Why Are the LCMS-WELS-ELS-ELCA Enterprises Failing So Rapidly?The Vast Majority of Bible Readers Favor the KJV Over the Cool Paraphrases.Was Church Growth Simply Another Smoke Screen?

 

WELS and Missouri are probably disturbed that I knew so much about their bedmates in the LCA before I left.

The result of our Grand Tour of Synods - LCA, LCMS, WELS, ELS, CLC (sic), and a pinch of ELDONA - is a comprehensive knowledge of the main players, face to face, at meetings, at conferences. 

They did not all dump the KJV, the liturgy, Means of Grace worship, and pant for Church Growth by accident. Those were leaders who could not lead six drunks to the men's room at Hooters. Their spines were - and are - made of rubber, and their mouths are full of lies.

WELS put on the ultimate GA deception, pretend to be horribly retro while aping the LCA/ELCA 100%. I made sure Christian News ran the Snowbird article showing Chilstrom, Mischke, and Bohlmann as "leaders conferring." Naturally, WELS lied about the conference, just as they did about Archbishop Weakland later. 

 Someone really likes this photo, but I can't/won't remember who.

I figure the cool guys, like Wayne Mueller and John Lawrenz, and their counterparts in the LCMS-ELS-CLC keyed on the LCA/ELCA leaders and followed that lead. I think it was more a rejection of the truth than a desire to bring their sects into the 20th century. LB/AAL/Thrivent paved the way with loot for the leaders and programs from Fuller and Planned Parenthood.

What do they all have in common, besides throwing shade on the KJV and TLH whenever they can? They loathe Luther. They despise the Book of Concord, and they know nothing about either one.

 Yoder and Hesburgh in the same photo:
I have been places.

The LCMS seminaries are teaching the younguns to be Catholic priests, and the rest are teaching praise band mummery. Smells and bells are not the antidote for praise bands, they are just another version of entertainment evangelism (ala Fuller, Willow Creek, Glende-Ski).

People are witnessing a vast denominational movement into complete apostasy and catastrophic failure. There are many solutions. I bought a book and found out there is another seminary in Ft. Wayne. It looks as Lutheran as Mequon but they keep their clothes on. There are many more examples.

I am quite sure all the radicals will own the property and funds in the near future, but that will not help them.

 I never went to Fuller, but I did spend $35 on the sweatshirt. I wore it to a WELS shindig, and pastors glared at me. I explained, "I am just trying fit in with WELS."

WELS Damage to Biblical Truths Is Far Worse Than People Recognize and the Sect Admits

Thank you WELS for the graphic showing the style of Bible loved by WELS-LCMS-ELDONA. ELS-WELS teaches against the Majority Text and argue for the Westcott-Hort-Nestle-Aland snip and clip Bibles - NIV, ESV, NRSV, etc.

“The first decided steps, however, toward giving to the English nation a Bible printed in their own tongue, were the translations of the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, made by William Tyndale, and by him printed at Hamburg, in the year 1524; --  and a translation of the whole of the New Testament, printed by him partly at Cologne, and partly at Worms, in 1525.”

Alexander McClure, The Translators Revived, Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry, p. 6.

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“Why is accuracy of translation so important? Because the Bible is the Word of the living God. It is an utterly unique book. It is the inscripturated revelation to mankind of God’s mind and will and the inspired record of His redemptive work. And this being so, there is no more important piece of literature in the world. Thus, the accuracy of the Bible’s translation is of the utmost importance.”

Robert Martin, Accuracy of Translation, The Banner of Truth Trust, 1989, p. 2.

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“Omission of material found in the Authorised Version (AV) is the main type of alteration found in the modern versions. The New Testament of one popular modern version, the New International Version (NIV), first published in 1973, omits seventeen complete verses found in the AV—a figure found applicable to most modern versions.”

David Blunt, Which Bible Version: Does It Really Matter? Trinitarian Bible Society, 2007, p. 3.

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Dr. Aland’s Influence on the New International Version

“Dr. Aland’s pernicious views of the unreliability of our Bibles in the original manuscripts is profoundly seen in the NIV Bible. The same hand that would excise whole books of the Bible from our Canon would also excise many, many texts.”

Hembd, What Today’s Christian Needs to Know about Dr. Kurt Aland, Trinitarian Bible Society, 2007, p. 11f.0

Partial Preface to the Original King James Version of the Bible

 

• 22 It is not only an armour, but also a whole armoury of weapons, both offensive and defensive; whereby we may save ourselves and put the enemy to flight.

• 23 It is not an herb, but a tree, or rather a whole paradise of trees of life, which bring forth fruit every month, and the fruit thereof is for meat, and the leaves for medicine.

• 24 It is not a pot of Manna, or a cruse of oil, which were for memory only, or for a meal's meat or two, but as it were a shower of heavenly bread sufficient for a whole host, be it never so great; and as it were a whole cellar full of oil vessels; whereby all our necessities may be provided for and our debts discharged.

