KJV 17:11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
The second edition has a lot of new material because a number of people (no pastors) sent recommendations for additional study. A great source - Pickering - I have used that author a lot.
One person sent (in a plastic bag) Which Bible? The author (Davis Otis Fuller) has two other books out there, and I just ordered one of them. I bought a newer copy of Which Bible? but thought about how much reading caused it to lose its binding entirely.
Such are the rare books that comprehend the issues concerning the modern text critics and the bad paraphrases promoted as translations (a big raspberry to Eugene Nida).
As others have stated, almost the entire Evangelical establishment has gone over to the NIV-ESV-RSV side, which removes (not in unison) many verses from the New Testament. Many more verses are deliberately distorted, though one again - not in agreement. The true ending of Mark has gone up and down like creaky old elevator in a decaying library.
"It's in the sub-basement."
"It's back in Mark 16, with a big space and a vague claim that it does not belong there."
"It was sent back with a little known shorter ending of Mark, which proves that the short ending cried out for a good ending." (Really?)
I laugh about the "conservative" Lutherans who have made a big deal about being in a state of confession, in statu confessionis - for those who took Latin 101. They bought the new Bibles and sold the new hymnals, and now they are closing congregations right and left. Sect President Mark Schroeder, who caved on the New NIV in WELS, wrote a three-hanky weeper about a parish in Milwaukee that lasted about 60 years, leaving its assets to the same sect that abandoned the marks of Lutheran doctrine. Why not donate the liquidation money directly to Fuller Seminary?
Seminarians and college students bent on wasting $80,000 on a liberal Calvinist education - look at that Greek New Testament they sell, promote, and defend. Calm down - I have one too. But I also have a Westcott-Hot* and a Byzantine (Stephanos). *Hot is the new designation for Hort, since he was hotter than Georgia asphalt for every ridiculous corruption in the fraudulent codices from Rome and Eastern Orthodoxy.
The late Kurt Aland, the genius behind your precious college and seminary Greek New Testament, denied the apostolic origin of the New Testament. His second wife took over his empire, so I doubt that their institute will change direction. Eugene Nida was involved in the texts too, always on the wrong side of everything.
I know some quasi-Lutheran readers are secret papists, longing for union with Rome, willing to throw their arms on the chest of Pope Francis, SJ, weeping, hoping that the terms of reconciliation will be merciful. Most people do not realize that Rome has been a part of the American Bible Society and the United Bible Societies for the longest time. They have no use for the KJV, but they have nothing but warmth for Rome being happy with their joint efforts. "2000 years of grace, as the Holy Father says, chuckling."
The various Lutheran groups, whether ELCA or ELDONA, are burdened by those who cling to Rome and Eastern Orthodoxy, thanks to warped seminary faculty members. The clergy know next to nothing about the Bible but will go all woke on someone not knowing the fine points of smells and bells dogma. Just as it happened in England, the clergy obsessed with high church finery are dumber than rocks about Biblical doctrine.
The lay members have the chance to renew reading of the genuine text of the Bible. Anything less will take us back to the corruption of the Jerome Vulgate and the Apocrypha. Ever notice which clergy promote the Apocrypha? I wonder if they have the Rosary in their nasty pockets.
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