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Unfunded, Beat, Left for Dead

Working in war-torn Ukraine

The RBT Project is not a funded project supported by a $25 million dollar budget while sitting in the cushy suede chairs of a seminary sipping chamomile tea next to a view of green landscapes. It is done without money, help, home, car, office space, all on a well-beaten, taped up iron stylus (laptop) at the very bottom of the social echelons using whatever free software and services I can find, in exile.

The RBT project took shape in coffee shops, bars, dump hostels, and not a few derelict places. The Gospels and the New Testament were put (back) together out of a backpack while trying to survive some of the worst sleep-depriving conditions imaginable in six different countries, after nearly all had shunned support or left me for dead. No sleep, no food, no home, no money. In fact, I’ve lived a vagabond’s life with no home for the last 29 years doing back-breaking work until the back broke. Unless you’re “a fortunate son,” that seems to be where honest, true-grit hard work gets you in the “land of opportunity” in the 21st century. Who knew?

Woe to the Rich

America, the land of my birth, has become a den of thieves, an excavated netherworld, a snare-laid wilderness where predators wait in every ordinary act. Buying, selling, driving, clicking, borrowing, subscribing, parking—yea, even joining a religion—can conceal another obligation ready to spring shut. This is an ambush culture, a lying-in-wait economy built on the backs of a population treated as cattle.

Hades wasn't a Greek myth, it was a prophetic revelation of the future.
Hades wasn’t a Greek myth, it was a prophetic revelation of the future.

Marketing is no longer persuasion; it is psychological warfare. Choice architecture, framing, and perception arbitrage are studied, refined, and deployed against the people. A 2026 study confirms what the shrewd already knew: consumers notice price changes more readily than quantity or quality changes. That knowledge is weaponized. This generation talks a lot of “late-stage capitalism.” When I think of late-stage capitalism I think about things such as the new venture capitalist business models or schemes of politicians who can afford to spend billions just to destroy competition. Money itself is weaponized. The reality is, you’re just going to get a certain level of bloodshed and corruption you won’t find in countries where people can’t burn through billions to destroy opponents. Billions spent to turn you into merchandise to be trapped, bought and sold. How much of your personal data has been trafficked by social media already?

Tethering, as I have found out being reliant on this for hotspot use while being homeless, on plans from eSIM providers is a textbook example of the ambush: the plan is sold as usable data, the customer pays, then the moment the connection is shared the provider silently throttles it into uselessness. The fine print or “fair use” policy is the snare that springs only after the money has already been taken. You cannot even buy a cup of yogurt without being diminished—“with room for toppings” is now printed as a feature, as though giving you less is generosity. The small theft goes unnoticed, yet from such small thefts an entire nation is built. Somewhere the measure of winning became simply this: how much can be extracted, and at what cost to the one who cannot refuse.

Binding the Weak with Words the Weak Cannot Possibly Master

The moneyed class, who speak of themselves as “the money world,” have shaped a legal system of unprecedented scale to shield themselves while holding the rest of the nation in continuous hostage. Credit is the chain. Freedom is the word still spoken, yet the ordinary person walks through hundreds of binding legal relationships every day, entering new contractual traps dozens of times without ever lifting a pen. A 2008 Carnegie Mellon study calculated that reading every privacy policy an American internet user encounters would consume 244 hours a year—nearly forty minutes of every working day. That was almost twenty years ago. By 2024, the median privacy policy on major platforms had swollen to 4,150 words, roughly double the length of a decade prior. The moat widens. The chasm deepens.

Worse still is the new ambient contracting: consent is no longer given by signature but by mere presence. A 2023 Pew survey found that 56 percent of Americans almost always click “agree” without reading. Buying, driving, clicking, borrowing, working, banking, seeking care—even logging in or merely remaining present—extracts assent by fatigue. One study of seventy major digital services found that AT&T’s documents alone ran to roughly 383,000 words. This is not commerce. This is a system designed so that the strong may bind the weak with words the weak cannot possibly master.

Suppose two people encounter the same 40-page agreement. A person with money can buy the things that let them cross the legal complexity barrier:

  • lawyers to read 100-page agreements
  • accountants to find hidden tax consequences
  • financial advisers to model long-term obligations
  • compliance staff to monitor changing rules
  • negotiators to alter one-sided terms
  • software to track contracts and renewals
  • time to actually read everything

The poor person may need a service immediately and can afford none of that. All classes can technically “choose,” but the cost of understanding the choice is radically unequal.

