F4F | Mike Signorelli Pretends to Know Greek

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Mike Signorelli’s Teaching on Inherited Thoughts and Sin

So Mike Signorelli. It's been a while since we've done a Mike Signorelli segment here on Fighting for the Faith. He's one of the demon slayers, hangs out with Isaiah Saldivar and Pagani and those guys, and they slay demons and stuff like this.

But one of the things that I've been doing is kind of watching him, just kind of watching what he produces, listening carefully to what he's saying so that I can get a pretty good radar fix on him. Discernment requires you to be patient at times.

You don't want to be quick to jump on something unless it's like really like obvious. But today is gonna be is gonna be something that's gonna be a little less obvious, especially if you do not know the languages.

But I do. I happen to have an undergraduate degree in religious studies with an emphasis in biblical languages. So that being the case, I kind of know a thing or two about Greek, and I know a thing or two about Hebrew.

And when somebody gets up into a pulpit, or nowadays on the stage, and they can't correctly convey the meaning of the Greek while claiming that they're telling you what the Greek means, that gets my attention.

And the reason being is because Scripture is clear that somebody who's to be a pastor is somebody who's supposed to have studied, showed himself approved, a workman who need not blush with embarrassment, who can rightly handle or rightly divide the word of truth.

That being the case, when somebody can't and they're putting forward an error that they don't possess, they're engaging in a kind of deception, if you would. Not only are they twisting the biblical text, but they're trying to make themselves look smarter than they are, or have credentials that they don't normally have.

These are red flags is the best way I can put it. So we've got a red flag, and I'm gonna contend today that Mike Signorelli doesn't know Greek, and I think he's pretending to act like he does. I'll explain it as we go.

So let's whirl up the desktop, shall we? And we are going to pull up the web browser first. All right, so this particular sermon, this is from this past weekend. So three days ago, I'm recording this on the 13th of November 2024, so this would have been over the weekend, at V1 Church, their online worship experience, whatever that is.

And Signorelli has taken to the stage, and he's going to introduce his topic, and he's made it clear that what he's preaching on is content that you can find in his recently published book. So, you know, that being the case, you would think that this stuff would be, well, really, really like top drawer, top-notch, good scholarship kind of stuff.

But again, we're gonna see some red flags here, and my concern is that Signorelli is a lot of flash, bang without any content. How did that old commercial go when I was growing up? Where's the beef? Yeah, there's something really off here, and work with me, I'll kind of walk you through this.

So here's him introducing what he's going to be.

Preaching on. Your thoughts, your generational thoughts, so your thoughts are not your thoughts, you've inherited your thoughts. Very few of us have.

Okay, so already I got a problem. I, in order for something to be biblical, correct me if I'm wrong here, it actually has to be taught in the Bible. It's just, you know, so, you know, quod non est biblicum, non est biblicum, but if it's not biblical, it's not biblical, it's not in the Bible, it's not in the, it isn't biblical, it's, so where in the Bible does it say that none of us have ever had an original thought and we've inherited our thoughts from other sources?

You know, I don't see a biblical text that says this, so why is he preaching this during a sermon in a context of a church service? Okay. Original thought, we've inherited a.

Thought, so your thoughts are inherited, and we receive these thoughts, and inherited thoughts can become inherited behaviors that become inherited sins.

That become inherited identity. Now, I would note that there is a way in which you can talk about inherited sin, and let me do this. I'm going to go to maybe like Romans chapter 5, right? Romans chapter 5 talks about this, therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, so death spread to all men because all sin, for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law, yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.

So you get the idea here, we can talk about inheritance, inherited sin in a biblical way by talking about original sin. This is the reason why human beings have such problems, is because we do have an inherited sin problem, and that comes, goes all the way back to Adam.

So Romans 5 continues, but the free gift is not like the trespass, if the many died through the one man's trespass. Much more have the grace of God and the free gift of grace by that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many, and the free gift is not like the result of the one man's sin, for judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification.

For if because of one man's trespass death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.

And then listen to this, therefore as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification in life for all men. For as by the one man's disobedience the many, that's all of us, were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous.

