Theodore P. Letis - Text Scholar

 

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How WELS-LCMS-ELS-ELDONUTs Shot Themsevles in Both Cloven Feet at Once

 

The fraud committed by WELS-LCMS-ELS-ELDONUTs is breath-taking in scope, the lies piled high and deep, offered in solemn piety and brazen hypocrisy.

Let us look at a few excuses for the NIV, since the ESV, RSV, and BrugSV are not much better. Answers are in John Deere green, as opposed to faux-purple.

Pan-Lutheran Association of Non-Believers claim - "Children and young folk cannot understand the King James Version, so this will make our Christian education materials better, from diaper academy to seminary."

Answer - The NIV changes all the time, but far more promiscuously than the NewKJV, which also changes without warning. One benefit for the publisher is the ability to keep the copyright fresh. Another benefit, as revealed in WELS, is to block all use of the old NIV so the materials must be published with the New Incredibly-Horrid Version. The faculty at Northwestern College (RIP) whined about the NIV but did nothing. 

Pan-Lutheran Association of Non-Believers -"The NIV-ESV-RSV-Brug-SV, yea even the New KJV use the original text (sic) rules of Tischendorf, Bengel, Westcott-Hort, Nestle, Aland, and Eugene Nida. These curated copies (though very few in number, a tiny minority) are modern, scientific, and go back to the earliest days, when the first authors did not claim the divinity of Jesus or His Virgin Birth."

Answer - The abandonment of the Majority or Traditional Text is the work of buddies Westcott and Hort, who loathed the Traditional Text and mooned and groaned about their devotion to Mary. One of these daft men said he preferred "a Mary religion" to a "Jesus religion." How scientific was their approach, which offered no notes to explain their deletions from the Word of God, secretly handed to the KJV Revision Committee and published with Revision in the 19th century. The Revision and the Westcott-Hort Greek NT were shunned like Luther in WELS-LCMS. However, the dishonest, anti-Christian, and unscholarly approach caught on with the apostate church leaders.

Pan-Lutheran Association of Non-Believers - "The truth of the Bible comes through with these many styles and language levels. We needed a Dynamic Equivalence instead of a word-for-word translation, which is wooden, hard to follow, and detrimental to our mission goals."

Answer - I will demonstrate a word-for-word translation from the Greek, John 1:1

εν αρχη ην ο λογος και ο λογος ην προς τον θεον και θεος ην ο λογος

Word-for-word. In beginning was the Word and the Word was with the God and God was the Word.

KJV John 1:In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Eugene Nida's Dynamic Equivalence is a license to throw anything in the translation paraphrase (let's be honest) and also yeet anything out that offends the apostate handling the butchered text. 

So this is a double corruption. 

• First of all, the Hebrew and Greek texts have been butchered by rationalists who confess that the Sacred Scriptures are just another book by man about God or gods. 
• Secondly, the Nida demons feel free about - and brag about - making their creations as different as possible.

Pan-Lutheran Association of Non-Believers - "Our modern Bibles are carefully created by vast numbers of curated Biblical scholars, most of them with PhDs though some sects - like WELS and ELDONA - are allergic to genuine doctorates when an STM or DMin is so much easier. The KJV came from clergy, for pity's sake, not from the musty halls of Harvard, Fuller, and the Willow Creek Academy."

Answer - The heritage of the KJV is great and praiseworthy at every level. 

The Hebrew and Greek texts come from the Christian Church, where thousands of almost identical Greek New Testament texts were preserved in the Byzantine Empire. How many? I see numbers ranging from 5,000 to 7,000 individual manuscripts - all in the Traditional Text arena. 

In contrast - Westcott and Hort built their phony Greek New Testament with five manuscripts, 1/1000th of the Majority or Traditional Text. Two of these "superb" sources came from Tischendorf, a self-promoting, lying popinjay. His two treasures - Sinaiticus and Vaticanus - do not agree with each other.

Erasmus, an independent scholar, put together the Greek New Testament (Traditional Text) which Luther and the others used. 

