Today I was thinking about books - they arrive faster than I can read, and I have a backlog of favorite books I could read again. I thought of the boxed edition of The Byzantine Empire, by John Julius Norwich, fascinating and appealing in every way. However, I gave it for Christmas to someone equally a bookworm. I read the volumes twice already.
I will read Moby Dick another time in the future, just because it is the gold standard of novels, fun, full of information, and loaded with droll observations. I didn't give it away? I gave it away at least five times and got it again, because "used" copies of it float along the used book market. Like The Pilgrim's Progress, I can get it for a bargain.
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| Walther gladly followed Bishop Martin Stephan, STD, until CFW had a chance to steal Stephan's land, gold, books, house, and personal possessions. The Great Walther was a great thief, liar, and kidnapper - his niece and nephew. |
When I think about books to read at this stage in life, I start with the only one where God is speaking directly, inerrantly, and efficaciously. Moreover, the beautiful language of the KJV is clear and powerful. The book buskers have weaned several generations of Bible readers away from the KJV because of the profiteers' lust for the loot grabbed by their uninspired, tawdry paraphrases: ESV, RSV, NRSV, NIV and Beck.
Is not the wisest of all books the only one where God speaks to us directly? I have nixed several hundred articles with evidence about the synods, sects, and diocesan costume parties. Why? Because they simply keep repeating their corruption through osmosis, moving from one location to another, without much difference. The semi-permeable membrane is called "moving to a better synod." Excuse me. I have to stop for a few minutes to stop laughing.
Church history is fascinating but too much like a bag of Fritos - hard to stop after the first few crunches, but utterly lacking in nutrition. Objective (faithless) Justification has been taught by all the synods and the high Roman church with great pleasure by the leaders and their Grima Wormtongues. The best counter to the anti-Gospel Universalism of the day is the KJV.
Yes, little children can read the KJV. We translate words for children all the time, and their teen elders explain new words to parents and grandparents, without trying to halt the ever-changing English language.
I was amused in reading the Psalms by the claim we cannot understand the KJV. In a Psalm about evil people, two words were as clear as could be - "aha aha" and "wink." Aha, aha is used in a popular German rock song, called "Da, da, da" - an earworm of the worst kind.
KJV Psalm 35:19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
KJV Psalm 35: 20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land. 21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
The wink is used when people are sharing a lie together. I have seen that wink in solemn church conferences and doctors' offices.
We do not harm people by using the KJV, but we damage the transmission of the Gospel by using the corrupted Greek New Testament promoted by the fraudulent deceiver Count Tischendorf, the anti-Christian Westcott-Hort team, and the German apostate Kurt Aland. Professor Beck followed the same blind alleys and is still making money for the Otten Foundation.
The Jewish scholars were and are fanatical about the transmission of the Old Testament. Do Christians really believe that God allowed the Greek New Testament to be so utterly lost that Billy Graham could stupidly say, "The originals are lost, so we no longer have the original Gospel"?
Was God so lax with the ultimate revelation of the New Testament that he let heretics confuse, muddle, and betray the 27 books from the Apostles? "Heaven and earth will pass away, but My Word will never pass away."
KJV Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Those who whine when bemoaning the loss of the true New Testament are just like the Mormons, lying to lead everyone down their own cultish dark path.
