Having Fun with KJV Research

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.

Today's Weather - Colder Than a WELS Friendship Sunday

 

11 AM Central Sleeting Time, Today

 "How dare you make fun of global warming?"

I-84 - Pendleton, Oregon - 50 Miles of Highway Closed

 I-84, Oregon today makes everything else look easy and fun.

 North Dakota, years ago.

This is a special award for snowflakes who melt easily.

 I believe it!

Hymn - My Soul Be on Thy Guard

"My Soul, Be on Thy Guard"
by George Heath, 1745?-1822

Tune - Schumann - linked here

1. My soul, be on thy guard;
Ten thousand foes arise,
And hosts of sin are pressing hard
To draw thee from the skies.

2. Oh, watch and fight and pray,
The battle ne'er give o'er;
Renew it boldly ev'ry day
And help divine implore.

3. Ne'er think the vict'ry won
Nor lay thine armor down;
Thine arduous work will not be done
Till thou obtain the crown.

4. Fight on, my soul, till death
Shall bring thee to thy God;
He'll take thee at thy parting breath
To His divine abode.

Hymn #449
The Lutheran Hymnal
Text: 1 Thessalonians 5:6
Author: George Heath, 1781
Tune: "Schumann"
1st Published in: Cantica Laudis
Town: Boston, 1850

Cravings and Binges Lead to More Craving Binges

 Fuhrman has a new book on children's eating habits, so I ordered it. I can get this heart book to you for a couple dollars. Email me at greg.jackson.edlp.gmail.com (initials stand for Every Day Lutheran Prices - Trademark)

No one was more surprised than I to discover than a very large bowl of spinach could be delicious, satisfying, and quite nutritious. I always liked fresh spinach from the garden but the Rambo rabbits here get it first. 

Store spinach is pretty good at WM, and $5 worth lasts a long time, maybe five very large bowls in five days. The equivalent in Bacon Egg Cheese biscuit is $25.  BEC is a triple fat product with too much salt. Fuhrman has argued that not only bacon and cheese are fatty/salty but eggs and milk are too.

I am changing the joke about my email address - greg.jackson.edlp@gmail.com. It now stands for Every Day Lutheran Prices - for the e-books and inexpensive printed books.

The reason why Americans continue to eat the wrong and least nutritious foods is simple - craving begets craving and more binge eating. We get used to a combination, acquire a habit of over-eating it, and then develop a mild or even wild addiction to it.

I plead the Fifth on donuts, but they are nothing more than white flour, sugar, grease, and icing made of more sugar. I told Christina when we first dated that bread donuts were made with eggs in the batter, so they were nutritious. Unfortunately, she asked my father how many eggs per donut, and that became an endlessly repeatable joke, even unto this day.

Avoiding donuts is easy now, because every brand is simply wretched, loaded even more with sugar and grease, but also with the lowest possible quality. My students told me that one outfit (which closed down near us) shipped in frozen raw donuts to be cooked in the shop - so dry and tasteless that no one wanted them. 

Here are some simple rules:

1. Milk products, meat, cheese, and eggs are very high in fat, so the chances of having a good weight with those foods are zilch. Colorful ads and gushing recipes make us want to eat a lot from the fat group, which are best at making us fat and craving even more.
2. Sugar formulations (including zero sugar fake sweeteners) are very expensive, just like the fat products below. Both groups provide some lift but also a big let-down and desire for more. Buying a bag of hard candy and devouring it - that is the pancreas calling for help and asking the addict to wise up.
3. Wacky, extreme, cleverly named diets (Keto, Opti-Fast, Mediterranean, Paleo, Atkins, Lo-Carb, Vegan, and Water diets) skip essentials, overdo certain ingredients - such as lots of eggs. They force people into short reductions in weight and fast rebounds like the lady who asked for Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi, diet any soft drink - and settled for six chocolate cream-filled Berliners. An old tradition is finishing a radical diet with binge eating, even more weight gain than before, and self-flagellant remorse. 

I have learned that many foods, packed with all kinds of nutritional benefits, are delicious and satisfying and prone to develop cravings that are good rather than bloating.

 Which is more complicated and effective - a Creation cluster wedged into one cell or a manufacturing cluster designed by humans?

I think I found the parallel in the drawing of a plant cell, which looks remarkably like the Dow Chemical complex in Midland, Michigan. A plant cell has a group of little factories that work together to accomplish the plans and engineering of the Creation. 

When the dams broke upstream Midland, the chemical plants were hit and shut down for a time. However, the Dow Scrubbing Bubbles countered the mess and shortened the clean-up. Mankind does not know how to fix everything in a catastrophe like that. A Creation plant simply recovers on its own, because the Creator can rebuild and strengthen even the most damaged life. 