Luther gathered a group of brilliant believers who were highly skilled in languages, Melanchthon being one of the greatest in Europe. They did their work with a burning stake - not a posh retirement - in their futures. 

Enter William Tyndale, an English genius in languages. He came to Germany in Luther's time to escape the king's wrath and to learn more.  Facts are sketchy, but his work became the standard and model for all English translations afterwards. As some say, they were all Tyndale Bibles, even if named Geneva, Bishops, or Coverdale.

The King James editors/translators were the best minds in the country at the peak of England's development of the language and arts. They were clergy, bishops, scholars, all believers. They honored the Word of God, not themselves. 

The ways these modern Bible boys and girls preen and gawk in the mirror about their superiority to the KJV is a laugh. The modernists are too smart for us guys who work for a living and actually serve congregations, visiting people, marrying couples, burying those translated into eternal life. 

Because the NIV-ESV-RSV-BrugSV criminals are so educated, they produce footnotes to reverse the meaning of the text.

The footnotes are the third great corruption of the Bible. Do not miss that, because it is devilishly clever and efficacious in destroying faith in Jesus Christ, the purpose of the Bible. 

Isaiah 7:10 - He will be born of a virgin (note - or a young woman). The Virgin Birth and Incarnation are denied in the note. This two-step goes back to the Marxist National Council of Churches Revised Standard Version, denying the Virgin Birth, then dropping the denial to a footnote.

New KJV - Nice marketing. The entire Bible looks to the Nestle Aland in the notes, meaning - the meaning could be the opposite, you know. Nestle Aland, the snip and clip Greek New Testament is cleverly noted as NU, pronounced NEW, for Nestle United Bible Societies. The Catholics are welcome parties of the United Bible Societies now. They have more than a seat at the table. They own the table and rent the chairs to the crypto-Unitarian Protestants. The NKJV uses (M) for the Majority Text in the footnotes. Using only that M is as useful and transparent as a broken GPS in the car. 

"The less one believes in the Biblical message, the more scholarly he or she is." - That is the standard ever since Karl Barth, his mistress and co-author Charlotte Kirschbaum, Paul Tillich, and the rest. It started much earlier in the 19th century, and the new Bibles are either the cause or the effect of this change to apostasy.

Look up Acts 8:37 KJV on Bible Gateway, which is a thrall of the NIV. But look anyway and press the link for ALL the translations of Acts 8:37.

Here is the link for Mequon graduates. They are a bit slow in Mordor.

The NIV and ESV have erased that verse - just like Thomas Jefferson.

 Hands Off the Bible!" WELS shrieks.

If Sam Cooke Were WELS

 

 Apologies to Sam Cooke for stealing his classic song.

Don't know much about theology

Don't know much about the KJV

Don't know much about a Hebrew book

Don't know much about the Greek I took

[Chorus 1]

But I do know that I love WELS

And I know that if She loves me, too

What a wonderful world this would be

[Verse 2]

Don't know much about the liturgy

Don't know much epistemology

Don't know much about math, a bore

Don't know what a library's for.

[Chorus 2]

But I do know Church Growth principles

And if we all could learn more rules

What a Calvinist world this would be

[Bridge]

Now, I don't claim to be an A student

But I'm trying to be C.

For maybe by being a C student, baby

I can win  a call for me.

Boatloads of Hypocrisy from WELS - How About - Hands Off The Runner on His Mark?

 

 Luke 8:17 For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.

Waging the war for godly sexuality - WELS Parody of Itself

“Abuse. Divorce. Abortion. Pornography. People want to talk about these issues; they’re just scared to go first. We’re trying to help people go first.”

WELS Pastor Ski has helpfully started conversations in their schools and churches, 
serving his Father Below.

Caleb Schultz, pastor at Cross of Life, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, is talking about Conquerors through Christ, a ministry of WELS Special Ministries that exists to help people resist, reject, and recover from pornography use or addiction.

