On the Third Sunday after Trinity, 2021, Christina was undergoing routine test scans, and The Bible Book was just published. As many know, I rushed The Bible Book - Christina understood - and then completely rewrote it as The King James Version: Apostolic Texts Precise Translation versus Fraudulent Texts and Heretical Translations.
Alec Satin published The King James Version as a free, online, easy to navigate book.
What baffles me is the absence of Biblical study among clergy, from my group (Baby Boomers, 25% of the population) down to the current generation. My generation only had books to use - no audio tapes of books provided for the classroom. Every household had a printed newspaper, and everyone fought to read a favorite part of that daily periodical.
We always had The Saturday Evening Post, and less often, Life magazine. National Geographic was also standard in our household. We had shelves of books in the basement, kitchen nook, and upstairs bedrooms. The little nook served as our breakfast table and my mother's office. That was where I found an encyclopedia set, various Biblical books to read, and the KJV as well.
I read so much that my parents kicked me outside to get sun and exercise. Moline had a Carnegie library with a floor for children's books. There I read entire series, such as Freddy the Pig and Heinlein's space adventures.
I cannot fathom how the next generations will handle the Biblical issues, because so many depend on the slow pace of audio or simply skip book knowledge altogether. The Boomers have been an abject failure in showing spiritual discernment. The 2020s may be remembered as the decade where Fuller Seminary, Willow Creek skirt-chasing Church, and the Church Growthers collapsed at once. In Columbus, Ohio, WELS sponsored Church Growth with two divorced pastors leading it, taking the cluster of five congregations down to four, soon three parishes. That should make the skin of Olson, Kelm, and Valleskey tingle - "they believe but their hides bristle."
KJV - Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
