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Some Additional Quotes from Westcott and Hort, Maybe Some Repeats

Wescott and Hort are the founding fathers of the modern Bible translation, because their attitude toward the Scriptures shaped their disgraceful, bigoted, faithless editing.

Quotes from 

http://www.alcorne.free-online.co.uk/w_and_hQ.htm

"I reject the word infallibility of Holy Scriptures overwhelmingly." (Westcott, The Life and Letters of Brook Foss Westcott, Vol. I, p.207).

"Our Bible as well as our Faith is a mere compromise." (Westcott, On the Canon of the New Testament, p.vii).

"Evangelicals seem to me perverted. . .There are, I fear, still more serious differences between us on the subject of authority, especially the authority of the Bible." (Hort, The Life and Letters of Fenton John Anthony Hort, Vol. I, p.400)

Dr. Wilbur Pickering writes that, "Hort did not hold to a high view of inspiration." (The Identity of the New Testament Text, p.212)

Perhaps this is why both the RV (which Westcott and Hort helped to translate) and the American edition of it, the ASV, translated 2 Timothy 3:16 as, "Every scripture inspired of God" instead of "All scripture is given by inspiration of God," (KJV).

"He never speaks of Himself directly as God, but the aim of His revelation was to lead men to see God in Him." (Westcott, The Gospel According to St. John, p. 297).

"(John) does not expressly affirm the identification of the Word with Jesus Christ." (Westcott, Ibid., p. 16).

"(Rev. 3:15) might no doubt bear the Arian meaning, the first thing created."(Hort, Revelation, p.36).

"No one now, I suppose, holds that the first three chapters of Genesis, for example, give a literal history. I could never understand how anyone reading them with open eyes could think they did." (Westcott, cited from Which Bible?, p. 191).

"But the book which has most engaged me is Darwin. Whatever may be thought of it, it is a book that one is proud to be contemporary with..... My feeling is strong that the theory is unanswerable." (Hort, cited from Which Bible?, p. 189)

"I wish I could see to what forgotten truth Mariolatry (the worship of the Virgin Mary) bears witness." (Westcott, Ibid. )

"The pure Romanish view seems to be nearer, and more likely to lead to the truth than the Evangelical." (Hort, Life and Letters, Vol. I, p. 77)

This comment is from the website

No less significant is the fact that both men were members of spiritist societies (the Hermes Club and the Ghostly Guild).

The Man Who Shaped Your Precious NIV and ESV

The following is quoted directly from Christian Forums

https://www.christianforums.com/threads/interesting-quotes-from-westcott-and-hort.7307183/

Brooke Foss Westcott (an Anglican bishop and professor at Cambridge University) and Fenton John Anthony Hort (also an ordained priest and professor at Cambridge) produced a Greek New Testament in 1881 based on the findings of Tischendorf. This Greek New Testament was the basis for the Revised Version of that same year. They also developed a theory of textual criticism which underlay their Greek New Testament and several other Greek New Testaments since (including the Nestle-Aland text).

Their interpretation is the basis of many New Testament bibles. but these two adhere to textual criticism which, in their judgement, invalidated certain passages of the bible. Textual Criticism referencing only these five sources:

Codex Vatican (B)
Codex Sinaiticus (Aleph)
Codex Alexandrian (A)
Codex Ephraemi (C)
Codex Bezae (D)
Whereas the KJB that isn't translated from the Westcott-Hort translation refences around 5000 original manuscripts.

Anyway see if you would want these men doing a Greek translation for you. Here's some of their own quotes from their own writings.

Concerning the Deity of Christ:​

"He never speaks of Himself directly as God, but the aim of His revelation was to lead men to see God in Him." (Westcott, The Gospel According to St. John, p. 297).

"(John) does not expressly affirm the identification of the Word with Jesus Christ." (Westcott, Ibid., p. 16). ​

Concerning the Scriptures:​

"I reject the infallibility of Holy Scriptures overwhelmingly." (Westcott, The Life and Letters of Brook Foss Westcott, Vol. I, p.207).

"Our Bible as well as our Faith is a mere compromise." (Westcott, On the Canon of the New Testament, p. vii).