 If WELS children are not properly trained, prep schools like Michigan Lutheran Seminary make sure they learn about cross-dressing from their school's leaders - such luminaries as John Lawrenz and John Brenner. This kind of hazing is basic to WELS high schools, college, and seminary.

The Conquerors through Christ website was developed eight years ago, mainly to help those who are addicted to pornography. It has recently been redesigned, expanded to offer resources that can be used by any person—parents, pastors, teachers, spouses, friends—to combat the sin of pornography.

“I think our culture is increasingly saying this ministry is not necessary, particularly for Christians in your average congregation,” says Schultz, spokesperson for Conquerors through Christ. “This is unfortunate because all the statistics say [pornography] is way more common than we like to admit.”

How many WELS parents know about hazing and abusing The Sprinter?
It is a male WELS tradition.

One statistic Schultz shares is that by sixth grade, many children have been exposed to pornography in some way. “It’s often not their fault,” he says. “They’re scrolling through Instagram or watching videos on TikTok, and they take one wrong click and they’re in a place they shouldn’t be.”

Several of the new resources Conquerors through Christ has developed are to help parents, pastors, and teachers talk to children and young adults about sex and pornography. The Parent Support System offers age-appropriate resources for parents to use at home with children ages 2 through 12. A middle school lesson on the Sixth Commandment is perfect for use in a Catechism class. A high school curriculum provides teachers and youth group leaders opportunities to have biblical discussions on the topic with teenagers.

“We’re not trying to equip you to do an event, to have ‘the talk,’ ” says Brad Snyder, pastor at Cross of Christ, Boise, Idaho, and Conquerors through Christ team member. “It’s a process of teaching your children about godly sexuality and the threats that are there.”

Having those conversations are important, Snyder says, because children are learning a lot about sex from friends, social media, and television. “We want them to learn from you, their parents,” he stresses.

Adam and Steve - If a pastor leads a WELS congregation in hosting a cross-dressing picnic, photographing it, and posting the pictures in public, what actions are taken? He is immediately featured as a keynote speaker for a WELS event.

 Photographic evidence shows that a WELS child will be putting makeup on a man before he or she is old enough for elementary school.

All of these resources fall into the “resist” category—helping to prevent the first click or teaching how to respond when unexpectedly faced with pornography. Materials on rejecting pornography also are available for those who have fallen into this sin. “We’re going to drown you in the gospel,” says Schultz. “You already are a conqueror through Christ.” For those who are close to someone struggling with a pornography addiction, recovery resources—including a directory of qualified Christian counselors—provide support.

 Party in the MLC video - This was loved by Martin Luther College students, uploaded to YouTube, and also posted/defended on Facebook.

Adding a fourth category—rejoice—is being discussed. It will focus on what the Bible says about godly sexuality.

In the end, Schultz stresses that combating pornography is a battle we all need to fight. “There is hope in a battle that seems so dark, regardless of what side of it you are on—if you’re a user or know a user or are a parent hoping your children don’t become users.”

Learn more at conquerorsthroughchrist.net.

Volume 108, Number 8
Issue: August 2021

WELS Pastors Glende (left) and Ski (right) proudly posted their pose with Katy Perry on their Facebook pages - so eager to start a conversation.

Hands Off the Original Biblical Text and the King James Version - The WELS Leaders Do the Slashing and Burning To Give You Leftwing Double-talk, Instead of God's Word!

 

 This scissoring is exactly what WELS did in rejecting the King James Version and Its Traditional Hebrew and Greek Texts. They kicked pastors out for criticizing the precious NIV Bible, which is now even worse than before. 

Hands off the Bible! - WELS Fulminations in Royal Purple

The Bible is God’s Word. He doesn’t want us to pick and choose what we believe. 

[So why does WELS pick and choose? Why were they so feeble in celebrating the Reformation's 500th Anniversary? WELS - like the rest of the apostates - only approves bad, heavily edited, Calvinistic, fad paraphrases that last as long as a July frost - but make big bucks for them. Oh yes, printing NEW Bibles is like printing money.]