So you'll note the contrast there in Romans 5 is the contrast between Adam and Jesus, and that being the case, Adam's sin made us all sinners, is what this text says, but Christ's work on the cross, his sinless righteousness here in, during his earthly ministry on earth up to his crucifixion, all of that righteousness is imputed to us, and we are declared made righteous by grace through faith.

This is the point that Paul is making. So there is a way that you can talk about inherited sin, but I would note that Mike Signorelli here isn't doing that. He's.

Doing something very different. ...that become inherited iniquities that open up inherited doors for demons, and so this the thought... So this would open up.

Inherited doors for demons, and of course he's a demon slayer, so you know he knows a thing or two about all of that. Again, what biblical text are you getting all.

This extra stuff from? Life is connected to the spiritual realm to a degree that you'll never understand unless you look at Scripture and say, okay God, reveal it to me. So we're gonna be looking at the Word of God together, but we got to get.

Our thought life right. Now, no beef with him like wanting to open up a biblical text and preach it. This is what pastors are supposed to do, but they're supposed to rightly handle the biblical text when they open them.

That's kind of.

The point. So can everybody across every location just say, guard the gates.

Okay, come on, let's say a boulder in Brooklyn. Okay, so I've pointed out before, and I've been pointing it out for a long time, when a pastor says, say these words, repeat after me, do this. This is a manipulation technique, and I hate to say it, but that's its purpose, is to get you to stop thinking.

And so what happens is that when somebody gives you a command and you obey it, your mind, without even you thinking it, goes into a less guarded state so that you are not thinking critically. So when somebody says, I want you to say, you know, shabba-dabba-doo-dong, right, you know, something like that, and you say, shabba-dabba-doo-dong, and when you do that, following the order, your brain, without even you knowing it, switches into a less critical mode so that you're not legitimately evaluating with discernment what it is that you're listening to.

It's designed to shut down your mind's natural defenses where it will question things as to whether or not they're right. So whenever you see somebody engaging in this technique, I wanted you all to say this, and then everybody says that.

That's.

Another red flag here. Guard the gates. Come on, I just want to make sure I can hear you from here. And so we're gonna look at Romans chapter 12, verse 2, and.

This is a familiar passage. It says... Okay, so now we got another problem. Romans chapter 12, verse 2. Why would you start there? Okay, let me explain what I mean here. So if I were to go to Romans chapter 12, okay, watch how Romans chapter 12, verse 1 begins.

Paul writes, I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercy or through the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

So he's gonna avoid this portion, verse 1. We're gonna jump into chapter 12, and we're going to drill into verse 2 completely out of context. But here's the thing, you're gonna note in verse 1, Paul says, I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, which shows you that what Paul here is doing is he's making an appeal to all of the things that are written in the previous chapters, okay?

And he's coming to then a conclusion. Since we are saved by grace through faith apart from works, God has reconciled you to himself, and Christ has died for the ungodly and pardoned you and given you salvation as a gift.

You'll note I'm just summarizing portions of the earlier portions of Romans, Romans 3, Romans 4, and so you get the idea here. So Paul then, making an appeal back to what he was referencing, because you have been saved by grace through faith apart from works, because you are saved, therefore present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship, okay?

Which is what we Christians are to do because we are saved, because we are forgiven. So he's ignored that, he's ignored what it's appealing to because you can't read 12 without a better, without a full understanding of what's going on in the previous 11 chapters, so he's making no reference to that, and we're gonna start at 2.

Okay, I'm gonna be blunt, okay? I've been a Christian apologist, man, this is gonna show I'm getting old. I've been a Christian apologist for more than 30 years, and in the time that I've been doing public ministry, starting off in counter-cult work, working my way to being a very vocal critic of the megachurch movement and the purpose-driven, you know, nonsense and all that kind of stuff, I can legitimately say in the over 30 years that I've been doing this, I've seen guys like Mike Signorelli come, and I've seen guys like Mike Signorelli go, and he has all of the same behavior patterns, the same teaching problems, and the same issues that I've seen other men have.

