This version was rendered by Robert Bratcher published by the American Bible Society. Good News for Modern Man in 1966 was the first translation. 17.5 million copies were sold. Bratcher held a Doctor of Theology degree from SBC seminary in Louisville Kentucky May 4, 1981. Dr. Robert Galveston Bratcher, 90, died peacefully on July 11, 2010, at home at the Carol Woods Retirement Community in Chapel Hill.

John 3:16-18Good News Translation (GNT)

  16 John 3:16, GNB
For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life

 Notice this is a bad translation of the phrase, in an attempt to ease understanding and lacking poetry.  This has been noted by many Researchers, but also noted it is also a translation for children as well. 

 Removed the Blood of Christ in many many passages,  we will only list a few to keep the page short. 

Acts 20:28, GNB, 1966
Keep watch over yourselves and over all the flock which the Holy Spirit has placed in your charge. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he made his own through the death of his own Son.

Romans 3:25 
God offered him so that by his death he should become the means by which men’s sins are forgiven, through their faith in him. God offered Christ to show how he puts men right with himself. In the past, God was patient and overlooked men’s sins;

Romans 5:9
By his death we are now put right with God; how much more, then, will we be saved by him from God's wrath.

Colossians 1:14 the phrase "through his blood" is absent.

Rendering of john one.
   "Before the world was created, the Word already existed; he was with God, and he was the same as God."

Bright and Morning Star Isaiah 14:12
  "King of Babylon, bright morning star, you have fallen from heaven! In the past you conquered nations, but now you have been thrown to the ground."

  We must comment here because this will be striking to most people, he is not alone, there are more translations going his direction than the other, we listed a few.   

ASV

How art thou fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, that didst lay low the nations!

AMP

“How you have fallen from heaven, O star of the morning [light-bringer], son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, You who have weakened the nations [king of Babylon]!

AMPC

How have you fallen from heaven, O light-bringer and daystar, son of the morning! How you have been cut down to the ground, you who weakened and laid low the nations [O blasphemous, satanic king of Babylon!]

CSB

Shining morning star, how you have fallen from the heavens! You destroyer of nations, you have been cut down to the ground.

CEV

You, the bright morning star, have fallen from the sky! You brought down other nations; now you are brought down.

 Robert Bratcher made bad renderings and got hit hard with critics, but understand this was a child Bible basically and at this passage, he really took bad criticism.    Here is why Christians often have issues with these renderings. 


Revelation 22:16

   “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to attest these things to you for the churches. I am the root and descendant of David, the bright morning star.”

 Jesus has the same title of Lucifer in the passage from Isaiah, many translations render the word Lucifer from the Latin Vulgate translation to avoid this conflict.  Jesus is called Light [phos] and that creates theological issues for many theologians because the "King of Nations" in Isaiah is presented as "light bringer."


 "Often in the past and still too often in the present to affirm that the Bible is the Word of God implies that the words of the Bible are the words of God. Such simplistic and absolute terms divest the Bible altogether of its humanity and remove it from the relativism of the historical process. No one seriously claims all the words of the Bible are the very words of God. If someone does so it is only because that person is not willing thoroughly to explore its implications. . ."
Robert Bratcher