I use beneficial insects to fashion nurseries for their children, who hatch and (turn your head away) digest the pests. 

So the plant cells include many more kinds of ingredients, part of its living structure, to provide us with ways to defeat blood sugar problems, high blood pressure, heart and cancer treatments.

So this is ironic - the plants we eat are far better for us than the fat-sugar-salt meals which are so heavily promoted, overpriced, and devoured.

Even more ironic - the Fuhrman food - weighted toward greens, beans, fruit and nuts will necessarily be quite varied but also good enough to crave. It takes some experimentation, but that makes healthy kitchen arts and crafts more fun. Once a huge leafy green salad is enjoyed by itself, with a few nuts and a tiny bit of dressing, the fat-sugar-salt foods become far less appealing and - in some cases - repulsive.

PS - It makes me sad that so many children are already obese by middle school, a pattern hard to break. And many are stuffed at the elementary school level. The heart itself stays the same size as we grow up, so it becomes a 4-cylinder engine trying to move a semi. The internal chemistry of the blood-liver-kidneys tries to balance the imbalanced food, vital to every part of the body.

Chasing the Technology Train - Fun, Fears, and Victory

Today was especially fun because I dedicated it primarily to broadcasting. The jigsaw puzzle includes a number of pieces, which now make sense. Sassy and I listened to a new presentation on what I need to know, what I need to use.

1. I have to have a better email set-up, because some have not reached the intended destination.

2. I will need to convert the WordPress Ichabod (not ready for prime time yet) to have a long-lasting place to store videos. We all know how reliable Google is! (Implied positive statement)

3. I will practice broadcasting, starting tomorrow. That will be displayed on this blog.

4. We have a library creation tool, which will be good for long-term, non-disappearing storage.

5. Captions are a low-cost option. I wonder if people like the idea. I always put captions on when I can (YouTube, etc) because I follow the content better.

6. I will be asking if you have been getting your emails. I will have a separate stored placed for them and hope the new set-up works well with group emails.

7. I will slow down books in favor of publishing more lectures on such topics as the KJV, books of the Bible, apostasy, Rome versus the Gospel, the Jesuits.

Flowers for Norma A. Boeckler

 

These flowers arrived for Norma A. Boeckler today. She wrote that she is feeling better.

"I opened my front door this morning and saw a large box from1-800-flowers.com. with flowers. Sent from you and the members of Bethany Lutheran. What a surprise!

I arranged the bouquet in a special red vase to match the roses. This bouquet is very special to me and I want to thank you and members of the congregation very much for the beautiful flowers."

Get well soon, Norma! And God's blessings on you and your family.

Yesterday she was designing the covers for the new KJV book, which I posted.

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• Acknowledgements and Dedication

• Preface

• Books Frequently Cited

• Part One: Areas of Agreement

  • Chapter One: The Scriptures, the Trinity, Natural Law
    • Introduction
    • Agreement among Catholics, Lutherans, and Protestants
    • Catholic and Lutheran Agreement
    • Lutheran and Protestant Agreement
    • Scriptures: The Measuring Rod
    • Biblical Testimonies
    • The Early Church
    • Church Fathers
    • Clarity of the Scriptures
    • Sufficiency of the Scriptures
    • Scriptures during the Reformation
    • The Holy Trinity: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit
    • Old Testament
    • New Testament
    • The Trinity in the Early Church
    • Hymnic Confessions
    • The Two Natures of Christ
    • Human Nature of Christ
    • Divine Nature of Christ
    • Natural Law
    • Declaration of Independence
    • Social Structure

• Part Two: Areas of Partial Agreement

  • Chapter Two: The Sacraments
    • Means of Grace
    • The Holy Spirit and the Word
    • The Holy Spirit and the Means of Grace
    • The Word Active in Baptism
    • Biblical Answers to Objections
    • Infant Faith
    • Infant Baptism
    • The Lord’s Supper
    • Real Presence
    • Biblical Testimonies
    • The Stealthy Is Argument
    • The Two Natures
    • Forgiveness
    • The Sacraments in Roman Catholicism
    • Worthiness of the Minister
    • Roman Catholic Errors about Holy Communion
    • Transubstantiation
    • Reservation of the Host
    • Bloodless Sacrifice
    • Comparison: The Means of Grace

• Part Three: Complete Disagreement

  • Chapter Three: Justification by Faith

    • The Bible Is Clear: How We Are Justified
    • Council of Trent
    • Atonement and Justification
    • Original Sin
    • The Law and Original Sin
    • Atonement and Redemption
    • The Roman Catholic View
    • Faith and Good Works
    • Merit or Worthiness of the Christian
    • The Monster of Uncertainty
    • James and Good Works
    • Protestant Problems
    • Calvinism and TULIP
    • Law and Gospel
    • First Use of the Law
    • Second Use of the Law
    • Third Use of the Law
    • Confusing Law and Gospel
    • Mingling Law with Gospel
    • Justification Summary
    • The Old Missouri Synod Catechism – On Justification

