Lost in Translation: Are Human Beings Hopelessly Depraved?
Tabor from the video’s description – A Single verse of the Bible–Jeremiah 17:9, has been mistranslated and misapplied to millions over the past two thousand years to imply that humanity is hopelessly lost in sin, desperately wicked–and that means EVERYONE, even those who are living a righteous life. What it really says is quite the opposite? As it turns out, it is the apostle Paul who has shaped the entire Christian world into the idea of the “total depravity ” of all humankind. Here is a PDF with the notes I used in the video, which you can download and print out free: https://jamestabor.com/humanswicked
All below is from his pdf.
- The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? King James Version
- The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it? American Standard Version
- The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately corrupt; who can understand it? Revised Standard Version
- Most devious is the heart; It is perverse—who can fathom it? Jewish Publication Society
Paul in Romans 2: 6 For he will render to every man according to his works: 7 to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; 8 but for those who are factious and do not obey the truth, but obey wickedness, there will be wrath and fury. 9 There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek, 10 but glory and honor and peace for every one who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. 11 For God shows no partiality. . .
15 Gentiles without the written Torah: They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or perhaps excuse them 16 on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
