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Fifty years of this claptrap would make any sect brain-dead. Imputing (counting) is used by Paul, echoing Genesis 15:6, as counting sins forgiven through faith in Christ. |
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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Tuesday, April 27, 2021
A Reader Asks Some Questions about Reconciliation, OJ and SJ. Copied with Permission But No Name
Explanation for the "Cub Editor" of Christian News
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Jack Larson ...played the role of Clark Kent’s sidekick, Jimmy Olsen, the earnest, bumbling cub reporter on the 1950s television series “Adventures of Superman,” NY Times |
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One reader was puzzled about the Christian News editor being called the Cub Editor of the aging tabloid. Generations have lost the original Superman TV show - Latin and Shakespeare - so the elderly must close the gap. "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more..." (Earl of Oxford, aka Shakespeare).
The bumbling editor of Christian News stays true to Otten's agenda - a blackout on anything supporting the Chief Article of the Christian Religion - Justification by Faith.
The OJ Stormtroopers do not realize it yet, but their wholesale silencing of Justification by Faith accentuates their cowardice and highlights the truth.
Cub Editor Hale thinks he is continuing the legacy of Christian News - and he is. Hale is pictured here with Calvin, who was heavily promoted by Otten for decades, always eager to capture the Reformed audience and wallets. The lower left features Knapp, the Halle University professor whose lectures translated into English were significant in spreading the terms Objective Justification and Subjective Justification. I hasten to add the the translator used those terms, but the note had the same effect as Spener riding the wave of popularity for Arndt.
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Hale's review states that the Scriptural path to Justification is "the wrong one." |
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I have cited this many times, and Jon-Boy is a follower of Ft. Wayne flunkie Jay Webber. |
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These words have a familiar ring in Hale. |
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Hale's entire argument is building and correcting Justification by Faith, far more dangerous than honest repudiation. |
Monday, April 26, 2021
Basic Outline of The Bible Book: The KJV Reborn for Those Who Love
The Word of God
The approximate plans for The Bible Book: The KJV Reborn for Those Love the Word of God include:
Part One
- Basics of the Bible (Efficacy of the Word, Inerrancy, etc)
- The Gospel in the Books of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms
- Abraham in the New Testament
- Apologetics
- The Old Testament, Hebrew and Greek
- The Greek Christian Byzantine Empire
- The Ottoman Empire and the Fall of Constantinople
- The Renaissance
- Waldensians
- Erasmus
- Luther
- Tyndale
- English Bibles Inadequate
- The Call for One English Bible
- The KJV Translators
- The KJV Today and Bad Excuses
- The KJV Family of Translations
- Tischendorf
- Wescott and Hort
- Kurt Aland - The "Standard Edition" (Hort)
- The Ending of Mark Dumped
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Their prejudicial and irrational editing changed the New Testament. |
Draft - From the Loss of Greek to the Renaissance in Europe.
The Bible Book: The KJV Reborn for Those Who Love the Word of God
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The Emperor Constantine, "Equal to the Apostles:" he convoked the Council of Nicea, near his home base, which gave us the Nicene Creed. |
The Septuagint and the Subsequent Loss of Greek
One of the greatest achievements of Biblical versions
came from the need of Jews to have the Old Testament studied a common language.
The name Septuagint is often represented by the Roman numeral LXX for 70. No
one knows exactly when it was translated or the exact dates. The translation
probably began around 285 BC, so it was available not only to Jews but to those
who knew Greek.
The glory of Greece was far gone when the Son was born of
the Virgin Mary. However, the language remained in all territories conquered by
Alexander and ruled by his generals afterwards. Rome got into peace-making,
often called occupation, when they were called in to settle the constant
fighting in the Holy Land, around 60 BC. For a time, people teaching the Bible
claimed the New Testament was written in Aramaic, that Jesus taught in Aramaic.
No one has found this proposed Aramaic New Testament, a theory which ignores
how useless a local idiom might be - contrasted to the language used around the
civilized world, Koine Greek, or common Greek. They did not use the same style
of Greek as Homer did centuries earlier but the simplified Greek of conversation,
letters, and commerce.
(Hat tip, Bruce Christian D.D.)