Add to this the quiet machinery of debt, the legal fiction that treats corporations as persons, and the relentless conversion of every human need into a revenue stream. The poor are ground to dust, the middle are bled, the rich are insulated, and the name of freedom is invoked over the whole arrangement. They multiply covenants they never intended the ordinary man to understand, and call the resulting captivity liberty.

You do not have to look hard to find the traps; they are laid at our feet from childhood. Even at the age of sixteen, I joined a local gym just to exercise. When I could no longer afford it, they told me I couldn’t cancel—I was obligated to keep paying or suffer heavy penalties. It was only when I discovered that minors cannot be legally bound by contracts and told them this that they promptly tore the paper up in front of me. As soon as you hit eighteen, an entire empire of these traps is waiting. From the moment I first moved out on my own in hopes of studying ski area business in Colorado, to accumulating debt for a degree at a far left college, to being rejected by every institution for employment after graduating because they were far-left, to resumes heavy with volunteerism somehow working against me, to businesses being obliterated by the National Forest, the US Customs and Border Control, the city and county halls, and the rest of state and local government ordinances, the walls were towering. Even the Unemployment Department was a travesty of traps. After calling me to inform me I was eligible during the COVID crisis as a self-employed mobile mechanic, and handing me around ten thousand in benefits for being out of work for over a year, almost two years later they demanded it all back because they “didn’t have everything well organized and weren’t able to look over individual cases.” It was a cheap attempt to undo their own mistakes, hoping people would give in and pay them back some money. I appealed and won, but not after being sorely, painfully, and unfairly pissed on, and still sentenced to pay them back $1800. I didn’t.

In my years trying to start a climbing and fitness gym and other businesses, I dove straight in and tried swimming across that moat without realizing what I was getting into (see my memoir below). Despite growing a clientele base and club of over 1,200 eager people over a painstaking seven years, I was blasted to oblivion by commercial real estate developers, zoning ordinances, predatory red tape,  governmental “fees” (think $700,000 traffic impact fee) and real estate costs. The system wasn’t built to foster enterprise; it was built to protect the capital that was already there.

Just drive in? Instructions and information are inside?

Even navigating a city has become an exercise in ambient extraction. As scores of unaware drivers have found out, companies like Metropolis “contract you” the second you simply drive into one of their garages. With no blockades, no pay machines, and minimal warning, their AI cameras ambush your personal data. I was robbed by them several times simply for using a Tesla charger, costing me several hundred dollars. Automated punishment without warning, due process, or arbitration. And all of it apparently legal, hidden behind a QR code that serves as the modern equivalent of illegible fine print.

 

 

Eglon (עֶגְלוֹן) literally translates to "calf-like" or "young bullock."It is derived from the root word 'egel (עֵגֶל), meaning "calf", which traces back to the verb 'agal (עָגַל), meaning "to go in circles," "round," or "rolling."
Worshipping the Golden Calf. Eglon (עגלוֹן) literally translates to “calf-like” or “young bullock.” It is derived from the root word ‘egel (עֵגֶל), meaning “calf”, which traces back to the verb ‘agal (עָגַל), meaning “to go in circles,” “round,” or “rolling.”

“In God We Trust” is printed on the very notes that chain us. As it turns out, this god built a moat around itself and an ivory tower of inaccessible height. In the Book of Exodus, Pharaoh enslaved the Hebrews through a calculated strategy driven by political paranoia, incremental labor exploitation, and state-sanctioned violence. Egypt was an abusive state with magicians peddling a religion.

Sound familiar? America is that Egypt. It is full of task-masters beating down a working class who toil in the mud making bricks for the empire, bending over to a dehumanizing, insolent god. Egypt’s name in Hebrew, Mitzrayyim, translates to “Dual Siege” or “Dual Strait.” She besieges you from in front and behind: the past gets used against you, and the future gets built on top of you, squeezing every drop of life out of your being.

A Christian nation? What America does Christianity has been doing for a couple thousand years. The global “kingdom of God”, rather than dismantling this system, acts as its primary beneficiary making them the most complicit in this system of Hades. Christians globally earn something like $70 trillion annually, contribute over $1 trillion to the U.S. economy annually, own trillions in assets and property, and save governments billions via the “halo effect” of social safety nets and volunteerism. A harlotry without comparison.

