Everything Wrong With The Passion Translation in Colossians

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0:00 Why this matters 3:44 Meet Alex Hewitson and Dr. Brad Bitner 6:16 Alex’s approach to reviewing Col in TPT 7:39 Brian Simmons’ wild claims about TPT 10:21 What are the different kinds of translations? 11:45 TPT is not a real translation 13:38 Are we being too critical of translations? 15:52 Broad Street publishing misleading people 18:20 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 ways 46:58 Adding and subtracting from the Bible 50:19 TPT radically expands the Bible 54:21 Seeing the agenda behind TPT 59:30 What concerns me about the people who endorse TPT? 1:01:41 TPT using joint verse numbers 1:04:08 Divine titles are weird in TPT 1:13:52 How TPT softens hard teachings from the Bible 1:17:22 Translators should be invisible. Simmons is not. 1:19:13 Failure to quote scholars 1:20:35 Simmons uses outdated resources 1:23:48 Is Simmons a scholar or not? 1:28:08 Testing the “secrets” Brian says are coming from God 1:32:32 Brian Simmons homonyms are deeply concerning 1:38:30 God’s wrath is changed 1:40:40 Changing the meaning of Col 1 vs 9 1:43:38 Italics in TPT are problematic 1:45:18 TPT wrong on slaves and masters 1:48:24 TPT wrong on husbands and wives 1:54:17 TPT wrong on children and parents 1:56:15 Adds “prophetic songs” to Colossians 2:01:36 “Buzz words” in TPT don’t belong 2:04:52 Basic grammar errors show Simmons shouldn’t be translating 2:09:19 Simmons’ style replaces the biblical authors style 2:12:35 What they really think of TPT 2:14:43 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/the-passion-project/ My website https://BibleThinker.org