Brent Miller resurfaces!

Brent Miller and his son, Brent Junior, are currently hawking their The Pure Word New Testament. This Bible "translation" (20 years in the making, just like the Horizon Project DVD! Coincidence? No!). I quote from a review I wrote about it:

'Let the buyer beware of claims that a new key has finally, after 2000 years, unlocked the true hidden meaning of the Bible. That is why my stomach clenched when the first thing I saw was “The Pure Word is an unprecedented New Testament resource, over 20-years in the making, that reveals the original Koine-Greek depths-of-meaning from the time of Christ…[allowing the reader to] experience deeper scriptural meaning that has never before been achievable in English.” Oh, and their claim that all, 100%, of Bible translations are “riddled with inaccuracies that never referenced the original Greek scriptures” and “incredibly rarely did they ever go back and look at even of the few original Greek words. Never mind this project which took over 20 years and a major scholarly group looking at every single word in the Greek.”

This last statement is either incredible hubris or simply a complete lack of awareness of what English Bible translators have been doing in the original languages for the past 500 years! People who go around making such claims about their Bibles or Bible guides are on the fast track to Cultsville....

...The two editors of TPW are named on the website as Dr. Brent Miller Sr. and Brent Miller Jr. It does not say who they are, nor what qualifications they have to produce a guide of New Testament Greek. Now, when it comes to Bible versions and guides, it is practically obligatory to list the translators and to spell out their qualifications: take a look at the detailed page for the NASB...

Brent Sr. says he is a “Dr.”, but that does not mean much unless someone says which degree and from where; in another place he claims to be a marvelous engineer with 30 miraculous patents to his name. I have reached out to them for more information and will update this post when I receive it. However, just by looking at what the say, I cannot imagine that if you presented them a random page of Greek text, that the Millers could read or translate it.

Back to our quest: it took me some hours to track down who are the Millers. They are father and son. Brent Junior is a screenwriter and producer, while Brent Senior is the “theologian” of the family. And it turns that Brent Senior was the same Brent Miller who found great fame years ago, hawking a DVD that showed how there would be a catastrophic “pole reversal” in 2012. This was the same “prediction” that some connected with the prophecy of the Mayan calendar. He wouldn’t give his proof publicly, but made you buy the DVD. Brent Miller at that time had a website called The Horizon Project, which he took down even before his doomsayings went awry.'

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