Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face, check out Rod Decker’s post: Wayne Grudem’s use of inclusive language. Be sure and read the comments (warning: for the comments, put on your technical grammar hat!). Especially see Decker’s comment:
The detractors [of the NIV 2011] have lists of *thousands* of passages, but they really don’t accomplish anything. All they illustrate is that NIV11 has been reasonably consistent in their work. CBMW like to speak of “2,700″ errors in the NIV11 (I think that number is close; I didn’t go back to verify it; you can probably find the list at cbmw.org). But that’s foolishness. It smacks of the KJV-only crowd listing every example that differs from KJV as an error.
I just completed a 50-page (sg. sp.) review of NIV11 that I’ll be posting in a week or so. I’m presenting it (actually, an overview of it) at a conference and the post will go up near that time.
On a similar note, see Craig Blomberg’s “Wives, Women, or Deaconesses?” where he takes the ESV translators to task asking:
How can God’s people submit themselves to an inerrant Bible that should wield authority over them when translators introduce speculative interpretations for them in an imbalanced way without ever acknowledging that that is what they are doing?
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