All footnotes in the modern translations insert rationalistic apostasy, such as "explaining" the Virgin Birth in Isaiah 7 - "or young woman." Now that is a big Sign from Heaven, a young woman will have a baby.
The footnotes allow that the verse they have cut out of the New Testament can be found in manuscripts, just not in their favorites, which have a dubious history, to say the least. Tischendorf was the Sandy Burger (Burgler) of an earlier age.
They learned. When someone commits a grand outrage - such as the RSV translation removing the Virgin Birth from Isaiah 7:11 - people remember and resist. But pick away, a little at a time, without disturbing any dreams or illusions, and they accept it - even make it normative.
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| Remember the hot WELS discussion about the New NIV? Only one district president spoke against it. That was the blowing off steam meeting, and it worked as planned. The next time, no one objected, and Mirthless Mark Schroeder - who supposedly hated the NIV - blessed all translations. Seifert never objected to the NIV or anything else - except the Intrepid Lutherans. |