Friday, March 4, 2016

WELS Remains a One-Commandment Sect

As soon as I posted about Jeske on Facebook, I received this comment -

Gregory L. Jackson,I didn't appreciate your post about Mark Jeske at all. I believe you would remember that there is a commandment against slander.

Crossword Puzzle Plagiarism - Stealing Is a Problem But in WELS and the Missouri Synod

A Plagiarism Scandal Is Unfolding In The Crossword World

By OLIVER ROEDER

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-plagiarism-scandal-is-unfolding-in-the-crossword-world/

Agroup of eagle-eyed puzzlers, using digital tools, has uncovered a pattern of copying in the professional crossword-puzzle world that has led to accusations of plagiarism and false identity.

Since 1999, Timothy Parker, editor of one of the nation’s most widely syndicated crosswords, has edited more than 60 individual puzzles that copy elements from New York Times puzzles, often with pseudonyms for bylines, a new database has helped reveal. The puzzles in question repeated themes, answers, grids and clues from Times puzzles published years earlier. Hundreds more of the puzzles edited by Parker are nearly verbatim copies of previous puzzles that Parker also edited. Most of those have been republished under fake author names.

Nearly all this replication was found in two crosswords series edited by Parker: the USA Today Crossword and the syndicated Universal Crossword. (The copyright to both puzzles is held by Universal Uclick, which grew out of the former Universal Press Syndicate and calls itself “the leading distributor of daily puzzle and word games.”) USA Today is one of the country’s highest-circulation newspapers, and the Universal Crossword is syndicated to hundreds of newspapers and websites.

On Friday, a publicity coordinator for Universal Uclick, Julie Halper, said the company declined to comment on the allegations. FiveThirtyEight reached out to USA Today for comment several times but received no response.

More at the link - http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-plagiarism-scandal-is-unfolding-in-the-crossword-world/

The Wizard of Ooze Pretends To Know Business - The Church Is a Business!
Men of His Word - Another Franchise iRun by the Jeske Crime Family

Do you dare arouse the wrath of the great and powerful Ooze?

The entire speech is built upon the congregation as a business. And if you do not realize this, Jeske almost says, "I pity the fool."

He begins by asking the supposed businessmen for a definition of value proposition. It is something offered to attract the customer. He often says "value prop" after that - super cool.

Next is a lengthy, dreary, history of German movement into Wisconsin and WELS growth based on that influx. Running out of immigrants was a common theme in the LCA 35 years ago. "We can't depend on boats and babies any more."

Jeske also made that point with his family of four children being quite rare today, Congregation wives asked Mrs. Jeske, "Did you let him knock you up again?"

This speech was so edifying.

Additional players are: David Valleskey, Forrest Bivens,
Ron Roth, Robert Hartman, Wally Oelhafen, Joel Gerlach,
Kudu Don Patterson, Fred Adrian, John Parlow,
Steve Witte.

Mark loves golfing at the country club, which fits Luther's portrait of the ministers who always want the wealth they cannot have. These covetous ministers hang around with wealthy people to have a taste of luxury.

If someone comes to his house (in the tony part of town) after 3 PM, he grabs a bottle of whiskey and cigars and has a sweet time with his friends. As I wrote before, confirmed by others, WELS is a synod full of alcoholics. If Jeske is not one, his habits and those of his Changer pals will lead there in time.

When Ski was on Jeske's staff and on the Church and Change board, he kept a keg of beer in his fridge all the time. If that was not a cry for help, when all the clergy knew it - I give up. Buchholz knew and laughed about it. So Ski and Glende started a bar ministry in Appleton, both of them veterans of Jeske's schmooze and booze circus, and got into all kinds of trouble.

When does one grow out of frat boy behavior and obscene pranks and grow up? Alcohol seems to extend adolescence while destroying one's health and mental acuity.

Diversity Training - ELCA started it.

Jeske's Heroic Efforts To Live Off Tax Money
"At St. Marcus if we don't change, we are going to die." That is what he said when he was assigned to St. Marcus, in the inner city, where he does not live.

He had so many shut-ins, there was "no time for strategic planning or fund-raising."

The solution was to participate in the vouchers program, to use tax money to fund his school. If it failed, they would still have a quarter-million dollars, he said.

Nothing in his speech suggested anything to do with the Christian Faith, trusting in God, studying the Scriptures. Men of His Word - doubtless means Mark's word.