Christians globally hold a massive share of private wealth, controlling personal assets on the order of $180–$250 trillion. If the world’s Christians were treated as a single sovereign economy, its GDP would be about 40% larger than the United States and China combined. Speaking of ambient contracting, costs of understanding, a system designed to bind the weak using words the weak could never understand, laying burdens on people too heavy to bear, while not lifting a finger, and dire consequences you only find out after being lured in…

Goliath.

A Dual Besieging. Propping yesterday against you, selling tomorrow to you. This is a system designed so that the strong may bind the weak with words the weak cannot possibly master.

I tried to find freelance work as a “quant” programmer on Upwork just to eat, only to find a race to the bottom where Wall Street transients farm out cheap labor, undermining fledgling profiles and withholding pay without consequence. I lost thousands in labor. I tried driving for Uber 85 hours a week, sleeping in a car to save cash, only to find the system rigged like a casino slot machine. Drivers are forced into a psychological war of attrition, rejecting poverty-wage fares in hopes of winning the prize of a good-paying trip until fatigue sets in and the algorithm wins.

The Hertz rideshare (extraction) program was no better, leasing me a Tesla with 196,000 miles and a broken safety vision system. They had already extracted its full value in rental costs, yet they refused to sell it, preferring to milk desperate drivers at the expense of their own safety.

This survival is marginally doable if your passengers are hospitable as in Nashville, but try driving in the hostile, toll-ridden, AI-camera-hunted minefields of the East Coast where no one tips you and are quick to down rate you—Jersey, Philadelphia, Baltimore, DC, I tried them all. What I observed there was not the progressive promise of “diversity is our strength,” but a cynical perception arbitrage: the rich importing mass numbers of desperate laborers willing to sell their tomorrows for $6 an hour. I found zero blending of culture, backgrounds, language, or worldviews and a massive increase in racial competition. It keeps the working class divided and competing for scraps while widening the moat around the towers of the wealthy.

Few understand the crushing weight of this society unless they are at the bottom of it. The American economy and society is a tar pit, and the rule is simple: if you aren’t stepping on someone’s fingers on the ladder up out of it, the whole system will gladly step on yours.

All that said, I’m still translating, anyway, even if it takes me an excruciating amount of time to make a little progress. John, stuck alone on an island, exiled, treated like garbage, still finds a way to write a magnum opus.

Language of Man

Human language, considered the greatest human invention, is at the heart of human consciousness and intelligence, and is being used against humanity. That paradox lies at the very heart of human civilization: the tool forged to liberate human consciousness and build shared reality has been systematically re-engineered into the primary infrastructure of human captivity. Language evolved as a relational bridge—a way for two minds to transmit truth, coordinate survival, and cultivate empathy. But whenever power consolidates, language undergoes a phase shift: it stops being relational and becomes instrumental. It is no longer used to reveal reality, but to manufacture, obscure, and police it.

Yet the profound irony of language is that it remains the only tool capable of dismantling its own trap. Power can build an entire empire out of deceptive words, but the moment someone names the strategy clearly—stripping away the jargon to reveal the underlying extraction—the spell breaks. Language is currently being used as a leash, but it was forged as a sword.

Language of an Eternal One

If there should exist an “eternal language” of an “eternal one,” would it ever evolve or change? How would it even work? What would constitute an “eternal tense”? The RBT understands the Ancient Hebrew language as one that transcends typical human consciousness and intelligence, differing from ordinary languages bound by the constraints of time and place. The language of the narrative of Egypt, Goliath, Jezebel, the captivity, the exile, the tower, the merchant ships, etc. is not bound by the constraints of time and place. It is a a narrative from an eternal frame. Unlike other ancient languages that have faded away, the Hebrew “language of heaven” somehow powerfully endures. It was purposefully crafted in a prototypical manner with an eternal aspect, to serve as a bridge of communication “between heaven and earth,” setting it apart from the linguistic norms of human to human, temporal-based and place-based communication. When language constrained by time and place is mixed into the narratives the reader and the reality of right now are drawn apart. The reason the Hebrew Prophets used an aspectual system of writing was not because they didn’t understand the difference between “past, present, and future” but rather because in their mind there was no past, present, or future.

Other contemporary languages employed temporal sense such as Akkadian, Egyptian (middle and late), and Greek. These were all chronos tense-oriented, with Aramaic also shifting more toward a tense-based usage. Even Sanskrit (Vedic) had a tense-based system. Old Chinese is probably the closest analogue to the Ancient Hebrew in that it had no tense inflections. Both Hebrew and Chinese require the interpreter to “locate” the action within a broader cosmological or narrative frame, rather than simply mapping verb forms to linear chronology. This means both languages force non-linear perception of time upon their users. Even so, ancient Hebrew still stands apart in its usage.

