KJV Hater James White - His Wiki Bio

 

 James White 

His ThM, Th.D. and D.Min. degrees from Columbia Evangelical Seminary (formerly Faraston Theological Seminary), an unaccredited online school.^[5][6][7] The legitimacy of White's academic credentials has been questioned.^[8]

The point of a real doctorate is to spend a lot of time studying, listening to lectures, and debating with fellow students on germane topics.

It is bad enough when people like Lawrence Otto Olson (D.Min. Fuller Seminary) pretend they have an earned doctorate when it is just a master's degree about a favorite fad, like Church Growth. I am glad that my work at Notre Dame and Yale helped me to ferret out the facts and learn how to put arguments together honestly.

Olson will not answer questions in his class unless he is addressed as "Dr. Olson." That is the state of the clergy today. However, it is better to have the background without the degree than to have the phony degree without any cause for it. 

Stan Hauerwas asked me what I wanted to do with a PhD. I said, "Write books and articles." He said, "You have to have a degree then. It is the union card for publishing."

Stan Hauerwas grew up as a bricklayer. He earned a number of degrees at Yale, including the PhD. He was let go at Augustana College, got a teaching job at Notre Dame, and moved on to Duke University. He was born in 1940.

Setting Up the Three Main Blog Pages

 

This blog has always covered many topics. Starting the Reformation Seminary, Arkansas, means we need to organize some posts separately. Posts will be posted here on Ichabod first and repeated in the separate areas, alphabetically. That will make it easy to find 

1. worship services, 
2. hymns from TLH, and 
3. the lessons at Reformation Seminary.

• The first one is Bethany Lutheran Worship for all worship posts and videos.
• The second one is Bethany The Lutheran Hymnal, for all hymns and hymn graphics.
• The third one is Reformation Seminary, Arkansas, under the link of Martin Chemnitz Friends.

Other links will be separate below those three. They will be listed by how new they are. That way, the newest post gets attention. I like promoting the blogs of others.

"It is about time to have a Reformation Seminary instead of Fuller Seminary, Willow Creek, and Trinity Divinity."

The Big Five Seminaries - ELCA-LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic) - They Teach Apostasy And Fight for Universalism

 

Walther's higher education training was limited to undergraduate school. CFS got his doctrine from a syphilitic Pietist. Valleskey got his training at Fuller Seminary, which he confessed to others but denied to the innocent. Both men are crypto-Universalists, insisting on universal forgiveness without faith.

That is not a minor matter, but the ultimate issue. The Chief Article of Christianity is Justification by Faith, not universal forgiveness at the cross, at the empty tomb, or the Garden of Eden after its corruption. Their confusion reveals their ignorance, because they cannot start with one false and ridiculous premise while leaving the Biblical truths alone.

People should take a close look at seminaries today, because they are quickly becoming expensive relics with increasing overhead and decreasing attendance. They teach the Bible, but which one? There is only one good Bible around - that is the King James Version. Lutherans should blush to think the Luther Bible and KJV are alike in their translations - in both cases prepared by faithful theological geniuses. 

The KJV is the only Bible the Big Five - ELCA-LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic) hate, despise, and reject. Some tolerate the New KJV, but that oddity changes as often as the weather report. None of the money-makers cite the KJV parallels in footnotes, because that would make their magic act fade away - the way a verse or phrase or word is there in one printing and gone in the next.

The greatest miracle ever is the Revised Standard Version dropping Isaiah 7:14 replacing "virgin" with  "young woman" down in the footnote - "or virgin" back up again in 7:14 only to have the young woman re-instated later in the text and "or virgin" footnoted once again.

Do not worry - the seminaries today are not going to damage sons and daughters with knowledge of the Bible, so they just go with downhill flow. Biblical languages were taught long ago at Gettysburg Seminary, where almost all the courses were Hebrew, Greek, and homiletics, with some German added. Biblical knowledge is not appreciated or taught today, fad theology is consumed because it is so simple for the simple-minded.

The fads vary somewhat. The LCMS-ELS fosters Roman Catholic worship, which is why Robert Preus wrote against it 30 years ago, Justification and Rome. The problem is worse, entering micro-synods with self-appointed micro-bishops. Must we wait for suffragen bishops next?

The Big Five - ELCA-LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic) - grovel before Fuller Seminary and its copycats, begging for a chance to taste and test the Church Growth Principles so highly regarded (by Fuller). 

Those who donate to their seminaries should first remember that Fuller Seminary is at the front of the line for loot. Thrivent Insurance is portrayed as a bonus for the Lutherans, but their niggling contributions are aimed at those synodicals with big salaries and small brains. The insurance company wants a direct line on all the members of the Big Five, a captive audience, easy targets because everything is Thrivent, Thrivent, Thrivent. Fuller speaks their language, which is business, business, business.

Thrivent pro-abortion? Of course. What else comes from Thrivent dollars?

Corrupt Bibles

Imagine this - all the current New Testament texts are based upon two fraudulent items - Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus. The evidence against both is staggering, but the radicals took over and gloated to have all the new paraphrased (not translated) Bibles suit their hatred of the Scriptures. Their logic is simple. The majority of all Greek New Testament texts are harmonious. That is why they are called the Traditional or Majority or Apostolic texts. The radicals are allergic to the divinity of Christ and faith in Him, so they ridicule the Majority.

