Now and the Future -- The Bible Book and the Sequels

 The Bible Book series will include John's Gospel - the I AM Sermons, Acts, Letters of Paul, the Pastorals, and the Catholic Epistles.

The interest in supporting the King James Version led me into a second edition of The Bible Book: The KJV Reborn for Those Who Love the Word of God. I am glad that developed because I had to chance to build up a lot more books about the KJV's origin and qualities, and also about text criticism from both sides - Majority New Testament Text versus the Forgeries called Vaticanus and Sinaiticus. Proof of the fakery is easy to consider - they are 1500 years old and have no children. 

In contrast - this is rich - recent discoveries and some ignored facts point to the Majority Text going back to the Apostles. The claim has been, "The KJV Majority Text is late and therefore corrupt." By corrupt, they mean the verses, phrases, and words removed in the "scientific" editing promoted by Tischendorf, Westcott-Hot, and Nestle-Aland-UBS. 

The early church fathers were using the Majority Text and they kept copying new generations of New Testaments because they wore out the originals. 

In contrast, we are to believe that Vaticanus (held by the forgery-friendly Vatican) and Sinaiticus (another Catholic op) were 1500 years old and still usable, though nobody copied them. It is like saying that one man overwhelmingly won the electoral vote, so the contest was given to the guy who could not get more than a dozen to hear him live. Something is wrong there...too.

The differences between faith in Jesus Christ and disguised atheism are there. What passes for intellectual study of the Word is nothing more than a smokescreen to hide some frightened wizards who shout, "You have not studied obscure matters for decades, so you cannot judge our constantly changing Bible Juggernaut, which enables us to sell our ever-evolving Bibles, which funds our conferences and fellowships and awards and trips and honors and promotions.

 Seminex won - the LCMS-WELS professors are hotter than Georgia asphalt to follow ELCA

Luther is an embarrassment to the Lutheran synods and the Texas archdiocese.

Two Approaches to the Biblical Text

 

Vimeo Breakthrough - Live on the Blog

Vimeo self-taught

The big challenge with Vimeo has been to get the live signal out there so everyone can see it live and go back for saved videos when they want them. We have easily saved videos to a YouTube channel, and to one or two Facebook pages. 

Alec Satin offered to watch while I tried it live, and I found some very basic instructions on Vimeo for the live version. I felt like a kid with a new train set and directions that worked.

The "player" - as they call the code - can be copied and pasted on a location, like this blog. When it is done being live and rated (all audiences), the same video can be sent to social media sites. I will do this soon, so everyone can see it.

I was asked about using Instagram, and I will look into whether a link will do the job there. In some cases, it depends on the way the social media site is put together. 

I tried putting the player code on a new Ichabod post (with Chemnitz pictured) and that worked well. I appeared live with a slight delay and the sound was good. 

I suggest not going to Vimeo for the live version, though it will be there at the bottom of the list (most likely). No, I can't stop you! 

I plan to move the videos into folders for neatness. Some are trial talks. Others are the whole service. Still others are midweek. I can edit the pictures and titles, so I will do that.

So tomorrow night for Mid-Week Advent and Sundays - go here for the top post and the service.

This has a lot of potential for lectures, which I can do at any time and put into related folders.

"We'll have this purring like a kitten in no time."

 

Praying for Andrea's father - Randy.

Gracious Heavenly Father, guide the surgeons and medical team in their work. Give Randy quick removal and recovery, Ivy and Andrea comfort and strength. In Jesus' Name. Amen.

Luther Perspective on Objective (sic) and Subjective (sic) Justification. The False Teachers Cannot Get the Justification by Faith Words Out of Their Slandering Mouths

 

 Bethany Kilcrease complained about my cool graphic, which her husband solicited. She admitted it was a cute picture.

Luther:

"Hence it is certain, that in this way, if all are not saved, yet some, yea, many shall be saved; whereas by the power of "Free-Will", no one whatever could be saved, but all must perish together, and moreover, we are certain and persuaded that in this way, we please God, not from the merit of our own works, but from the favor of His mercy promised unto us; and that if we work less, or badly, He does not impute it into us, but, as a Father, pardons us and makes us better."

Bondage of the Will, Martin Luther, Associated Publishers and Authors, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1971, pg. 149

OJ/SJ puts our salvation under our own will, decision, merit, and work instead of under God's will, mercy, and grace. It also denies Ephesians 1:5 "Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will..." It also denies Ephesians 1:11 "In whom we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will..."

In Christ,

Knapp - Love me for my Calvinist translator, OJ and SJ, or my teaching at Pietism's mother-ship, Halle University? Pardon if I smirk, WELS and LCMS.

From the Bethany Hymnal Blog - I'm But a Stranger Here

Tune - Heaven Is My Home - linked here

"I'm But a Stranger Here"
by T. R. Taylor, 1807-1835

1. I'm but a stranger here,
Heav'n is my home;
Earth is a desert drear,
Heav'n is my home.
Danger and sorrow stand
Round me on every hand;
Heav'n is my fatherland,
Heav'n is my home.

2. What though the tempest rage,
Heav'n is my home;
Short is my pilgrimage,
Heav'n is my home;
And time's wild wintry blast
Soon shall be overpast;
I shall reach home at last,
Heav'n is my home.

3. There at my Savior's side
Heav'n is my home;
I shall be glorified,
Heav'n is my home;
There are the good and blest,
Those I love most and best;
And there I, too, shall rest,
Heav'n is my home.

4. Therefore I murmur not,
Heav'n is my home;
Whate'er my earthly lot,
Heav'n is my home;
And I shall surely stand
There at my Lord's right hand.
Heav'n is my fatherland,
Heav'n is my home.

Hymn #660
The Lutheran Hymnal
Text: Hebrews 4:9
Author: Thomas R. Taylor, 1836, alt.
Composer: Arthur S. Sullivan, 1872
Tune: "Heaven Is My Home"

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Sir Arthur Sullivan

His hymns and songs include "Onward, Christian Soldiers."