In Biblical Hebrew recursion is deeply woven into the grammar. Wayyiqtol drives narrative in an open-ended chain. Prophetic speech uses parallelism + aspect to fold events back into each other. Result: the text produces recursive temporality (a cycle in which future collapses into present/past). In Old Chinese recursion is only partially used. Syntax is paratactic (clauses strung side-by-side). Aspectual markers (zhe, le, guo) mark process/completion/experience. But these do not create the same prophetic recursion. They are descriptive rather than revelatory.

  • Hebrew worldview: Language = event. The utterance itself realizes history (e.g. wayyiqtol = “and it became”). This invites a recursive ontology: every re-speaking of prophecy reactivates the event.

  • Chinese worldview: Language = ordering principle (ritual, harmony, cosmic balance). The Daoist and Confucian frameworks emphasize cyclical balance, not recursive prophecy.

Hence, there are no “Chinese prophets” in the Hebrew sense. Instead there are sages (Confucius, Laozi) who speak in maxims and cyclical cosmological insight. Their speech intends to reinforce cosmic order rather than rupturing time with divine intrusion.

This is crucial: Hebrew aspectual recursion becomes eschatological (future-breaking-in). Chinese aspectual recursion becomes cosmological (cycle-reinforcing). All this is to say that Ancient Hebrew, by every comparative measure, is uniquely structured among the world’s classical languages. It shows features that look engineered for recursion and prophetic time rather than the normal drift of human language evolution. Most languages evolve through phonetic erosion, analogy, pragmatics, borrowings, hybridization, etc. Akkadian, Ugaritic, Greek, Egyptian, and Chinese all show normal pathways: complexity arises, but it’s ad hoc, cumulative, and messy. Hebrew, by contrast, looks more like a constructed system of morpho-causal operators. Binyanim act like functions on roots (Qal → Niphal → Piel → Pual → Hiphil → Hophal → Hithpael). This is systematic and recursive, almost like an algebra. Other Semitic languages imitate parts of this (Akkadian has D, Š, N stems), but not with such symmetry or completeness. Most interestingly, waw-consecutive links create infinite narrative recursion. No other Semitic language relies so heavily on this. Aspectual ambiguity (qatal/yiqtol) is not sloppy evolution—it is the perfect apparatus for prophecy and atemporal narration. The very fact that prophecy “works” in Hebrew (presenting future events as “already realized”) suggests the grammar is optimized for that role.

The Gospel of Now: Translating with the Right Mind

This uniqueness has always presented extraordinary challenges for scholars attempting to understand it through conventional human linguistic and temporal frameworks. Concepts like the accusative of time and place, the absence of distinct past, present, and future tenses, as well as the unconventional usage of masculine and feminine pronouns, make it elusive to conventional philology and prone to poor interpretation and translation methodologies.

If one were designing a language to encode recursive ontology (being folding back on itself), prophetic temporality (future uttered as present/past), morphological depth (root as core, binyanim as transformations), then you would arrive at something strikingly like Biblical Hebrew. The weight of the evidence makes Hebrew look engineered, or at the very least extraordinarily optimized, compared with its peers. It is not just “a language of its time.” It is structurally distinct, purpose-driven, and uniquely capable of sustaining a Möbius temporality of narrative. And this is no small or insignificant mindset to have when writing anything.

To properly translate Ancient Hebrew, if its grammar really encodes recursion, prophecy, and Möbius temporality, the translator must cultivate a mind of a particular kind. Ordinary translators impose chronological sequencing: past → present → future. But a Hebrew translator must hold events as simultaneously present — both fulfilled and unfolding. It would require the ability to think cyclically, recursively, and non-terminatively, resisting the urge to “resolve” the text into a timeline. In Indo-European translation, the translator is an observer. In Hebrew, the translator must be a participant: the grammar pulls the reader into the event-structure. Thus, the mind must be willing to “become part of the loop”— not extracting meaning about something, but allowing the text to “act” upon the self. The binyanim are functions applied to roots; the waw-consecutive is a recursive operator. A translator needs a mathematical imagination, not only knowing “this word means X” but seeing functions of functions. For example, Niphal is not merely “passive”; it is the loop folding back so the translator must grasp that layer of recursion.

