The Finnish Bible Society & the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland: The New Religion Is Complete

Have you already learned the new Lord's Prayer — the cornerstone of this new religion from the Bible Society and the churches?

As a church member and taxpayer, many are unknowingly funding a new gospel and a new religion in which the divinity of Jesus has been stripped away, grace has been removed, sin has been bypassed, and God has been turned into humanity's errand boy.

All of this has been blessed and approved by the church fathers, and there is not a single denomination in Finland that has not accepted this change. The ecumenical steering committee included representatives from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland (3 members), the Orthodox Church, the Catholic Church, and the Free Church Council of Finland¹. At the publication celebration, "representatives of all denominations" received the translation².

In this article, we highlight just one of the hundreds of alterations in the NT2020 transformation — one that surely touches nearly every Finn. The Lord's Prayer reveals precisely the direction in which we are being led: toward one great world religion, a true global ecumenism, behind which lurks the familiar spirit of the antichrist.

If you are a believer and want to take action, our warm recommendation is to contact the perpetrators of this desecration directly — the Bible Society — and of course the funding body, the Church Central Fund⁴, and through it, the entire leadership of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland.

We ourselves made a radical decision and left the church nearly a year ago, because we cannot lend even the form of membership to this pure mockery of God.

Our church has already fallen, and this fits perfectly with the fact that purification and separation begin at the house of the Lord. The churches will fall first, and after the temple sacrifices begin in May 2026, by 2027 at the latest it will be forbidden to speak of anything other than this one official world religion — a religion in which the Finnish Bible Society and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, led by the spirit of the antichrist, have taken a powerful head start.

These are not the same prayer. The NT2020 shown on the left has not "updated" the Lord's Prayer — it has created an entirely new prayer.

"Hallowed be thy name" has been changed to "Show the holiness of your name." A humble confession of God's holiness has been turned into a command. Before, we acknowledged the holiness of God's name. Now we command God to prove it. It is as if we changed "Blessed be the Lord" to "Lord, prove that you are worthy of blessing!"

"Thy kingdom come" has been changed to "Let your kingdom come." Passive expectation has been turned into an active demand. "Thy will be done" has been changed to "Let your will be fulfilled." Submission has been turned into a directive.

In the Greek, the original verbs are in the passive voice. They express humility, submission, confession. NT2020 systematically changes them into active commands. In the original prayer, a person kneels before God. In NT2020, a person stands and assigns tasks to God. In the original prayer, we say "Thou art holy." In NT2020, we say "Prove that you are holy." The original is worship. NT2020 is giving orders.

"Daily bread" has been changed to "enough bread." Daily dependence on God has been turned into a demand for sufficiency. "Lead us not into temptation" has been changed to "Do not lead us into trial." The danger of falling into sin has been turned into a neutral challenge. Sin has vanished.

A child or young person who learns the NT2020 version learns that they can command God, as if God were some New Age manifestation guru. Those who pray the NT2020 are not praying the same prayer that Christians have prayed for 2,000 years. God is no longer a Lord to whom we submit, but a servant to be ordered about. If the Lord's Prayer has been changed like this, what else has been changed?

This alteration of the Lord's Prayer reveals the true nature of NT2020. It is not a translation but the foundational text of a new religion. Throughout the entire translation, the same pattern repeats: God's sovereignty diminishes, human authority grows. The divinity of Jesus fades, His humanity is emphasised. Sin disappears, moralism increases.

In the Gospel of John, chapter 18, Jesus answers those who come to arrest Him: "I am he" — the divine name that causes the soldiers to fall to the ground. NT2020 changes this to: "Here I am." A divine revelation becomes a location marker. In John 8:58, Jesus' words "Before Abraham was, I am" become "I existed already before Abraham was born." The eternal present tense becomes a past fact. Jesus is no longer YAHWEH, "I AM," but merely someone who existed before Abraham.

In the NT2020 translation, grace has been systematically removed. In the prologue of John, "full of grace and truth" becomes "full of goodness and truth." "Grace upon grace" becomes "ever more goodness." Grace is unmerited; goodness can be earned. Grace comes from above; goodness can be produced. The greeting in Colossians changes "grace and peace" to mere "goodness and peace." The gospel of grace has been turned into moralism.

Righteousness has been removed entirely. The Bible Society boasted that the word "righteous" cannot be found in the translation³. It has been replaced with "innocence" or "right-mindedness."

In Matthew 6:33, "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness" (KJV) becomes "Seek above all God's kingdom and his right-mindedness." God's righteousness is a gift to us. God's right-mindedness is His attribute. We cannot receive God's attributes, but we can receive His gifts.

