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Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Will the Cowardly Calvinist News Review a Book about the Bible?

Will the Cowardly Calvinist News - aka Christian News - run away from this book too?

I routinely send cub editor Hale free review copies of my latest book, that is, multiple free copies. It is an ideal time to skip the laundry and learn something.

Readers can bet that The Bible Book: The KJV Reborn for Those Who Love the Word of God will go to Christian News, an enemy of the Chief Doctrine of Christianity.

The tabloid pretends to be Biblical and Lutheran, but such terms as

Justification by Faith,
Means of Grace, and
The efficacy of the Word

almost never appear.

Table of Contents

Dedication – Christina Ellenberger Jackson. 2

Appreciation. 3

Part One – Introductions. 11

Preface. 12

I. Autobiographical Academic Introduction. 15

The Cornerstone Is the Beginning. 19

One Truth, One Harmonious Doctrine. 22

One Teacher – The Holy Spirit 22

The Efficacy of the Word. 23

The Clarity of the Scriptures. 25

The Spirit Never Exhausts Our Knowledge. 26

Old Testament - The Torah, Prophets, and Writings. 27

Exodus. 29

Scholars Are Divided - The Prophets. 31

The Two Natures of Christ – Divine and Human. 32

The Forerunner and the Uniting Shepherd Theme. 36

The Writings. 38

The Psalms. 38

Abraham in the New Testament 40

John 8. 40

Matthew.. 42

Luke. 43

Zacharias – “His name is John.”. 43

Children from Stones. 43

Daughter of Abraham - Luke 13:16. 44

Luke 16 – Jesus Parable of Lazarus, the Rich Man, and Father Abraham.. 44

Luke 19 – Little Zacchaeus. 46

Abraham in Galatians and Romans. 46

Abraham in Romans – Faith Is Access to Grace. 47

Chapter 3. 48

Chapter 4. 48

Romans 5, The Summary of Romans 4. 50

Abraham in Hebrews. 50

The Faith Chapter , Hebrews 11. 52

Abraham in James. 53

Silencing the Mouths of Rationalists and Apostates. 53

The Bible Dropping Down from Heaven. 53

I Agree with Paul and John about the Virgin Birth. 54

Paul and the Virgin Birth. 54

John and the Virgin Birth. 55

The Holy Trinity. 55

The History of the Bible. 57

Most of History Is Lost 57

Old Testament 57

Alexander the Great’s Universal Language. 58

The Septuagint and the Subsequent Loss of Greek. 58

The Ottoman Empire. 59

The Old Latin Version and Jerome’s Vulgate - Apocrypha. 60

The Waldensians – Pre-Reformation Gospel 61

Waldenses Bible. 62

Erasmus – The Reformer Who Stayed in the Church. 62

One Reformation, One Evangelical and Protestant Church. 65

Luther, the Holy Spirit and the Word. 67

Isaiah 55. 67

Luther’s Publications Mortally Wounded the Church of Rome. 70

Luther, Melanchthon, and the Concordists. 70

Zwingli and Calvin, Alienation from the Word/Spirit Connection. 72

Tyndale Perfected in English What Luther Created in German. 74

Tyndale in Print 76

The KJV Editors and Translators – Seven Year Miracle. 78

The KJV Teams. 79

From Luther to Tyndale to the King James Version. 80

Teach All Nations, Matthew 28:19-20. 80

Stephanus, Majority Text. 80

Luther, 1545 Bible. 80

KJV, 1611. 80

NIV 2011. 81

1 Corinthians 10:16. 81

Stephanus Majority Text 81

Luther Bible 1545. 81

KJV, 1611. 81

NIV 2011. 81

Romans 3: 22-23. 82

Stephanus Majority Text 82

King James, 1611. 82

The Old NIV, 1989. 82

NIV 2011. 82

Text Criticism – Called Lower Criticism – Led to Higher Criticism – The Meaning of the Word. 83