  • Chapter Four: Purgatory

    • Prayer for the Souls in Purgatory
    • The Biblical Passages
    • History of the Doctrine of Purgatory
    • Seeds of Purgatory, Early Medieval Period
    • St. Augustine
    • Pope Gregory the Great
    • The Medieval Scholastics
    • Doctrines of Purgatory
    • Nature and Purpose of Purgatory
    • Mary and the Scapular Promise
    • Confraternities
    • The Mass and Indulgences
    • Avoiding Purgatory
    • Biblical Response
    • Purgatory Summarized
    • Early Foundations
    • Growing Roman Catholic Support for Purgatory

  • Chapter Five: The Infallible Pope

    • The Bible
    • History of Infallibility
    • Pope Pius IX
    • Bishop Strossmayer’s Opposition to Infallibility
    • Vengeful Aftermath of Vatican I
    • Infallibility Explained and Expanded
    • Doctrinal Answers to Infallibility
    • Definition of the Church
    • The Biblical View
    • Vatican II
    • Papal Infallibility and Church Definition Summary
    • Roman Catholic View
    • Lutheran View
    • Protestant View in General

  • Chapter Six: Doctrines Concerning the Virgin Mary

    • The Biblical Portrait
    • Roman Catholic Doctrines about Mary
    • History of the Immaculate Conception
    • History of the Assumption of Mary
    • History of Co-Redemption
    • Marian Devotion
    • The Rosary
    • Scapular Devotion
    • Organizations to Support Marian Piety
    • Development of Marian Doctrine
    • Luther and Mary
    • Lutherans and the Immaculate Conception
    • John Calvin
    • Summary - Doctrines about Mary
    • Pope John Paul II’s Prayers, December 8, 2003

  • Chapter Seven: Luther versus the Papacy

    • Fidelity Magazine
    • The Seven-Headed Luther
    • Luther Quotations
    • Luther on Conversion
    • Law and Gospel
    • Evangelism
    • The Means of Grace
    • Humour
    • Good Works
    • Trials
    • The Antichrist
    • Antichrist in the New Testament
    • Apostasy, 2 Thessalonians 2:3
    • The Man of Sin, Son of Perdition
    • Warning and Hope

  • A Final Word – The Gospel

  • Bibliography  

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References for the KJV Book - Cleaned Up with Notes about Important Books, Good and Bad

 

 Tischendorf

The King James Version:

Apostolic Texts, Precise Translation versus Fraudulent Texts and Heretical Translations

References with Notes

Aland, Kurt and Barbara Aland. (1995). The Text of the New Testament. Eerdsman. GJ – The Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament dominates the academic world. Kurt Aland repudiated the Christian Faith early in his career.

Alter, Robert and Frank Kermode. (1987). The Literary Guide to the Bible. Harvard University Press. GJ - The editors based their book on the KJV, a precaution for those rushing to buy the newest hip, soon to be forgotten (or erased) Bible paraphrase.

Burke, David G. et al. (2013). The King James Version at 400. Assessing Its Genius as Bible Translation and Its Literary Influence. Society of Biblical Literature.

Bainton, Roland. (1969) Erasmus of Christendom. Scribner’s Sons.

Beck. (1976). The Holy Bible (An American Translation, AAT). Holman. Quoting Beck - “The two oldest manuscripts [Vaticanus, Sinaiticus] lack Mark 16:9-20…but end at verse 8.” See the brobdingnagian Voelz commentary on Mark, CPH.

Bentley, James. (1986). Secrets of Mt. Sinai. Doubleday. GJ - See Tischendorf’s lavish self-praise and deceptions, below. See also Moorman’s work on the validity of Sinaiticus being the “world’s oldest Bible”.

Bloom, Harold. (2011) The Shadow of a Great Rock. A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible. Yale University Press. GJ – Depreciation would be a better word to use.

Daniels, David W. (2005). Did the Catholic Church Give Us the Bible? Chick Publications. GJ – Daniels has a detailed history of the Roman Catholic attempt to set aside the true Scriptures in favor of their corruptions.

Daniels, David W. (2009). Look What’s Missing. Chick Publications. 2009.

Daniels, David W. (2013). Did the Catholic Church Give Us the Bible? Chick Publications.

Daniels, David W. (2018). Fifty-One Reasons Why the King James. Chick Publications.

Daniels, David W. (2020). The Bridge Bible. A Path from Faith to Doubt. New King James. Chick Publications.