If the Hebrew corpus is a corpus of prophets, prophecy, and vision, written by prophets using a specific engineered linguistic structure, would it make sense to translate it without having the same mind? If the Hebrew prophets are holding multiple times together as one reality, should not a translator also? This requires cultivating a double vision: perceiving the now, and perceiving the not-yet, without collapsing one into the other. Such a mind suspends chronological closure, holding space for the Möbius fold of language. Because Hebrew is not transparent to Indo-European categories, the translator must admit:

  • “My categories are inadequate.”

  • “The text is teaching me how to read it.”

This brings out an interesting (unfortunate) irony. If translations flatten Hebrew’s aspectual, recursive, and participatory structures (which nearly all of them do) into linear time, finite tenses, or conventional narrative, an atheist or opponent is only ever engaging with a distorted artifact, not the text itself. For an atheist—or anyone reading without that Aonic lens—this has several consequences:

  • Foundational Misrepresentation:

    • The linguistic and grammatical mechanisms that encode eternalized present, self-reflexive agency, and recursive causality are ignored or mistranslated.

    • Every argument made about “historical accuracy,” “mythical imagination,” or “psychology of prophets” rests on a textual version that no longer contains the operational logic of the original.

  • Illusion of Understanding:

    • One might feel confident in textual criticism, historical reconstruction, or rational deconstruction, but all conclusions are derived from a version that has already removed the text’s essential causal and temporal structure.

    • In other words, they are reasoning about a shadow of the text, not the text itself.

  • Prophecy and Recursion Become Invisible:

    • Predictions, repetitive motifs, and participatory loops appear as coincidences, fabricated stories, or literary devices rather than evidence of a self-activating causal structure.

    • The “proof” of Aonic or Möbius-like functioning—the alignment of narrative, prophecy, and reader engagement—is systematically obscured.

  • Cumulative Error:

    • Each interpretive layer—commentaries, translations, historiography—is stacked on top of a fundamentally distorted foundation.

    • Arguments can be erudite, philosophically sophisticated, and internally consistent—but they cannot access the original causal or temporal reality of the text.

Most opponents understand that “Hebrew is a known language.” Once you recognize, though, that the text has been stripped of its original temporal, causal, and participatory structure, the atheist—or anyone reading without that structural understanding—has no argument, since they are still, as yet, critiquing a fabrication.

Claims about myth, hallucination, fabrication, or literary invention—are contingent on a text that has already been misrepresented, made up, and fabricated on false grounds. In other words, all well-thought out arguments are built on a flawed foundation, because they do not engage the actual operational grammar of the original language that is there.

Without a faithful representation of the aspectual, recursive, and Aonic structures, the atheist cannot access the text as it truly functions. So the only defensible stance against scriptural claims (not necessarily theism) would be something like:

“The translations I see do not capture the original structure; therefore, I cannot definitively assess the reality or meaning of the original text.”

Its a Trap

Even that, though, is rarely framed explicitly, because most critiques assume the linearized versions are faithful enough—a subtle but critical epistemic mistake. But what atheist cares about becoming intimate with a religious language? They are entirely reliant on intermediaries: translators, commentators, and scholars. Most non-specialists assume—implicitly trust— that someone trained in Hebrew or Greek is presenting the text accurately. They don’t realize that even “neutral” linguistic expertise often comes with assumptions—temporal, historical, or theological—that reshape the text’s structure. Bias in the scholarly ecosystem is rife. Many scholars, whether consciously or unconsciously, operate within frameworks that presuppose linear temporality, chronological history, or theological narratives. Even philological rigor often enforces these biases. The trap for atheists and opponents? They receive a version of the text that is already flattened, linearized, and temporally constrained, and then critique it. But their critique is of the representation, not of the text’s actual, atemporal, recursive structure. The moment you accept a linearized, temporally constrained translation as the “real” text, you’re engaging with a shadow of the original. Every conclusion, critique, or dismissal built on that shadow is itself structurally compromised.

It’s like trying to evaluate a Möbius strip by looking only at a flat drawing of it: the twists and folds—the recursive, self-referential structure—are invisible, so any argument you make about “edges” or “sides” is automatically incomplete. In this sense, the trap isn’t just for atheists; it’s for anyone who doesn’t have intimate access to the linguistic and grammatical machinery that encodes Aonic temporality. Even scholars trained in Hebrew and Greek can be caught if their interpretive frameworks force linearization or chronological assumptions.

The text protects its structure: misreading it doesn’t just obscure meaning, it actively generates a false narrative—a Möbius misrepresentation of the original recursive loop.