III. Christian Faith and the Greek Text Problem.. 86

Two Biblical Views. 86

IV. Books and Authors for Text and Translation Research, Laity and Pastors Alike. 88

Edward Freer Hills. 88

Dean John William Burgon (1813-1888) 89

Jack Moorman. 90

Gail Anne Riplinger 90

Kurt Aland and Barbara Aland. 90

Alexander McClure. 91

VI. Unbelievable Biblical Text Rules. 92

The Text Editing Rules – in English. 92

Westcott-Hort Quotations from Christian Forums. 96

Concerning the Deity of Christ: 96

Concerning the Scriptures: 96

Concerning Hell: 97

Concerning Creation. 97

Concerning the Atonement: 97

Concerning Man: 98

Concerning Roman Catholicism: 98

Concerning the Cumulative Effect of Multiple Changes to the Manuscripts: 98

V. Westcott-Hort’s Use of Tischendorf Became Nestle-Aland’s Standard Text 100

The Peabody Head Fake Codices, Sinaiticus and Vaticanus – Nida the Dynamic Translator 102

VI. Examples of Abandoning the Traditional Text of the King James Version. 103

Edward Hills, The KJV Defended. 103

The Ending of the Lord’s Prayer, Matthew 6:13. 104

Mark 1:1 – “the Son of God” removed. 104

The Woman Taken in Adultery, John 7:53-8:11. 105

VI. Eugene Nida United the Roman Catholics and Protestants with Bad Paraphrases Called Dynamic Equivalence Translation. 106

Nida’s Physical Collapse – The Beginning of Unified Paraphrasing. 107

VII. The Joy and Fruit of Ecumenism – Nida’s Acquired Doctrinal Indifference, Hort-Westcott’s Bad Text, Roman Catholic Unequal Partners in Dynamic Equivalence. 109

The Union of Bible Societies and Roman Catholicism.. 111

The Roman Catholic Experience. 112

Today’s English Version – Good News for Modern Man – Bad News for the Bible. 113

Eugene Nida United Protestants and Roman Catholics. 115

VIII. Undermining from within Works So Much Better Than Direct Attacks from Outside. 119

Essential Books for the Christian Library. 121

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Weeds and False Teachings Are Alike.
Pan-Lutheran Association of Nonbelievers

This statement seemed almost harmless when it was published, even before syphilitic Stephan and opportunist Walther landed in New Orleans. But it comes from a Pietist and explained by a Calvinist. Many careers and businesses arose from this modest start. Ask Fuller. Ask Purpose-Driven Rick Warren. Ask Willow Creek's Hybels. Ask Schuller at his Cathedral (now Papal). Ask Waldo Werning, LCMS, and WELS. They mined the fool's gold and almost got away with it. There is one Judge who will examine their treasures and announce His verdict.

I have constantly enriched the soil since we moved here in 2011. I have added red wiggler earthworms, countless bags of tree leaves, wood mulch, straw, hay, peat humus (manure in disguise), dead weeds and grass, and the roots of anything that will help fertilize.

Fifty pages of drivel were devoted to an attack on the efficacious Word, the Chief Article, and the Book of Concord.

Some plants will always be spectacular, while others respond to the most agreeable seasons, like this one promoting the blooms of roses and giving little foothold for the Japanese beetles (so far).

No matter what, weeds will always prosper, in neglect but even more with cultivation - grabbing the organic matter for its own growth. Weeds burst into growth with long rainfalls, but also rise above the parched blooms with the energy to take over, crowd out, and steal the sun, generously spreading its seeds or roots or runners - or even a combination of the two - all for the purpose of their own growth. Digging and churning the soil (if one can afford a rototiller) will slice up roots and worms, but expose vast amounts of weed seeds to the life-giving sun.

Waldo Werning was the punisher who attacked anyone who questioned his Church Growth copycat business. Like Valleskey and Bivens, he did or did not go to Fuller Seminary. Waldo's doctorate was every bit as valid as Larry Olson's.