Daniels, David W. (2021). Who Faked the “World’s Oldest Bible”? Chick Publications. GJ – This example of detailed research, with sources, shows how Tischendorf’s Sinaiticus is a complete hoax, truly the world’s newest Bible!

De Hamel, Christopher. (2001). The Book. A History of the Bible. Phaidon Press. 2001.

Fuller. David Otis. (1973). True or False? GJ- This includes Dean Burgon’s Revision Revised and Pickering’s essay about Burgon.

Fuller, David Otis. Which Bible?

Fuller, David Otis. (1984). Counterfeit or Genuine? GJ – This includes articles by and about Dean Burgon, who was almost alone arguing against the deceptions of Sinaiticus and Vaticanus. This deals with the ending of Mark, the woman caught in adultery, and the preservation of the Scriptures.

Greenlee, J. Harold. (1995). Introduction to New Testament Criticism. Hendrickson Press.

Gutjahr, Paul C. (20  ). An American Bible. A History of the Good Book in the United States, 1777-1880.

Hallihan, C.P. (2010). The Authorised Version. A Wonderful and Unfinished History. Trinitarian Bible Society. 2010.

Hills, Edward F. (1988). The King James Version Defended. Christian Research Press. 1988. GJ – This is one of the top three best books on the text of the KJV. Hills was a top student at Yale, studied at Chicago, and earned his PhD at Harvard. He tutored Theodore Letis.

Kenyon, Frederic G. (1949). The Text of the Greek Bible. A Student’s Handbook. Duckworth Press.

Letis, Theodore P. (2000). The Ecclesiastical Text. Just and Sinner Publications. GJ - He studied with Edward Freer Hills, above.

Letis, Theodore P. (    )The Majority Text: Essays and Reviews in the Continuing Debate.

Luther. Reading the Psalms with Luther. Concordia Publishing House. 2007. GJ - CPH’s NIV Self-Study Bible is rationalistic and denies the Messianic nature of the Psalms.

McClure, Alexander. (1853-2000). The Translators Revived. Biographies of the Authors of the King James Version of the Holy Bible. Charles Scribner. LutheranLibrary.org.

McAfee, Cleland Boyd. (    ). Study of the King James Bible. 1912. GJ - This is a superb appreciation of the KJV, its genius, and influence on our society.

McGrath, Allister. (2001). In the Beginning. The Story of the King James Bible and How It Changed a Nation, a Language, and a Culture. Random House. GJ – This is one of the best books on the KJV.

Metzger. Bruce M. (2001). The Bible in Translation. Ancient and English Versions. Baker Academic. 2001.

Metzger, Bruce M. (    ) Reminisces of an Octogenarian. Hendrickson Press.

Metzger, Bruce M. The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration. Oxford University Press. 1964. GJ - By corruption, he meant the Majority Text and by restoration, he meant the Nestle-Aland-Metzger text.

Moorman, J. A. (2006). 8000 Differences Between the N.T. Greek Words of the King James Bible and the Modern Versions. The Bible for Today.

Moorman, J. A. (2018). Was Codex Sinaiticus Written in 1840! Old Paths Publications. GJ – This is another revealing book about the falsehoods of Count Tischendorf, though the Count is his own worst perjury suspect.

Moorman, J. A. Early Manuscripts, Church Fathers, and the Authorized Version. The Bible for Today Press, 2005.

Paine, Gustavus S. (1977). The Men Behind the KJV. Baker Book House. GJ – Appreciating the team of translators is a good way to understand the remarkable results of their work. This may be the same as Learned Men.

Pickering, Wilbur N. (1977). The Identity of the New Testament Text. Thomas Nelson. GJ – Pickering shares honors with Edward Freer Hills in his scholarship, eviscerating the claims of the modernist Bible disasters.

Pickering, Wilbur N. (2014). The Identity of the New Testament Text IV. GJ – The best and most readable KJV books are Pickering, Edward F. Hills, and David Daniels.

Pickering, Wilbur N., Marcello Freitas. (2021). Family 35. Original Text of the New Testament, Exposition of Evidence.

Robinson, Maurice A., William Pierpont. (2020). The Case for the Byzantine Priority. 2020. GJ – The evidence has grown remarkably to show the earliest good texts were from the Apostles while the error infested early texts came from the Egyptian heretics.

Sightler, James. (1999). A Testimony Founded Forever. GJ – This is unusually detailed about the dishonest KJV “revision” and the unchristian Hindu-Christian fusion promoted by Westcott.

Tischendorf, Dr. Constantin. (   ) Codex Sinaiticus. The Discovery of the World’s Oldest Bible. The Book Tree. 2016. See also James Bentley’s work above. GJ – Tischendorf baptized the fake Sinaiticus as the World’s Oldest Bible and promoted Vaticanus as being just as old. Neither Bible has a genuine history or children. Why did no one copy them or wear them out through copying and use?