"Evangelicals seem to me perverted. . .There are, I fear, still more serious differences between us on the subject of authority, especially the authority of the Bible." (Hort, The Life and Letters of Fenton John Anthony Hort, Vol. I, p.400) ​

Concerning Hell:​

"(Hell is) not the place of punishment of the guilty, (it is) the common abode of departed spirits. (Westcott, Historic Faith, pp.77-78). ​

"We have no sure knowledge of future punishment, and the word eternal has a far higher meaning." (Hort, Life and Letters, Vol. I, p.149). ​

Concerning Creation:​

"No one now, I suppose, holds that the first three chapters of Genesis, for example, give a literal history. I could never understand how anyone reading them with open eyes could think they did." (Westcott, cited from Which Bible?, p. 191).
"But the book which has most engaged me is Darwin. Whatever may be thought of it, it is a book that one is proud to be contemporary with..... My feeling is strong that the theory is unanswerable." (Hort, cited from Which Bible?, p. 189)

Concerning the Atonement:​

"I think I mentioned to you before Campbell's book on the Atonement, which is invaluable as far as it goes; but unluckily he knows nothing except Protestant theology." (Hort, Life and Letters, Vol. I, p. 322)
"The popular doctrine of substitution is an immoral and material counterfeit...nothing can be more unscriptural than the limiting of Christ's bearing our sins and sufferings to His death; but indeed that is only one aspect of an almost universal heresy." (Hort to Westcott, Life and Letters, Vol. I, p. 430)
"I confess I have no repugnance to the primitive doctrine of a ransom paid to Satan. I can see no other possible form in which the doctrine of a ransom is at all tenable; anything is better than the doctrine of a ransom to the father." (Hort, The First Epistle of St. Peter 1:1-2:17, p. 77).

Concerning Man:​

"It is of course true that we can only know God through human forms, but then I think the whole Bible echoes the language of Genesis 1:27 and so assures us that human forms are divine forms." (Hort to Westcott, August 14, 1860)
"Protestants (must) unlearn the crazy horror of the idea of Priesthood." (Hort, Life and Letters, Volume II, pp. 49-51)

Concerning Roman Catholicism:​

"I wish I could see to what forgotten truth Mariolatry (the worship of the Virgin Mary) bears witness." (Westcott, Ibid. )
"I have been persuaded for many years that Mary-Worship and Jesus-Worship have very much in common." (Hort, Life and Letters, Volume II, pp. 49-51)
"The pure Romanish view seems to be nearer, and more likely to lead to the truth than the Evangelical." (Hort, Life and Letters, Vol. I, p. 77)
"I agree with you in thinking it a pity that Maurice verbally repudiates purgatory . . . the idea of purgation, cleansing by fire, seems to me inseparable from what the Bible teaches us of the Divine chastisements." (Hort, Life and Letters, Vol. II, pp. 336,337)

Concerning the Cumulative Effect of Multiple Changes to the Manuscripts:

​

"It is quite impossible to judge the value of what appear to be trifling alterations merely by reading them one after another. Taken together, they have often important bearings which few would think of at first. . . The difference between a picture, say of Raffaelle, and a feeble copy of it is made up of a number of trivial differences. . . We have successfully resisted being warned off dangerous ground, where the needs of revision required that it should not be shirked. . . It is, one can hardly doubt, the beginning of a new period in Church history. So far the angry objectors have reason for their astonishment." (Hort, Life and Letters, Vol.I, pp. 138,139)

Unbelievable Biblical Text Rules - From The Bible Book

VI. Unbelievable Biblical Text Rules

from https://www.skypoint.com/members/waltzmn/CanonsOfCrit.html

            The Greek text behind the modern New Testaments does not exist anywhere except in the ever-changing minds of the text experts. The modern Greek New Testament is a jigsaw puzzle, not a uniform document. This approach goes back to text criticism in general and the Wescott Hort approach in particular. They kept their invented text a secret to all but the KJV Revision Committee, against the established rule for an unchanging text and modest editing of the English. They did not invite the world of Greek scholarship to see their work - until the moment the Revision was published in English. They published their new text the same year, and we are expected to think this was happenstance rather than a carefully constructed plan.

            However, we should look at the text editing rules, which are far more compelling than biographical information. When I was in seminary, I found a number of books on the topic in the clearance section of a Christian bookstore. I was intrigued by these rules at first, but soon I realized how self-serving and irrational they were. The apostates like to say, “The Bible did not float down from heaven. It is a man-made book.” There is no better description of the artificial, modern, man-made text and its editors.

The Text Editing Rules – in English

 

The shorter text is better.

