To make matters worse, instead of the words of Jesus being in red, Jimmy Swaggarts words are in red. Whether that was intended, only God can judge, but it certainly gives that impression and is an offense against common decency and respect of the Holy Scripture. Many people feel this is an intentional arrogant elevation of Swaggart’s comments to make them on a par with scripture. For example “Cross” is always capitalized, giving the impression that “cross” should be deified.Ĭommentary Added in the Midst of Holy ScriptureĪ disturbing characteristic is that Swaggart has not put his notes on the side or bottom of the page as all other commentaries do, but has placed his comments right in the text itself so that it is impossible to read the Bible without reading his intrusive commentary with every sentence. However Swaggart’s version does, but not just for deity, but for any word that Swaggart wants to elevate and this he does often, apparently at whim. The original King James Version does not use this signifier. This is an accepted and expected practice today. Modern bible versions often use capitalization to signify deity, such as the word “He” will be in capitals if it refers to God or Jesus. The work is purportedly based upon the King James Version, however the actual biblical text of the Expositor’s Study Bible has been altered by Jimmy Swaggart and is not a pure King James Version. Jimmy Swaggart has no such training and when you read his words that heaven is a planet somewhere to the north, your first thought is which way is north in outer space and you then realize that lacking education in simple science can lead to some very strange doctrines. I’m just saying that if you are going to proclaim yourself a scholar and sit in judgment of God’s word (as you will soon see that he does) and correct and repeatedly insist passages should have been translated differently than any other translation has them, then you had better be an expert in the original biblical languages of Hebrew and Greek so as to support your suppositions. That’s not to say you need a high school education to be a minister or to understand God’s word. Consequently the work suffers from a lack of scholarship resulting in a number of heretical and strange teachings throughout the commentary. In the case of the Jimmy Swaggart Bible, all the commentary is written by Jimmy Swaggart, who is himself a high school dropout. Typically biblical commentaries are written and compiled by scholars and theologians, in some cases even a council of such.
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