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| The Ten Commandments are on the Supreme Court building. |
Bible builders only need a few corporate buyers to turn their printing presses into money machines. Newly minted Bibles are praised by their paid-for cheerleaders in each denomination. Is it any wonder that the synods promote and sell the NIV, ESV, EHV, and the Beck Bible?
KJV. "Aiming at truth, they achieved what later generations recognized as beauty and elegance." Alister McGrath, In the Beginning, p. 254.
In-house celebrity endorsements guarantee that no pastor can object without incurring the wrath of the cheerleaders, who are not leaders and not cheerful. WELS does not excommunicate pastors for criminal acts or false doctrine, but they do extend the Left Foot of Fellowship for criticizing the Bible business and Thrivent. In one act of ultimate irony, they kicked out a group of families who insisted the WELS practice be followed in the schools. "Off with their heads!" and they were ejected.
There is not a single modern paraphrase that satisfies the lust for easy money, so more
Bibles keep coming out and being changed.
WELS keyed all their materials to the old NIV, which was bad enough. They threw up a smoke screen and made the latest NIV de facto the sect's official Bible, but they had to obsolete the old NIV and create new materials. Were those who gained from reprinting sore about having more work? No.
Who knows how many free trips and bonuses were handed out to those who endorsed the NIVs?
The ESV is just as bad but those cheerleaders argue it is better than the NIV - faint praise from pastors who like to play with words.
Add to this all the other versions and there is a clear dilution of Biblical doctrine in the name of making it easy for the indifferent, lazy, and poorly educated - and not just the seminarians but the laity as well.
They do not like Shakespeare, so they offer Sesame Street to replace the KJV.
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| This is the reason the Wisconsin sect loves the New NIV - everyone is justified - just a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down. |
The Law of God Is Good and Wise - #295 - Matthias Loy
"The Law of God Is Good and Wise"
by Matthias Loy, 1828-1915
1. The Law of God is good and wise
And sets His will before our eyes,
Shows us the way of righteousness,
And dooms to death when we transgress.
2. Its light of holiness imparts
The knowledge of our sinful hearts
That we may see our lost estate
And seek deliverance ere too late.
3. To those who help in Christ have found
And would in works of love abound
It shows what deeds are His delight
And should be done as good and right.
4. When men the offered help disdain
And wilfully in sin remain,
Its terror in their ear resounds
And keeps their wickedness in bounds.
5. The Law is good; but since the Fall
Its holiness condemns us all;
It dooms us for our sin to die
And has no power to justify.
6. To Jesus we for refuge flee,
Who from the curse has set us free,
And humbly worship at His throne,
Saved by His grace through faith alone.
Hymn #295
The Lutheran Hymnal
Text: Psalm 19: 8
Author: Matthias Loy, 1863
Tune: "Erhalt uns, Herr"
1st Published in: Geistliche Lieder
Town: Wittenberg, 1543
