My Concerns About The Passion Translation and Brian Simmons

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Mike Winger

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2018

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

We'll look at specific verses that are translated strangely, additions to the Bible, how the Aramaic is used to change the Bible and some concerning statements from Brian Simmons, who is the chief translator of The Passion Translation. Some links: Brian Simmons being interviewed about TPT https://youtu.be/VmnZYEteXX8 TPT's FAQ page where they seem to misrepresent the translation https://www.thepassiontranslation.com/faqs/ An blog about TPT's use of Aramaic - https://thinktheology.co.uk/blog/article/whats_wrong_with_the_passion_translation Brian's response TO the blog (note that he never removed the quotes from Keener and Bird from the FAQ page) https://thinktheology.co.uk/blog/article/the_passion_translation_debate_brian_simmons_responds What "Greater works" will we do than Jesus? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6Xg-i15mxw

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0:00.0	I'm Pastor Mike Winger and this is Bible Thinker the program dedicated to thinking
0:05.8	biblically about everything. So thank you guys so much for joining me I'm
0:12.3	Pastor Mike Winger. This is going to be a hopefully
0:17.2	dispassionate analysis of the Passion translation. I'm going to try to be as calm as I can on this issue. I think this is actually a really, really big deal and that we cannot
0:28.1	take it as just another translation of the Bible, whereas I could take say the King James, the New King James, the N IV,
0:36.2	E S V, NASB, the Christian standard, I could take all these and just say, hey, I got a bunch of
0:41.0	different translations of the Bible to compare and
0:43.0	contrast and to learn and that's great for people who don't speak original
0:46.8	languages because we're able to say, oh look, look at how different translator
0:51.3	translated this thing, but the passion translation is a whole different animal.
0:56.4	So you're about to get the full download on the passion translation.
1:00.0	Is it good? Is it accurate? Is it safe?
1:03.0	Who did it?
1:04.0	Would I recommend it?
1:05.0	And I'm not going to be blowing things out of proportion in order to get views here,
1:10.0	but I'll say this in all honesty.
1:12.0	This translation has serious very serious problems
1:16.2	and I'm going to demonstrate that to you today and I'd like to talk about the specific
1:21.2	verses and how they're translated.
1:22.4	I'm also going to talk about the author or the author. the specific verses and how they're translated.
1:22.5	I'm also going to talk about the author or the translator.
1:25.8	Normally, I will not even bring up the translator of a translation
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