CTP (S3EJulSpecial4) Holy Text, Plain Talk

CTP (S3EJulSpecial4) Holy Text, Plain Talk
Exploring more of the world of fascinating Guests, Health, Human Nature, Music / Movies, Mysterious, Politics, Social Issues, and much more  
Dan Parr shares his unlikely four-year journey of creating the EUR Bible (Easy to Understand and Read), which began with a simple Facebook post of a reworded resurrection story and evolved into a complete translation of all 66 books.
• Initially reluctant about creating "another version" of the Bible
• Started with the book of Luke, then felt divinely prompted to continue with Acts, Romans, and eventually the entire Bible
• Used public domain translations as foundation, simplifying language while preserving meaning
• Addressed concerns about Bible translations and denominational divisions
• Emphasized how God works through ordinary, unqualified people
• Available on Amazon and Audible as individual books, compilations, and a Bible-in-a-year format
• Currently working on 365 devotionals specifically designed for Generation Z readers  

Chapters

• 0:38 Welcome to Constitutionalist Politics
• 4:02 Dan Parr's Background and Origins
• 5:56 The Birth of the EUR Bible
• 10:17 Concerns About Bible Translations
• 14:44 The Four-Year Journey
• 18:35 Where to Find the EUR Bible
• 25:55 Closing and Credits

Transcript

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CTP (S3EJulSpecial4) Holy Text, Plain Talk
Exploring more of the world of fascinating Guests, Health, Human Nature, Music / Movies, Mysterious, Politics, Social Issues, and much more  
Dan Parr shares his unlikely four-year journey of creating the EUR Bible (Easy to Understand and Read), which began with a simple Facebook post of a reworded resurrection story and evolved into a complete translation of all 66 books.
• Initially reluctant about creating "another version" of the Bible
• Started with the book of Luke, then felt divinely prompted to continue with Acts, Romans, and eventually the entire Bible
• Used public domain translations as foundation, simplifying language while preserving meaning
• Addressed concerns about Bible translations and denominational divisions
• Emphasized how God works through ordinary, unqualified people
• Available on Amazon and Audible as individual books, compilations, and a Bible-in-a-year format
• Currently working on 365 devotionals specifically designed for Generation Z readers  
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Welcome to ChristiTutionalist Politics podcast aka CTP in association with TheLibertyBeacon.com and I am your host Joseph M Lenard and that's L E N A R D   CTP is your no muss no fuss just me you And occasional guest type podcast as Graham Norton would say let's get on with the show 

