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A BIBLE WITHOUT HE'LL
New Baptist Church versiea ef
Holy Writ Uses Term
'Underworid"
JONAH AND THE WHALE

controversy Over the Whale CAa&es
Raptist< 60 Use Term Zig Flsh"-
Also q New Version Of the Lords
Prayer - Claimed Tha. Revised
Version IL More Easily Read
After "Baptize' Follows the Word
Immersed" I'm Parenthe~is.
A complete Bible for Baptis,s with
no hell" In IL and the Jonah and
the whale story modernired so as 20
be In keeping with modern knowledge
OF the size OF a whales throat has
been placed on sale by the American
Baptist Publication Society. says a
New York press dispatch. Ii is call
ed 'an improved edition" and con-
tains many changes in text and style
from the King James and Douay YER
sions. Adam and Eve appear only
as the man" and "the woman" In
early verses OF Genesis. although they
get names later on. Jonah's whale
becomes a great fish," there Ia a new
reading OF the Lords Prayer and
there are radical changes In the word
ing OF the Second Commandment.
A large part of the new Bible was
published many years ago when the
Bible union began the work, but
many of the books OF the Old Testa-
ment appear now for the first time.
In the New Testament where the BIZ
BILE union version replaced "baptize"
by "immerse. the newer edition
keeps the "baptize." but places I'm
merse" beside 1t in brackets.
DR.. c. Kingsley Rowland, Secre-
tary OF the American Baptist Publica-
ton Society, Is of the opinion that
the simpler language used In the "im-
proved version" will tend to change
the diction OF pulpit prayer. which he
described as sixteenth century" He
said:
THE scholars who have perfected
the translation for the Baptist Bible
have aimed, so far as 1t was consist
ent with strict Interpretation OF the
thought, to eliminate obsolete Eliza
those in general modern USE"
To this end "loveth" is replaced by
"love" and '1eadeth" by by lead"
and In the second commandment
craven image" becomes a carved
image"
Jonah's whale was changed to q
big fish, 1t was said, because 50 many
had found the whole story a STUN
bling-block in the way OF belief In
the Scriptures after learning that q
whale, at least as known to moderns,
would have choked before he had
hardly begun on the prophet OF MIN
eveh.
While Adam and Eve are replaced
on their first appearance by "the
man" and 1.-The woman" as a direct
translation OF the Hebrew names,
the Garden OF Eden is left in and pre-
sentiy Adam and Eve appear under
those names
Prayer is as follows:
Our Father who are in heaven,
hallowed be Thy name. Thy King
dom come. Thy will be done. az In /
heaven, so on earth. Give us this /
day our daily bread. And forgive US
our debt as we also have forgiven
our debtors. And bring US not into .
but deliver US from the
evil one
The use OF mmmerse' TO conform
to Baptist teachings is illustrated In
third chapter, and thir-
teenth verse.
'Then comes Jesus from Galiee to /
(immerse) by Him"
In the commandment the changed
reading visits the iniquity OF the
fathers not upon the children a. In
the older. version. but only on sons.
The many changes In this Command
ment make it read as follows In the
Baptist Bible:
Thou shalt not make to thee q
carved image or any likeness OF what
is in the heavens above, or OF what La
In the earth beneath. or OF what In
in the waters beneath the earth; i
thou shalt not bow thyself down to
them nor serve them. for /. Jehovah.
thy God, am a jealous God. visiting
the iniquity Of fathers upon sons. up
on the third generation OF them that
hate me. and showing mercy TO the
generation OF them that
love me and keep my command
DR.. Rowland says that the reading
showing mercy to the thousandth
generation" was held to be more
and comprehensive than the
King James version, which reads:
Showing mercy unto thousands"
The replacing OF hell" by the very
modern chapter OF Luke In this verse:
"And ! also say 20 thee that thou
art Peter and on this rock win build
my church; and the gates OF the un-