There are few acts in the Bible more brazen than this one by Jehoiakim, the king of Judah: “Whenever Jehudi had read three or four columns of the scroll, the king cut them off with a scribe’s knife and threw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll was burned in the fire” (Jeremiah 36:23). Coolly and methodically, the king of God’s chosen people sliced up the prophet Jeremiah’s message from the Lord and tossed the pieces into a fire.

[GJ - What did WELS do with the Great Commission and the Sacraments in their sacred NIV? Gone! Missing! Not endorsed by Fuller Seminary, Willow Crick, and the National Council of Churches! Not sensitive!]

Centuries later, United States President Thomas Jefferson took a similar but less dramatic approach toward the pages of the New Testament. With razor blade in hand, Jefferson excised from the New Testament anything that smacked of the supernatural. What remained was a little volume titled The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth. Sadly, the book ends with these words: “There laid they Jesus: and rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre and departed.” No resurrection. No ascension. Those events did not agree with Jefferson’s idea of God, so the president excluded them from his edition of the Bible.

[GJ - The fathers of the modern Greek New Testament are Westcott and Hort, who "loathed the Traditional Text" and worshiped Mary. Their fanclub includes Nestle and Aland and Eugene Nida. They cut out what they did not like because they hated the 5,000 examples of the Traditional Text and cling to Sinaiticus and Vaticanus copies that Tischendorf mysteriously discovered and called the best, the earliest, the fabulous-est copies. ELCA has exactly the same position on the Bible as the WELS, LCMS, ELS, CLC, and ELDONUTs.]

Mishandling Scripture

People today, even self-identified Christians, are not likely to remove paragraphs or pages from their Bibles because they object to their message. What they do instead is keep their Bibles intact while rejecting some of the content. For example, some leave “For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day” (Exodus 20:11) in their Bibles, but they reject the Bible’s teaching of creation. “You can’t ignore the science,” they say. “Evolution explains how this world came about.” Others do not physically remove the passage, “Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me” (Psalm 51:5) from their Bibles, but they reject the Bible’s teaching of original sin. “It’s not fair,” they argue, “that somebody should be considered guilty before God without any wrongdoing on his or her part.”

[GJ - Tell us about it, O Snake-oil Salesman! WELS/ELS/LCMS deny, repudiate, and excommunicate those who teach the Chief Article of Christianity - Justification by Faith. They invent an Objective Justification not found anywhere in the Bible, Luther, the Book of Concord, and faithful Lutherans.]

Still others who belong to Christian congregations do not delete a passage like Matthew 25:46 (“Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”), but they deny the Bible’s teaching of hell. “The God I believe in would never send anyone to hell forever,” they contend, pointing to 1 John 4:8, “God is love.”

[GJ - WELS/ELS/LCMS teach that the entire world was absolved the moment Christ died on the cross, or the moment He rose from the dead. Yes - they are that foul, stupid, and double-tongued.]

In our world today some Christians do not cut out the words, “Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God” (1 Corinthians 6:9,10), yet they dismiss what the Bible teaches about homosexuality. “Times are different,” they maintain. “What people do in their own lives is up to them. Who am I to judge?”

[GJ - Do not ask about the way WELS upperclassmen treat the Runner on His Mark. Or ask about their hazing rituals, or their need to cross-dress at the prep, college, seminary, and parish level. Did a seminarian at Mequon sexually assault a younger man who was visiting the seminary the first time? Who was punished? - the victim.]

Most keep Bible passages such as, “No one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin” (Romans 3:20) in their Bibles, but they still set aside the Bible’s teaching of salvation by grace through faith. “It seems to me,” people say, “that what I do in life should matter to God and that the good things I do should count for something.”

The truthfulness of God’s Word means that any problem with the content of the Bible lies with
the reader not the Author. 

[GJ - What about the editors who removed or bracketed the ending of Mark? ditto - the many complete references to the divinity Christ in the Traditional, KJV text?] 

