Today we have fairly dense fog, which reminds me of Kurt Aland's boast. All the denominations have united with the Church of Rome to produce the snip and clip, copy and paste text of the Bible. Aland calls it the "Standard Text." They have expelled the Majority Text, used since the Reformation.
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| Barbara and Kurt Aland |
Apparently the earlier name - the Eclectic Text - did not roll smoothly off the tongue - or brain. Eclectic gave away the truth - they assembled a text that is not found anywhere in this universe, picking and choosing, and constantly changing their minds. A new edition of "the Greek text" can have thousands of changes, but no matter - they are in charge.
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| Between the *** - WELS has no self-awareness about their pick of the worst translation ever, but it does deceitfully promote OJ. |
Hands off the Bible! - WELS Fulminations in Royal Purple
The Bible is God’s Word. He doesn’t want us to pick and choose what we believe.
A few men and even fewer women made those choices.
Rev. Simpleton (MDiv, Ft. Wayne, DMin Fuller Seminary) is satisfied. "Now we have a standard text!"
No so fast. Each new translation (paraphrase) picks and chooses the text they use for their English version and carry on a footnote debate with that. The highly promoted ones - NIV, NRSV, ESV - do not agree with each other, except for rejecting the Majority Text and the KJV.
The New KJV changes its English, with new editions, whenever the itch is there. They also have quasi-KJV English footnotes smooching up to Kurt Aland. M is for Majority Text and NU is for Nestle-Aland-United Bible Societies. This accentuates the propaganda that the modern text critics have the oldest, best, most accurate original.
I have quite a pile of books on text criticism, so one fact struck me - Vaticanus (B) is a ghostly figure with very little said about it. Vaticanus has supposedly been owned by the Vatican for centuries and was completely ignored. Although it is newly promoted as the co-exemplar with Sinaiticus, the codex was ignored until recent times and disagrees with Aleph extensively.
Another fun fact - they often show a type set version of an old text because the original is extremely difficult to read. So what people see is really an edition, not the real thing at all, even if they could translate what they see.
I have used the Greek New Testament for 55 years and I would not call myself an expert, so I truly wonder if all the New Testament professors in Lutheran colleges and seminaries really know what they are promoting with their modern texts and their hatred of the KJV and the Majority Text. It is easy for academics to fall into a rut of school matters, denominational busywork, and other distractions. "Synod says" solves so many problems.
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| Eugene Nida wanted to get as far away from the text as possible - hence the Spanish Good News for Modern Man as the stepping stone for radical bad Bibles - TEV. |
Eugene Nida was there the whole time, working away from the text and translation of the KJV. We could call him the Hort of 20th century, tremendously powerful from his century of connections, influential posts, and rewards.
Has the English language improved from the simpleton translations sold to the public? Each new edition is worse than the previous one.
