I know when people have a weak argument for their false doctrine, because they write to me "I do not agree with you."
They often engage in repetitious personal attacks. Puh-leeze find some new material.
WELS is about the adopt the New NIV, which is worse than the old NIV, both guilty of paraphrasing in the name of "dynamic equivalency."
Atheists, homosexuals, and lesbians are in the vanguard of the Bible business, because any Bible will have large runs, truly a license to print money.
Ken Ham, the Answers in Genesis and Noah's Ark guy, says, "The New NIV has the same problems as the older one. Culture dictates the paraphrase. Culture has invaded the Scriptures."
That is a key description of all the new Bible efforts. The Scriptures are no longer the inerrant Word of God revealed by the Holy Spirit. They are words to be moved, changed, dropped, and twisted like wax forms until they fit what today's culture demands.
Mequon jumped into this long ago by making Luther's English Bible (the King James) seem to be a horrible and dastardly translation.In fact, the King James is a precise translation in classical English style, its wording modeled after Luther's.
Tyndale enrolled at Wittenberg to study under Luther and Melanchthon and gave his life to give the world his translation. The clergy wanted ONE English Bible so the King James commission kelmed Tyndale's to a large extent. What one king killed, another king exalted. God's justice is slow but sure.
Ex-DP Glaeske asked the WELS convention if they could ever turn back from the NNIV road. Where was he when WELS adopted the old one? Get-along-go-along guys get promoted and elected. Those who dared to criticized the NIV were expelled from WELS. It is an old pattern, modeled upon the Spanish Inquisition.
Clergy and laity need to stock their shelves with the Lutheran classics.
- The King James Version
- The Book of Concord, starting with the Triglotta
- Luther's Sermons
- Chemnitz.
There is no excuse, because everything is available on the Net for free or from used book websites for very little.
This blog has plenty of doctrinal posts where people can study the orthodox teachers, the false teachers, and decide for themselves. They are concentrating on the Lutheran quotations, which is my goal. Look at these top two posts for the last 30 days. You can click on them.
