Created by the Messianic Jewish Family Bible (MJFB) Society--an organization which has made covenant with the Federal Government for tax advantages--the new TLV Bible poses troublesome challenges to the Gospel of the Kingdom as taught by Messiah Yeshua. The MJFB posts confusing and biased claims on their website:
... "This text will use “pagan” for any person following a faith choice that is not considered 1st century Judaism. We may use “nations” when speaking of people groups not included within the believing “descendents of Israel,”
whether born Jewish or “grafted in.”
There is an arrogant tone in these and other statements which suggests that non-Jewish Believers are somehow not on equal par with Jewish Believers. And that today, 2000 years after the Gospel was given, these modern-day Diaspora Jews are somehow the "keepers of the Word" and exclusively in charge of spreading the Gospel to the four corners of the globe. They seem to have forgotten that Scripture confirms that the Jew who accepts Yeshua as Messiah is also "grafted-in" to the Good Olive Tree. What happened to the "One New Man--all One in Yeshua?" In Christ there IS no Jew or Gentile, no circumcised or uncircumcised! (Galatians 3:28 and Colossians 3:11)
The TLV Gospel of John depicts an artist's interpretation of "The Word becoming Flesh" as a man morphing out from a Torah Scroll. This, in my opinion, is a dangerous subliminal. The Gospel of John from which this depiction is taken, makes quite clear that the Word of God is a Person--not a book and certainly not a Torah scroll. This is one of many subliminals inserted ino the TLV Bible to purposely influence the reader to believe that somehow God is Jewish and this is the preferred way of belief. Rabbi Paul made it clear who Yeshua is and who We are in HIM:
"For he himself (Yeshua) is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace, and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility." ~ Ephesians 2:14-16
BEWARE OF THE BIAS OF THE TRANSLATORS!
