# The Passion Translation - Dake (LongforTruth) > [!question] Lingering Questions > - The Mann Act conviction narrative (1937, a 16-year-old identified as Emma Belli) is stated with unusual procedural detail but no cited source (court records, a biography, a prior exposé) — presented as settled fact, should be treated as unverified pending a primary-source check. > - The Doctrine and Covenants citation given as "134:22" for the LDS Godhead-embodiment passage doesn't match the passage as normally cited (D&C 130:22) — likely a slip of the tongue or transcription artifact, worth flagging before this episode is cited elsewhere. > - The episode's own strongest move is a real, if usually acknowledged, slide from "Dake implies this" to "this is why Copeland/Hinn teach this" — plausible as a historical claim, asserted with more confidence than the direct citation evidence given actually supports. > [!tip] Article Ideas > - "Bound annotation borrows Scripture's authority" — a general piece on study-Bible marginalia (Dake) vs. paraphrase-Bible expansion (The Passion Translation) as two different mechanisms for the same underlying trust exploit, using both as case studies. > [!link] Cross Reference > - [[3. Resources/MOCs/NAR and Charismatic Authority Critique MOC]] — extra-biblical-authority cluster: Wagner's ongoing-revelation defense and Dake's annotation-as-Scripture both smuggle movement-specific doctrine past normal scrutiny > - Cross-link to existing Passion Translation notes in the vault (multiple episodes already processed) once this note is connected > [!quote] Vocabulary > - **"Walking Bible"** — Dake's own nickname, tied to a claim (partially self-fact-checked live in the episode) that he could recite hundreds of verses, even the whole New Testament, from memory > - **"fallacies" list** — Dake's own numbered list in his annotated Bible naming orthodox positions (e.g., the Trinity as "one being, three persons") as errors to correct — the episode's clearest straw-man catch ## Metadata - Source: [[3. Resources/Readwise/Articles/You Think the Passion Translation Is Bad This Bible Is WORSE!|You Think The Passion Translation Is Bad? This Bible Is WORSE!]] - Author: Dan (LongforTruth1, host), with guests Chuck (Sheep Among Wolves) and Steve Johnson (author, *Deconstructing Kenneth Hagen*) - Type: podcast/video - URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_hhy9xOr20 ## Author's thesis Finis Jennings Dake's *Dake Annotated Reference Bible* and *God's Plan for Man* are a real, identifiable doctrinal source for several of Word of Faith's most distinctive and most criticized teachings — God's literal embodiment, a non-Nicene Trinity, human "little gods" anthropology, works-conditioned salvation, and blame-shifting healing theology — and this lineage runs through a physical object millions of readers treat as more authoritative than a standalone theology book precisely because it's bound as Scripture. ## Key arguments (≤3) 1. **God's embodiment argument misapplies a resurrection-body text**: Dake reasons from 1 Corinthians 15:42 (glorified *human* bodies are "material and tangible") to the conclusion that God the Father and Holy Spirit can likewise have literal bodies — extending a text about humans to claims about God's own nature. 2. **The Trinity "fallacy" list misstates the doctrine it attacks**: Dake's numbered list calls "there is only one person or being called God" a fallacy to correct, but no orthodox source has ever claimed God is "one person" — the creedal claim is one being, three persons — so Dake's alternative (three separate, discrete, unified-only-by-agreement beings) ends up structurally close to the LDS Godhead, a comparison the guests document with direct LDS-source quotations. 3. **"Little gods" anthropology has raw material in Dake even without the exact phrase**: humans described as created "miniatures of God in attributes and powers" — Dake himself never used "little gods," but the hosts trace this raw material into later, explicit Word of Faith teaching (Hinn's "Adam could have been on the moon," Copeland's alleged "Adam could have walked on water"). ## Claim atoms ### Dake's spiritualized-body argument grounds a literal embodied God > [!quote] ID:rw_dake_bodily_god > So if human bodies that become spiritualized are still material and tangible, then certainly God and other spirits can have bodies just as real Central hinge of the episode's embodiment critique — an argument about resurrected human bodies (1 Cor 15:42) extended to claim God the Father and the Holy Spirit have literal bodies. [~13:50] ### Dake's "18 fallacies" list misstates orthodox Trinity as "one person" > [!quote] ID:rw_dake_trinity_fallacy > there is only one person or being called God. that that that is a fallacy. The episode's clearest straw-man catch: no orthodox source claims God is "one person" — the creedal claim is one being, three persons. [~27:36] ### Dake teaches works combine with faith to maintain justification > [!quote] ID:rw_dake_works_justification > Thus, every act of obedience is an act of faith and works combined to maintain justification before God. Load-bearing quote for the soteriology critique: reframes salvation as actively maintained by obedience rather than secured once by grace, directly paralleled to Mormon conditional-salvation doctrine in the same segment. [~51:03] ## Permanent candidates - **Bound annotation borrows Scripture's authority for one annotator's theology** — a study Bible's marginal commentary acquires the reader's trust in the inspired text simply by being bound inside it. **Already captured** by the existing [[3. Resources/Permanent Notes/Blurring Scripture Commentary and Devotion Lets Invented Text Acquire Divine Authority]] note, which already links this exact source article — connected, not duplicated. ## Processing checklist - [x] Verify no existing Literature Note covers this doc (checked, none found — existing Passion Translation notes in the vault are different episodes/sources) - [x] Extract claim atoms and permanent candidate from the existing deep-read - [ ] Verify the Mann Act conviction details against an actual court record or biography - [ ] Check the D&C "134:22" citation — likely should be 130:22 - [x] Connect into the relevant MOC — [[3. Resources/MOCs/NAR and Charismatic Authority Critique MOC]] ## Links - [[3. Resources/MOCs/NAR and Charismatic Authority Critique MOC]] — extra-biblical-authority cluster: annotation-as-Scripture is a mechanism kin to prophetic/apostolic authority claims - [[3. Resources/MOCs/Faith & Theology MOC]] — doctrinal critique of Word of Faith Christology, Trinity, and soteriology