I began the day working on -
The King James Version:
Apostolic Texts, Precise Translation
versus Fraudulent Texts and Heretical Translations
I wanted to keep the title diplomatic, nuanced, and sensitive, and I edited about half of the book, checking especially on the references.
People will find the notes added to references helpful in distinguishing the good guys (Burgon, Hills, Pickering, Daniels) from the bad guys (Tischendorf, Westcott, Hort, Beck, and Voelz).
It has taken me so time to assemble the authors with good arguments about the Majority Text and the King James Version.
Unfortunately, many second-rate scholars adopted the slogan used later by Billy Graham - "I believe in the inerrancy of the original manuscripts of the Bible."
That is like saying, "Your mother was once beautiful." The compliment falls short, and the Biblical slogan is a bald-faced repudiation of the Scriptures. That is very effective in handing all Christian doctrine over to the apostates for safe-keeping.
Sleet Day was not overly dramatic here, but we have another 10 hour spell coming up at midnight. We were warned by friends not to go outside, not to drive, not to slip and fall.
Like many others, I shopped for storm food, forgetting the need for salt pellets or crystals. I bought frozen blueberries ($2) for the creatures and thawed them out this morning - the berries, not the creatures.
The entire back yard was filled with all manner of birds and squirrels, covering the area, look for food under the thin layer of mushy sleet and snow.
Starlings won in numbers, but no bird was afraid of them. I saw a male and a female cardinal sharing seats in the bun basket with berries in it. The male was below and the female above. The male was only inches away, as I planned when we put semi-reflective paper on the kitchen windows.
I had been scattering corn around the yard for weeks, because the kernels are in demand in the cold but not on warm days. The birds knew the drill - "East at Jacksons and ignore Sassy." They were eating most of the day.
I opened a book sent by the Lutheran Librarian - The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind. The author (Mark Knoll) claims that "Creationism" is recent and invented by Ellen White (Seventh Day Adventist founder).
The book is a bucket of modern sociological tub-thumping, impossible to read without snorting at the lurching from topic to topic without support for arguments.
