The Bible Doesn't Say That

40 Biblical Mistranslations, Misconceptions, and Other Misunderstandings

De: Joel M. Hoffman

Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross

A vast listenership wants better access to the ancient words and ideas of the Bible. In The Bible Doesn't Say That, Dr. Joel M. Hoffman walks the listener through dozens of instances of mistranslations, misconceptions, and other misunderstandings about the Bible. In 40 short chapters, Hoffman covers fundamental theology, morality, lifestyle, and biblical imagery:

• The famous New Testament quotation "God so loved the world" is a mistranslation, as are the titles "Son of Man" and "Son of God".
• The Bible doesn't call homosexuality a sin, and it doesn't advocate for the one-man-one-woman model of the family that has been dubbed "biblical".
• Jesus had siblings, in spite of the Catholic rhetoric about the "ever-Virgin Mary".
• The Ten Commandments don't prohibit killing or coveting.

Even many of the Bible's details end up distorted: The fruit in the Garden of Eden wasn't an apple, it wasn't a whale that swallowed Jonah, and many animals marched onto Noah's ark in groups of seven, not pairs. The Bible Doesn't Say That succinctly explains each misunderstanding, detailing the nature of what went wrong and offering insight into the original meaning of the world's most popular book.

©2016 Joel M. Hoffman (P)2016 Recorded Books

Enjoyed The Scriptural Commitment

It was not a like/dislike type of book. It was an expose of the subject matter. Well done.

Very interesting

I enjoyed thinking through the arguments presented in this book, though upon listening to them I didn't not always arrive at the same conclusion as the author because there were certainly others verses that didn't seem to be addressed though, in my opinion, relevant.

Excellent!!!

A must read/listen!! I’d definitely listen to this again and again! Raises great questions and provide informative explanations.

Quite interesting

never knew how much is actually misunderstood by the lack of a proper translation. still maintaining my stance as an atheist, it is good to hear some of the highly quoted verses abrogating, abdicating and even justifying against certain issues, are actually being quite discombobulated by certain people.

As you like it

As the author notes, you can use Scripture to endorse your own opinions, and he does. Some fair scholarship here, but don't expect to agree with all his conclusions. He points out some bad translations which is important.

Blasphemy

This is like meeting one of those people that pick one word out of your whole conversation and twist it against you for no reason and then go and spread fake news to everyone about it and boast about it just to boost their prideful and self imagined ego. I really tried listening to this book but finally after several chapters I couldn’t take it anymore, the points written make no sense to me.

bends over backwards to make things make sense

his reasoning for the 24hour day is babilonian math not the rotation of the planet

Terrible

This work was less historical, theological, textual critical, or apologetic than I had hoped. Instead this is largely about pushing the author's misguided view of scripture on the reader. There was nothing in this work that has not been debated or written about by the church in the last 2000 years.

Somewhat interesting

Interesting to consider the multiple authors and storylines. Moderately engaging analysis. Narrator was very good and helped to make the book more interesting.

No Heart in the Issues

Obviously the author's title is "Doctor" but from such a title you get "knowledge" but not "heart." Dr. Hoffman pointed out key items but he doesn't at all mention the heart in the issues. He mentions in varying chapters that, "The Bible doesn't say homosexuality is a sin" or "The Bible doesn't say a marriage should be 1 husband 1 wife," etc. Although he points to examples in Scripture where Scripture does refer to his points he fails to point out that when we read and look at Scripture we must look at it with the heart, the eyes, the lense of God as a Father and Jesus as the Church's future groom.

When we take it from that view we can see that the Bible may not explicity say "yes" to certain things or "no" to certain things, but we see the Father's attitude towards certain things. Although God may not say anything for or against 1 husband 1 wife marriages, if we put ourselves in a father's shoes we certainly wouldn't want our children to go marrying multiple partners because we don't want them to go astray.

Homosexuality and marriage mentioned above are just 2 of many things that Dr. Hoffman address and I just so happen to use those 2 items in this review because out of Dr. Hoffman's other topics, these 2 were the easiest to relate to and 2 of the hotter topics in the book.

So, fair warning, if you are a weak believer and you think this book may shake your faith, please DON'T READ IT. But if you have such a discerning heart as our Father above, then proceed with caution.