Trinitarian Bible Society booklets are very well written, precise, and reliable in defending the value, fidelity, and authority of the King James Version. The author is a member of this group. See a list of some of the titles at the end of the sources.

Voelz, James W. (2013). Mark Commentary, 2 vols! 1320 pages. Concordia Publishing House. GJ - Note how the Beck Bible footnote error on the ending of Mark 16 is now trumpeted by a “conservative” seminary professor and CPH. This gigantic collection of errors is based upon the Church of Rome’s dubious Codex Vaticanus, mysteriously promoted with Sinaiticus as the world’s oldest, but in reality falsification’s boldest. Christian News laid the foundation for Voelz by promoting and selling the Beck Bible.

Waite, D. A., Jr. (2003) The “Doctored” New Testament. The Bible for Today Press.

Vance, Laurence M. (1993). A Brief History of English Bible Translations. 1993. GJ – Far more English translations have been published than most could imagine. The KJV remains dominant among those who read the Bible.

Vance, Laurence M. (1999). The Other Side of Calvinism. GJ – Vance collected and compared the many contradictions among the leading Calvinists, showing that TULIP falls apart upon close examination.

 

Greek New Testaments

H KAINH DIATHHKH – The New Testament, Textus Receptus, Trinitarian Bible Society. 1976.

The Greek New Testament. Fifth Revised Edition. (2020). Barbara Aland, Kurt Aland, Bruce Metzger, et al. 2020. GJ - This features the minority texts of Sinaiticus and Vaticanus, its fantasies almost the same as the Westcott-Hort, which was kept hidden in the 19^th century KJV revision. The Revision of was a disaster as an improved KJV, but the Westcott-Hort Greek text, which they conjured up from their theories, is now the Nestle-Aland, with few exceptions.

Stephanus edition, Majority Text. Greek New Testament. GJ – This is the text preserved in 5,000 or more examples from the Byzantine, Greek Christian Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, which continued after the Fall of Rome in 400 AD and continued until its doom in 1453, when the Ottoman Turks captured Constantinople. The overwhelming majority of all Greek New Testament texts is from the Apostolic Age, quite different from the handful of “oldest” examples from the self-promoting careers of Tischendorf, Westcott, and Hort.

Westcott Brook Foss, and Fenton John Anthony Hort. (1953). The New Testament in the Original Greek. Macmillan. GJ - These two frauds secretly printed a thousand Greek copies early for the KJV revisers, using their status to get the vast changes made based on Vaticanus, Sinaiticus, and their now-debunked text theories. Today’s Nestle-Aland is very much the Westcott-Hort but with a critical apparatus attached. The Westcott-Hort, which I own, has no justification below for their falsehoods, such as omitting “the Son of God” from Mark 1:1.

 

 

Trinitarian Bible Society Booklets, London

God Was Manifest in the Flesh, 1 Timothy 3:16

The Divine Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures

Dr. Kurt Aland, Textual Critic

The Greek New Testament

The Excellence of the Authorised Version

Why 1 John 5:7-8 Is in the Bible

Which Bible Version? Does It Really Matter?

A Textual Key to the New Testament – Omissions and Corrections

The Learned Men – The Translators of the KJV

The Authenticity of the Last Twelve Verses of St. Mark’s Gospel

How We Got the Bible

The Authorised Version – What Today’s Christian Needs To Know

More on Nutrition - The Panoply of Beans and Greens

 

I do not miss the old pattern of 10 pounds down, 15 pounds up. I can recall various comments from doctors over the years, but they did not move me in the right direction. Blood sugar and blood pressure encouraged me to change immediately, and we had a pristine copy of Fuhrman in our home library. 

I also owned a book from one of my MA students in education - on diabetes, plus additional diabetes books. The student's son almost died of type 1 diabetes and is now a healthy strong young man. Diabetes is more than a disorder - it is a constellation of many bad outcomes from high blood sugar. 

Fuhrman staggered me with the facts of greens and vegetables being so much better than sugar, white flour, high fat foods, and high salt snacks. In addition, nuts and fruits are a return to Eden. Instead of apple pie from Schwan, I have fresh crunchy apples from the store. I still eat some meat, but far less than before.

I like the Fuhrman emphasis on rare eating:

Fish - I already noped that.

Cheese - maybe once a week, too much salt. It is basically a fat product, but can be enjoyed in small amounts.

Milk products are fat products I never liked, except for ice and whipped cream, which are fatal temptations. 

