The new arrivals (books) came today - three of them. One is a Letis book from Baker Book House. Another is The King James Version at 400, a massive paperback. A promising name? Yes.
The book was published by the Journal of Biblical Literature, an egghead-funhouse for apostates, and the Nida Institute for Fractured Paraphrases.
I thought, "There may be loose nuggets of gold anyway." Wrong! My time with that book was not wasted, because the other side always gives something away when making its move. I learned that from Nimzowitsch's chess book. Every move threatens the opposition but also creates a weakness.
Every positive statement about the KJV included a smack in the face. Sure it was good, but not that good, and really "not up to our standards."
In discussing the Church Growth fever of WELS-LCMS-ELCA-ELS-CLC (sic), I always found the direct quotations from Fuller and its bumblehead Lutheran followers to be the choicest. Oh, did that ever make the WELS bumbleheads howl with rage! One WELS pastor, more moved by the spirits than the Spirit, threw one of my CG essays in a fury and seemed to use a crude word. Thus affirmed and confirmed, I used it as the last chapter of Liberalism: Its Cause and Cure, published originally by WELS, a hot seller too.
One can see that the KJV-never crowd is spooked by the Majority Text and the English version of the Luther Bible, the Tyndale KJV.
Imagine how the synodical book sellers would fare if people knew they promoted books that were based on the frauds, forgeries, and lies of Tischendorf, Westcott, Hort, Nestle, Aland, and Nida.
The thousands of manuscript finds prove that the Majority Text is apostolic, the modernist texts a leaning Towel of Babel. Like tourists staring at the Pisa Leaning Tower, we wonder why it - the Modernist Bible - has not yet fallen down.
The ESV is butchered - the RSV is butchered - the NRSV is butchered, but not all the same way. Their texts do not agree among themselves. The only thing they have in common is the National Council of Marxist Churches ownership. The NIV was owned by Rupert Murdoch and sold to another profiteer.
The KJV is still so treasured and the modernists fight for the scraps. The Lutheran sects stick with their bad choices and disagree about which paraphrase is the least bad. Missouri favors the NCC-ESV. WELS favors the Murdoch-stained NIV.
