Jack Hibbs has appeared in videos produced by Ingenuity Films. The man behind Ingenuity Films is Brent Miller Jr., but his father, Brent Miller, also appears to be involved. As a result of Jack Hibb's involvement with the Millers, many Christians are aware of the Millers and trust them. Brent Miller has produced a New Testament called the "Pure Word" translation. It is marketed as the "purest" translation ever of the New Testament, yet it appears that neither of the Millers know Greek. Which explains the errors of the "translation". Translators usually stay clear of interpretation. Their job is to translate. The "Pure Word" is largely interpretation.
Any translators involved in this project are not revealed. Even though it is supposedly literal and word for word, many words have been added -- words that are "literally" not there in the Greek or that can even be inferred. These additions radically alter the meaning of certain texts. Miller claims to have used originals, but no one has originals of the New Testament. We have very early copies, but we do not have original manuscripts or even portions of original manuscripts. They do not exist. Miller claims Jesus spoke Koine Greek, yet most scholars agree Jesus spoke Aramaic; especially since Jesus is recorded speaking Aramaic from the cross and when raising Jairus's daughter from the dead.
I e-mailed Jack Hibbs on October 25th about the "Pure Word" Translation of the New Testament produced by Miller. I received an e-mail later that day from Robin. It stated that they had forwarded my concern to the Millers and agreed that it was a potentially serious matter, but I have heard nothing else from Jack Hibbs or Robin. I know there have been devastating fires in California, but the Holy Bible is on fire, too, and Brent Miller lit that match. That fire needs to be put out also.
Brent Miller says he has been working on this "translation" for 20 years, which means that while he was producing this "translation", he was producing a video, "The Horizon Project", which predicted a catastrophic pole shift in 2012. He is a proven false prophet. In his "Horizon Project" video, which came out around 2007, he endorsed Mother Shipton, Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce, ancient Mayan and Incan prophets, human evolution, and Darwinism. He called the video his life-long work in interviews he did on Coast 2 Coast.
"The Horizon Project" has numerous New Age thinkers in it, and Miller himself came across as a New Age teacher. Miller's presentation was melodramatic. He was constantly leaning into the camera and speaking in a whisper as if he was sharing secret knowledge, and he started off the video by claiming that he was finally revealing the truth to the world. As if God had not already revealed it in His Holy Word. Bible prophecy was barely mentioned in "The Horizon Project", and when it was, it was given no more credence than Mother Shipton, Nostradamus, or any of the other "prophets" I mentioned. I assumed that had been before Miller became a Christian and had been repented of. It certainly seemed that he tried to scrub all evidence of it from the Internet, but the internet has a long memory. Now, though, according to Miller's own testimony, he was working on the "Pure Word" Bible "translation" at the same time that he was producing that New Age video predicting a world-ending pole shift in 2012!
The fact that he is a proven false prophet, and apparently doesn't even know Greek, disqualifies him from translating the Word of God! After his disastrous failure with that video, he dropped out of the public eye to a large extent and his son emerged as the front man. Now the son has taken countless pre-orders for a video that was supposed to be released a year ago and still hasn't come out.
According to the e-mail from Robin, neither Jack Hibbs, Jan Markell, J.D. Farag, or Amir Tsarfati, all appearing in Ingenuity's latest video, were aware of the translation or the other issues I've brought up. However, since Hibbs asked them, and I also e-mailed Jan Markell, they must be aware of them now. It is one thing to be wrong on non-salvation issues, but to mishandle the entire NT is another matter entirely. I am posting this here because this has the potential to reach many people. Hibbs and the other teachers need to publicly address this since they had much to do with introducing the Millers to the Christian world and selling their products in the first place.
Shame on all of these teachers if they don't defend God's Holy Word publicly against this impure translation. read more