ICHABOD, THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED - explores the Age of Apostasy, predicted in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, to attack Objective Faithless Justification, Church Growth Clowns, and their ringmasters. The antidote to these poisons is trusting the efficacious Word in the Means of Grace. John 16:8. Isaiah 55:8ff. Romans 10. Most readers are WELS, LCMS, ELS, or ELCA. This blog also covers the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Left-wing, National Council of Churches denominations.
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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]
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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:
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.
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.
Older
books, considered classics, are reprinted using the best possible original text
of the author. The issue is not whether people can compare and edit the Bible
texts, but how they approach their task. In the past, the Biblical text editors
were men who considered the Bible the Word of God, the infallible and inerrant
revelation of the Holy Trinity. However, the 19th century was
greatly influenced by rationalism, so various experts treated the Bible, not as
the work of God for man, but another book by man about God. The British
revision of the King James Version of the Bible was a perfect, but not unique,
example. Given the goal of a modest revision of the KJV language (using the
same Tradition Text as before), the team of Wescott and Hort secretly provided
their own text of the New Testament. The language of the KJV had been modestly
revised before – and we use that revision today – but the new Greek text
emboldened academics to treat the Bible as just another book, no different from
Homer’s Odyssey or Marco Polo’s Travels.
Perhaps
I was influenced by my father’s name – Homer – and an uncle’s name – Horace –
to immerse myself in classical culture, the so-called dead languages of Latin
and Greek, the histories of Greece and Rome. People thought it was odd to waste
my college years on Latin and Greek, even more so later. When I told the dean
of our tiny seminary that I was also taking Hebrew, he said, “Why, Greg? You
will not get academic credit for it.” However, I earned the prize at seminary
for “best Hebrew scholar” by just taking the course and won a Hebrew Old
Testament. I did more of the same at Yale, taking Hebrew exegesis of Genesis,
Greek exegesis of Thessalonians, and a doctoral seminar that assumed knowledge
of the Biblical languages. Besides that, my wife Christina earlier encouraged
me to take German 1, 2, and modern literature – and she took Greek in college.
Although
I dreamed of traveling the world on someone else’s budget, the study of languages
more than satisfied that longing - by including ancient histories, pivotal
battles on land and at sea, against great armies and against Herman the German.
I am only listing these language adventures to point out the obvious – the typical
pastor does not know Greek or Hebrew. The language of the Old Testament is
apparently too difficult for the snowflakes of today. Language requirements for
future ministers have slipped down to a summer term in Greek, $3,000 cash
payment in advance, and nothing more. If Biblical languages are almost lost
among the clergy, how much discernment can they have when dealing with the new
Bibles? They are going to aim at the popular preferences, just as they decide
on popcorn or peanuts, Coke or Pepsi, for their Sunday Seeker Services.
What
will the pastor or lay leader say when the experts say, “The woman caught in
adultery passage does not fit in the Gospel of John and is a late addition”?
How will they respond to their own New Testament teachers dropping Mark 16:9-20?
There must be a connection between selling Here I Stand socks for the Reformation’s
500th Anniversary and promoting a butchered Gospel of Mark at an inflated
price.
The
following book is aimed at laity and clergy who want to know the issues and how
to have reason for the hope within them. As I did with Walther, the American
Calvin, I am starting the book with essential study aids and how to obtain
them inexpensively.
The
Bible Book:
Corrupted
Scripture Texts and Dishonest Translations