Sinaiticus-Aleph and Vaticanus-B are the two manuscripts loved by Westcost and Hort, and they tend to drop words or shorten verses. If the shorter text is better, then we should drop words, phrases, and sections from the new Bibles. That facilitates the removal of the ending of Mark, the Johannine Comma, and the woman caught in adultery in John. Dropping of individual words is far more frequent than most people imagine, because we soon become used to what is missing or placed in a footnote. The favorite sources of Wescott Hort were Sinaiticus-Aleph and Vaticanus-B.

The best reading comes from the best source.

This issue was already decided, because the Minority Text with the fewest copies – now conveniently called The Standard Text – is constantly promoted by text critics, so the results are the best. This is circular reasoning, to say that readings that agree in Sinaiticus-Aleph and Vaticanus-B are the best because those two sources are known as the best.

The more difficult reading is preferred.

Difficult is defined as difficult for the traditional Christian, the believer. That makes any heretical text preferred because Christians have not taught that doctrinal lesson. Here we must draw aside the wizard’s curtain and expose him for pulling levers, blowing smoke, and shouting through loudspeakers. The activist Hort despised the Majority Text and loved finding samples that did not agree with traditional Christianity. This rule also assumes that Christianity was invented after a good teacher, a nice man, was killed by Roman soldiers and buried for good.  His disciples and Paul turned this into an ancient religion of miracles because Jesus rose from the dead “in their hearts.” That perfectly explains the ending of Mark at 16:8 – “for they were afraid.”

Manuscripts are weighed, not counted.

Does anyone see what they did with this? The vast majority of all New Testament texts belong to the Majority Text for a reason. Since “the best readings come from the best texts,” every modernist knows where to look and what to avoid. Thus the Majority Text is rejected by Wescott Hort and disciples for being the most accepted, the most used, the most familiar.

The Nestle-Aland GNT

This changes constantly, something Aland took pride in, perhaps because it is the toy of a few and no one can stop its influence now.

More of The Bible Book Christian Faith and the Greek Text Problem

 

 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 19^th 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 19^th 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?

Plan for The Bible Book

I began The Bible Book with publications about the topic of Biblical texts and translations, because no one really knows where to start. That includes me. I was familiar with the modern translation slide downhill, Wescott and Hort, Eugene Nida, Kurt Aland, but there are many other authors and books.

My hope is that the laity and courageous pastors will do their own studying and see the value of the King James Bible as the English version of Luther's German Bible. The reasons are not sentiment or nostalgia but precision and clarity.

The Bible Book - Chapter on Books on Texts and Translations - First Draft - Be Kind

 

Books and Authors for Text and Translation Research, Laity and Pastors Alike

 

 

Edward Freer Hills (1912-1981) graduated in Latin from Yale University, Phi Beta Kappa.

He earned several seminary degrees, did graduate work at the University of Chicago, and completed a PhD at Harvard University. His King James Version Defended is one of the best and most readable books on the topic. His style is plain, so his discussions of the following issues are easily comprehended by ministers and laity alike:

·        The Johannine Comma, 1 John 5:7-8

·        The ending of Mark, Mark 16:9-20

·        The woman caught in Adultery, John 7:53-8:11

·        The doxology of the Lord’s Prayer.

This one book contains a wealth of information about all the issues, including background about the individuals, though Tyndale has been overlooked. The book can be obtained on Amazon and also found as a $5 Kindle in the original title Text and Time.

 

 

Dean John William Burgon (1813-1888)

Burgon has a society named after him, the Dean Burgon Society, which keeps the flame alive for the King James Version. First of all, he was a sworn and published enemy of German rationalism, which was promoted by the Essays and Reviews edited by John William Parker. Burgon was appreciated for his sermons against the book. His writing is heavy duty, not light work to read, but much clearer after reading Hill. A good explanation of how Bibles became corrupted is detailed in his The Revision Revised: A Refutation of Westcott and Hort’s False Greek Text and Theory. The basic argument is clear and very much like Hill’s – the Bible is revealed for believers and must be studied and explained by believers. There is no middle ground or compromise, even though the denominations are feathering their nests with the constant flow of new, improved, but clearly dishonest translations.

Jack Moorman is a member of the Dean Burgon Society

Early Manuscripts, Church Fathers, and the Authorized Version

Forever Settled: A Survey of the Documents and History of the Bible

Early Manuscripts has extensive charts of the Majority Text compared to sources favored by the modern text critics. For those who like to view the words missing from the NIV, ESV, RSV, this volume is handy and mostly visual.

Forever Settled is a thorough history of versions, translators, and text criticism. The book is quite valuable for amount of time and material covered.