• 25 In a word, it is a panary ((bread Pantry)) of wholesome food, against fenowed [mouldy.] traditions; a physician's shop [κοινον ιατρειον. S.Basil. in Psal.primum.] (Saint Basil calleth it) of preservatives against poisoned heresies; a pandect ((a complete body)) of profitable laws against rebellious spirits; a treasury of most costly jewels against beggarly rudiments; finally, a fountain of most pure water springing up unto everlasting life.

• 26 And what marvel? the original thereof being from heaven, not from earth; the author being God, not man; the inditer, the Holy Spirit, not the wit of the Apostles or Prophets; the penmen, such as were sanctified from the womb, and endued with a principal portion of God's Spirit; the matter, verity, piety, purity, uprightness; the form, God's word, God's testimony, God's oracles, the word of truth, the word of salvation, etc.; the effects, light of understanding, stableness of persuasion, repentance from dead works, newness of life, holiness, peace, joy in the Holy Ghost; lastly, the end and reward of the study thereof, fellowship with the Saints, participation of the heavenly nature, fruition of an inheritance immortal, undefiled, and that never shall fade away.

• 27 Happy is the man that delighteth in the Scripture, and thrice happy that meditateth in it day and night.

Harvard University's Book on The Literary Guide to the Bible - KJV!

 

 Harvard picked the KJV for its literary guide.

“We have as a rule used the King James Version in translations, and our reasons for doing so must be obvious: it is the version most English readers associated with the literary qualities of the Bible, and it is till arguably the version that best preserves the literary effects of the original languages.”

The Literary Guide to the Bible, edited by Robert Alter and Frank Kermod, Harvard University Press, 1987, p. 7.

The First Thing I Noticed - Two Typos

 

 Steal a forgery and make the Tsar pay for it, then get Britain to pay Stalin for it.

 "Aleph, a fraud, a blatant fraud.
B, the Vaticanus twin..."

 Tischendorf just had too many co-inky-dinks in his narrative to be believed.

Last night, I was getting a little tired after a day of correcting and improving The Bible Book. I was sipping Brazilian coffee, pour-over of course, and looking at posts. I discovered two typos right away. I missed the "e" on one, literally on the number one, and a beginning quotation mark. I said to Sassy, "What a world! What a world!" I had just finished looking for a source, which was on Google, not in the leaflet I was reading.

Thus my little digression on typos. They multiply with age, like those skin anomalies that keep my dermatologist well fed.

The dramatic part of all this is not only a greater appreciation for the King James Version, but also an unraveling of the Great Codex Fraud. We have two giant codices (codex = bound book), Aleph and Vaticanus, vellum (skin) and bound, neither one having a definite birth or any children. The person connected to two of great codices is Count Tischendorf, really the Count Dracula of text studies, sneaking around, draining the blood of innocent people at night, feeding his ego.

Let me rehearse the story of the "finding" of Sinaiticus in or around a monastery library. 

1. Tischendof found a basket of codex pages (unbound!), a portion of the "world's oldest Bible" destined for the fire.
2. The fire might have been for warming the library or just for burning the garbage. Scholars are divided, since animal skin (vellum) does not burn well and scholars do not destroy ancient books.
3. He rescued them, created a self-glorifying book about them, and named them after his Roman Catholic sponsor and king.
4. He came back much later and took the rest of Aleph to the Tsars for "copying" and kept it there. In reality, #3 and #4 are called "stealing" in the Ten Commandments.
5. A known forger said Aleph was his own work, created for the Tsar but artificially aged. Several early witnesses said the "world's oldest Bible" had white skin and was supple - pretty amazing for 1500 years. Like Madonna's skin, it does not bear a close examination.
6. Tischendorf also got to see and write about Codex Vaticanus.
7. Aleph and Vaticanus became the excuse for replacing the Majority (Traditional, Byzantine, Textus Receptus, Ecclesiatical) Text with the patchwork (now called eclectic) Westcott-Hort text.
8. Westcott-Hort, like Tischendorf, were sneaky liars who forced their own text on the 1881 KJV revision, overall a failure but 50 years later the new way to publish the Greek New Testament. All the colleges and seminaries follow Westcott-Hort in the name of Nestle-Aland, the modern stooges.
9. All objections to this con job have been silenced under a blanket of personal attacks.
10. The modern text critics ignore dealing with this swindle and praise each other, but the overwhelming majority of Bible readers still use the King James Version. 

Westcott-Hort came up with their own patchwork or "eclectic" Greek New Testament, basically the one all Lutheran college and seminary students use. TLH used the KJV, but the newest WELS worship book is all New NIV.

 This is how the WELS New NIV was snipped and clipped together, so they warned members about snip and clip Bibles! Those guys are so much fun when they are drinking, which is most of the time.