I like the joke that tomatoes are the fourth stage of water, because I used to raise delicious tomatoes and eat them warm from the sun. Store tomatoes are little more than water, but tomato paste delivers flavor and super-nutrition at the same time but with a low cost.

Beans are satisfying but I do not like them alone. However, many canned varieties are tasty with a lot of vegetables. I often open a can of vegetable soup, add favorite vegetables (mushrooms, peas, mixed vegetables) plus nuts and flaxseed. 

A fellow bean convert suggested lima beans, which I have always loved. They also have to have super nutrition benefits. I will list them.

"One cup (170 grams) of cooked lima beans contains (1Trusted Source):

• Calories: 209
• Protein: 12 grams
• Fat: 0.5 grams
• Carbs: 40 grams
• Fiber: 9 grams
• Manganese: 92% of the daily value (DV)
• Copper: 58% of the DV
• Magnesium: 30% of the DV
• Iron: 23% of the DV
• Potassium: 21% of the DV
• Thiamin: 20% of the DV
• Vitamin C: 19% of the DV
• Vitamin B6: 19% of the DV
• Phosphorus: 18% of the DV

Lima beans are especially high in manganese, which acts as an antioxidant and plays a key role in metabolism (2Trusted Source).

They also provide a good amount of copper in each serving, which supports immune health and promotes brain function (3Trusted Source).

Plus, lima beans are rich in magnesium, a mineral your body needs for energy production and DNA synthesis (4Trusted Source)."

As others have said, multi-vitamins are good for supplementing food, but these simple, inexpensive foods are loaded with nutrition that lowers blood pressure, blood sugar, and increases the body's fight against various disorders - like cancer.

Someone can get a shopping basket worth of nutritional medicine simply from 

1. mounds of greens (like spinach), 
2. a variety of beans, 
3. walnuts and almonds, and
4. a number of fruits.

The miracle compounds sold at a high price and promising everything - they are derived rather selectively from vegetation. Instead, the beans and greens, nuts and fruits fill in more of our needs than we can get from fast food, snack food, and donuts.

New Covers for the New KJV Book. Thank You Norma A. Boeckler

The King James Version: 

Apostolic Texts, Precise Translation versus Fraudulent Texts and Heretical Translations

The entire book has been worked over, from start to finish, so it earned a new title - more information, fewer typos. 

There are two major divisions. Part One is all about the KJV, an appreciation of its grandeur, precision, and dominance in a field of squawking fakes, notably the Little Three - ESV, RSV, NIV - the first two owned (leased) by the radical National Council of Churches. "May God bless and keep the NCC far away from us."

Part Two reviews the information showing that Vaticanus and Sinaiticus were both hoaxes, not at all the "Oldest Bibles in the World." I have put together research showing that the Majority Text (KJV) is from the Apostles and the Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament is from Tischendorf, the Vatican, and Westcott-Hort - based on a handful of sources without a history and without "children."

Pastors and laity, if you do not know the seriousness of the modern Bible hoaxes, you are feeding poison to yourself and to others. The seminary professors are too busy drinking their booze and feeding their fat tummies to stand up for the truth.

Norma A. Boeckler was kind enough to design the covers today. She really enjoys fashioning book covers, which she has done for her own and others besides me. They are unique and beautiful.

 Norma A. Boeckler, Christian Artist and Writer

Sexagesima Sunday, 2022. Luke 8:4-15

Bethany Lutheran Church 

Sexagesima Sunday, 2022

Pastor Gregory L. Jackson

10 AM Central Standard Time

Bethany Lutheran Church, 10 AM Central Time

The Hymn #350               Jesus the Very Thought                      

The Confession of Sins
The Absolution
The Introit p. 16

Awake, why sleepest Thou, O Lord? 

Arise, cast us not off forever.

Wherefore hidest Thou Thy face: 

and forgettest our affliction?

Our soul is bowed down to the dust: 

arise for our help and redeem us.

Psalm. We have heard with our ears, O God: 

our fathers have told us what work 

Thou didst in their days.

The Gloria Patri
The Kyrie p. 17
The Gloria in Excelsis
The Salutation and Collect p. 19

O God, who seest that we put not our trust in anything that we do, mercifully grant that by Thy power we may be defended against all adversity; through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, 

who liveth, etc.

The Epistle and Gradual    

Let the nations know that Thy name is Jehovah: Thou alone art the Most High over all the earth.

V. O my God, make them like a wheel 

and like chaff before the wind.

Tract. Thou, O Lord, hast made the earth 

to tremble and hast broken it.