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JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):   Joining me today is Dan Parr and I got a joke. Are you any relation to John Parr? Do you know that guy that singer right did a song called Maudie Naughty?
DAN PARR:  I remember that song very well. In fact, when it came out, I was popular for a minute because we shared the same last name until people found out we weren't related.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  Yeah, I've got that song on 45. 45 RPM vinyl for you younger folks, although 33 and a third vinyl starting to come back in. I don't know if 45s are coming in fashion or not yet, but at any rate, wink, wink, nod, nod, my audience knows it's kind of an ongoing gag. I tried to cut all the a's and the a's and now audience is going to be confused because I engage AI to remove the a's and the a's for any that sneak past me. So they'll be saying, what did he say there because there'll probably be a space where the AHS and UMSs would have been. Now I got a spell out to actually force it into the transcript and force it into the show, but I cut out the AHSs and the UMSs and started the segue thing of saying, crutch at any rate, you know, like moving along, right? Have you ever seen the movie gave with Kevin Klein? Yes, I did. And we're walking and we're walking, right? And now that I've lost the audience in the dust with these references, they may not know them. I'm glad you did. Welcome to the show. Dan Parr, no relation to John Parr.
DAN PARR:  Pleasure to be here, even though I'm related to nobody famous.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  Me neither. What my dad was, was I sent my famous for a little while. Edelander Jr. and the Polk Kings, they toured all over West or East of the Mississippi in their day as a polka band. But at any rate, I think that's number three, I said, cue the ongoing counter. Indeed, you're here to talk about the E. You are Bible, easy to understand and read Bible. I love the concept. I have concerns, of course, but first let's start with who are you? I cue the who. Who are you? Where were you born? Where were you raised? How much time in prison did you spend for murder? And all that good stuff.
DAN PARR:  No time for prison yet. I'll say that. You never know what's going to happen with the... Is it a goal?
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  A goal in life?
DAN PARR:  Not a goal, definitely not. I want to avoid any kind of harm or pain as much as possible, but we're not promised that as believers. We know that there may be a time coming when persecution happens and that could mean prison time.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  We're seeing it now with a lot of persecution of Christians even in our own country. So, you were born where and all that stuff?
DAN PARR:  Yeah, so I grew up in Northern California, a city called Petaluma, famous for two things. It's World Risk Wrestling Championship every year and it's Ugly Dog of the World contest every year. So that's where I hail from.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  I've seen some ugly dogs in my life. And usually you see that on the news. The ugly dog of the year and usually it's some dog that looks like it's deformed. Yes. Oh my goodness. A face only a fur baby's human mother could love.
DAN PARR:  Right? Exactly. Exactly.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  So what spurred this idea? I'll get to my concerns in a while, obviously. What's for the idea of the EU are easy to understand and read Bible?
DAN PARR:  Yeah, I kind of went into this kicking and screaming, honestly. I did not want to do it necessarily. I had been told.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  Yeah, there's a bazillion versions of the Bible out there who needs another one, right?
DAN PARR:  Exactly. Yes. That was my complaint to God. I had been told that people like listening to my voice when I read the Bible in church. And so I thought, well, that's very nice. I'll do something for Easter and put it up on my Facebook, you know, a little story about the resurrection. So I went to the book of Luke, found the story of the resurrection of Christ and kind of reworded it and put it out there on Facebook. Got some good faith. Got some good feedback from it. People seem to enjoy it.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  Oh, oh, oh, oh, I can hear some uptight thinkers clenching. Rewarded black swimmer.
DAN PARR:  Yeah, tell those people not to read the message, then they're going to lose it completely. So I did that with the resurrection story and I enjoyed the process. So I thought, you know what? I wouldn't mind doing this and just putting it out on Audible on Amazon, seeing if anybody wants to purchase it. I'll do it for the book of Luke. And for me, that was like huge, right? Doing the entire book of Luke. I sat down and I thought, okay, I got to get a version. I can read and not infringe on anybody's copyright or trademarks. So I had to look for stuff that was in public domain. And of course, the King James version is in public domain, but I took one look at that and I thought, yeah, that's not going to happen.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  Oh, Robert Langles. Yeah.
DAN PARR:  So I had to find another version. I came across the world.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  You may as well have just read Shakespeare, right?
DAN PARR:  Exactly. Yeah, that difficult for me. I came across the world English Bible, which is a good interdenominational version that's put out there in the public domain. And for as good as it is, there's some language choices and some sentence structures that were just challenging and difficult to get through. So I thought, what I'll do is I'll start with this, a good solid base, and then I'll just reword it, change some words without changing the meaning or intent to say the same thing and perhaps a little bit more concise manner. So I worked through the book of Luke and it was a challenge, but it was also kind of enjoyable as well because I felt like I was working with my dad on something, right? It was me and God working on this. I'd get frustrated, say, how do I word this? What am I supposed to do here? Nevitably, he would lead me to another version of the Bible or a commentary or something else that would help me to get an understanding of what was being said and what I needed to communicate. So I finished the book of Luke, put it up on Audible on Amazon and I thought, okay, good, glad that's done. It was enjoyable, but I'm happy to be through it. And then the Holy Spirit, after not too long, seemed to kind of prompt me, you know, Acts is really the book of Luke part two. You really need to tell them more of the story than just leaving them hanging at the book of Luke. So I thought, okay, I'll do the book of Acts. And so I sat down, worked on it for a good while and did the book of Acts. I'd done with it, thought, ooh, glad that's done. It wasn't too much longer before I got a prompting in my spirit. The book of Romans is really good, a lot of good theology in Romans. And so I did the book of Romans and long story short, I finished the entire New Testament. And the whole time I'm doing this, Joseph, I'm thinking, God, we don't need another version of the Bible. There's a hundred translations out there. Why do we need one more? It's just not necessary. And I would complain and kind of say that in my mind, but yet still being obedient to the work I felt called to and doing it. And I think one time God just kind of got a little tired of me complaining. And he seemed to speak gently to my spirit. Why don't you let me decide what's necessary and what's not? And I thought, okay.