Jeske's subliminal anger and condescending style reminds me Ed Stetzer, the Babtist hot-air merchant. Every revelation of Stetzer is spat out with contempt. This is what we have to do to make it work! WELS invited Stetzer to speak to them, so perhaps the Jeske lobby dragged their metal drinking cups across the prison bars to get this done. Stetzer made fun of Lutherans in announcing his speaking date, a fact I was pleased to copy and paste (kelm) into the blog. Eventually Stetzer was canceled in Missouri and WELS.

When the Jeske-Witte-Patterson Changers are not grabbing tax money, they are siphoning off all the synod and foundation money they can. Success for Jeske is not being self-supporting but being supported by everyone else.

At one time the major church leaders were famous for their eleemosynary work, their generosity toward others and gifts to world missions. Passavant was a Book of Concord traditionalist who did this for entire church bodies, for building seminaries, for financing a year of seminary study from three months of summer work from a student.

The Church and Changers have been looking down their noses at everyone for a long time. Join them or be subject to their ridicule, slander, and contempt. But what have they accomplished in WELS and Missouri?

Closing schools and colleges
Driving members away
Sparking lawsuits from their lawless behavior
Soaking up so much money that the ELS, WELS, and ELCA are driven into each other's arms.

One Sample of the Power of BibleWorks

BibleWorks News

This is a sample of what BibleWorks can do. However, I am relying on another site until the program arrives.

When someone searches for a Biblical text on the Net, Bible Gateway usually comes up. The website is hosted by the New NIV - not exactly an honest outfit. For a long time they showed the old NIV as NIV84, so someone could look up passages in the old and the New NIV. But guess what, sports fans - the old NIV no longer exists, and publishers cannot use it.

When someone looks up a passage in the NIV, it is only the New NIV, a paraphrase so faulty that the Southern Babtists voted not to allow it in their bookstores. Southern Babtists do shunning a lot better than WELS and Missouri. WELS has made the New NIV official without quite saying it. Missouri considers translations a matter of indifference, an adiaphoron. But you better use the right brand of incense, the best shampoo and conditioner, the finest robes.

Tis funny how the NIV always fails to get the important passages right. The other paraphrases toddle along behind the NIV, which is doubtless the modern best seller, helped immensely by the LCMS and WELS.

By Faith of Jesus Christ - Three Instances Erased from the Nida Modern Bibles

People may argue with this thesis, but I am quite certain that the KJV and KJV21 readings of Romans 3:22 and Galatians 2:16 are much more precise than the modern Nida versions (dynamic equivalency, idiomatic, surfer dudish).

Paul did not leave his argumentation up in the air, without support, as the UOJ Stormtroopers do. Justification begins with the faith of Jesus Christ. This eliminates the Decision Theology that plagues the Babtists and the UOJists - either making a decision for Christ, or making a decision for world absolution without the Word or faith.

Jesus became the righteousness of God by His faith in His Father's will. Through that faith we have faith in Him, and receive His righteousness - not because of a decision, an intellectual conclusion, or an ounce of our merit. Romans 1:16-17 KJV

16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

The righteousness of God is revealed from the faith of Jesus, creating and nurturing our faith in Him.

Two passages show how the KJV and KJV21 teach this, while the Nida creative writing exercises obscure this central teaching.

Romans 3:22

Greek - literally - by (through, dia) faith of Jesus Christ

22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: KJV

22 even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ, unto all and upon all those who believe. For there is no difference, KJV21

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22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all[a] who believe. For there is no difference; New KJV

22 This righteousness is given through faith in[a] Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, New NIV

Romans 3:22 Or through the faithfulness of

22 —that is, God’s righteousness through faith in Jesus Christ,[a] to all who believe, since there is no distinction. Holman (WELS fallback position, but they are hotter than Georgia asphalt for the New NIV)

Romans 3:22 Or through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ

22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: ESV (favorite LCMS version, the RSV of the National Council of Communist Churches, edited by a Calvinist, J. I, Packer. Missouri loves them some Calvinists, like Woods translating Knapp. Scofield Bible and CPH both use the ESV, so it must be good - right? right?)

Galatians 2:16

Greek - literally - by (through, dia) faith of Jesus Christ

16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. KJV

16 knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. KJV21

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16 knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified. New KJV

16 know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in[a] Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified. NIV and the rest