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| LCMS die-hards howled that Seminexers stole books from the Concordia Seminary Library to start their own Seminex Library. Walther must have looked up from his eternal habitations and grinned. He founded that library with books stolen from Stephan. When will the Stephan chalice be returned to the family? |
I am doing a read-and-edit on The Bible Book, which is a lot of fun. I can see how so many have been swindled. A tiny fraction of all the Biblical scholars look out from the stony prison of their fantasies and mutter obscure phrases and slogans to justify their smokescreen.
As one dissenter put it, which is in The Bible Book, the hack job on the New Testament is based on five or so Greek manuscript sources. The Majority Text of the King James Version is based on 5,000 or more pieces of evidence.
The Majority Text was there in the beginning and preserved by the 1100-year Byzantine Christian Empire. Yet, Byzantine Text or Majority Text is used as a put down. That is an old fashioned logical fallacy, the fallacy of origin. Something or someone is automatically bad if it comes from...
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| Walther, the American Calvin: A Synod Built on Felonies |
I used that in the Critical Thinking class, time after time. I warned the students I would use logical fallacies to trip them up. Between David Scaer's lectures and WELS triumphalism, I had an endless supply.
One team of students was making a case, so I said, "Where are you from?" They said, "Mesa," one of the towns in the Phoenix metroplex. I said, "That explains everything." They went ballistic, everyone chattering in anger at once. I did not say anything bad (on the surface) but I implied that no one from Mesa could explain things well.
That is what the so-called scholars do. They have panned the Majority Text so frequently that they only need to use the term Byzantine - to make dissenters shrink back or mutter in confusion. No, they say or imply, we cannot expect faithful Christians to copy the Scriptures faithfully. The only ones who can determine the actual text of the New Testament are a tiny knot of specialists who adore their own theories, especially the most absurd ones, and continue an iron grip on Greek New Testament publications.
We can expect that of WELS and the Little Sect on the Prairie. WELS considers a pastor a professor when he completes his coursework for a PhD and quits. They are too proud, too smart, and too pure to sully themselves with writing a dissertation that others see and approve (or not). That has changed a bit because there so few seminary students, they have time to scratch out a dissertation.
The Little Sect on the Prairie, aka ELS, had the audacity to hire a New Testament professor with no college degree! He faced students who were more qualified for his job than he was! But the professor with a real PhD from Notre Dame studied the future of Marvin Schwan School of Theology and "Nobody ELS will be left in a few years."
The LCMS has postured about their great scholarship for decades, and I agree, if a doctorate from St. Louis is considered an accomplishment. That is the institution started by CFW Walther, BA, with little or no Biblical language training. No need to - you smarmy detractors - he had the truth, straight from Bishop Martin Stephan, STD. Walther - like David Valleskey - could conjure up theses that proved the impossible, that Scripture was wrong while he and Stephan were correct, orthodox, confessional, conservative repristinators.
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| "Every time I read Christian News, I thank God I am not in the Missouri Synod" - WELS seminary student, repeating the myth of the Immaculate Synod, Wisconsin style. |