Think of Mark Driscoll or Perry Noble or other guys in big, high-profile ministries that their ministries haven't ended well. I would note, based upon my experience and what I've seen and what I'm seeing, I'm not a prophet, nor am I the son of a prophet, but mark my words, I will bet you dollars to donuts that Mike Signorelli's public ministry does not end well.

I've seen this all before, okay? So the reason why he's starting where he is is because he wants to teach his doctrines, not what the Bible says here. He wants to teach something he believes, that he came up with, but can't actually be shown from the biblical text, because what he's gonna teach isn't in this text.

So he's starting here for the purpose of bamboozlement, okay? To make it, oh, I'm doing a biblical sermon, we're gonna drill into the Greek and Romans 12 too, while ignoring the context of it and the rest of Romans?

Right, uh-huh, okay, I've seen these kind of fast ones before. We continue.

Do not be conformed to the world, but be ye true. Come on, old-school King James folks, help me out. Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that what? You may discern what is the perfect will of God, what is the good and acceptable perfect will of God.

Now how many of you know that verse? Okay, how many of you know.

It in Greek? Okay, so he's going, at this point, to make it appear that he knows Greek. Like I said, my undergraduate degree is religious studies with an emphasis in biblical languages. I've been reading biblical languages since the early 90s.

That being the case, I know a thing or two. There's a reason why I keep the biblical languages up on the left-hand column when I'm teaching, is so that I can reference them to fact-check myself and also fact-check others.

Just keep this in mind. So he's saying, how many of you know it in Greek? Now he knows there ain't nobody who's attending his V1 church. V1? Why have V1? You could have had a V8, but anyway, sorry. All right, so he knows that nobody attending V1 church is gonna know the Greek.

They're just not. Okay, so watch.

What he's doing. Perfect will of God. Now how many of you know that verse? Okay, how many of you know it in Greek? Okay, let's go deeper. We got... You don't know it in Greek here, and I'll prove it. I'm gonna go back to the original language.

Let's break this down. Be not conformed to the world. The Greek word there... Okay, Greek word.

There. I know what the Greek word is, okay, and I also know that it is a passive participle, okay? Do not be conformed to the world, okay? Let's take a look at what the word is before he even gets to it, okay?

And so I'm going to go here, okay? So the Greek word that... To be conformed, here it is. Are you ready? It's sus... Sus schematizo. Sus schematizo is your word, okay? Listen again to how it's pronounced.

Sus schematizo. That's what it means, and that's actually... That's how it's pronounced, and let's take a look at what it means. Sus schematizo. To form according to a pattern, or to mold, you know, to form or to model after, okay?

Be formed like, to be conformed, to be guided by. So this is what the Premier New Testament lexicon says sus schematizo means. Now remember how the word is pronounced. Sus schematizo. All right? Let's see what he says.

Here we go.

Original language. Let's break this down. Be not conformed to the world. The Greek.

Word there is schema. No, it's not. The Greek word there is sus schematizo. That's embarrassing. Let's see what he does next. What does that word.

Sound like? Schemes, right? To scheme. Red flag. So what does it sound like? It sounds.

Like schemes, you know? Again, the Greek word is sus schematizo, and it means to form according to a pattern, or to mold, or to model. And you say it's schema. It isn't. And I would note, he's not even making an appeal to how it reads in the Greek.

Do not be conformed. So, kai me sus schematizos te, te ioni a tuto. Right? So he can't even read this out. And if he knew Greek, he would never have said the word is schema. That's not what the word is.

It's sus schematizo. This is embarrassing. I thought this guy knew Greek. At least he's, hey, let's go. Who of you knows how to read this in Greek? And nobody could raise their hand. Well, let me guide you.

We're gonna go deeper, right? Back it up.

Listen again. A verse. Okay, how many of you know it in Greek? Okay, let's go deeper. We got to go back to the original language. Let's break this down. Be not conformed to the world. The Greek word there is schema.

And what? Nope, it isn't. It's sus schematizo. What does that word sound like? Schemes, right? To scheme. So be not conformed to the schemes, the schemes of the world, the be.

You're so stupid. What a moron. You're so dumb. You didn't get any right.

Okay, not only do I have a degree in religious studies with an emphasis in biblical languages, I teach Greek. And I can confidently tell you that all of my Greek students, by the time we get to week four, maybe five, six at the latest, they would never, ever make a mistake like this.