In Colossians 1:13, God "hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son" (KJV). NT2020 changes this to: "He saved us from the power of darkness into subjects of his beloved Son." Citizens of the Kingdom have been made into subjects. Children of God have been made into slaves. Heirs have been made into servants.

A new section heading in Hebrews chapter 9 claims: "The sacrifice of Christ removes sin." Christ does not remove sin — He atones for it. Removing sin would mean we become sinless. John writes to Christians: "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us" (1 John 1:8, KJV). NT2020 creates a false expectation of perfection.

Faith has been changed to trust. Faith is an ontological transfer into Christ; trust is a psychological attitude. The Holy Spirit's title "Comforter" has been changed to "Encourager." The Spirit's work of convicting "the world of sin" has been changed to: "showing that the world has a wrong understanding." A cosmic trial has been turned into a teaching moment.

The Old Testament translation project VT28 continues the same trajectory. The opening of Psalm 23 changes God's personal name YHWH to the generic "God." A personal relationship becomes a general category.

NT2020 is not a translation. It is a new religion. It does not teach Christianity but a human-centred religion in which Jesus is a teacher, not God; in which salvation comes from goodness, not grace; in which we become subjects, not children; in which sin is "removed," though it remains.

The emerging hypocrisy of the Bible Society is staggering. They claim to follow precision of meaning, where the meaning of the source text and its translation are the same⁵. Yet they systematically change passives to actives, remove grace and righteousness, and turn the "I AM" divine names into mundane expressions. Where is this same meaning?

They claim to use rich Finnish, but in reality they impoverish the language by removing central theological concepts. They boast of 3,000 test readers⁶, as though the Word of God were an opinion poll where the majority decides truth.

Most revealing of all is the claim of value-free interpretation⁷. The systematic dimming of Jesus' divinity, the removal of grace, and the elevation of humanity above God is not value-free — it is an ideological project.

They say they preserve "historical facts"⁸, but change Jesus' divine "I AM" declaration into a banal "Here I am." They claim that readers should react the same way as ancient readers⁹, but change worship into commands.

The Finnish Bible Society and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland have created a new religion in the name of Christianity.

This new religion fits perfectly into one world religion where all roads lead to the same destination and all gods are one. The uniqueness of Jesus has been removed, His divinity dimmed, His work on the cross emptied.

Jesus said: "When ye pray, say..." (Luke 11:2, KJV). He did not say: "Change the words to suit your era." Paul warned: "But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed" (Gal. 1:8, KJV).

NT2020 is not a Bible translation. It is another gospel. It is the foundational text of a new religion in which humanity is at the centre and God is the servant. It is a step toward one world religion where truth is relative and all roads lead to heaven.

The truth has been hung up for all to see. Let each draw their own conclusions.

Let us all join in prayer for the makers of this translation and for those who have approved this abomination, for they truly did not know what they were doing.

¹ Pipliaseura (2020). "UT2020 - Uusi testamentti alkukielestä mobiilikäyttäjille". https://www.piplia.fi/mita-teemme/muutosvoimana-oma-kieli/ut2020/

² Pipliaseura (2021). "Vuoden kohokohta: Raamattu puheenaiheena". https://www.piplia.fi/suomen-pipliaseura/talous-ja-vuosikertomukset/ut2020-julkaistiin/

³ Pipliaseura (2020). "UT2020 - New Testament 2020". https://www.piplia.fi/en/ut2020-new-testament-2020/

⁴ Kotila, Markku (2020). "UT2020 on tullut: oletko valmis?" Maan suola. https://www.maansuola.fi/ut2020-on-tullut-oletko-valmis/

⁵ Pipliaseura. "Käännöstyön periaatteet ja vaiheet". https://www.piplia.fi/mita-teemme/muutosvoimana-oma-kieli/kaannostyon-periaatteet-ja-vaiheet/

⁶ Pipliaseura. "UT2020 - Uusi testamentti alkukielestä mobiilikäyttäjille". https://www.piplia.fi/mita-teemme/muutosvoimana-oma-kieli/ut2020/

⁷ Pipliaseura. "Käännöstyön periaatteet ja vaiheet". https://www.piplia.fi/mita-teemme/muutosvoimana-oma-kieli/kaannostyon-periaatteet-ja-vaiheet/

⁸ Pipliaseura. "Käännöstyön periaatteet ja vaiheet". https://www.piplia.fi/mita-teemme/muutosvoimana-oma-kieli/kaannostyon-periaatteet-ja-vaiheet/

⁹ Pipliaseura. "Käännöstyön periaatteet ja vaiheet". https://www.piplia.fi/mita-teemme/muutosvoimana-oma-kieli/kaannostyon-periaatteet-ja-vaiheet/