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| Barbara and Kurt Aland |
We do not need to look far to find the one reason the Protestants, especially the Lutherans, have fallen into apostasy. The leaders have trained and exalted their sappers. The term comes from a French word for undermining walls to make them collapse. WW1 sappers undermined fortifications quickly and effectively with explosives.
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| Sappers need protection, so they join the ABS or UBS or both. They are well established as college and seminary faculty members. |
Church leaders gained power by having their minions undermine the Majority Text of the King James Version. They replaced the KJV slowly with tofu Bibles, which are so cheaply invented by numbskulls that they must be revised, improved, added to and subtracted from - every few years.
They placed explosives under the Majority Text to make it seem heinous, bloated with additions, and demanding a complete "modern, scientific, scholarly" replacement. They labored to create an eclectic or snip-and-clip Greek text based heavily on the fraudulent Sinaiticus (Aleph) and the equally questionable Vaticanus (B). Both codices were pumped and pimped by Count Tischendorf, a nominal Lutheran who worked with the Church of Rome. Ever since they have worked to create One Greek Text To Rule Them All and in the Darkness Bind Them (Tolkien, Lord of the Rings). They accomplished this under Kurt Aland and his lovely wife. He called it The Standard Text.
Since every word of the Greek New Testament is expendable - so they think - the English paraphrases (not translations) have multiplied like pantry or flour flies. Each pantry fly seems harmless, like a tiny moth, but each pair has 300 babies to emerge and mate and nibble. Oh, those tiny nibbles are not much at first, but they do their work, and their eggs show up in anything organic.
Name a modern version of the English New Testament which is not from the sulfurous, stygian dark bowels of the American and United Bible Societies. Their grandparents are Kurt and Barbara Aland. Their parent is Eugene Nida, who despises accurate translations and replaces them with his own "dynamic equivalence" malarkey. He launched Good News for Modern Man (TEV) in Spanish first, to make the English arrival less radical - and it worked. Nida had so much clout, being there at the start of the corruption, that he could take someone from the more suspicious American Bible Society and place him in the United Bible Societies. Apostasy was rewarded by the Great Nida Himself. I wonder why.
American church leaders are not very bright, so they are easily persuaded to go with "the newest and best."
However, Christian believers are aware that the steady supply of constantly changing Bibles (example Otten's Beck Bible, AAT) indicates something is terribly wrong.
In the second edition of The Bible Book, I will put together a list of good books and authors supporting the King James Version. The most important task is to have a generation of people who have studied these issues, looking at both sides, and remain ready to "give an answer to the hope which is within them."
KJV 1 Peter 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
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| Princeton's Metzger has not been replaced, perhaps because his work is done. |
