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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "The Foxes and Vixens of Appleton Pretty Much Talk ...":
(W)ELS gives birth to a two-headed calf. Another essay meant to prop up the dead cat UOJ and the other grotesque protuberance the NNIV.
http://scdwels.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/2011-10-tiefel-paper.pdf
Tiefel, "In NIV11, I do not see a Reformed coup. I see an unsurpassed group of scholars doing what they can to produce an inclusive translation in the hopes that a large majority of readers, including those whom we have not yet met, might use it in learning and discussing doctrine in modern English."
PS:
How many times can one (W)ELSian approvingly quote Douglas Moo in an essay on Justification?
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GJ - Let's get a count of Moo quotations.
The original nickname of the first Wisconsin Lutheran College was Moo U.
Now Mequon can safely be called Moo U. as the faculty rush around trying to justify their porno-mytho NNIV. They will get what they want, because SP Mark Schroeder has already capitulated as a synodical leaders. Besides, he loves UOJ and the NNIV proves what WELS and all the mainline apostate denominations believer - everyone is born forgiven, absolved, saved.
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"An unsurpassed group of scholars!"
Yes Professor, if you consider freemasonary and homosexuality as the hallmarks of true scholarship. The majority of WELSians are against this New age Bible. Please refer to DP Glaeske's remarks at the recent synod convention. The SCD has voted againt the NNIV. One pastor has stated (he is graciously light hearted) that Luther's German Bible is the best. He said that if we could all learn German then our problem would be solved(!)(?)
I fear that Brother Tiefel is working for an outside source. Our synod is being infiltrated by the New Age/Government alliance. Mark Jeske on Day Star! Can somebody say "John Hagee!"
In Christ,
Rebecca
The author of the paper is Prof. Tiefel's son, Mark.
Did anyone say otherwise?
Mark was one of many free vicars employed at Holy Word, Austin, Texas, so Don Patterson could run around the synod being a bigshot, flying to Africa to hunt dangerous vegetarians.
Moo on Romans 3:23,24
The participle "being justified" is most naturally taken as a modifier of one or both finite verbs in verse 23: "sinned" and/or "falling short." If so, Paul's purpose in highlighting the gift character of justification in the participial clause would presumably be to provide evidence for the total religious impotence of humanity. The objection to this interpretation is that it gives to a verse (24) that continues the main theme of the paragraph (justification/righteousness) a relatively subordinate role. Scholars suggest several other ways of relating this participle to its context, but perhaps the best suggestion is Cranfield's. He argues that "being justified" is dependent on verse 23, to the extent that it has as its subject "all," but that it also picks up and continues the main theme of the paragraph from verses 21-22a. With this we would agree, with the caveat that "all" in its connection with "being justified" indicates not universality ("everybody") but lack of particularity ("anybody"). Paul's stress on the gift character of justification in verse 24 illuminates from the positive side the "lack of distinction" in God's dealings (verses 22b-23) even as it continues and explains the theme of "righteousness by faith" from verse 22a.
Paul's purpose is probably to highlight the universal availability of God's righteousness. This theme is not only one of the most conspicuous motifs of the epistle, but is explicitly mentioned in verses 22b-23. God's righteousness is available only through faith in Christ ― but it is available to anyone who has faith in Christ.
The Epistle to the Romans (NICNT; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996)
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