KFLCC / New Age Bible Versions - Gail Riplinger

KJV

NIV

I would they were even cut off which trouble

1wish they would go Gal. 5:12 the whole way and

emasculate themselves.

you.

J.B. 1would like to see the knife slip. NASB Would that those who are troubling you would even mutilate themselves.

Clearly Paul wished "they," not one of their organs, were cut off. Wishing someone would do themselves bodily harm is not Christian teaching. But it is New Age and ancient occult practice. Carroll writes: [T]he galli, that is, the priests of the Great Mother, were supposed to work themselves up into a frenzy and castrate themselves.. .[T]his is the one thing that is mentioned by virtually all the classical authorities who discuss the cult of the Great Mother. Augustine's City of God records that the galli were "effeminate [with] relaxed bodies and feminine gates."35 Evidently sex change operations were not ushered in with the New Age focus on androgyny.

"Mutilate themselves" (NASB)

The NASB renders Galatians 5:12, "Would that those who are troubling you would even mutilate themselves." (The Greek word these versions are 'mutilating' is used again in Acts 27:32 where the soldiers "cut off the ropes." New version translators show' their awareness of the true meaning by rendering this "cut" not "mutilate1'