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    China Will Rewrite the Bible to Fit the 'Values of Socialism'

    - Last month, Chinese communist apparatchiks agreed they would rewrite seminal religious texts — almost certainly including the Bible, the Quran, and others — in its attempt to make religion more Chinese and more socialist.

    As Britain's*Daily Mail reported, China will create new editions of religious books excluding any content that contradicts the teachings of the Communist Party. Any paragraphs the government deems anti-Communist or too foreign will be amended or re-translated o support the regime.

    The Communist Party called for a "comprehensive evaluation of the existing religious classics aimed at contents which do not conform to the progress of the times." Apparatchiks gave the order in November during a meeting of the Committee for Ethnic and Religious Affairs at the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference...

    China Will Rewrite the Bible to Support Socialism, Communist Party

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    I remembered an article from earlier this year...


    In China Today, 'Sinicization' Means Rewriting the Bible and Creating a New Christianity
    By Emma Childs & Olivia Enos
    Published on February 5, 2019
    In China Today, 'Sinicization' Means Rewriting the Bible and Creating a New Christianity | The Stream

    China's attempts to secularize religion have spilled over into rewriting the Bible. Under the direction of the Chinese government, two Protestant organizations in China, the Three-Self Patriotic Movement and the Chinese Christian Council, created a five-year plan to reorient the Bible to promote socialism and create a new Christianity that favors the communist government's agenda.

    The goal is to eradicate any form of Christianity deemed to threaten the authority of the Chinese state and replace it with a form that advances the Communist Party's ends. This secularizing process is known as sinicization....



    ...The Chinese government's attempts to rewrite the Bible come just months after China banned all purchases of the Bible on the internet, one of the last legal ways to obtain a Bible in the country.

    In line with China's renewed efforts to cement nationalism within Judeo-Christianity, the government will incorporate Buddhist and Confucian teachings in the Old Testament and provide additional commentary on the New Testament.

    Also included in the five-year plan are efforts to marry Chinese characters, architecture, and other expressions of Chinese culture to a Christian's expression of his or her faith.
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    (Psalm 1)

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    No big deal. Christians 'rewrite' the parts they don't like all the time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post
    No big deal. Christians 'rewrite' the parts they don't like all the time.
    The JW's did this when they falsely translated their New World Bible.

    Others just skip over the passages that they don't like.
    If you put God First, you have Him at Last.

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    From the same culture that brings you fortune cookies. You like??

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    Quote Originally Posted by Smitty View Post
    The JW's did this when they falsely translated their New World Bible.

    Others just skip over the passages that they don't like.
    but, they missed some key points that show Jesus is, indeed, God almighty.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post
    No big deal. Christians 'rewrite' the parts they don't like all the time.

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