 

Gail Anne Riplinger is a lady without the usual credentials for text criticism and Bible translations. She wrote her own books on the topic and stirred up a major fuss among KJV supporters. The Dean Burgon Society published a pamphlet about her marriages and lack of academic background for the books she published – Aletheia O’Brien, A Warning for God’s Sheep, http://deanburgonsociety.org/PDF/WhoIsGailRiplinger.pdf.

Dan Corner wrote A Critique of Gail Riplinger’s Scholarship and KJV Onlism, June, 1999.

New Age Bible Versions

Greek and Hebrew Study Dangers

In Awe of the World

Which Bible is God’s Word?

The Hidden History of the English Scriptures

Blind Guides

 

Kurt Aland and Barbara Aland, The Text of the New Testament

            This is essential reading for understanding the perspective of modern text criticism, which has united previous text and translations efforts. The best way to find the weakness of an argument is to start with those who advocate it. More needs to be said about Eugene Nida, who accomplished as much again precise translation as Wescott, Hort, and Aland did against faithful manuscripts.

 

Alexander McClure, The Translators Revived

Our Lutheran Librarian, Alec Satin, provided this print book (and free PDF) about the King James translators.

Signs of Joy

The "activated" meme is a current favorite among the hip, which I am not. But I know we have some hip readers.

Therefore, if Christians want to conserve the Word, they should not be scandalized or terrified when they see the devil with the broken reins, the entire Earth orb in agitation, tyrants practicing cruelty and cults emerging, but they should know for sure that these things are not signs of horror, but of joy, as Christ interpreted them when he said, ′′ Rejoice and exult ′′ etc. [cf. Mt 5.12]. Away from us is the departure from the scandal of the cross, what would happen if we preached what the prince of this world and his members would gladly hear, that is, the righteousness of the works. Then we would have an indulgent devil, a favorable world and the pope and the princes conducive. But because we make the benefits and glory of Christ clear, they persecute us and take our assets and lives.

Martin Luther. Comments on Galatians 5.11

(I copied this from FB so I am not sure which edition at the moment.)

Working on Text Criticism Sources

Barth's Marxist theology, a thousand miles wide, an inch deep. Who else could be the theologian for Fuller Seminary, WELS, LCMS, ELS, ELCA? He could double-talk any topic, because he worked with his mistress, night and day, at his home, at the summer cabin, and on his tours. They replaced Christianity with Anything Goes, and conservatives still defend his/their honor.

Way Too Funny Self-Incrimination - Westcott Hort Fan

"Although detailed methods vary, there are really only two ways to edit a Bible text. One is to print a text based on some sort of external control (the Textus Receptus, the text found in the majority of manuscripts, the text found in B/03). This may be useful, and may fit the publisher's assumptions, but it hardly constitutes editing. Its's more an exercise in reading an illegible hand."

https://www.skypoint.com/members/waltzmn/CanonsOfCrit.html

The Calvinist News - aka Christian News - Uses "Efficacy" Seven Times in This Issue!

Cub editor Phil Hale, of the Calvinist News, gets a free control-f test every issue, to see if he can distance himself from the Ladies Home Companion content of the previous ones. 

Here are the latest results for the February 3 issue:

• Control - f - Jackson = No examples, even though I send him free copies of books to review. Luther's Galatians? Phil? Phil? Anyone? Anyone? Walther, the American Calvin? You remember him from the Fort's idolatry class, don't you?
• Control - f - Justification by Faith  = No examples, even though it is the Chief Article of the Christian Faith. But, of course, it is just a phrase to young Phil.
• Control - f - Means of Grace = No examples
• Control - f - efficacy = Seven (7) examples! But efficacy was only involved with the potency of the Covid vaccine.

"Just a phrase," Phil says, "just a phrase."
As the mayor said in The Music Man, "Watch your phraseology, young man!"

The Cleverness of Subtraction in the Greek New Testament

 "The shorter version is the better one."

My first Greek New Testament was a Westcott and Hort, bought at The Source Bookstore in Davenport, Iowa. Soon after I had a UBS version, which listed variation sources at the bottom of each page. Both were bought around 54 years ago.

Any given GNT - or similar ancient work - is developed from various editions. I began buying books about text criticism at seminary, thanks to a clearance table in Kitchener-Waterloo. There I learned some of the basics and began scratching my head about this "science."

                                   "The shorter version is the better one."

