ALPB Online Discussion Forum - The Lutheran Church Establishment Is Built on Quicksand

 

Shaw developed great fame as a socialist playwright. He understood the King James Version as a great work of literature and the very voice of God. Too bad the ALPB Lutheran establishment is so tin-eared they love the NIV, the RSV, NRSV, the Message (!), and TEV. The NKJV came up once so far, and the KJV not at all. 

George Bernard Shaw

"The translation was extraordinarily well done because to the translators what they were translating was not merely a curious collection of ancient books written by different authors in different stages of culture, but the Word of God divinely revealed through His chosen and expressly inspired scribes. In this conviction they carried out their work with boundless reverence and care and achieved a beautifully artistic result...they made a translation so magnificent that to this day the common human Britisher or citizen of the United States of North America accepts and worships it as a single book by a single author, the book being the Book of Books and the author being God."

The Men Behind the King James Version, by G. S. Paine; Baker Book House; Grand Rapids, Mich.; 1959, 1977ed., pp. 182-183.

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GJ - The ALPB Online Forum and Ovaltine Drinking Club took on the topic of favorite Bible versions. They are self-confessed straw-brains with no concept of Bible texts and honest translations. As Melville said, the pulpit leads the way, and these people are lookouts on the Titanic!

They honored Luther's anniversary as little as the KJV's. But they think Vaticanus is a decent source for the Gospel of Mark (with the ending removed).

 The 500th! - no words.

 Shot glasses describe the Lutheran clergy better than anything else.

PS - I put that Shaw quote on ALPB's discussion page, but it was not answered but buried under the established yakkers on the site, one of them working with Floyd Luther Stolzenburg. He may have some issues, because the Forum is not "a safe place."

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Benke

"Thanks for posting about KJV. As a child raised in an LCMS church and and school and confirmed by a pastor who later became a seminary professor, we were really put through the entire catechetical helps sequence in the CPH catechism. That meant memorizing through our confirmation class years around 700 passages, all with chapter and verse and all from KJV.

So it's my "heart" Bible version. And it still comes out of me decades later in various pastoral circumstances. It's hard for me to speak ill of it. The quote from George Bernard Shaw is also directly on point."

Dave Benke