Video from James Tabor
Lost in Translation: Are Humans Really Desperately Wicked Sinners?
"A Single verse of the Bible--Jeremiah 17:9, has been mistranslated and misapplied to millions over the past two thousand years to imply that humanity is hopelessly lost in sin, desperately wicked--and that means EVERYONE, even those who are living a righteous life. What it really says is quite the opposite. As it turns out, it is the apostle Paul who has shaped the entire Christian world into the idea of the "total depravity " of all humankind. Here is a PDF with the notes I used in the video, which you can download and print out free: https://jamestabor.com/humanswicked ' from the video introduction