This is completely illogical, but so handy for Wescott and Hort, who were secretly preparing their edition of the GNT while the KJV was being revised. Their favorite sources were Sinaiticus and Vaticanus (Aleph and B), both discovered miraculously by Tischendorf.

Aleph and B are the Minority texts, where many divine attributes of Jesus are missing. What do mainline and Church Growth pastors do to make their sermons more universal? They omit words to make the message more appealing to them and to a similarly unbelieving audience.

Theology students do the same. They may say "the resurrection of Christ," but not the "actual physical resurrection of Christ."

They may say "the virgin Mary" but not "the actual, Virgin birth of the Savior."

This is from memory, but I noticed the opening of Mark being "The Gospel of Jesus Christ" but lacking "the Son of God" in the Westcott/Hort. But other editions included "the Son of God." I believe my UBS GNT had notes on which manuscripts included "the Son of God.'

Do you see where I am going? The omission of "the Son of God" from Mark 1:1 is easily overlooked by believers. Multiply by 200 or so omissions in Westcott and Hort. 

An English Bible may or may not have the footnote, which is going to be short and unenlightening anyway. "Some witnesses omit the Son of God." A new translation is not only a chance to change the translation itself but also to omit the traditional text, the Majority Text, altogether.

This may help - the German rationalists imagined that the original Gospel of Mark lacked any claims for Jesus' divinity because "Jesus did not consider himself to be the Savior or the Son of God." Now we begin to smell the pot-roast cooking. A scientific text can eliminate those "additions" to the original (but minority) text.

                              "The more difficult one is the better one."

Now we see the beauty of several text criticism rules, which are self-serving and subjective. 

What do we mean by "more difficult"? Answer - the samples which contradict the Christian Faith are better and more reliably original, because they are more difficult for the believer. So, the Mark 1:1 verse omitting "the Son of God" is the historic kernel, the original version of Mark's Gospel. And Mark is the first Gospel written "because it is shorter than Matthew and Luke." 

The Gospel of John is set aside by the New Testament critics because of its emphasis on the Trinity and Jesus as the Son of God.

I am trying to explain how the modern Christian publishing business took the most of the business away from the KJV and believing writers, using the rationalism of 19th century Germany. It was not done immediately and in large doses, but slowly, carefully, earnestly, and persistently.

As the  education expert told me about WELS - the new seminary graduates mocked the KJV for several years before WELS made the NIV mandatory for all pastors. Those pastors who objected were given the Left Foot of Fellowship.

The Text Issue Is Easy To Simplify. Just Remember the Three Frauds - Tischendorf, Westcott, and Hort. The Bible Book

Tischendorf loved Sinaiticus (also called Aleph) and Vaticanus (also called B). His discovery and possession of Sinaiticus is full of questionable details.

Westcott and Hort secretly provided an ongoing Greek text for the Revision Committee of the King James Version. The committee was told to make only minor changes in the English and to leave the Greek text alone. They labored for 10 years, ignoring the direction they were given. That was like putting Paul Kelm in charge of Evangelism or anyone at WELS headquarters as stewards of the Schwan loot.

English-speaking people and many scholars were appalled at the result of 10 years of skullduggery. 

The results? - a constant removal of words from the KJV Majority Text (literally thousands of pieces of evidence) in favor of Sinaiticus (Aleph) and Vaticanus (B) - the Minority Text. All the modern, "scientific" texts are the same - the Tischendorf twins endorsed by Westcott and Hort.

But how delicious it is to frame the fraud with carefully chosen words. The Minority Text was baptized The Standard Text - or Nestle-Aland - used by the United Bible Societies, missions, Roman Catholic and Protestant alike. 

LCMS-WELS began braying that they did not want those old-fashioned words or those old manuscripts. They wanted a scientific text that came right from the workshop of Tischendorf, the Piltdown Man finder of Biblical manuscripts. LCMS-WELS wanted man's opinions, not God's Word, as proven by the New NIV's "all are justified" - wording which is not even in The Standard Text, not even translated in the classic Olde NIV.

A cursory exam shows that the NIV especially - and the Calvinist ESV - favor the wording errors of Fuller, Willow Creek, and the other Enthusiasts. 

Do you wonder why your ecclesiastical lords and masters shunned Luther on the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation? That was the climax of the destruction of the Lutheran Church in this land. 

