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.
Martin Luther College is around $30,000 a year in cost.
Yale Divinity's tuition is $25,000 a year, but the net cost paid by each student is about $1,500 annually. YDS gives tuition support to over 90% of the students.
Yale Divinity has endowed student scholarships - over 12 new ones this year.
Yale Divinity School has had its own campus, faculty, and degree program since 1869.
Yale Divinity does not have a hazing tradition where newcomers are insulted, physically harmed, abused, and manipulated with lies. Martin Luther College and Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary both do.
Tischendorf is connected to two "ancient" manuscripts, Sinaiticus and Vaticanus, the fakes that gullible scholars embraced as the "purest and best sources."
I just got my Bruce Metzger books in the mail, which I wanted for the second edition of The Bible Book: The KJV Reborn for Those Who Love the Word of God.
How could anyone burn a Bible based on the oldest and best and purest manuscripts, Metzger wondered. Aha. He fell for it too.
I have known a lot of frauds, which may be why I spotted Tischendorf so early - with the help of others who saw through his obvious lies.
The entire international printing industry for new Bibles with strange and ever-changing texts is based on one self-promoting salesman - Tischendorf.
Tischendorf gave Sinaiticus the Hebrew letter Aleph, above, making it first on the list of New Testament sources, B for Vaticanus, making it second. Clever boy.
Sinaiticus and Vaticanus are deceptively called the oldest and best sources, but they disagree with each other, even though they are supposedly from the Alexandrian, Egyptian group of manuscripts. Readers may recall that David Valleskey wanted to "spoil the Egyptians" (borrowing from Fuller Seminary) and I countered, "The Israelites took the Egyptians' precious metals and gems, not their garbage."
Valleskey is a sworn, published enemy of the Chief Article of Christianity. Herman Otten promoted and sold this gem of Fuller Pietism and Enthusiasm.
One version is that Tischendorf saved Sinaiticus from being burned by the scholars in an effort to keep the St. Catharine's library warm. Sinaiticus is parchment, skin. How many people burn leather to warm a room? How many scholars burn the "oldest" manuscript to heat their tootsies?
Sinaiticus is 1500 OR MORE years old, and yet it was pure white, like new, when first described by two different men. It was artificially aged later.
In contrast, the KJV New Testament Greek text is in harmony with 95% of what we have, thousands and thousands of examples.
How is a field house a mile away from campus going to help in the middle of winter when moststudents don't have cars?
They forgot to mention that part... It isn't ON CAMPUS, it's OFF CAMPUS at the Athletic Fields site.
"Sports Complex
• Shared locker rooms for field sports - home & visitor
• Indoor practice turf
• Game day support - concessions, restrooms, coaches,
and officials
• Team rooms
• Satellite training room"
Martin Luther College now costs over $30,000 a year, and the average student leaves with more than $50,000 in debt. That may be a reason why students pick Granger Community College instead. Another reason is WELS protecting felons, denying anything happened, and treating so many students like dirt under their Stormtrooper boots.
WELS stole a march on ELCA, doubling down with Satanism and gender bending.
When Dr. Martin Luther College in New Ulm absorbed Northwestern College in Watertown, everything was supposed to be glorious:
Men and women together
Separate tracks for teachers and future pastors
Decreased alcoholism
No more Cattle Crossing signs popping up when the NWC students were visiting.
I have been reading Augustana College (Rock Island) history lately. The Swedish Augustana Synod, after some years of doctrinal difficulties, established their synod and college in 1860. Northwestern College began in 1865.
The differences are enormous today, because the Swedes took higher education seriously, instead of putting incompetents in teaching roles. Andreen, an early Augustana College president, left his comfortable job as head of a language department at Yale University to get the Rock Island campus on solid ground. He was pummeled in Sweden for asking for funds and succeeded in winning over the opposition. He cultivated the prosperous Swedes in the Midwest and strengthened the faculty.
"Augustana ranks among the top 40 U.S. liberal arts colleges in the sciences, based on the number of graduates earning Ph.D.s. Students accepted to Augustana typically rank in the top 20% of their high school classes." (Wiki)
Similarly, Gustavus Adolphus in Minnesota is one of the top music schools in America. I remember when a prominent ELS pastor sent his daughter there for music.
Christina and I graduated early from Augustana, Rock Island, November, 1969. We got married 10 minutes later.
The Augustana Synod abhorred slavery, unlike Walther's sect, where slavery was practiced from the beginning and supported by CFW Hisself.