The Translation Feasibility Committee has begun its work. It held its first meeting last month in Milwaukee and elected
Rev. Paul Janke to serve as its chairman. [The Changers wanted him as SP. His own district told him to step down as DP.]
Other members of the committee include
Revs. John Brug, [He has favored women's ordination for over a decade, once again promoted in his awful The Ministry of the Word.]
Jonathan Schroeder, [The troublesome brother. To Russia with Love.]
Kurt Jahn, [NPH - watch the firm go up in smoke when this porno-mytho-translation bombs.]
Michael Jensen,
Phil Hirsch,
Daniel Leyrer, [Sausage Factory Changer]
and John Koelpin,
with President Mark Schroeder serving as an advisor. [No one has done more for the Changers.]
The committee was appointed in keeping with a resolution passed by the synod convention last summer. Its task is to investigate the feasibility and advisability of producing a new translation for use by the synod, now that the 1984 version of the NIV will no longer be published. The committee will consider various ways to do this, including an entirely new translation “from scratch” or a revision of one or more existing translations.
The committee plans to complete its work by the time the districts meet in convention next summer; delegates will be asked to choose which translation to use in synod publications. The committee will explore the questions of what such a project would require in terms of time, manpower, and funding. It would also outline the possible process in which such a project could be undertaken. Depending on the results of its study, the development of a new or revised translation could become one of the choices placed on the ballot.
As this committee carries out its work, discussions about the strengths and weaknesses of various existing translations will also continue. A special symposium on Bible translation will be held at Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, Mequon, Wis., in January; the focus of the symposium will be on the principles of translation that will guide our synod in making a final choice on which version to use (whether existing or new) in our synod’s publications. Discussion on Bible translations will also take place in circuits and conferences throughout the coming months.
The choice of a Bible translation is a very important one. This is especially true for a church body like WELS, which has always stood firmly on the truth of Scriptures and has clearly declared its unwavering commitment to confess the inspiration and inerrancy of the Scriptures. [Except when the entire leadership of WELS went to Fuller Seminary and its clones for training.]
Serving in Christ,
Mark Schroeder
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GJ - The purpose of a commission like this is to burn money, eat some danish, and make a bad decision look like the wisdom of Solomon. The group is rigged to say the NNIV is best, to trash any form of the KJV, and to declare how hopeless it is to create their own translation.
The Sausage Factory turns out plagiarists and the DPs endorse plagiarism, so why not print the KJV and call it the WELS Official Version? Like the Mormons, they could parade their effort as The Bible of Wisconsin.
The thing the Committee To Buy the NNIV can do is to wake people up to the treachery of the sect.
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Here's a novel idea. Why not let the delegates choose a translation? Oh wait...gotta know Greek...nevermind...
WELS is the only sect where the translation is de fide, a requirement for salvation. They kicked out pastors for questioning the NIV. Expect the same with this one, which is already a done deal.
The delegates made it clear that they had no use for the NNIV. Your former SP came as close as anyone dare to criticizing the direction of the synod.
President Schroeder is not the Confessional or Conservative that many claim him to be. There is no indication that he will guard the (W)ELS from the putrid NNIV. He would have spoken loudly against it at the 2011 Convention if he ever intended to. He speaks out of both sides of his mouth and taking his 2011 Emmaus Conference essay into account he has clearly shown that adherence to Scriptural doctrine is subject to the whims of love and emotion. That although Christ demands that His Church obey his commands, love, at times, demands that we violate those commands. Note that this essay was greeted by the outspoken "confessionals" in the (W)ELS with unconditional approval. He correctly makes faithful statements including quoting Scripture, Luther and providing his own opinion and Then follows with him recounting with approval how a young pastor made a decision to commune a woman not in fellowship with his congregation, knowingly violating Christ's commands. Page 46
This is also another example of the (W)ELS satanic approach to doctrine in which they separate doctrine and practice (application of doctrine) as detailed before.
He also told his disciples, ‚If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever—the Spirit of truth.‛80 ‚Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.‛81 Holding to his teaching—every word of it—and vigilantly watching out for false teaching is the measure of faithful discipleship. Page 16
Therefore do not speak to me of love or friendship when anything is to be detracted from the Word or the faith; for we are told that not love but the Word brings eternal life, God’s grace, and all heavenly treasures. We will gladly keep the peace with them in an external way, as we should do with everybody in the world, even with our worst enemies . . . but in doctrine and Christian fellowship we want to have nothing to do with them. Page 19
It is a love and appreciation for the saving Word of God that will move us to join with those who stand on that Word and to refrain from joining with those who do not. Nothing we do should ever serve to compromise or undermine the only truth which is able to set captive sinners free. Page 44
These quotes made by President Scroeder were followed by his statement:
It was the only time that pastor ever knowingly communed someone not in fellowship with his synod. But it was an exception that a loving application of fellowship principles allowed—even demanded—him to make. Page 47
http://emmausconference.com/previous_papers/2011%20Emmaus%20Conference%20Papers%20pdf/Mark%20Schroeder%20Lecture%202011.pdf
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