The New Book Walther, The American Calvin: A Synod Built on Felonies Has Arrived at Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, Mequon

Some services take a photo of the delivery and send it to me, so keep your porches clean! WELS, LCMS Concordias, the Little Schoolhouse on the Prairie, and Lutheran School of Chicago in Chicago got copies. Christian News received or will receive two copies of Walther, The American Calvin: A Synod Built on Felonies. Galatians was locked up or thrown away at CN formerly Lutheran News.
I am glad to send free review copies to anyone who actually reviews a book. One WELS pastor asked for a free review copy of Thy Strong Word, kept it, denounced me, and wrote no review. That is what WELS friends are like - imagine the enemies in that sect!

Walther, The American Calvin: A Synod Built on Felonies

"Justified before we were born!" - Edward Preuss. The Objective Justification Enthusiasts eat that up. Walther thought that little book by Preuss was way cool, and the Synodical Conference still adores it, even thought that passage - cited by Dr. Robert Preus - is so close to Calvinism that you can taste the sulfur.
Walther, The American Calvin: A Synod Built on Felonies

Thoughts on the Efficacy of the Word

One reader wondered, in an email, about learning more from the same book of the Bible each time. Luther, the son of a mine owner, compared the study of the Scriptures to mining gold in a place of infinite capacity. The longer one delves, the greater the vein of gold becomes, and yet it is never exhausted. The wealth of spiritual treasures in the Bible is infinite and invulnerable to attacks.

Opposition is one of the best ways to gain from the Scriptures and learn even more. We have to learn the weapons of the opposition, take them away, and defeat them with their own words. That only works with a grasp of the Word, placing that above all human documents. If we start with human claims, to make sure no one in the synod hierarchy is offended, we will become worse than they are. I am sure many of them wink at each other as they repeat the same errors that made them swear an old on their precious dogma.

We are now exhausting the Seminex-Church Growth generation of apostates. Most people think in terms of the LCMS and St. Louis as the Seminex hatchery, but Northwestern College (WELS, RIP) in Watertown has an equal claim in starting Seminex. This will sound familiar. The Seminexers claimed nothing was changing, so they should be left alone. The Church Growthers in WELS said there was no Church Growth in the sect, and if there was, it was being promoted in a Scriptural and Confessional way.

Seminexers marched off to their own seminary, led by ex-WELS professor Richard Jungkuntz and another Watertown WELS martyred professor. The rivals to the Concordia Seminaries soon collapsed and took their gay faculty to the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, doing their best to collapse that school as well. Seminex became a dirty word and nobody sought to untangle their Objective Justification dogma, so everyone jumped onto the Church Growth bandwagon. Seminex called it - The Gospel - everyone is already forgiven because God is so full of grace. Anything else is The Law, works, and condemnation. Those who question this grace are legalists of the worst kind. Seminexers even bragged that they were "Gospel Reductionists" - everyone is already forgiven.

Some realize that these grace-mongers and Gospel Reductionists were packed with anger and condemnation. Fearful that people might counter with the Word, they switched to sociology, which is unprovable but remarkably flexible. The Lutheran Church is failing? So is the Masonic Lodge! 

Check out the many Church Growth gurus who mocked Scriptural worship and made singing with a pipe organ hilariously boring. Once they had most clergy allergic to Justification by Faith and traditional worship, they only needed to prod a few more to hand over the keys to the properties, pension funds, and foundation loot.

Myranmar - aka Burma - "Benefits" from Smartmatic

Madeline Albright and Senator John McCain with the recently deposed leader.
"Forced labor, human trafficking, and child labor are common in Myanmar.^[190] " Wiki

She was popular with Democrats and RINOs.

Smartmatic did its marvelous, miraculous work, just as they did in other countries.

National Freedom Day - February 1

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National Freedom Day is a United States observance on February 1 honoring the signing by Abraham Lincoln of a joint House and Senate resolution that later became the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. President Lincoln signed the Amendment outlawing slavery on February 1, 1865, although it was not ratified by the states until later.

Major Richard Robert Wright Sr., a former slave, believed that there should be a day when freedom for all Americans is celebrated. Wright invited national and local leaders to meet in Philadelphia to formulate plans to set aside February 1 each year to memorialize the signing of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by President Abraham Lincoln on February 1, 1865, which freed all U.S. slaves.^[1] One year after Wright's death in 1947, both houses of the U.S. Congress passed a bill to make February 1 National Freedom Day. The holiday proclamation was signed into law on June 30, 1948, by President Harry Truman. It was the forerunner to Black History Day and later Black History Month, officially recognized in 1976, though begun by Carter G. Woodson in 1926.^[2][3]