Reaction to the Analysis of the ESV versus the KJV. ELDONA Love the ESV

 Here is the ESV compared to the KJV.

Truth will out. UOJ and bad translations and the practical denial of the means of grace are all completely anti-Lutheran. The grassroots is realizing the truth and the pushers of the falsehoods are beginning to scurry for cover.

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Thanks Pastor Jackson for posting that ESV article. Shows that the ESV is even worse than I could have possibly imagined. And this "man of dust" rendering: can anybody really read that without laughing? Ridiculous! Such translation buffoonery of God's Holy Word does it a disservice and needs to be called out and deplored. Regards,

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Thank you for the recent posts (Lutheran vrs. Reformed), King James Bible etc.  The posts have answered questions I was having

God bless!

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 I always thought that people would respect God enough not to mess with the text, but I guess most do not, to their own judgement.

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Can you send me this as a pdf. file? Would like to print it and share it.

Typhoon Strikes the Philippines - Evacuations and Power Outages

The Bethany Lutheran Mission does not have a typhoon proof roof. We are donating toward a permanent one, which can be built once the roof fund reaches $2,000.

https://weather.com/news/news/2019-12-03-philippines-typhoon-kammuri-death-toll-damage

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/world/asia/philippines-typhoon-tisoy-kammuri.html

"Manila airport was ordered shut for 12 hours and nearly 500 flights were canceled. Officials suspended marine traffic in affected areas as Kammuri, packing wind gusts as high as 150 miles per hour, battered the Philippine archipelago for a second day."

GJ - I discussed the typhoon with Pastor Palangyos today, via Facebook instant-messaging. Several new gifts have been sent.

Update from Pastor Palangyos - the typhoon has passed by and the sun is shining. 

 The resourceful members have already established a location and a permanent first floor. The temporary roof gives them shelter in moderate weather.

Professor Loy - Columbus, Ohio - On the Chief Article

In this paragraph, Prof. Loy is introducing his discussion of Article IV of the Augsburg Confession:

This fourth article of our Confession sets forth in words of admirable simplicity the doctrine of the Gospel which lay at the foundation of the whole glorious work of the Reformation, and which Luther rightly pronounced the article of a standing or a falling Church, meaning that this truth of the sinner’s justification by faith is the final test of the Christian Church, the departure from which would indicate its fall from grace and from Christ and thus manifest its apostasy from the truth which our Lord revealed and to which He came as the King of Zion to bear witness. Our teachers have accordingly always insisted upon this as the criterion of evangelical fidelity, and refused fellowship with any Church or party that denied, or even ignored, the fundamental import of this precious truth. How could they do otherwise, seeing that this doctrine involves the whole counsel of God for the salvation of all men, whom sin has brought under condemnation and for whom no salvation is possible save through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus. The entire cause of Christianity depends on the maintenance of this article in its evangelical purity.

From From Loy, Matthias. The Augsburg confession: An Introduction To Its Study And An Exposition Of Its Contents Columbus, Ohio: Lutheran Book Concern, 1908.