What Dr. Darrell Bock Thinks About Ephesians in The Passion Translation

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Mike Winger

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 28 December 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Open description for time stamps. Welcome to my Passion Project! Where real scholars test the wild claims of Brian Simmons about his new Bible, The Passion Translation, so that YOU can know what’s really going on with this suddenly popular new Bible version. Today's video features Dr. Darrell Bock and his thoughts after reviewing the book of Ephesians. Scroll down for links to Dr. Bock's paper. This same link will have ALL the reviews and papers as they are published. You should see a total of 5 uploaded by mid way through January. After that I will need to wait a while for more scholars to finish their papers and do interviews. I hope to have it all done in the next few months. What was my goal with this? I want the people of Christ to know the truth about this "translation" so that they can love what God has said without Brian Simmons altering it in unjustified ways. However, in the course of researching for this project I've uncovered some other very concerning things about Brian Simmons' teachings including false prophecy and various extreme claims regarding his own spiritual experiences. I'll be sharing some of this in future videos as well since I have realized that he is not just styling himself as a Bible translator but as an inspired Bible interpreter who is going to release a last days transformation in the people of God so that "everything that can be said about Jesus can be said about you". Yeah, it's weird. Stay tuned to my channel for more info on this in the coming weeks. LINK to all interviews AND papers as they are uploaded. https://biblethinker.org/index.php/th... A direct download link for just Dr. Bock's paper https://biblethinker.org/images/Notes... Here is Dr. Bock's "The Table" program on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Darrell Bock's CV https://blogs.bible.org/curriculum-vi... My website https://BibleThinker.org Time Stamps 0:00 Intro 0:16 What is My Passion Project? 0:38 Today's video synopsis. 1:41 Who is Dr. Darrell Bock and why is he reviewing TPT? 2:50 Why it is not truthful to call TPT a "translation." 4:09 If Dr. Bock was to evaluate TPT as if it were a paraphrase what would he say? 5:15 The CENTRAL issue of Simmons misleading people about using Aramaic in Ephesians. 8:14 How Brian Simmons abuses homonyms which he says are a secret that God gave him. 12:32 TPT changes the focus in Ephesians 1 from God to us. It is too anthropocentric. 13:59 One example of a where Simmons adds a whole sentence to the Bible. without italics or footnote. 15:50 In Eph 2 Simmons gives us more authority than we have in this passage. 17:32 Another passage where TPT changes the focus from God to us. 19:30 Are getting what Paul really wrote in TPT version of Ephesians? Spoiler: no. 20:38 A number of times Ephesians is changed in TPT from speaking to tho corporate church to individuals. 21:48 How a mistranslation in Eph 5 vs. 11 will can mess up how we apply the Bible. 23:25 How TPT limits what Ephesians is saying about marriage roles. 26:13 Brian tries to use "the Aramaic" to justify his alterations but Dr. Bock says this misleads the reader. 27:17 How TPT mishandled the passage on slavery in Ephesians. 28:45 Another example of taking the issue of slavery out of Ephesians with an unjustified appeal to "Aramaic" that doesn't exist. 30:40 The danger of TPT. 32:08 Dr. Bock comments on the claims that TPT website makes. 32:46 Dr. Bock reacts to Bill Johnson's quote endorsing TPT. 33:37 What paraphrase Bible would Dr. Bock recommend? 34:13 The challenge of translation and paraphrase and where TPT fits in that. 35:19 I ask Dr. Bock to comment briefly on The Message. I'm still not very happy with it ;) 36:29 Does TPT distort the Bible even though their web site says they don't? 37:26 Should TPT be in bookstores, Bible app, and Bible web sites? 39:10 Did God give Brian Simmons secrets of Hebrew and Greek? 41:37 Brian lacks real credentials and claims supernatural gifting. It could be true but it sure

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0:00.0	Do you think it appears to you that, forgive me for the way I have to word this, but we got to respond to the claims that are being made, that God gave Brian Simmons secrets of Greek that scholars have overlooked for all these years.
0:13.0	That claim is so incredibly arrogant, I can hardly believe it.
0:17.0	You have just stumbled upon my passion project.
0:20.0	This is where real scholars will come and test the claims of Brian Simmons, his wild claims about his new version of the Bible called the Passion translation.
0:29.0	This is a suddenly very popular new version of the Bible, and there are a lot of serious issues
0:33.9	that we need to take a look at and well you're going to get all the low downs
0:37.6	today's interview is with Dr. Darrell Bach. I hired Dr. Darrell Bach to take a
0:42.4	thorough look at the book of Ephesians in the passion translation.
0:45.2	He wrote a paper about the topic and now this is the interview where he's going to give us a lot of
0:49.8	data, a lot of behind the scenes info so we can understand things like for instance
0:53.2	specific theological changes that Brian Simmons has put into the book of
0:56.5	Ephesians how it gives too much authority to believers and redirects the focus
1:00.1	of a passage from God to us this goes on in Ephesians in the passion translation. We're also going to be looking at how the passion translation alters the biblical teaching on slavery. Oddly, this happens in several books of the New Testament in Brian Simmons version of the Bible.
1:13.2	And stick around to hear the discussion on the marriage passage.
1:16.7	Brian Simmons changes issues dealing with men and women in their relations and marriage
1:21.1	in the New Testament, so you're going to be hearing that as well all
1:24.2	in today's interview I've also separated this video into a bunch of time stamps that's
1:27.8	so that you can navigate your way through the video and find exactly the kind of
1:30.6	content that you're looking for as well as reference other people to it.
1:33.6	So several scholars have reviewed the translation, written papers on it, and I'm doing interviews with them.
1:38.1	And all of that content is totally free.
1:40.1	It's available in the video description.
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