The new theologians after WWII were hotter than Georgia asphalt for anything that belittled the Christian Faith. Karl Barth and Paul Tillich also set records in marital infidelity - so much the better for apostates and their seminary students. Everything traditional was questioned and ridiculed. Anyone can say, "Scholars are divided," which was old before the work of Thomas Aquinas began. Augustine published a book of his retractions, based on his change of doctrine over the years. When will seminary presidents apologize for teaching Church Growth and Bad Bogus Bibles?

The question remains, "What do we honor as the divine text? One that changes every few months?" Each modern effort must be bad, because they have to change their edition every few years or months. That is good for renewing the copyright and bank accounts.

Look around your synod. What is it like after 50 years, roughly the span of the toxic Church Growth Movement? 

• Has church become entertainment, with balding boomers strumming their guitars?
• Have the leaders become "excited" over the next effort to shrink the parish?
• Have they searched for vision, methods, and treats during the service?
• Are the synodicals hiding their red-tape Titanic Purple Palace, Love Shack, and Little School on the Prairie?
• ELCA started with a Chicago high rise for a big booming synod. What is left? 

Their CPAs must be groaning for the One Thing Needful - the Gospel itself - because nothing else has worked, except driving the faithful away. I have been arguing against these synodical trends for 30 years, only to have clergy howl with rage and say all kinds of nasty things.  

Daily Luther Sermon Quote - Palm Sunday - "You are Christians; you have Christ, and in him and through him all fullness of comfort for time and eternity: therefore nothing should appeal to your thought, your judgment, your pleasure, but that which was in the mind of Christ concerning you as the source of your welfare."

 

Complete Epistle Sermon Here

PALM SUNDAY


TEXT:

PHILIPPIANS 2:5-11. 5 Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men; 8 and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross. 9 Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and gave unto him the name which is above every name; 10 that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things on earth and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

CHRIST AN EXAMPLE OF LOVE.

1. Here Paul again presents to us as a powerful example of the celestial and eternal fire, the love of Christ, for the purpose of persuading us to exercise a loving concern for one another. The apostle employs fine words and precious admonitions, having perceived the indolence and negligence displayed by Christians in this matter of loving. For this the flesh is responsible. The flesh continually resists the willing spirit, seeking its own interest and causing sects and factions. Although a sermon on this same text went forth in my name a few years ago, entitled “The Twofold Righteousness,” the text was not exhausted; therefore we will now examine it word by word. “Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.”

2. You are Christians; you have Christ, and in him and through him all fullness of comfort for time and eternity: therefore nothing should appeal to your thought, your judgment, your pleasure, but that which was in the mind of Christ concerning you as the source of your welfare. For his motive throughout was not his own advantage; everything he did was done for your sake and in your interest. Let men therefore, in accord with his example, work every good thing for one another’s benefit. “Who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant.” [“Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God; but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant.”] 3. If Christ, who was true God by nature, has humbled himself to become servant of all, how much more should such action befit us who are of no worth, and are by nature children of sin, death and the devil! Were we similarly to humble ourselves, and even to go beyond Christ in humility — a thing, however, impossible — we should do nothing extraordinary. Our humility would still reek of sin in comparison with his. Suppose Christ to humble himself in the least degree — but a hair’s breadth, so to speak — below the most exalted angels; and suppose we were to humble ourselves to a position a thousand times more abased than that of the devils in hell; yet our humility would not compare in the least with that of Christ. For he is an infinite blessing — God himself — and we are but miserable creatures whose existence and life are not for one moment secure.

4. What terrible judgment must come upon those who fail to imitate the ineffable example of Christ; who do not humble themselves below their neighbors and serve them, but rather exalt themselves above them! Indeed, the example of Christ may well terrify the exalted, and those high in authority; and still more the self-exalted. Who would not shrink from occupying the uppermost seat and from lording it over others when he sees the Son of God humble and eliminate himself?

5. The phrase “form of God” does not receive the same interpretation from all. Some understand Paul to refer to the divine essence and nature in Christ; meaning that Christ, though true God, humbled himself. While Christ is indeed true God, Paul is not speaking here of his divine essence, which is concealed. The word he uses — “morphe,” or “forma” — he employs again where he tells of Christ taking upon himself the form of a servant. “Form of a servant” certainly cannot signify “essence of a real servant” — possessing by nature the qualities of a servant. For Christ is not our servant by nature; he has become our servant from good will and favor toward us. For the same reason “divine form” cannot properly mean “divine essence”; for divine essence is not visible, while the divine form was truly seen. Very well; then let us use the vernacular, and thus make the apostle’s meaning clear.

6. “Form of God,” then, means the assumption of a divine attitude and bearing, or the manifestation of divinity in port and presence; and this not privately, but before others, who witness such form and bearing. To speak in the clearest possible manner: Divine bearing and attitude are in evidence when one manifests in word and deed that which pertains peculiarly to God and suggests divinity. Accordingly, “the form of a servant” implies the assumption of the attitude and bearing of a servant in relation to others. It might be better to render “Morphe tu dulu,” by “the bearing of a servant,” that means, manners of such character that whoever sees the person must take him for a servant. This should make it clear that the passage in question does not refer to the manifestation of divinity or servility as such, but to the characteristics and the expression of the same. For, as previously stated, the essence is concealed, but its manifestation is public. The essence implies a condition, while its expression implies action.