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.