Here Is a Lesson for Everyone - A Book - The Book of Books - The KJV for Everyone at Every Age

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.

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.

Reporters and Researchers Are Stepping Up and Catching Up

You wondered what happened to your hippie nephew? 

I find a lot of news on the collapse of the mainline denominations, not just the radical Left National Council of Churches - home of the RSV, NRSV, and ESV - but also semi-hemi-quasi-conservative groups (LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC).

The Midwestern Lutherans thought they would grow from people fleeing the ELCA. However, the ELCA began with 5.3 million members in 1987 and dropped to under 3 million today, without donating members to the Midwestern synods, who were eagerly copying ELCA in every way. That might be a reason.

The LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC went ga-ga for Fuller's Church Growth toxins, which were eagerly promoted also by ELCA. I remember one WELS leader talking about the ELCA leaders he knew quite well, not exactly the icy and threatening Left Foot of Fellowship advertised by WELS. Through Fuller and Thrivent, all these men and women worked together on the same identical, anti-Christian ideas. To be fair, it was leftover Calvinism and mendacious marketing, but that always leads to rejection of the Scriptures and the efficacy of the Word.

The Midwestern attempts to have newer, bigger, more Calvinistic hymnals has been a ruse to sell more books and make some money.

The Midwestern Lutherans also reject the KJV and embrace the RSV, ESV, NRSV, and NIV - the Evil Four. I laugh when people offer up the ESV as an improvement over the NIV. That is like choosing a better and more nutricious slice of roadkill for supper.

Nothing in the works is going to help the Lutheran synods. Their corporate leadership is corrupt, dishonest, and always eager to cover up crimes. The intellectual (sic) leaders are antagonistic toward the Lutheran Reformation, the KJV, and Biblical doctrine.

B16 ached to wear the papal tiara, the symbol of his power over all nations - at least in his mind. Many Lutheran leaders fashion themselves as popes or mini-popes: infallible, all-powerful, humorless.

The Three Stooges of Text and Translation Paraphrasing aka Dynamic Equivalence

 

The Three Stooges - explained in the post below - being startled by the KJV and Justification by Faith.

The issue is more important than Martin Luther and all the theologians and scholars. The only revelation of God is the Old and New Testaments, each one so intertwined with the other that they are truly one divine unit, the Book of the Holy Spirit.

Billy Graham made a terrible mistake when he caviled with "inerrancy of the original manuscripts, which we no longer have." A second or two of discussion might have reminded him about the extreme care given by the rabbis in counting every word and letter of the original Hebrew text before the copies could be certified as accurate. 

The LCMS-WELS-ELS Stooges might consider the 5,000 witnesses of the Majority Text (Apostolic, Traditional, or Byzantine Text) versus Codex Sinaiticus (fraud) or Codex Vaticanus (the newer Latin copied into Greek to harmonize two factions). 

The Nestle-Aland-Stooge Greek New Testament is nothing more than the intellectual belches of Wescott and Hort, two anti-Christian crackpots who invented a bunch of rules which have proven to be utterly worthless. 

The Evil Four paraphrases are -

• RSV  - National Council of Churches license
• ESV  - National Council of Churches license
• NRSV - National Council of Churches license
• NIV  - Murdoch, then other profiteers.

The Three Stooges love the Nestle-Aland Stooge Greek New Testament because they follow the Left-Wing apostates from ELCA, the Episcopalians, the Unitarians, the Roman Catholics, and the rest.

The King James Version is excellent in its use of trustworthy copies and its steadfast handling of the English language. The Evil Four do not agree with each other and keep changing their own paraphrases.

All of the information above proves the foolishness and ignorance of the Three Synodical Stooges. God promised to guard His Word, and Jesus said, "Heaven and earth may pass away, but My Word will never pass away." Matthew 24:35

Moreover, the Scriptures are effective, but the Calvinistic and Roman Catholic minds do not accept the efficacy, clarity, and inerrancy of the Sacred Scriptures. In their Unitarian blasphemy, the synods give some credit to the Bible for raising cash but repudiate its message with unseemly sloppiness and juvenile slogans.

Note that the engorged and bloated dogmatics books show a lot of love for each other but little for the Scriptures. ELCA's dogma - so bad they try to deny it - is Braaten-Jenson. That travesty is no better or worse than Franz Goober Pieper, who was clawed into power by the Great Walther Himself. 

Types of KJV Bibles To Own - The Cost Is Often in the Leather Cover

 

Most KJVs are double column on each page. Several KJVs are single column on each page.

Some are KJV Thompson Chain Reference, which was the only KJV TCR at the beginning. I do not recommend anything else than KJV. The TCR is the work of several men and has value as a Bible-plus-concordance (word studies) put together.

Super Giant Print is the largest font - the one I use on the lectern.

Giant Print is large but by no means giant. 

Some Bibles are smaller so the fonts are smaller and compact. That kind is more portable but less readable for us older readers.

