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I am studying the text and translation issues as I finish the Walther book. I noticed a lot of references to "KJV-only," which is always a pejorative term. Any argument for the KJV is reduced to guilt by association - that KJV-only crowd. Ptui.
I have used a lot of translations for various reasons. I am a KJV-best proponent. I appreciate the KJV updates because of their emphasis on the correct text and precise translation principles. However, I like the KJV because it reminds the best of that group and does not change.
Readers may be somewhat aware that the attitude toward the New Testament text is Nestle-Aland-Only. That Greek text is not much different from the Hort-Wescott Greek, but is vastly different from the traditional text, often called the Textus Receptus.
The Nestle-Aland even brags about defeating the traditional text. And they have. No college, seminary, or denomination (with a few exceptions) will allow a King James Version to be used. The KJV has been delisted and no longer exists as an option - and that includes all modernized versions - New KJV, KJV21, Modern KJV, etc.
The WELS lazybones bought or leased a translation, changed a few words, and called it the WELS translation (Evangelical Heritage Version). It appears to use the traditional text. They could have picked the KJV or a modernized one to sell, but no - to prove their love of plagiarism, they touched up what was already done and called it theirs. I give papers like that a zero for academic dishonesty.
Showing up with a KJV is like going to a Cubs game wearing Cardinals gear! How could you even think of it? And yet, the KJV is based on the Tyndale, based on Luther's Bible. That is just one more indication that LCMS-WELS-ELS have jettisoned Luther for good.
If someone has a better translation of the original text, I am in favor, but not if the wording is changed for each edition.
The same applies to The Lutheran Hymnal, which could be improved in some areas. However, the "conservative" Lutherans keep making their hymnals worse and more Calvinistic.
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