Alan Bruechle

[Alan Bruechle @ABruechle]

@dawnpalcock @JustinPetersMin @ThefaithfulCit3 3. It’s maybe just Justin finding something else to tell us we’re all wrong about, lol.
It’s perhaps become a bit of a habit, a bit of a reflex for him.

[Alan Bruechle @ABruechle]

@dawnpalcock @JustinPetersMin @ThefaithfulCit3 2. needed for something u would have otherwise been unable to afford. Same with favourable weather for a wedding or something like that.
Could be getting lifted up by being made a fuss of after a horrible day.
U could call it providence, but also fair to call it them miracles

[Alan Bruechle @ABruechle]

@dawnpalcock @MikeWingerii True Dawn, nice to interact with you on here. Hopefully more will see they have to adopt a different approach to error when they see the current one isn’t working.
That all the shaming & beating down is driving people further into the darkness not drawing them out into the light.

[Alan Bruechle @ABruechle]

@MWWatHome @JustinPetersMin Well said.

[Alan Bruechle @ABruechle]

@KarenBoyanton @dave_kellogg @MikeWingerii Look at all the places where authoritarianism and censorship is the norm: Islamic and Communist countries, cults etc. and tell me who’s behind that.
The reasoning is nearly always the same, protect the people from their dumb selves. The result is always more error not less.

[Alan Bruechle @ABruechle]

@KarenBoyanton @dave_kellogg @MikeWingerii Thinking people were kids and unable to interpret scripture correctly &leaving it all to the trained Clergy actually led to more error & heresy.
When the scriptures were put back in the hands of the commoner, although there were some excesses, heresies started to be eradicated.

[Alan Bruechle @ABruechle]

@dawnpalcock @MikeWingerii Thanks Dawn. Ironically, it’s a similar mentality to cult leaders who forbid their members from reading any material they haven’t written or, at least, approved of. Because only the Cult leader knows best for the little sheep that follow them.

[Alan Bruechle @ABruechle]

@KarenBoyanton @dave_kellogg @MikeWingerii That’s the exact reason the Catholic Church of the Middle Ages didn’t let the commoner have access to a Bible. They feared it would result in the spread of heresy as they were too dumb to interpret it correctly.
Only authorised clergy were permitted to read & interpret the it.

[Alan Bruechle @ABruechle]

@MikeWingerii @dave_kellogg 2. With access to lots of literal translations and other resources these days, it’s pretty much your own fault if you go astray.
But at the end of the day, what essential Christian doctrines is the TPT potentially undermining?

[Alan Bruechle @ABruechle]

@MikeWingerii @dave_kellogg 1. Your objection is fine. Your expectation that they comply with your objection in the way they advertise their services is not. Nor is your attempt to limit online access to translations like the TPT on behalf of people like myself.

[Alan Bruechle @ABruechle]

@dave_kellogg @MikeWingerii I do realise that. And he’s entitled to express his objections. I just don’t want people thinking they can cut off access to things I’d like to have access to every now and then, because they’ve decided it’s heretical and fraudulent material.

[Alan Bruechle @ABruechle]

@tomscott99 @DavidFish7 @malachiobrien 3. Are people being admonished to read only it and avoid reading the other translations? Because that’s what outright attempting to keep people bound to your sectarian perspective or deception is.
So tell me, since you are informed, is anything comparable happening with the TPT?

[Alan Bruechle @ABruechle]

@tomscott99 @DavidFish7 @malachiobrien 2. as the NWT is, what sect is pushing for its exclusive use and sowing suspicion in people’s minds about all the other translations as the WatchTower society does?
How does it function to keep people in deception in any comparable way?

[Alan Bruechle @ABruechle]

@SimonReye @DavidFish7 @malachiobrien I’d rather give him too much than too little. But admittedly, I don’t know a lot about him. But it’s possible for any man to be in error here and there. And nearly all of us will be wrong about things we held and declared to be true. As long as we don’t compromise the essentials.

[Alan Bruechle @ABruechle]

@SimonReye @DavidFish7 @malachiobrien That’s true of many things that have been said and done in God’s name. But in fairness I probably need to read the TPT first before judging it or Brian Simmons.
It’s not a priority at the moment, but may get around to it.

[Alan Bruechle @ABruechle]

@SimonReye @DavidFish7 @malachiobrien He’s probably got some good things to say. Maybe he should have marketed it differently, just said, ‘I’ve had a stab at paraphrasing the scriptures in a way that may be helpful or more meaningful to some readers. But let the reader prayerfully discern for themselves.’

[Alan Bruechle @ABruechle]

@SimonReye @DavidFish7 @malachiobrien 2. I think it was Spurgeon who said, “for every ten men who says they’d be willing to die for the Bible, I find one who’s actually read it.”

[Alan Bruechle @ABruechle]

@SimonReye @DavidFish7 @malachiobrien 1. I realise it was popular for a while there. I don’t hear as much about it these days.
Maybe I should have a more in depth read of it.
But like I said, a lot of Christians aren’t big Bible readers in the first place.
it.