V. Heal the breaches thereof, for it shaketh.

V. That Thy beloved may be delivered, save with Thy right hand.

The Gospel              

Glory be to Thee, O Lord!
Praise be to Thee, O Christ!
The Nicene Creed p. 22
The Sermon Hymn # 339          All Hail the Power

 

The Seed Is the Word of God

The Hymn # 308                    Invited Lord                          

The Preface p. 24
The Sanctus p. 26
The Lord's Prayer p. 27
The Words of Institution
The Agnus Dei p. 28
The Nunc Dimittis p. 29
The Benediction p. 31
The Hymn #46       On What Has Now Been Sown

Prayers and Announcements

• Medical care - Norma Boeckler, Randy Anderson, Pastor Jim Shrader, Chris Shrader, Lito Cruz and Pastor K - diabetes.
• Children - Callie, seizures; C. therapy.
• Pastor Jackson's eyes: 20/20; 20/25.
• RESI training will finish this week, starting early.

Finishing the New Book - The King James Version: Apostolic Text, Precise Translation versus Fraudulent Text and Heretical Translations

 Norma A. Boeckler

2 Corinthians 11:19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.

20 For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.  21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.  22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.  23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool ) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.  24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.  25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;  26 In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen,in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;  27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.  28 Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.  29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?  30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.  31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.  32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:  33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands. 12:1 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.  2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.  3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)  4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.  5 Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.  6 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.  7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. 8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.  9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

By Norma Boeckler

KJV Luke 8:4 And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable:  5 A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.  6 And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.  7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.  8 And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. 9 And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?  10 And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand. 11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. 12 Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. 13 They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away. 14 And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. 15 But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

 Norma A. Boeckler designed the Bethany altar
and created this photograph of it.

The Seed Is the Word of God

Introductory

One of the most important lessons from Luther is the concise nature of the Spirit at work in the Word. That means that every phrase and nearly every Word has meaning, because God works efficaciously through His Word.

So people (or maybe pastors) grew bored with a one-year cycle of readings and followed the Vatican's example of a three- year cycle. No one thought Rome was an enemy of the Gospel - they have their people in all the top positions in Bible societies.

Repetition means we should examine these lessons closely, because that was intended, especially with the parables. One example is Luther's point that the seed is the Gospel alone - from Christ - because there are no weeds that grow in this parable. That has greater and greater meaning as we study this short parable. 

I can say with great confidence that hardly anyone understands or teaches this parable as intended, because we see all kinds of salesmen running around selling Unstuck programs, or phone programs, or fun-and-games-and-popcorn instead of worship. It is good that fools spend all their money on foolishness and end up with nothing of value. They are precisely and remorselessly described in this parable.

KJV Luke 8:4 And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable:

Vast throngs came to Jesus because of His healing miracles. They might have heard of other miracles (the wedding at Cana) but healing was clearly an attraction for everyone. Jesus spoke through parables, as Matthew and Mark say, because His Word was not for superficial people looking for the fad of the moment. 

It is so true today - "to see and not perceive, to hear and not understand," 

KJV Mark 4:10 And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable. 11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: 12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.13 And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?

The central point of this parable - the Seed is the Word of God. As Luther points out, this Seed is Gospel only because the parable only speaks of seed fruiting. Weeds do not grow useful fruit, only more of the same weed - ragweed, poke weed, hemlock, poison ivy, etc.

The Bible teaches us that the Seed is the Word of Christ, accompanied by the Holy Spirit. That means it is is good, useful, powerful, and effective all by itself. Man does not add to the Word or improve it. The purer the teaching, the more power it has. However, because the Word belongs to God alone, the Word is not our plaything, tool, or device needing ideas and false teachings from other religions and from destructive, false Christian teachers, who are more destructive than outsiders. 

Why hide His truths in parables? Because we also keep power tools, motors, and high voltage lines under lock and key. More than one child has caused harm from playing with them. I found a way to engage the clutch in my mother's car when I was alone in the front seat. I watched as a man ran along the downhill slope to get inside and stop it. 

Parables are so compelling because we can learn from them all the time. They are short enough to remember and mysterious enough that we have to be serious to understand them.

No one who gives away soft drinks, coffee, and popcorn before a worship service comprehends this parable. The very act of using food and entertainment is a repudiation of the Word. Why so ashamed of the Gospel and so enamored of food. 

All those using sociology to explain the Church today are blind to this parable. They bemoan empty churches but fail to see their Internet writings never touch on faith in Christ. No, they love demographics (an aging population), sociology (who still likes to go to church?), history (blaming people of the past and getting rid of traditional books and the Apostolic Majority Text (KJV). Sometimes, when tempted by one forum, I want to post something and realize they cannot deal with the Gospel. One group of Ovaltine drinkers ran like scalded dogs - away from my endorsement of the KJV.

5 A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it. 

This is living seed. The Word is imbued with life, just as plant seeds are. Even more today, food seeds are valuable and expensive because they are practical and ready to burst into germination.