Ever. Because they would know better. Mm hmm. Six weeks of Greek and you're golden. At least you'll never make some kind of a mistake like this. This tells me he has no formal training in.

Greek.

Behaviors, the attitudes of the world. Don't be conformed. Okay, let's talk about conform. Don't be molded. That's what.

Now there we go. So he does know, somehow that the word sus schematizo is in play here. And he says, Oh, don't be molded. Uh huh.

That word means don't be molded to the behaviors of the world. It says but, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

All right, so be transformed. So let me come back then to the text. Okay. So in so do not be conformed. And this so, so kai me suska me tizesta. That's an imperative, that it's an imperative, passive imperative.

Okay. So do not be conformed or molded to, to the world. And here's the thing. To ioni really is not it doesn't say cosmos there. It's talking about like the aeon, the the age of the of the world that of the world that you live in.

But a la metamorphous, fousse. Again, another passive part imperative here. That's kind of an important thing. But be transformed, be renewed. But be renewed, renewal of your mind by it. So there's something else going on here.

And the passive imperatives show us that we're either going to be molded by the world. And the passive imperative is, is telling us that this is the world's kind of pushing on us and molding us to itself.

Or we're going to be transformed by the renewal of our minds. Again, passive imperative and who's doing the transforming. God is. Either the world is transforming you or God is, is transforming you. The world is molding you and conforming you.

Or, or God, the Holy Spirit is transforming you. But again, the passive aspect of these imperatives has to be part of your understanding of this text. But let's see where he goes next.

So you've got to break the mold of what you've inherited about how to talk, how to act. So here's the thing. Most families, they're negative. Most family, I know your family.

This text isn't saying any of those things. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is the good, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Okay. It doesn't say anything about families or inherited thoughts or anything like this. You're now engaging in a Bible twisting technique known as eisegesis. You're reading something in to this text that isn't there after you weren't even able correctly to identify what the actual word is for conformed while claiming that you're giving us an understanding of Greek.

Family's not, I know what your family, everybody's a rainbow puke and unicorn and you love each other. And it's like, uh, everybody's happy, you know? And I know that you have no trauma and your holidays are just everybody hugging each other and affirming each other.

And you don't have any weird drunk uncle in the garage. Uh, you don't have your cousins walking down the street, smoking dope to come back all high and blown out of their mind, staying stupid. So that's not your family.

Probably your family. Everybody is like Kumbaya, my Lord, Kumbaya, right? Wrong. We come from families where we inherit ways of thinking that produce behaviors and behaviors operate in patterns. So we've got to understand how to break the mold.

Where in this, in Romans 12, is it talking about these behaviors and.

Patterns of the patterns of this world so that we can then step into what God has to discern his perfect will.

So how do you explain the passive verbs there? Hmm.

Talk about this. The word schema means the visible and the temporary. The word schema means the visible. So don't, don't mold yourself after what.

No, it doesn't. Again, he's just making this up and he's doing this because he wants to teach what he wants to teach. Again, the word is suskematidzo and it doesn't say anything about what you just said.

Okay. So again, we're looking at the premier Greek lexicon for the New Testament and it doesn't say any of the things you're saying at all. And you can't, you haven't even identified the correct word.

So listen again to what he says here. He's just making up definitions now of the completely wrong word that he says is the word being used here in Romans 12.

So let's talk about this. The word schema means the visible and the.

Temporary. The word schema. No, it doesn't. And again, the word is suskematidzo. It's not schema. Schema means the visible. So don't,.

Don't mold yourself after what is visible and what is temporary. Don't mold yourself after that. That'll preach. Let me, let me just tell you, you're on a biological level. Your eyeballs are connected to your brain.

Do you know that? So when you're looking somebody in the eyes, you are seeing from an optic, like a nerve level, you are looking into their brain in a certain sense. And because the eyes are the extension of the brain, the Bible says in another way, the Bible actually says that the eyes are the window to your soul.

How many of you have heard that? So if your eyes are the window to your soul, then when did you start guarding the gates? Oh, come on. When did you stop guarding the gates? Some of you are like, that's it.

