Bill Johnson’s endorsement of it is featured prominently on its website, where he hypes it as “one of the greatest things to happen with Bible translation in my lifetime.”
(Protestia) For the last few weeks, The Passion Translation has been getting beaten up and bashed, in light of a devastating exposé by the YouTube channel Minor Prophets.
The video reveals the extent to which its creator, Brian Simmons, routinely plagiarized or outright lied about where the translation came from and how he produced it, demonstrating repeatedly that much of Simmons’ “translation” involved just making things up.
As a result of the exposé, YouVersion, the world’s top Bible app, has been urged to drop it, Something Bible Gateway had done years ago, as more and more calls grow for the famously flaky translation to be cast in the lake of fire.
Protestia publisher David Morrill, however, points out the elephant in the room with the timing of the cancellation:
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Concern growing over The Passion Translation Excerpt: Reader, this is the same strategy the enemy has always used: To take people away from the true Word of God, or to keep them from it. It is no exaggeration to state that between The Message “Bible” and The Passion Translation, the enemy has made great inroads into the visible church.
CRN has compiled a list of false teachers and several other professing Christians we’ve warned you about over the years. The list also contains those we must keep an eye on plus movements, organizations and “frauds, phonies and money-grubbing religious quacks” to mark and avoid as per Romans 16:17-18 such as those mentioned in the article.