Jesus was born in the pagan Roman Empire, seemingly at
the peak of its size, power, and grandeur. But the decline had started and
rushed to a conclusion a few centuries later, the Western Roman empire
conquered by outsiders. However, the Eastern Roman Empire began with the
Emperor Constantine Christianizing its lands, which lasted a more than 1100
years, 306 – 1453 AD. The Fall of Rome led to the fragments of the Western
Roman Empire – Europe – adopting Latin Bibles while the Eastern Roman Empire -
called Byzantium after its capital city - preserved Greek, Greek literature,
and Greek culture with Christianity the main religious force.
Constantine became Emperor of Rome in 306. He was enough
of a Christian to create a new capital at Byzantium, a small town ideally
placed for trade between the West and Asia.[1] He
wanted a Christian capital and enticed Roman families to move to his new home,
which he dubbed the New Rome.[2] As
a trading city for jade and silk, the city became known as Constantinople. Vast
wealth accumulated and enemies were defeated in their attacks on the city. In
spite of a long and glorious history, from growth to decline and defeat,
historians have given little thought to the Byzantine Empire. As a result, most
people think the Roman Empire collapsed around 400 AD, but that was only the
European part. While Europe seemed divided into little fiefdoms and duchies,
developing new languages, Byzantium preserved the Greek language, Greek art,
and the Greek manuscripts. The tragedy of Constanople’s fall is directly
connected to the Renaissance in Europe, when Greek scholars and manuscripts
made their way into Europe as they escaped.
The Ottoman Empire
After the prophet Mohammed died, in 632 AD, his enemies
rose up to remove his influence from Arabia. Instead, his followers countered
and wiped out all active opposition.
The
Byzantine Empire was protected against invasion until the growth of the Ottoman
Empire in the 1300s. Byzantium did not have a warlike culture, but the Muslims
were active in conquest. By 1453, the Byzantine Empire had been whittled down
to Constantinople alone, and it fell on May 29th. The last emperor
of Constantinople, who died fighting, was named Constantine, just as the last
emperor of Rome was named Romulus and died fighting in 476, which was
considered the end of the Roman Empire.
Constantinople
became Istanbul by combining the Greek words for “into the city.”[3]
The great and golden metropolis was simply called “The City,” just as New York
City is today. A lawyer who worked in New York said to us, “I can do my work in
the suburbs, so I seldom have to go into the City.” He added, “That is how we
tell newcomers from old hands. New York is simply The City.”
The
fall of Constantinople was accompanied by Greek scholars and artists fleeing to
Europe with their treasures, which initiated the Renaissance. Ancient Greek
culture was admired and copied in many ways, and the Greek New Testament came
to replace the Vulgate. Thus the end of the two empires, Rome and Byzantine,
mark the beginning and end of the Middle Ages.
The fall of Rome facilitated the Church
in governing Europe, with its common language – Latin – and its network of
bishops and priests. The struggle began, not the first, but the most effective,
the Gospel versus the Antichrist.
[1]
Scholars are divided about how sincere his faith was. He named himself Equal to
the Apostles, but his actions did not always reflect that title.
[2] Empires
after Rome have sought to be the New Rome, first the Byzantine, then the Holy
Roman Empire, Russia with its Caesars or Tsars, and Germany as the Third Empire
– Rome, Holy Roman, and Nazi. However, the Byzantine was the longest surviving
and remains the most ignored by historians.
[3] εις την Πόλιν
Sunday, April 25, 2021
Jubilate - The Third Sunday after Easter, 2021. A Pilgrim and a Stranger.
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The video for the Jubilate service is linked here. |
The Absolution
The Introit p. 16
The Kyrie p. 17
The Gloria in Excelsis
The Salutation and Collect p. 19
The Epistle and Gradual
Praise be to Thee, O Christ!
The Nicene Creed p. 22
Sermon Hymn #288 Lord Help Us Ever To Retain - Loy Translation
Pilgrims and Strangers, For a Little While
The Sanctus p. 26
The Lord's Prayer p. 27
The Words of Institution
The Agnus Dei p. 28
The Nunc Dimittis p. 29
The Benediction p. 31
The Hymn #464 Blest Be the Tie That Binds
- Treatment and recovery - Christina Jackson. Recovery - Mary and Lori Howell.
- Prayers for Alec's brother and another brother.
- Our DEP Trump and the military justice system.
- The Anderson family is visiting and should arrive, d.v., later today.
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THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER
Pilgrims and Strangers, For a Little While
12 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner (pilgrim), as all my fathers were.