I'm changing everything. I'm going to Whole Foods and I'm going to eat organic because you understand the quality of the food determines the quality of your physical body. But your physical body is temporary.

Nothing he's saying has anything to do with what Romans 12, 1 and 2 say at all. And he's given us completely false information about what verb is there regarding conform is suskematidzo. And he says it's schema.

And now he's adding new definitions to it all over the place. This is not how anybody who's properly trained in biblical exegesis preaches at all. This is how Hucksters and charlatans and con men and people who are all about themselves.

This is how they preach. They just make stuff up and try to make themselves look smarter than they really are because they want everyone to go,. Ooh, but, um,.

Your soul is eternity or eternal. Some of you eat organic, but you watch garbage. You've guarded this gate, what you put in your mouth, but that gate is going to produce a body that's going into the soil.

But then your soul, which is eternal, you're taking them fill all day. And let me just tell you, young man, you don't have to look at 1 ,263 women in bikinis by three.

Okay. Porn is sinful. We got it. But this text is really not even really about that. Do not be conformed to this world. Sure. You can say one of the aspects of the world is the sinfulness of sexual immorality and all of its forms that it's take.

What? Yeah. Do I sound frustrated? Because it's hard to unbend what's bent here because it's, he's taken the scriptures and completely twisted it into a pretzel.

Three o 'clock every day. But if you would look at 1 ,263 scriptures a day, what would that do? Be not conformed to the patterns. But what happens is the world will normalize something that God actually will send you to hell for it.

I got real quiet.

That's true. It's absolutely true. You could even really draw that inference from the texts that he's preaching from out of context. That's a true statement. Doesn't undo all the nonsense and the falsehood he said, but okay.

So we've got a little nugget of truth in here. Yay.

It was like, Ooh, do we clap on that? He almost got me to clap on that one. Did you hear what I just said? The world will justify and normalize something that according to God's standard will actually send us to hell.

And that's correct. The world does that for sure.

That's why people are like, Oh, I don't know if I agree with pastor Mike. Guess what? I don't have an opinion. My opinion is his opinion. I'm just the messenger. Matter of fact,.

You're not a really good messenger because it was your opinion. The word for conformed a schema when it's just gave my teeth. So, um, yeah, no, you, we've heard a lot of your opinions here, sir.

If I could change it, I would change it. But his word is irrevocable. It is the truth. And so what we are all laboring to do is to take the generational patterns and the generational thoughts and submit and surrender them to the word of God.

Again, what do you mean by generational thoughts and patterns? Cause you're not describing the biblical doctrine of original sin. You're describing something completely different.

So that my thought is his thought. My opinion is his opinion and my way is his way. That is what it means to be a disciple. You are a disciplined learner who obeys the commands of Christ. And so guess what?

I wish so badly I could change it, but his word says this. So I have to surrender to his word. Are y 'all with me?

Yeah. The other thing he's doing, and this is a little more subtle, he's confusing the proper distinction between the law and the gospel. It's absolutely true that Christ has commanded us to do things.

And he says, if you're a true disciple, then you're going to obey them. Uh, but Jesus taught us to pray daily, forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. Christians do not attain a state of sinless perfection in this lifetime.

Instead, we have to cry out to God, praying that Christ would lead us not to temptation, deliver us from the evil one, give us the strength through his power and the Holy spirit to be able to stand against the schemes of the devil and to, uh, give, have his strength to mortify our sinful flesh daily.

And we got to do that all the way until we die or Jesus returns, whichever comes first. But again, just, you know, I'm not, I'm not trying to be nitpicky at this point. Just nothing is adding up in the sermon.

You know, it's red flag after red flag after red flag, if you know what you're looking for.

The Passive Imperatives of Romans 12:2 and the Renewal of the Mind

So what, the reason why we go to church, the reason why we keep coming back is because all of us are on a journey to break one mold and then be molded to something else, to break one mold and be molded.

It's the schema. And then it says, but,.

But then again, these verbs are passive imperatives. The world is molding you. God, the Holy spirit is transforming you. Totally different concepts. He's missed the, he's missed the, the passive, uh, part of the fact that these verbs are appearing in the passive imperative.

