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| Lenski was replaced by a liberal at Cap Seminary. |
III. Christian
Faith and the Greek Text Problem
The
sole purpose of the Bible is to teach faith in Jesus Christ, the Son of God,
the Word Incarnate. Long ago, Yale University taught the Scriptural revelation
of the Virgin Birth of Christ and His Resurrection. However, rationalism grew
in Europe in the 19th century, and American academics trained in
Germany brought back these ideas as the
new intellectual leaders of their denominations. A good example is Walter
Rauschenbusch, whose epic 1917 Social Gospel lectures at Yale re-interpreted
the ministry and message of Jesus. They changed the eternal Gospel into
political and social activism. Every miracle had a rationalistic explanation,
and Jesus was divine only in the way God shown through His transparency.
Two Biblical Views
There are only two basic views of the Bible. One holds
that the Spirit reveals God’s will, from the Creation to the end of time. The
Scriptures are infallible and inerrant, the inerrancy term used recently
because infallible was re-interpreted to mean “fallible in Biblical history and
geography,” thanks to the influence of rationalism. This divide became more
apparent as people were promoted or shunned for their views on the Bible. R. C.
H. Lenski was silenced, shunned, and replaced as the New Testament Professor at
the Capital University Seminary, for teaching inerrancy and insisting on it in
the 1930 merger. Although Lenski remains one of the most respected New
Testament scholars in print, he was followed by a professor who taught the
opposite to the seminarians. Thus, inerrancy was retired with Professor Lenski
although the ALC/TALC retained an image of conservatism until it merged with
the AELC and LCA in 1987 to form ELCA (Every Left-wing Cause in America).
As the Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry has shown,
the Lutheran authors of the 19th century were believers who taught
faith in Christ and maintained an unequivocal trust in the truth of the
Scriptures. That is what makes the books of Krauth, Jacobs, Schmauk, and many
others so valuable today. They explain the Scriptures rather than substituting
their own evasions for the truth.
This change in Biblical views, so easily seen in all
denominations today, is directly involved in replacing the faithful Greek text –
the Majority Text or Traditional Text of
the KJV– for a constantly changing version of the Wescott Hort jigsaw puzzle.
Wescott Hort, under the management of Nestle Alan, is now accepted as universal
for all denominations. This Universal Bible Society text was marshaled by
appealing to cooperation among Protestants and Roman Catholics and creatively
paraphrased by the Eugene Nida translation theories. Now the present many
versions of the Bible God Would Have Revealed If He Were As Wise as Wescott,
Hort, Alan, and Nida.
We are living in the Age of the Great Apostasy, the
visible Church ruled by those who once believed the basics of the Christian
Faith but now resent those blockheads who insist on the King James Version, the
classic hymns, the historic liturgy. Apostasy is far more dangerous than
atheism, because the liberated minds and consciences bitterly resent the old
ways and those who represent them. Guided by their Father Below, they have
systematically destroyed church music, the sermon, the liturgy, the Creeds, and
the gracious message of forgiveness and salvation through Christ the Savior.
This should alarm some people – those who attend seminary
and college in their denomination are quietly guided to use every translation except
one with King James in the title. Divinity schools offering genuine PhDs are
even more exacting. The publication houses, hymnals, and educational materials are
established in the same Wescott Hort world view, with great riches enjoyed by
constantly replacing hymnals and other materials.
Why do the denomination leaders go radical on books that advocate
for the King James Version? If they want to use guilt by association, a logical
fallacy treasured by many today, do they dare look closely at their heroes of text
and Biblical scholarship?
