ICHABOD, THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED - explores the Age of Apostasy, predicted in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, to attack Objective Faithless Justification, Church Growth Clowns, and their ringmasters. The antidote to these poisons is trusting the efficacious Word in the Means of Grace. John 16:8. Isaiah 55:8ff. Romans 10. Most readers are WELS, LCMS, ELS, or ELCA. This blog also covers the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Left-wing, National Council of Churches denominations.
I began The Bible Book with publications about the topic of Biblical texts and translations, because no one really knows where to start. That includes me. I was familiar with the modern translation slide downhill, Wescott and Hort, Eugene Nida, Kurt Aland, but there are many other authors and books.
My hope is that the laity and courageous pastors will do their own studying and see the value of the King James Bible as the English version of Luther's German Bible. The reasons are not sentiment or nostalgia but precision and clarity.
Books and Authors for Text and Translation Research, Laity and Pastors Alike
Edward Freer
Hills
(1912-1981) graduated in Latin from Yale University, Phi Beta Kappa.
He
earned several seminary degrees, did graduate work at the University of
Chicago, and completed a PhD at Harvard University. His King James Version
Defended is one of the best and most readable books on the topic. His style
is plain, so his discussions of the following issues are easily comprehended by
ministers and laity alike:
·The Johannine Comma, 1 John 5:7-8
·The ending of Mark, Mark 16:9-20
·The woman caught in Adultery, John
7:53-8:11
·The doxology of the Lord’s Prayer.
This one book contains
a wealth of information about all the issues, including background about the
individuals, though Tyndale has been overlooked. The book can be obtained on
Amazon and also found as a $5 Kindle in the original title Text and Time.
Burgon
has a society named after him, the Dean Burgon Society, which keeps the flame
alive for the King James Version. First of all, he was a sworn and published
enemy of German rationalism, which was promoted by the Essays and Reviews
edited by John William Parker. Burgon was appreciated for his sermons against
the book. His writing is heavy duty, not light work to read, but much clearer
after reading Hill. A good explanation of how Bibles became corrupted is
detailed in his The Revision Revised: A Refutation of Westcott and Hort’s
False Greek Text and Theory. The basic argument is clear and very much like
Hill’s – the Bible is revealed for believers and must be studied and explained
by believers. There is no middle ground or compromise, even though the
denominations are feathering their nests with the constant flow of new,
improved, but clearly dishonest translations.
Jack Moorman is a member of the
Dean Burgon Society
Early Manuscripts,
Church Fathers, and the Authorized Version
Forever Settled: A Survey
of the Documents and History of the Bible
Early
Manuscripts has extensive charts of the Majority
Text compared to sources favored by the modern text critics. For those who like
to view the words missing from the NIV, ESV, RSV, this volume is handy and
mostly visual.
Forever
Settled is a thorough history of versions, translators, and
text criticism. The book is quite valuable for amount of time and material
covered.
Gail Anne Riplinger is a lady without the
usual credentials for text criticism and Bible translations. She wrote her own
books on the topic and stirred up a major fuss among KJV supporters. The Dean
Burgon Society published a pamphlet about her marriages and lack of academic
background for the books she published – Aletheia O’Brien, A Warning for God’s
Sheep, http://deanburgonsociety.org/PDF/WhoIsGailRiplinger.pdf.
Dan Corner wrote A Critique
of Gail Riplinger’s Scholarship and KJV Onlism, June, 1999.
This is essential reading for understanding the perspective
of modern text criticism, which has united previous text and translations
efforts. The best way to find the weakness of an argument is to start with
those who advocate it. More needs to be said about Eugene Nida, who accomplished
as much again precise translation as Wescott, Hort, and Aland did against
faithful manuscripts.
The "activated" meme is a current favorite among the hip, which I am not. But I know we have some hip readers.
Therefore, if Christians want to conserve the Word, they should not be scandalized or terrified when they see the devil with the broken reins, the entire Earth orb in agitation, tyrants practicing cruelty and cults emerging, but they should know for sure that these things are not signs of horror, but of joy, as Christ interpreted them when he said, ′′ Rejoice and exult ′′ etc. [cf. Mt 5.12]. Away from us is the departure from the scandal of the cross, what would happen if we preached what the prince of this world and his members would gladly hear, that is, the righteousness of the works. Then we would have an indulgent devil, a favorable world and the pope and the princes conducive. But because we make the benefits and glory of Christ clear, they persecute us and take our assets and lives.
Martin Luther. Comments on Galatians 5.11
(I copied this from FB so I am not sure which edition at the moment.)
Barth's Marxist theology, a thousand miles wide, an inch deep. Who else could be the theologian for Fuller Seminary, WELS, LCMS, ELS, ELCA? He could double-talk any topic, because he worked with his mistress, night and day, at his home, at the summer cabin, and on his tours. They replaced Christianity with Anything Goes, and conservatives still defend his/their honor.
