Salvation Revelation

Before you know it, the powers that be will force similar rewrites to the entire Bible. They’ll tell you the morality is great but the “stories” are outdated and as such can be redone with similar moral themes.

People like this anti-Christian “vicar” clearly doubt the historical validity of the Bible and as such they are more than willing to keep the theme and reinvent the story, so as to appeak to a younger hipper, more sex crazed generation.

It won’t be long before they decide to edit a good deal of Christ’s life as well, probably making Him out to be a bit more like Buddha.

“Goliath is a celebrity binge drinker, Eve is a sex-obsessed man-eater and Noah’s wife wants to kill him . . . welcome to the updated Bible.

An Anglican vicar has rewritten the most famous biblical tales because he wants to make them more “accessible” to modern readers.

Binge drinking Goliath: The classic Bible tale will be retold to appeal to a younger, more modern generation

The Rev Robert Harrison’s book, Must Know Stories, contains retellings of ten Bible stories and is out tomorrow.

In the nativity story, Jesus is born in an overcrowded house instead of a stable, amid family conflict as Joseph’s aunt deals with the fact that he and Mary are not even married.

Last night Mr Harrison defended his decision to rewrite key Christian tales that have remained unchanged for centuries.

He said he was doing it to encourage people to read stories “that are so utterly part of our culture.

“They should know them - not as a matter of religion but as a matter of cultural education,” he said.

“I wanted to write a book that tells the most important Bible stories in a way that relishes them rather than tries to make any particular religious point.

“After all, who knows what the point is?

“What is more important to me is that people are getting to know the stories.

“There are lots of people who won’t pick up the Bible and look for a story, most won’t even own one.

“Even if they did they would find it hard to translate as it is written in Shakespearean English. I want to get the stories to them in an accessible form, written for modern society.”

Mr Harrison, who preaches at St John’s in Hillingdon, West London, added: “It’s better to tell the story controversially than not at all.”

A Church of England spokesman said: “Robert Harrison is simply drawing parallels between biblical stories and situations that people may recognise in modern life.

“It doesn’t change the original stories.”

But last night some notable Christians disagreed.

Catholic MP Ann Widdecombe said: “It sounds to me as if it’s gone much too far. It is one thing to give a biblical story a modern application and something quite different to distort all the facts.”

Dr Justin Thacker, head of theology at the Evangelical Alliance, said: “In trying to communicate the stories to a contemporary audience some of the essential features and message may have been lost.”

Reworked Bible stories feature Goliath as a drunk and Eve as sex mad

In communicating the understatement of Dr. Justin Thacker just made I will be as clea as I can in quoting the actual Word of God.

Deuteronomy 4:2

Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

Revelation 22:18-19

For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

We are NOT to add, remove, or play around with God’s Word.