The Clear Word Bible

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Summary: EXTREME CAUTION !!!!
Review: A very bad translation. It is a deliberate mistranslation by the Seventh Day Adventists to promote their personal doctrine about Saturday Sabbath keeping. Check out http://www.sdaoutreach.org/clearwordbible.cfm
for some examples of it's distortions.

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Summary: lies and misrepresentation
Review: As an ex-7th day Adeventist, I recognize the language & phrases used by many reviewers who applaud this book - to be that of Seventh-day Adventists. Since this false "Bible" is published by the SDA church's own publishing house, churchmember praise is understandable. But please listen to the warnings posted here by reviewers who are familiar with the goofball doctrines of this church - and have warned that this "Bible" is shamefully altered to support unique SDA doctrines. If you don't know your Bible very well, you probably won't recognize the seriousness of the errors found in it. It can put you in real Spiritual tumoil to trust in the words of a false Bible. If you want the most widely respected paraphrase of the Holy Bible, I suggest The Living Bible.

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Summary: The Clear Word?
Review: I am astonished by the number of people who think "The Clear Word" is a wonderful paraphrase of the bible. Get a list of Adventist doctrines,or of the 27 fundamental beliefs. Then, go to almost any verse in the bible related to a doctrine. Ready? Now,
read the verse from the Clear Word.
The "paraphrase" is very different is'nt it? The author will cheerfully reverse the meaning in many cases. God's covenant with Israel was the same as as that with their forefathers, Noah was not
given everything as food, and etc., etc., etc.
An amazing book.

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Summary: The Clear Word?
Review: I am astonished by the number of people who think "The Clear Word" is a wonderful paraphrase of the bible. Get a list of Adventist doctrines,or of the 27 fundamental beliefs. Then, go to almost any verse in the bible related to a doctrine. Ready? Now,
read the verse from the Clear Word.
The "paraphrase" is very different is'nt it? The author will cheerfully reverse the meaning in many cases. God's covenant with Israel was the same as as that with their forefathers, Noah was not
given everything as food, and etc., etc., etc.
An amazing book.

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Summary: Excellent "Devotional" --Better than the Message Bible!!!!
Review: I've been doing some Bible research, and I like to use paraphrase Bibles so that I can get a quick overall understanding of the passages that I'm studying... I have been comparing the New Living Translation, the Message Bible, and the Clear Word. These represent different levels of paraphrasing the Bible. The New Living Translation is probably the most accurate of the paraphrases. The Message Bible is an excellent Bible just to read for devotionals, but I found that it is actually the WORST when it comes to reinterpreting passages and putting the translator's own preconceived understandings into the passage. That's why I enjoy the Clear Word. Yes, Jack Blanco elaborates on some passages to explain what he thinks they mean--and that is why this is a "Devotional" Bible (its not meant for serious Bible study)--but I find that Blanco is far more faithful to what the text is saying than the Message Bible (which I would not recommend for anything besides devotions either because of its poor eisegesis).
The Clear Word deserves five stars for *faitfully* communicating what the Bible is trying to say in modern, contemporary language and for its excellent readability. It has pretty much the same goal as the Message Bible, but I think the Clear Word is much better.

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Summary: The Clear Lie
Review: Revelation 22:18,19 offers a very strong warning deliniating the destiny of people who do what Jack Blanco has done in this volume.

This so-called Bible is not the Word of God in a simple and clear form, but rather it is the injection of Adventism's cultic doctrines into the biblical text. Often substituting a plagiarizing false prophet's words for the clear statements of Scripture which expose her heresies for the "cunningly devised fables" that they are.

If you value truth, integrity and purity; do not purchase this volume. If you prefer the comfort of familiar delusions, then this book is for you....

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Summary: A Solid Devotional
Review: This book offers hope to those who would like to be introduced to a loving God through inspired writers. If you are concerned about how accurately it matches the more traditional King James Version, read them side by side. Isaiah says, "...to the law and to the testimony, if they speak not according to this word, there is no light in them." My advice, be encouraged. Read the Clear Word.

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Summary: This Book is a Method of Spiritual Rape
Review: This is Not the Bible, nor is it Clear., January 10, 2004
Reviewer: Benjamin Lizarraga (see more about me) from Imperial, California United States
After reading extensive portions of this bible, what becomes clear to the serious reader is the fact that the text of the Scriptures has been altered by the author.

Mr. J.Blanco claims to have published a "paraphrase" of the Scriptures. However, an accurate paraphrase does not add nor take away from the original literary work, like it was done in the "Clear Word" Bible.

I would ask Mr.Blanco to consider one text: Revelation 22:18.

According to the King James version Rev.22:18 reads:
"...If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book,etc..."

According to Mr.J.Blanco Rev.22:18 reads:
"...I, John, warn everyone who reads or hears the prophetic words in this book not to add anything CONTRARY TO WHAT IS WRITTEN (capitalization done by me). If they do, God's seven last plagues will certainly fall on them..."

The capitalized words "CONTRARY TO WHAT IS WRITTEN" in the last quotation are clearly NOT in the King James version nor in any other respectable versions of the Bible. However, what those words do pretend, is to leave open for anybody to add to the Scriptures based on their own discretion as to whether what they add is "contrary" or "not" to what is written.

In other words, according to Mr. Blanco, it is OK to add to the Bible as long as it is not "contrary" to what is written.

In conlusion, it is my evaluation that "The Clear Word" Bible will go down as an infamous event in the history of the Review and Herald Publishing Association.

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Summary: Adventist, not Biblical
Review: This was written so that the tortorous (and incorrect) inferences that the Adventist so-called prophet Ellen White makes, appear to be "Biblical." Like the (real) Bible passage says "red", but she said "blue" in her writings, so the Clear Word Bible is CHANGED to read "blue".

YOU CANNOT RELY ON IT. Just the opposite: it will deceive you.

If you have a copy, throw it away.