It says, be not conformed to this world, but be transformed. Everybody say transformed. That is the Greek word metamorphosis.

No, metamorphosis is an English word. Okay. The, the Greek word is very similar to it. Let's take a look at it. Um, over here. So the Greek word in question, it is not metamorphosis. That's the, that's an English word that borrows from the Greek.

Um, but, uh, the, the actual, the actual Greek word that is being used here is metamorpho, metamorpho. Okay. And so let's take a look at what that, that verb means. Uh, let's see, to change in a manner visible to others, to be transfigured of Jesus who took on the form of his heavenly glory.

So when Jesus, uh, when Jesus changed on the Mount of Transfiguration and he was in his glory came through, he was transfigured. He was, he was trans. So that's where the word, the verb metamorpho here is being used.

And then the other one is to change inwardly in fundamental character or condition to be changed, to be transformed. Okay. So that's what the Greek verb means. Now metamorphosis is an English word that has, again, uses metamorpho as its basis, but it actually has a slightly different meaning.

So metamorpho is our verb here. And in Romans 12 too, it appears as a passive imperative. Do not be conformed, the world is conforming you, but be transformed by, through the renewing of your mind, which comes through what?

The power of the Holy Spirit working through the word. That's the idea here. So, all right. So I'm going to just continue to give this guy an F because the Greek word is not metamorphosis. It's metamorpho.

Here we go.

And it says, but, but then it says, be not conformed to this world, but be transformed. Everybody say transformed. That is the Greek word metamorphosis.

And no metamorpho.

So it doesn't mean transform doesn't mean maturation. So for example, there was a time where I couldn't grow a beard because I was a boy. And then as I got, I went through puberty, which is apparently a violent stage of life for an Italian male because hair just shot out of my face.

It was like one day I couldn't grow a beard. The next day I could, what was happening was maturation and development, not transformation. I want to make a distinction between the two. So maturation is, I couldn't grow a beard.

Now I can. Maturation is, I lost some weight and I enhanced my muscles. I made my muscles bigger. That's, that's, that's the term of maturation. That's not transformation, but the word metamorphosis, which is the original Greek word is way more.

No, it's metamorpho. Metamorphosis is an English word.

Huh?

Are powerful. What it actually means is just like a Caterpillar that goes into a cocoon. I don't know if you know this, but the Caterpillar actually turns into a goo like a goo like state in the cocoon.

It kind of like melts down into that cocoon. Then what happens is the DNA of the cat.

This is legitimately annoying. Hang on a second here. I'm going to, um, we're going to go for Oxford. Hang on a second here. Oxford dictionary, Oxford English dictionary. Happen to have that as part of my Logos software, Oxford English dictionary.

And, uh, let's see here. I want to go to the word metamorphosis, right? Let's just look it up. Of course. Now I have to download it cause it's online. Hang on a second here. Rolling back. I'm going to scroll.

Oh man. The online version of Logos is not as helpful. I'm just saying, okay, here, um, let's see if I can just look it up here. I'm going to metamorphosis,.

Metamorphosis.

See if I spelled it correctly. Okay, here we go. Metamorphosis. Okay.

All right. So this is the English verb, the English word metamorphosis. Okay. So noun. Okay. Uh, the process of transformation from an immature form to an adult form in two or more distinct stages. So we've got a, we've got a big problem here.

And this is now just getting to be just like comical. I mean, the gaffes just keep coming in. So, so here's the problem. There's, and there's multiple problems here. The transformed in the Greek metamorpho is a verb and it appears in the passive imperative.

The word metamorphosis, which he says is the Greek word is not the Greek word. Metamorphosis is an English word and it's a noun and it's not a verb. And metamorphosis as a noun describes the process from an immature form to an, uh, to an adult in two or more distinct stages.

So he says, ah, transformation isn't maturation, but the first definition of the English word metamorphosis is exactly that to go.

From immature to mature.

You can't make this stuff up. So let me back this up so you can see what's going on here. He, he's not even telling you what the Greek word verb is. He's completely oblivious to the fact that it's a verb and it's in the passive.