As I worked among the weeds and flowers this week, I thought about how much false teachings are like weeds. Proper identification matters. For instance, if synods like the WELS-LCMS-ELS-CLC view Justification by Faith as evil, they will do their best to stomp the Chief Article of Christianity out. They are like Mrs. Ichabod's uncle, who thought the strange roots of asparagus were a dangerous evasive weed, so he tore them out.

I said to Valleskey (Fuller Alumnus) and the Ohio Conference, "The Israelites took the gold, silver, and precious gems when they spoiled the Egyptians - not the garbage." He frowned. Privately he told someone that he went to that meeting to deliver a hit on me with his idiotic paper. Face-to-face, he was a scared rabbit.

Some never learn the truth in the realm of false doctrines. They lurch drunkenly from one fatal fad to another. I watched one green stalk of magnificence grow to six feet in the back garden. I finally identified it as a perfect example of Hemlock, poisonous and impossible to counter. It had good qualities (like false teachers) and hosted a battalion of lady bug babies on its budding flowers. Almost Eden said, "That's OK. Just don't eat it. How often do you have lady bugs young'ens?" A fireman dousing a fire looked over the fence and glared at it, trying to figure if a pot farm was starting out. I cut the Hemlock down at the base and tossed it into the garbage can, even though it was the best looking plant at the time.

Next the blackberries crept around the corner of the house and gradually took over the entire garden, once cleared for Silver Queen sweet corn (aka squirrel food when ripe). I thought they would be a terrible mess to removed, but it only took two efforts to clear them down to the soil level. They were not as mighty as they pretend, making the whole garden alive with white blossoms (so attractive) and alive with bees (always good). Once removed, they revealed the garden's surface - almost nothing else growing there. They were so greedy for soil and sunshine that they blocked the sun like mulch with their arching growth, planting extensions of themselves wherever the mower was silent and the gardener slow to act.

False doctrines are like weeds. Many seem tiny and harmless at first, but grow one way or another. One gardening expert planted an "easy to grow" plant and has to pull it out every year.

Church Growth, Objective Justification, and bad translations of the Bible go hand-in-hand. The three trends rely on the efficacious being dead and useless, unless we make it germane, appealing, and relevant - such as the campaign promising people they will have more friends if they go to church.

LCMS has to improve - this was rock bottom.

Now these weedy trends are so well established that the Church Growth Stars can easily remove anyone who objects. The truth-teller is the weed, in the eye of the salesmen.

Spurgeon certainly saw the future of WELS-ELS-LCMS-CLC.

At the Editor's - The Bible Book: The KJV Reborn for Those Who Love the Word of God

I sent The Bible Book to our gifted finishing editor, Janie Sullivan - yesterday. She is already working on it this morning. She is familiar with my shortcomings, so she sandpapers the rough places so we get a book with the looks of one from the big publishing houses. Not only that, but Norma A. Boeckler always gives the book a special artistic flair, from the covers to the extra graphics - our modern stained glass windows.

Virginia Roberts was eager to edit the final version and adjust the final details, without the qualms and delays of the author. I can spot my own errors easily - after they are in print.

Janie Sullivan does exactly what I need in finishing the book.

I was mollified to learn how many typos were in the first King James Version. The Wicked Bible is known for the printers leaving "not" out of the Sixth Commandment. Originals are rare and expensive.

Virginia Roberts loves to find fault with my typos.
She is also a good indicator of what is worthwhile in a Lutheran book.

Westcott-Hort raged against the Majority (Stephanus) text, also called the Received Text. After 140 years - when the duo posted their barbaric, dishonest Greek New Testament, which is now "The Standard Text" (Kurt Aland), the KJV is still the dominant Bible read, far exceeding the NIV and ESV.

These are a few of the 110, inexpensive print editions from Alec Satin - The Lutheran Librarian, plus 275 online books - The Lutheran Library - provided for free.