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When anything is accepted by large groups of morons, we have to give credit for the genius behind it. That does not mean the concept is right, only that it has been cleverly promoted - like the electric cars that will freeze their owners to death if caught in a heavy snowstorm on a super highway.
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| WELS used this snip and clip Bible to denounce snip and clip Bibles - like their beloved NIV? That is typical WELS GA lying - deceiving people while laughing at them. |
The genius of the modern paraphrases is the snip and clip, better known as the Eclectic Text. Pardon me, but the ESV, RSV, and NIV "Eclectic Texts" fall harshly on the unwaxed ear.
To put it bluntly, each modern New Testament varies from the others and from their own earlier efforts at the perfect, "scientific, most accurate" text. Added together, there are thousands of variations among themselves and in their own versions. For example the "classic" NIV (a term that makes me shudder with amusement) can no longer be used by the denominations dumb enough (like WELS-LCMS) to use them. On Bible Gateway, hosted by the NIV, the original NIV no longer exists.
To use an obvious slap in the face, the "young woman will conceive" of Isaiah 7:10 is now upstairs in the RSV text again, not in the footnote. Anything currently offered as bait in a footnote from the NIV-RSV-ESV can easily turn into the main text.
Part II Is the Deathtrap, the Scandalon
As I wrote before, widely known - the heretics love to omit words and passages that do not please them.
The modernists reject
- the divinity of Jesus Christ,
- His Virgin Birth, His miracles,
- His doctrine,
- His atoning death,
- His resurrection from the dead, and
- His Ascension.
The world of Biblical scholarship is 99% in agreement - especially Rome. Your synodical leadership is mostly in agreement, whether ELCA, WELS, ELS, LCMS, CLC, or Eldonia (LQ spelling).
The LCMS is so blatant that they published a two-volume commentary on Mark where the main text is based on Codex Vaticanus - a forgery promoted by the Antichrist, along with Sinaiticus.
The Little Three (ESV, RSV, NIV - two owned by the National Council of Marxist Churches) attack readings at random - or so they seem. One picks on Jesus' divinity in 1 Timothy 3:16, the other downgrades the ending of Mark, leaving the Gospel without an empty tomb.
So I cannot say they all chop the ending of Mark, that they all eliminate the divinity of Christ in 1 Timothy 3:16, that they all erase entirely this verse or that. A machine gun is not used for accuracy but for the total murderous effect of bullets on the target.
That is the modern approach to the paraphrases of ESV, NIV, and RSV. An ESV advocate will sniff that he uses that variation on the blasphemous RSV, not that horrid NIV. That is like saying that Prince Andrew did not actually do anything wrong with the American teenage girl (due to age of consent or possibly who lost the original photo).
KJV Best versus KJV-Never
I am deeply offended by the term KJV Only (not really). I am really KJV Best. I read all the translations all the time because I must use them to make the point about the poverty and low use of the Little Three. Going over the ESV-RSV-NIV errors has only made me more disgusted with the so-called conservative Lutheran sects.
The KJV-Nevers have destroyed their own sects, whether large like ELCA (Presiding Bishop Liz Eaton and a host of looney-tunes) or miniscule like Eldonia (loaded with arrogant but dumb Ft. Wayne graduates).
To sum up - any denominational leader who allows or endorses the Little Three Paraphrases is accelerating the decline and utter destruction of his own church body.