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  All right, I'll do it. The rub, of course, is the re-wording and the intent I trust your intent is good, but people are going to have suspicions. And I will be skeptical and suspicious and we should be. I'm skeptical and suspicious of King James. What was his real motivation? His own. Don't look at what's going on in my royal castle. Look what I'm going to give you and how much translation, trans versions and re-wording to something else is in that even compared to all the others. And unless if we read original Aramaic, Greek, Hebrew and Latin, we can't personally read it and translate it verbatim ourselves. So we rely on others and indeed others, humans. It's why we have so many versions of the Bible. Jesus didn't say, go forth and create a billion denominations in my name. No, we didn't say that. He didn't tell us to do that. We frail flawed mess up humans did that and for Catholics and Protestants, literally, I have a book I'm currently calling Project Carpe diem. Hopefully knock on wood, right? My sixth international book and I go into that in the book too. Jesus didn't say to do that. We did that. Literally Protestants and Catholics in England were literally maiming, killing, murdering, slaughtering, screaming and yelling and calling each other all kinds of names in and out of the book very morning and then to the time over minor scriptural doctrine differences. Jesus didn't do that. God didn't do that. We did that.
DAN PARR:  Yeah, absolutely. You know, it never ceases to amaze me that Jesus trusted us with a task of bringing his message to the world. If I was Jesus, I would have thought, what do I need to do? I need to sit down and write all this out for them so that they will have a clear understanding that he did not do that though. And we did.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  We screwed it up. Yes. That's why this is the Christitutionalists show, not the Catholic. You should also or the app to tuition or sort of the method of tuition or sort of the Presbyterian to do so. All the Bible and full context of trying to focus on the things we can agree on rather than going to war at each other, because Satan wins when we do that with each other, rather than Christ winning.
DAN PARR:  Yes. Absolutely. He came to steal, kill, and destroy. Right. And if he can destroy, then he wins. When we come together in unity, there is power, right? And it's a force that can't be stopped because we've got Jesus on our side and we're working with one another. So if anything he can do to disrupt that plan, of course, he wants to do.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  And we know how it ends. Exactly. We know how it ends. We know we win. But in the meantime, again, we should screw a thing up down here. And I immediately thought that like, I love Lee Greenwood in the song, God bless the USA. Great song. Love him. Love that song. But when Trump helped him brand the God bless the USA Bible, I've got an article on before it's news about it immediately skeptical. Whoa, whoa, whoa, what it's really just a rebranding of a King James version with a different cover on it and our founding documents in the beginning and the end and stuff. So I've lightened up on my criticism of it. But in a way, I think you can understand my concern for that just as I am concerned about your EUR Bible.
DAN PARR:  Yeah. And really, I was probably the most concerned, right? I told God, I'm not a Bible scholar. I haven't been to seminary. I am not a PhD in this. And sure, I've taken a couple of seminary classes, but I feel in no way qualified to do this task. And he seemed to remind me that, yeah, the first guys that I called weren't very qualified either.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  Yeah, you could say that again. Well, as the saying goes, God has a way of using a frail flawed and imperfect people to sometimes accomplish some tasks. And in the meantime, our free will sometime gets in the way and we screw things up. But if we're indeed a vessel of his peace and then follow the instructions were supposed to be rather than that little devil on the shoulder that might pop up from time to time, right? Don't listen to him or her or it or whatever. Right? Yeah, I think you and I are on this. And again, like I said in the green room before before I hit record, all I knew about you was your name and that you did the EUR Bible. And that's all I wanted to know. I don't script my shows. I don't want to know a lot about the guests. I bring you on and whatever rabbit holes open, we go down.
DAN PARR:  Love it. Yeah. Yeah, it's, it's an interesting thing. God just always seems to get his way in the end, right? I went kicking and screaming into this. Hadn't had any intention of making a new version of the Bible. If you had told me five years ago, hey, you're going to create a new version of the Bible. I thought you are insane. There's no way I'm doing that. But here four years of labor later and we're done.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm on my sixth international book and I, two of them are related to the show. I felt called to do this. I don't need this hassle. I don't need these headaches. I, yeah, I don't need the stress. It causes me keeping me up some nights. But here I am because I do feel called that I'm supposed to be here doing this talking with people like you. And the other thing, it's why I don't script and I don't like to know much about the guests. I'm a lazy human. I really admit it. I don't want to do five hours of research on who the heck is this Dan Power guy. So I learn everything about him and can formulate a bunch of questions. No, win it by the seat of my pants.
