David Fish
@DavidFish7 • 2,828 subscribers
Pastor, dad, mediocre wordsmith, aspiring table tennis champion, visca el Barça
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This is a recent clip of Bill Johnson preaching from the Passion Translation and praising the footnotes. The only problem? The footnote of the passage Bill is quoting is plagiarized from p. 599 of a book by Glenn David Bauscher (image below) and the second half is plagiarized from the website of a fringe filmmaker named Victor Alexander. Brian Simmons gets the praise (and financial reward) from the Bethel platform, while the authors whose work he stole do not. The Passion Translation is still sold on the Bethel website and bookstore.
David Fish89,660 views • 1 month ago
How successful was Brian Simmons in convincing the world that The Passion "Translation" was translated from "Aramaic?" He had some of the most well-known Charismatic leaders hyping up his "Aramaic translation" all over the world. TPT only exists because of this deception. And now, we are being told that the final "Bible" will have almost no references to this secret "Aramaic." Why? Because various individuals have now exposed the fact that most of the "Aramaic" was just the ramblings of an amateur filmmaker who claimed to have a secret manuscript in a secret language that he refused to show anyone. The endorsements page for TPT is still a "Who's Who" of the Charismatic church.
David Fish11,232 views • 5 days ago
In his response to the Mike Winger video, Kris Vallotton expressed his incredulity that anyone would ever expect a pastor to publicly tell the church about a leader who is in unrepentant sin. (Remember, Kris is the one who privately called shawn a "deceiver" and "unrepentant." HIS words, not mine) And here Kris is saying, "If only we had a way of dealing with unrepentant sin..." We do, Kris. It's all over the NT. Bad ecclesiology enables bad actors. Our doctrine of the church affects everything. Kris, I spent my childhood at dinner tables with you. I admired you. I believed in you. And it has come to this? First you soft-pedaled Mike Bickle's abuse by saying, "Mike Bickle is my friend" instead of saying, "I support Mike's victims." Now, with an hour available on a platform, you say everything except the one thing we needed to hear from you: "I'm sorry. I failed in my role as a shepherd. We failed as a church. We will do our best to make this right with Shawn's victims. We will never let this happen again." I write this sincerely with profound grief in my heart. A church that is incapable or unwilling to exercise church discipline is, according to our Protestant forefathers, not a church at all.
David Fish74,459 views • 6 months ago
This is a classic articulation of the "logos/rhema" distinction. Logos = written word of God / logic / reasoning Rhema = spoken word of God / "now word" / "revelation" (the "word of the Lord came" to a prophet) The only problem is that this distinction is false. 👇⬇️🧵 1/
David Fish38,755 views • 4 months ago
I want to share a really painful and embarrassing memory from my life as a young Christian. In this video I am 16 years old. I am speaking in a church service for the first time in my life. I was fascinated with stories of revival and miracles, and in my circles many "big names" were telling me that there was one man who "really saw the stuff." That man was William Branham. Over and over again the most notable Charismatic ministers that I looked up to pointed me to Branham. "No one ever had the gift like Branham" "No one saw healings like Branham" "We need to pray for Branham's mantle" The narrative was very simple: "Branham was the most anointed healing minister of the 20th century, and he only got 'off' at the very end of his life." Then the command was clear: "We should honor what God did through Branham without stumbling over how he went astray at the end of his life." So here I am on a microphone in front of hundreds of people regurgitating the hagiography of Branham that I had heard from countless individuals I trusted. I tell a room full of people to "honor" a man who was, in reality, nothing more than a charlatan, a friend of notorious white supremacists, and a false teacher. I was 16. I didn't know any better. But the individuals who did know better failed me and continue to fail the people they are influencing. Years later I would throw my life into the "prayer movement" with IHOPKC and other similar ministries, not knowing that the deception of Branham passed through Paul Cain and Bob Jones on to Mike Bickle and so many others. Fast forward to today: lives have been shattered, young men and women have been horribly abused, thousands have rejected Jesus altogether because of the wicked root that stems from Branham. So now, as an almost 30 year old pastor, I want to say unequivocally: William Branham was a false teacher who has done incalculable harm to the body of Christ. He should be rejected completely. There is no meat on the bones. There is no baby in the bathwater. Every word Branham said and everything he did should be rejected. I pray that not one more child grows up thinking that William Branham, Paul Cain, or Mike Bickle are "anointed men of God." May their names be synonymous with the truth of their ministries: abuse, deception, and false teaching.
David Fish93,247 views • 1 year ago
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