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So what about Gamutria finding numerical values for the Hebrew letters in the Bible?

Is that a valid way of reading the scripture?

It's time for the line of fire with your host, biblical scholar and cultural commentator Dr. Michael Brown,

your voice for moral sanity and spiritual clarity.

Call 86634 Truth to get on the line of fire.

And now, here's your host, Dr. Michael Brown.

We are going to dive into another controversy today here on the line of fire, and the phone lines are open wide.

86634 Truth. That's 866-34-7-884. Michael Brown.

Delighted to be with you. Thrilled to be back in our home studio. Anything you want to ask me about the Bible or biblical languages or biblical translations today,

full lines are open 866-348-8-8-8-4, but in particular, we're going to focus on a number of

controversial methods of interpreting scripture. Before we get into that, a couple things.

One week ago today, I did a broadcast on revisiting the Passion translation,

which emphasizes a paraphrase, not a translation,

and have had dialogue with Brian Simmons,

translated behind that, behind the passion version.

I had dialogue with him subsequent to the show.

He did take time to watch it.

I always appreciate his humility and desire to honor the Lord. And he's taking suggestions that I've

given very, very seriously. There are major revisions being made, a lot of scholarly input.

They're going to get as much as they can. So that to me is very

positive, and let's see what comes out of it. But there were folks who criticized me, but said,

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