Everything Wrong With The Passion Translation in Colossians

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Mike Winger

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 20 May 2021

⏱️ 141 minutes

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0:00 Why this matters3:44 Meet Alex Hewitson and Dr. Brad Bitner6:16 Alex’s approach to reviewing Col in TPT7:39 Brian Simmons’ wild claims about TPT10:21 What are the different kinds of translations?11:45 TPT is not a real translation13:38 Are we being too critical of translations?15:52 Broad Street publishing misleading people18:20 Simmons badly wrong about “Aramaic”32:24 Simmons makes stuff up about “tetelestai”37:04 Testing Simmons’ claims about “love language”41:04 Why is TPT longer than other Bibles?44:02 Simmons translates the same Greek phrase in many different ways46:58 Adding and subtracting from the Bible50:19 TPT radically expands the Bible54:21 Seeing the agenda behind TPT59:30 What concerns me about the people who endorse TPT?1:01:41 TPT using joint verse numbers1:04:08 Divine titles are weird in TPT1:13:52 How TPT softens hard teachings from the Bible1:17:22 Translators should be invisible. Simmons is not.1:19:13 Failure to quote scholars1:20:35 Simmons uses outdated resources1:23:48 Is Simmons a scholar or not?1:28:08 Testing the “secrets” Brian says are coming from God1:32:32 Brian Simmons homonyms are deeply concerning1:38:30 God’s wrath is changed1:40:40 Changing the meaning of Col 1 vs 91:43:38 Italics in TPT are problematic1:45:18 TPT wrong on slaves and masters1:48:24 TPT wrong on husbands and wives1:54:17 TPT wrong on children and parents1:56:15 Adds “prophetic songs” to Colossians2:01:36 “Buzz words” in TPT don’t belong2:04:52 Basic grammar errors show Simmons shouldn’t be translating2:09:19 Simmons’ style replaces the biblical authors style2:12:35 What they really think of TPT2:14:43 Should TPT be sold in Christian bookstores?2:15:47 Can someone get saved reading TPT?2:18:10 How will TPT impact you if you use it? Dr. Brad Bitner's academia profile https://wscal.academia.edu/BradBitner Here's every video and paper in The Passion Project (including Alex's paper) https://biblethinker.org/index.php/the-passion-translation

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0:00.0	Let me tell you why this matters so much to me and why I've hired a number of highly respected
0:04.9	scholars to review the Passion Translation and then made their work, their papers, and their
0:09.2	interviews available for free online. The Passion Translation is a bad translation. It is not
0:14.0	even proper to call it a translation. It has more issues than I can count. It pushes sectarian theology
0:20.3	and puts ideas into the Bible that just aren't there to start with. It's primarily the work of one
0:25.3	man, a guy named Brian Simmons, who doesn't seem to have the proper education or skills to be able
0:30.4	to translate the entire Bible well. But Brian Simmons claims that God has supernaturally given him
0:36.0	the spirit of revelation and given him secrets of Hebrew and Greek that he has put into his Passion
0:40.7	Bible. Now normally, weird and bad translations don't really make it into yourself at home or into
0:45.5	the bookstores or certainly aren't recommended from pulpits normally. But because of the reckless
0:51.0	and unwise endorsing of the Passion Translation by some high-profile, hypercharismatic pastors,
0:56.2	that's exactly what's happening. I thought something has to be done about this. So I made a number
1:00.6	of videos exposing the Passion Translation, trying to share why I think this is a bad translation,
1:05.1	even though I like the ESV and the NASB and the new King James version. I like the King James version.
1:10.4	I mean, I like most of the available translations we have nowadays, but no, not this one.
1:15.3	Still, even with the videos and the reviews I had done, some people questioned my motives or some
1:19.4	people wondered if maybe it's kind of like a Mike Winger versus Brian Simmons, you know, who do I
1:23.4	believe situation? So I hired a bunch of scholars to review the Passion Translation and present
1:28.4	their work to you so you could have an academic and as unbiased as possible review of the work.
1:33.4	That is what I've called my Passion Project and this is, honestly, this is one of the best videos
1:39.4	we're going to have in the Passion Project. Alex Hewitson has written probably one of the best
1:43.6	papers we've had so far. It's so accessible and it really breaks things down in a way that I think
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