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| The King James Version: The Apostolic Text versus Fraudulent Texts and Heretical Translations. |
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| Tischendorf, you devil you, the Fauci of Biblical scholarship. |
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| "If we call this codex F, everyone will see it as last on the list and ignore Count Tischy. Let's call it Aleph, so it is always first, the fake first in line, Ja?" |
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| A Latin title page gives me goosebumps. The history of Sinaiticus is easy to discern - blatant fraud and snookering. |
A recent article claimed that independent congregations were more Biblical than those in various denominations. That claim easily fits the Lutherans, because ELCA lost the equivalent of the ALC in the years since 1987 and 2009 - about 2 million people.
The LCMS is very much an ELCA clone now, the latest display being Matt the Fatt in his glorious, costly, papal robes. He would love to have Jim Heiser's entire outfit.
The ELS and WELS sects follow Missouri rather closely, especially at the top, where the leaders are enticed through Thrivent insurance grants and Thrivent selling irrevocable charitable trusts.
Some people like to go back to the 1960s or the Great Depression to explain how this happened. KJV history showed me that the turning point was really 1870, because that change involved all English-speaking people at once in the so-called Revision (of the KJV).
From a Biblical perspective the background of the Revision is quite unsavory. Tischendorf's triple fake of codices (bound volumes) got the scholars hotter than Georgia asphalt for "text criticism." The Majority Text, with more than 5,000 examples (also called witnesses) was set aside for roughly five witnesses with variant readings.
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| Westcott and Hort were clergy but unbelievers. Their text criticism, hidden from the public in the Revision, remains the standard today, in the equally loathsome Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament. |
Tischendorf gloried in his monopoly of Ephraim Rescriptus (written over), Sinaiticus (leather sheets ready to be tossed into the fire! - the stink!), and Vaticanus from the Antichrist Hisself. Given Tischendorf's habit of self-praise, it is difficult to claim that any of those three had any merit. However, Westcott-Hort grabbed the opportunity and crafted their own imaginary text, secretly pressed it upon the Revision "scholars" of England and America, and won - or lost.
The Revision was a world-wide, costly disaster, because very few readers accepted the miserable pile of claims foisted upon them. They could not sell the Bibles, which piled up in storage.
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| This winsome graphic, published by WELS, is exactly what the NIV, RSV, and ESV offer. And it smells like team spirit, with one diabolical coach. |
However, the spirit of rationalistic Calvinism and the joy of modernism turned doubt in the text into rejection of the divine and miraculous. Once the text was sliced and diced, the same approach to the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, and miracles prevailed.
The Lutheran pastors of today are enchanted by the glories of their sect, all of them very papal in trusting and coveting the powerful. The pastors do not give genuine sermons because they do not believe. One convert to ELDONA wrote me (unsolicted) that he never thought the Chief Article was that important.
WELS, ELCA, and ELDONA are comedies without any laughs. They glory in themselves alone. Holy Mother Missouri and the fading ELS/CLC factions are no different. They are what their seminaries teach - unstable about the Scriptures when the majority of Americans favor the KJV. That is quite a gap between the nation and the bankrupt divinity schools.