You can probably think of other verses that remain in people’s Bibles but whose truths they reject. If we are honest, we can likely come up with a list of passages and teachings that we struggle to accept.

[GJ - Most certainly anyone with a KJV and a Gausewitz can find a long list of what WELS "struggles to accept." Not really - the struggle disappeared as they began extending the Left Foot of Fellowship to anyone who disagreed with them.]

None of this mishandling of Scripture can be justified. It’s wrong when people claim faith in Jesus and then discard biblical teachings. God explicitly forbids people from tampering with his Word. “Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it” (Deuteronomy 4:2). God even attaches a warning to the directive not to mishandle his Word (Revelation 22:18,19). A God who is concerned about the truth speaks like that.

[GJ - Tell us how WELS agrees with all the mainline denominations on promoting the altered Bibles while rejecting, laughing at, and removing the KJV.]

Handing down truth

It was to a group of Jews who wanted to stone him to death on a winter day in the temple courts in Jerusalem that Jesus said, “Scripture cannot be set aside” (John 10:35). People can try to ignore or reject what God says in the Bible, but their words and attitudes do not negate the Bible’s truthfulness. God’s Word remains true. How true? In a prayer to his heavenly Father, Jesus said, “Your word is truth” (John 17:17). You notice that the Lord did not qualify or quantify the truthfulness of God’s Word by saying, “Most of your word is true” or “The great majority of your word is true.” No, “Your word—all of it—is truth.” The truthfulness of God’s Word means that any problem with the content of the Bible lies with the reader not the Author.

[GJ - KJV John 10:35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken.  και ου δυναται λυθηναι η γραφη - broken not set aside, but Mirthless Mark says all translations (except the KJV) are inspired.]

The truth of God’s Word is that all people are sinners deserving God’s eternal punishment. The truth of God’s Word is that all people are the objects of God’s forgiving love in Christ. The truthfulness of God’s Word is not, however, limited to those two main teachings of the Bible. God’s Word is truthful in everything it says.

Properly handling the truth

Lay evangelist Dwight Moody was well known for his revival services and his simple faith. One day a person approached Moody with a difficult section of Scripture and asked him for an explanation. Moody responded, “I can’t explain it.” That response elicited a follow-up question, “Well, how do you understand it?” To that, the evangelist replied, “I don’t understand it.” Trying again, the inquirer asked, “Well, what do you make of it?” Moody answered, “I don’t make anything of it.” Finally, the person asked with an air of exasperation, “What do you do with it?” “I simply believe it,” came the reply.

[GJ - But WELS only believes what the simpleton Mequon teachers force upon the students. DP Buchholz - "I am sorry that you have departed from the doctrine your seminary professors taught you." (paraphrased) Not departed from the Scriptures, Luther, or the Book of Concord. The WELS leaders and pastors - as a whole - loathe the KJV and the Book of Concord.]

Because the Bible is the Word of our God whose thoughts are not our thoughts and whose ways are higher than our ways (Isaiah 55:8,9), we can expect it to contain content that is challenging to our minds. The question is, what do we do with such content? God’s will is that we have a “hands-off” approach: We do not change his Word or reject it. More than that, God’s will is that we have a “hands-on” approach: We hold his Word in our hands, reading it and believing it all through the power of the Holy Spirit.

[GJ - Isaiah is cited but the efficacy of the Word is omitted. That is a foundation passage, so the author's dibbling with Isaiah shows WELS is a sect with no foundation except the Enthusiasm of Calvinist, Pentecostals, and ELCA.]

“Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah, and as Jeremiah dictated, Baruch wrote on it all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them” (Jeremiah 36:32). Incinerating the Word of God was not a problem for Jeremiah or the Lord; God directed the prophet to draft a replacement scroll.

“By pow’rs of empire banned and burned, . . . The Word still stands, the Christian’s trust” (Christian Worship 291:2).

Author: James F. Pope
Volume 108, Number 6
Issue: June 2021