A s one who has studied Bible versions, I am concerned about how our membership regard and use Blanco's Clear Word. Behind my remarks is a history of Bibles of this sort that have a terrible bias. The Jehovah's Witnesses' New World Translation is an obvious example - the divinty of Christ is removed and His createdness is brought out along with other tendential characteristics. Taylor's Living Bible is generally considered a good paraphrase by conservative Christians, but there is an obvious bias toward instatly going to heaven after death.
Conservatives usually favor a more literal translation than a paraphrase.
Therefore, a good number prefer the New American Standard Bible. The King James Version translators were so careful about additions that they even italicized the addition of the verb 'is' where it is clearly understood. Adventists, who emphasize the Bible, should of all people, be concerned about Bible translations that carefully and accurately translate in the Bible. Though translation in some passages unavoidably has to be an interpretation, ambigouous passages should be left ambiguous and let the reader determine how they are to be interpreted. Even a paraphrase, though freer, is intended only to translate the original, though obviously more danger of interpretation rather than mere translation is present.