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BibleThinker

Confronting the pastor who uses The Passion Translation.

BibleThinker

Mike Winger

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.93K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

If you want to know more about The Passion Translation, you can find it in these links: CLICK HERE for an overview of issues for those who want the "big picture." CLICK HERE for my full playlist of interviews with top scholars that I hired to do reviews of The Passion Translation. These guys are all experienced in working on major Bible translations. They reviewed TPT and helped us take a look "under the hood." I'm Mike Winger and it's my goal to help people learn to think biblically about everything. My website: https://BibleThinker.org

Transcript

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0:00.0

One of my pastors uses the passion translation used,

0:03.7

the passion translation on Sunday, what should I do?

0:06.2

I would like to give him the benefit of the doubt

0:07.8

that he just doesn't know much about the passion translation,

0:10.2

but I'm not happy at all that this thing

0:12.9

can't even call it a translation,

0:14.3

was used in my church, what would Jesus do?

0:16.7

Here's what all the scholars agree on, right?

0:18.8

Cause I hired months ago, a number of scholars,

0:21.1

here's what they all agree on.

0:22.1

This isn't even a translation.

0:23.8

This is not a translation,

0:25.7

and what you're seeing here are not secrets of Hebrew and Greek

0:28.6

like Brian Simmons claims,

0:29.9

but they're just Hebrew and Greek mistakes

0:32.2

and fabrications in many cases.

0:34.4

What is your pastor need to know?

0:36.9

Well, he probably doesn't know.

0:38.0

You said you want to give him the benefit of the doubt,

0:39.4

I don't think anybody using the passion translation

0:41.5

on a regular basis, like knows how problematic it is,

0:45.2

cause why would they use it?

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