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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet
That is my experience, I have actually read the NT and good sections of that dirge the OT (well some chapters are quite good)
There are also quite a few who dont even know that it is a translation
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I reckon we should translate it again for a new generation actually.
"Then God had a look at what he'd done, and he saw that it wasn't that bad tbh"
I read most of the NT as a teenager because I was a pretentious little c. Was.
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Some of it is actually a decent high fantasy story but it could definitely do with the prose being updated, it doesn't flow very well, even the more recent translations. Needs to be a bit snappier for the Netflix generation.