DAN PARR:  Let the Holy Spirit lead. The wind blows wherever at once. You don't know where it's coming. You don't know where it's going to go. You just follow it.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  Amen. Absolutely. Absolutely. Do you have other projects going on or are you thinking of doing a podcast or are you doing more audible readings?
DAN PARR:  So right now, my focus is really just getting the word out about this new version. I spent four years creating it and I've not done really any advertising for it. I've just come on a few podcasts and talked to people about it. And we'll see what God does for that. I do have a heart for Gen Z and I have a son who's Gen Z and I see the things that they're facing and I've been working slowly on a devotional walking through a dad's words to Gen Z walking through the Bible in a year with 365 devotionals. Now, when I started it, 365 didn't seem like it was going to be a lot to do. As I started going through it now, well into it, 365 is a lot. So it's taken me a while to do that.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  When you said the Gen Z thing, I call it today's Twitter attention span. It's like, okay, so you're going to do the Bible one tweet at a time. How long would that take? Right? Yeah, right. But literally, they're literally tweet-sized scriptures that you could do in a row, in an order and no one would need to be a former IT guy. Somebody should do that. And there are various religious bots that seem to tweet random scriptures and whatnot rather than do a formal structured thing. So now you're saying a daily devotee, I'm envisioning a calendar, a word-a-day type calendar, a scripture-a-day type calendar.
DAN PARR:  You know, that might be my next project. That's not a bad thought, right? A calendar to come out. But yeah, we'll see where God leads. Right now I feel called to do this and get the word out. As I have time, I'll work on that. You know, if it's something he wants me to do, I am certain he has his way of getting his point across and I'll do it. But slowly but surely it's coming forth.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  So now, obviously, I'd normally wait till the end, but the same token. If I could keep a show short, I will again, today's Twitter attention span. The shorter the show, the more likely more people will actually listen to it or tune into BitShoot, Bridie On, Daily Motion in France, Rumble or YouTube to see the behind-the-scenes video. Some shows, you know, there's more visuals and they need to see the video rather than listen, I take it, this will be one that will be fine, heard on any of the 25 plus audio platforms this show was carried. And now that I rambled, did I lost track of where I was going to go with that? But oh, no, yeah. And on Amazon, where is, where can it be found? I may as well ask, do you have a website?
DAN PARR:  Yeah, primarily I'm on Audible and Amazon. So if they go and search Danpar or EUR Bible, if they put that in Audible or Amazon, everything I've done should pop up for them right there.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  Okay. So do you have official author page on Amazon.com? Because it is a book. Are you selling that the EUR actually threw Amazon?
DAN PARR:  Yes, yeah, absolutely. And you know, as I did this, Joseph, I did the book of Luke first, right? So I released it single as a single and then I did acts and I released it as a single and then I compiled them and put them together. So if somebody just wants to get a sample, they don't want to listen to the whole Bible. If they want to do a deep dive Bible study on like, you know, the book of Hebrews, they can buy just the book of Hebrews and listen to that. So it's available as a compilation as the entire Bible as a chronological version is out there. There's also a Bible in a year that's out there and the regular Bible, Genesis to Revelation, all 66 books available for them as well.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  Yeah, you're a typical rock star today, right? Get out a couple of singles to get interest before you drop the actual full album.
DAN PARR:  There you go. I wish I was that smart to think of that. It just kind of happened that way.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  Now so you don't have easy to understand and read Bible.org or EUR.org or anything like
DAN PARR:  that yet. That's probably a good idea and I should do that. I'm just not that tech savvy and haven't done it.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  I, a former IT guy, I highly recommend wicks. W-I-X dot com. Okay. You know, Wizzy Wig, you log in, of course you pay and you can then use a template and it will help you build the website because it doesn't sound like you need anything overly complex or complicated just so that you can have the domain and you may just want to go with EUR.org or EUR.info. Like one of my books, Terror Strikes Coming into a City Near You is through Wicks to build the website, Terror Strikes dot info. So you could do EUR.info. You better register that quick before there's airzos to somebody who doesn't steal it on you.
DAN PARR:  Good idea.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  Thank you. So yeah, I mean, it's pretty easy nowadays, right? Where so many years into technology, some people use WordPress. To me, that's overly complicated and complex. And average stan- heck, just you said you have Gen Zers in the family. I could probably put you up a wicksite in a half a day. Probably. Well, no problem. I take a couple of pictures of you, screenshots of this and that and the other thing and bam, it'll be there. It's pretty simple nowadays. So at any rate, I think I'm up to five of those now. Indeed, we've kind of played that through what else have you got going on or should we just go ahead and wrap it up? Shorten sleep.
DAN PARR:  I wish I had more to tell you, but primarily just doing all 66 books of the Bible has kept my plate full for a good while. So after four years of working on it, yeah, after four years of working on it, I'm just now out there telling people about it that it exists for them to sample and listen if they'd like.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  Yes. Well, okay. So thank you, Dan Parr, for coming on the Crystitutionist politics podcast. I'm glad I came across you just from behind the scenes, people's knowledge on pod match. It's one of the many services that podcast doors and I am the term pod castees like you. Well, podcasty would be like the listener, but podcasters and guests can come together through. I'm sure glad pod match happened to match us as a good fit between show and guest. And I really think it was. It was a very enjoyable talking to you.
DAN PARR:  My pleasure, Joseph. Thanks so much for allowing me to come and tell people about it.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  Take care.
DAN PARR:  God bless.



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