Bible covers have a great impact on the cost of a Bible.

I have not checked all of these changes, but this points out the basic fact there is a NKJV bridge to the modern Bibles but no modern Bible (the Evil Four) bridge to the KJV.

The seriously corrupted modern Bibles are:

1. NIV
2. ESV - Leftist National Council of Churches
3. RSV - Leftist National Council of Churches
4. NRSV - Leftist National Council of Churches

The Beck and the EHV are jokes, but nobody is laughing.

The New Bibles Are Not For You - Those Post-Modern Paraphrases Are For Them!

 Ordination - aren't we having fun?

 The Lutheran leaders, ELCA and ELCiC are seated. The previous Episcopal Bishops of Canada and the US are standing.

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 WELS used this snip-and-clip Bible graphic to warn people against their own policy of promoting and requiring the odious new NIV, the worst paraphrase to use. Sure, there are others worthy of projectile vomiting, but they do not have the marketing horsepower to sell them on a major scale. The KJV and its cousins clobber the NIV, the Marxist-Woke RSV, NRSV, and ESV put together. And you trust those leaders? Ha.

 

 We teach forgiveness without faith - it is in Romans. At least, it is now.

Let's get one thing straight. The Bibles being forced on denominations, colleges, and seminaries are not sold because people are clamoring for new chock-full-of-holes paraphrases. 

A new Bible sold on a large scale is a license to print money. The awesome, cool array of Youth Bibles, Women's Study Bibles, and Holy Spirit Bibles are almost 100% cash for the publishers and those who kiss up to them - the denominations, colleges, and seminaries.

As a micro-mini non-profit publisher, I can say this - five thousand Bibles cost a bit more to print than a thousand - or five hundred. Once those presses get going, a book costs no more than its paper and ink.

Those Bibles are the cereal aisle of the supermarket - rainbow colors, variations, sizes, packaging, and graphics to make the younglings break out into tantrums to get them - but still junk.

The only way to make this happen is to entice and bribe the decision-makers. I recall John Jeske, father of Mark and Avoid Jeske, bragging about his free trip to Israel for supporting the old NIV. Who knows what else is given away to keep the denominational officers and professors mellow, happy, and purring like the cat who found the cream?

The denominational leaders will deny their corruption, but the evidence is there to admire or loathe. 

Forcing horrible butchered Bibles on all the denominations is simply one aspect of Romanism and apostasy being injected into the membership and clergy.

The clergy are too ignorant to argue for or against Bible translations, especially the Greek New Testament text. Someone is selling his collection of Greek New Testament texts and books on Facebook - $225. The entire collection promotes Westcott-Hort, Nestle-Aland, and the modern apostates: not one suggestion about the KJV or Majority Text.

The Majority (Traditional, Byzantine) Text of the New Testament - The Vast Emptiness of Lutheran Biblical "Scholars"

 

A new line of jewelry is designed for women who love the KJV, featuring: Shunned, Avoided, Pitied, Misrepresented, Accused, and Disputed. An enemy at the factory produced Faithful until he was caught and the supply hidden away.

The all embracing argument against the Majority (or Traditional or Byzantine) text is simple but a deliberate stink bomb - "We have the earliest, best, and most scientific texts of the New Testament in Sinaiticus - Aleph, and Vaticanus - B. 

"A hit! A palpable hit! Not as deep as a well nor as wide as a barn-door, but twill do, twill do." (Shakespeare, Hamlet, paraphrased)

Facts -

Sinaiticus was "discovered" by Count Tischendorf, its revealing choked with ridiculous claims of being doomed for the trash or fire or both. But it looked brand new when first viewed by others, later partially darkened  by the acid of lemons, perhaps. A 1500 year old skin (parchment) does not look white and perfect. David Daniels considers Sinaiticus a forgery, offering a lot of evidence for that claim.

Vaticanus was also used by Tischendorf to claim glory for finding and revealing the "two earliest" witnesses of the New Testament. Considering the animosity of the Church of Rome in regards to the Bible, a solo codex very much different from Sinaiticus, could easily be a production of the papacy to undermine the Gospel. 

The Majority Text is witnessed in thousands of examples, about 95% of the total. Very important - the distinctive Majority Text was quoted verbatim by the earliest Christian writers, which means the KJV text was there at the beginning, carefully copied and preserved in many different ways, such as citations in the early Church Fathers.

The NIV, ESV, and New KJV are tainted by the eclectic touch, the supposed background text really being a hodge-podge of whatever the editors chose. So - "their brilliant new scientific and very early text of the New Testament" only exists in their darkened minds. They have sliced out many words, verses, and sections of the New Testament, claiming "oldest and best" but offering "fraud and make believe."

The New KJV, always changing, offers footnotes to the Nestle Aland, which is like saying in many places, "The world is round." footnote "But the newest scholars say - flat."