The new plan is starting with the Bible:
Old Testament - Law, Prophets, and the Writings
New Testament.
Next will be the path from the Medieval Bible to Luther's, The Tyndale from Luther, and the KJV from the Tyndale-Luther.
I am planning an edifying essay about the Bible and the KJV in particular before starting the second part. That second part has been roughed out and posted here as the fraudulent text claims from Tischendorf, Wescott and Hort, which set the stage for the Historical-Critical Method. The evil fruit from the corrupt tree of unbelief includes:
- The RSV
- The NIV
- Good News or TEV
- The ESV
- The copy and paste EHV
- The Living and New Living Bibles
- Amplified Bibles
- Concordia Publishing House - Seminex Disinterred
The second part is infuriating and depressing, so people can skip that or use it to realize how special the KJV is, text and translation.
The Turning Point
If people do not understand and believe this turning point, they do not comprehend the message of the Bible.
The Bible is not only inspired and inerrant, which most traditional Christians would allow, but it is also never without the power of the Holy Spirit. That means every verse of the Bible is efficacious or effective in accomplishing the will of God.
There are many proofs of this, but the clearest and most powerful is Isaiah 55.
KJV Isaiah 55: 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Now that spring is arriving, people are especially aware of the power of rain and snow-melt to water the earth with usable nitrogen, the foundation of plant life. Rain and snow always have a powerful effect on the landscape, and many crops sown early pop out of the snow to begin their growth in the sun without many pests.
The cycle of rain and snow shows that growth is inevitable. No matter how scientific we pretend to be, God's Creation gives us seed for farmer and bread for the dinner table.
This is a comparison which allows no exceptions - like many in the Bible.
The verses mean that God's Word is always accompanied by the Holy Spirit, and the Spirit always works exclusively through the Word.
I first learned this when going through dozens of Old Testament books, especially ones on rabbinic lore. This is the message of the entire Bible, from Creation on, Old Testament and New Testament.
The Lutheran Reformation (actually the only Reformation) taught this when God gathered an unusual group of scholars at Wittenberg for translating and teaching the Scriptures.
This was foreign to the papacy and still is.
Zwingli and Calvin rejected the efficacy of the Word. That is why they inevitably turn to rationalism and Unitarianism.
Pentecostals, not unlike the Catholics, have an ever-growing canon, because every dream and notion and dogma is from God - but without the Word. Pentecostals seem to have lost the thrill of tongue-speaking, so they are more like the Baptists.
Baptists who teach the inerrancy of the Word and avoid the double-predestination of Calvin are the closest to the Reformation.
Religions of the world that borrow the Scriptures dishonestly are in the same category of Enthusiasm, a term used by Luther to describe those who do not teach the Word/Holy Spirit connection. Enthusiasm is any kind of religion that divorces the Spirit from the Word; for instance, when the Pope declares a new dogma infallibly or when the LCMS-ELS-WELS says Objective Justification is true because they teach it at their dying seminaries.
