at the right time.

The ESV and CSB are both quality translations.
The 2011 NIV is an improvement over the TNIV. I even like much of it better than the classic 1984.

*Calvinists will find the Doctrines of Grace in the any major English Translation.



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[RG2]

The ESV thing I think arose because many in the reformed tradition seemed to latch on to the translation. Also, the Study Bible notes seem to lean more Calvinistic, though it is still fairly middle of the road, as well. That being said, RC Sproul's Reformation Study Bible, which has a lot heavier Reformed Calvinistic leaning, came in both ESV and NKJV, and people aren't going around saying the NKJV is a Calvinist translation.

I have not heard people talk about the CSB being Calvinistic in bent, though I could see maybe that has arisen from the Spurgeon Study Bible maybe?

That being said, I agree with McCree that Calvinists will find the theology, no matter what translation they use.

 

[Van]

I agree with the views expressed in posts #2 & 3. The ESV is both deeply flawed and Calvinistic. The CSB has some odd choices, but is a middle of the road version.

 

[alexander284]

I personally use the CSB. I believe the ESV is overrated. But Crossway certainly knows how to market their Bible version!