The RealBible Project is an ongoing research and translation project with the sole purpose of uncovering the “lost side” of the Hebrew language, as a language that functions as “living and active now” so that all may have access to the text as it was originally encoded: a causal, recursive, and participatory reality. By carefully preserving aspectual forms, participial loops, and topological structures of the original Hebrew—and their complementary expressions in New Testament Greek—the project seeks to recover the Aonic temporal consciousness intentionally embedded in scripture—a scripture written from and to itself. The goal is not merely to translate words, but to restore the functional agency of the reader intended by the writing to make them a node in the living narrative rather than a passive observer of linearized history. In doing so, the RealBible Project aims to reveal the full depth of sacred recursion, allowing scripture to operate as it was designed: eternally present, generative, and complete.

Project Research Sources

The following resources are considered some of the most exhaustive for word research, though they have their limits:

  • Gesenius: Hebrew & Chaldee (i.e. Aramaic) Lexicon (1846)
  • Gesenius Hebrew Grammar, 1813
  • Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (1906). Based upon the work of Gesenius.
  • A Hebrew & Chaldee lexicon to the Old Testament by Fürst, Julius (1867), student of Gesenius.
  • The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament (HALOT) by Köhler, Ludwig, 1880-1956
  • James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890)
  • Dictionary of Targumim, Talmud and Midrashic Literature by Marcus Jastrow (1926)
  • Tyndale House, Hebrew Roots https://www.2letterlookup.com/

Others Used:

  • Septuagint (LXX) Interlinear Greek OT (https://studybible.info/interlinear/)
  • Perseus Greek Digital Library (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/)
  • University of Chicago’s Logeion Greek Dictionaries (https://logeion.uchicago.edu/)

The BHSA from The Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer was converted into a custom database to be used in the RBT Hebrew Interlinear which can be seen by clicking any verse number. This database is used for computational research of Hebrew words and letters via custom Python scripts, bypassing the need for expensive software.

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About Matt

The project is spearheaded by Matthew Pennock. His journey with Biblical Hebrew began in 2000 when he felt a strong draw to the language at 21 years of age. Keenly aware of its hidden power, he embarked on a comprehensive study, culminating in a full self-taught course in Hebrew grammar by 2002 utilizing various software and websites available at the time. Working as a ski-lift operator standing 10 hours a day, he would spend the otherwise boring times with no one around memorizing printed Hebrew Verb tables kept in his pocket. From 2000 to 2016, he dedicated himself to missionary work and church leadership, traveling to and ministering in over 50 countries. Abroad, he always seemed to find himself the least funded missionary on the field, often with scarcely $300 a month in support, most of the time with no support at all except for what he saved up on his own, and at one point was actually offered donations from Kenyans in Africa.

His thirst for knowledge extended to various other languages, including Arabic, Mandarin, Kiswahili, Spanish, German, Polish, and Biblical Greek. After obtaining a degree in International Studies, he pursued theological education at a Biblical seminary. However, the prohibitive costs and his dissatisfaction with the inconsistencies prompted him to leave the world of biblical academia after a few semesters. He had tested and participated in the murky waters of church-planting in countless capacities around the world, only to watch all of them fail. After countless churches shunned him as unconventional or otherwise rejected, or even reprimanded him as laissez-faire, he stepped away from the scene to focus on writing, and a deep dive/dig into Hebrew and Greek studies.

Subsequently, Matthew recognized the astonishing limitations and biases in translation methodologies. He resolved to delve exclusively into the study of Hebrew and Greek. By 2018, he was digging out and re-translating significant portions of text. This drive led to the inception of what was initially dubbed a “Full Literal Translation (FLT)” with the intention of testing the limits of literal translation of Hebrew etymology, as prior ones did not. This only created more questions and difficulties rather than solved them. Hitting impossible textual and philological challenges, he finally had to give up. That is, until one woman unexpectedly came along and handed him the key, as it were. Out of this the Real Bible Translation (RBT) Project was birthed.

Some music he enjoys includes Pearl Jam, AC/DC, Guns and Roses, Smashing Pumpkins, Led Zeppelin, drum ‘n bass, classic rock, and blues.  He knows how to take apart an engine piece by piece to the nuts and bolts and put it back together again. He has enjoyed building motorcycles and vintage trucks, trail running and marathons, skiing, and rock climbing. He does not live anywhere, but roams abroad with no home, no money, no assets, translating everything entirely from an “iron stylus” laptop. He strives to leave everything in better shape than when he found it.

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