The seed of the parable is the Gospel Word.

Luther:

2. The first class of disciples are those who hear the Word but neither understand nor esteem it. And these are not the mean people in the world, but the greatest, wisest and the most saintly, in short they are the greatest part of mankind; for Christ does not speak here of those who persecute the Word nor of those who fail to give their ear to it, but of those who hear it and are students of it, who also wish to be called true Christians and to live in Christian fellowship with Christians and are partakers of baptism and the Lord’s Supper. But they are of a carnal heart, and remain so, failing to appropriate the Word of God to themselves, it goes in one ear and out the other. Just like the seed along the wayside did not fall into the earth, but remained lying on the ground in the wayside, because the road was tramped hard by the feet of man and beast and it could not take root.

When people were looking at the Church Growth numbers, and denouncing others for not making membership charts, they were playing the role of the outwardly Christian leaders who had no faith. They can have a vast knowledge of Christianity and not believe. In fact, that makes them more attractive and college and seminary teachers and especially world religion professors in state schools (all ardent atheists, but very knowledgeable).

When I emphasize the efficacy of the Word (last chapter of Liberalism: Its Cause and Cure) using the concepts of this parable, two leaders in missions stood up to denounce me with all their might. They were joined by a future missionary to the Ukraine, who swore and flung my paper across several pews. That is when I decided it would be the last chapter of the book. When Liberalism was published by WELS, a meeting was organized to get rid of me in a surprise attack meeting.

So the parable is a perfect example of those who have an outward expression of Christianity but really hate the Gospel and can never be productive of the Gospel. When birds come across seed on shallow or packed soil, they quickly snatch it up and devour.

Satan attacks the Word through these skirmishes, which are artfully designed to uphold the impression of the Faith while undermining it. The use of modern "translations" based upon fraudulent texts (Sinaiticus, Vaticanus) is a good example of something outwardly good to most people but loaded with falsehoods from the anti-Christian Christian leaders of the 19th century KJV "revision." Hort loved "Mary religion" in his own words and partner Bishop Westcott combined Hinduism with Christianity. One day the entire world would be Christ incarnate in every person (Westcott).

6 And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.

This emphasizes the superficiality of making people excited over the Gospel without any depth to their knowledge or any suggestion of bearing the cross. If they are exuberant on a special positive, inspiring day and run into terrible difficulties soon after, joy fades and they turn to other amusements. 

People often give in because of opposition. Clergy get very discouraged because they try to do the right things and get hatred for it. In God's Creation, opposition is good for trees and plants. They even flourish because of storms and freezes. 

We have to remember this is God's Gospel Word, so it is always good and powerful, but it will meet opposition and outright persecution. 

7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it. 

I planted honeysuckle, which is loved in the South and often considered obnoxious in growth. I was warned. I said, "I hope so in the back yard." But another weed-like plant said, "This water is mine." and engulfed the supposedly fast growing honeysuckle and choked it with leaves surrounding and absorbing the sun's energy.

One could easily say (and be shouted down) that the pastor's job is only the Word, not serving the synod or organizing baseball or building a new, even larger chapel. All the seemingly worthwhile activities engulf the entire congregation so the least important area is the Means of Grace while imitations of secular fun take over.

8 And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

The nature of sowing means that the seeds, equal in life, take hold best in fertile soil and can even overwhelm other plants with their growth. (Buckwheat did that when I scattered them through the rose garden.)

So the briefest part of the descriptions is the plain truth. The Gospel Word will fall on good ground and increase beyond anyone's imagination. Although there are many ways in which the Word is opposed, hindered, and suffocated by bad alternatives, the power of the Gospel Word is shown in more than making up for the difficulties....

15 But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

Luther writes about hatred, opposition, and persecution. Wycliffe's body was burned after he died and his ashes thrown into the river in 1415. 

Tyndale was murdered, then burned in 1536. Luther knew of many Christians killed by the papacy - and the Word only grew faster, especially because few had heard of Justification by Faith - just as few hear it today.

The Mysteries

10 And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.

The term mystery is used here (and with Paul) to describe those spiritual truths which are only given to us through the Spirit in the Word. That encourages all kind of mockery because those blind to the mysteries will make fun of them and wonder about the intelligence and understanding of the believer. The mysteries include:

• The Holy Trinity 
• Creation
• God's grace
• The inerrancy of the Word and its perseverance
• The divinity, Virgin Birth, miracles, atoning death, resurrection and ascension of Christ.
• Forgiveness of sin through faith in Jesus Christ.
• Eternal life

Ministers are (1 Corinthians 4:1) "stewards [caretakers] of the mysteries of God" so they are obliged to teach the truth of the Scriptures, no matter what others may say, no matter how the supposed great men of the visible Church react against it.