"No other Gospel" in Galatians 1:9 has become "Pick your favorite version of the Gospel" among the Lutherans.
Except for the KJV, no other Bible is going to remain the same for more than a year or two. They are in constant flux. If the reader thinks the New KJV is tolerable or even good because it mimes the KJV, think again. The constant references to the Nestle-Aland-United Bible Society falsely argue that the Tischendorf-Westcott-Hort readings (noted as NU) come from faithful, honest, scholars. The M footnotes are for the Majority Text - how patronizing! This compromising style - from the for-profit NKJV company - is more like "Two Possible Gospels."
Someone can call me KJV-Only but that is far better than the Lutheran professors and leaders who are KJV-Never. Their bitter tirades against the KJV are an affront to the English language - as one of the two pillars of our fair tongue.*
The alternatives to the Greek New Testament - passed down by the apostles through the Majority Text - are snipped, clipped, watered down, and negated by the for-profit companies and the monopolizing Tischendorf-Hort fascists. Do they footnote their monstrosities with "The apostles taught..." or "The KJV reads..."? Hardly. They are Nida-Only, because Nida-Best would suggest another approach.
WELS and the LCMS are quite agreeable about climbing into bed with ELCA, especially when paid lavishly by Thrivent for the fornication. But the two sects cannot harmonize their English Bible selections. WELS was NIV-Only long ago, and fought like piranhas recently for the New NIV. Missouri has adopted the defecation of the National Council of Churches, the ESV - whose Biblical chairman is or was a Calvinist. They usually die as Unitarians.
The modernists - synods listed in the headline - tolerate thousands of errors and omissions in their text and paraphrases (Nida's "dynamic equivalence" moonshine). They point their soiled fingers at the KJV and screech, "But there are a few problems with that one."
If the Lutheran professors and leaders realized the depth of their betrayals, they might think again about their support of bad Bibles and worse dogma.
* The other pillar of the English language is Shakespeare, better known as the Earl of Oxford.
