“The Great Spirit loves this world of human beings so deeply he gave us his Son—the only Son who fully represents him. All who trust in him and his way will not come to a bad end, but will have the life of the world to come that never fades — full of beauty and harmony.”
That’s how John 3:16 sounds in the First Nations Version (FNV) of the New Testament, a “retelling of Creator’s Story” that follows in the tradition of Indigenous storytelling.
Read my interview with Terry Wildman, the
person behind the FNV—including his regret about how that verse was rendered.
Bonus: Learn about “dynamic equivalence translation.”
Also, read responses to the FNV by two Indigenous Christian scholars.
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