The Manure Tower Is Sinking Faster Than WELS-LCMS-ELS-ELCA, For the Same Reasons

 

Dr. Walter A. Maier, PhD in Semitics, not a DMin in coffee bars - 

The keystone and the cornerstone of Protestantism are Justification by Faith in Christ together with its twin truth, the inerrancy of the Scriptures.

"Neglect one or both and the whole structure will fall."

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I reversed one Maier sentence to emphasize the soundness of the structure and construction materials, tragically lacking in the tofu buildings of China - video in the post below. 

Look at a similar example in America -

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One of the plain-spoken commentators said the site for the Leaning Tower of Frisco was questionable from the start, with soft mud and sewage as the foundation. The same company not allowed to build nearby was given the chance to build  Millennial Tower - a very tall, deluxe building - without going down to bedrock to support the structure.

The parallel to WELS-LCMS-ELS-ELCA is clear. 

Their common foundation is not the cornerstone - Biblical inerrancy. What ELCA openly rejects is slyly insinuated in all the WELS-LCMS-ELS work - the hopeless NIV, the runner-up ESV, and sometimes a nod in using the closeted NKJV (which honors the Nestle Aland anti-Majority Text snip and clip of the New Testament).

Justification by Faith is the keystone of Christianity - rejected and derided equally by Roman Catholicism, ELCA, WELS, LCMS, and the ELS. ELCA is not so fanatically nasty as its Thrivent ministry partners are, because their Mistress of the Dark is completely indifferent, lodged in the utterly dark ELCA headquarters.

Luther argued with some force that denying Justification by Faith is the equivalent of promoting justification by works, clearly the position of Rome and glaringly obvious in the mini-ELCAs. The beauty of the LCMS-WELS-ELS position is their ability to make their beloved Objective Justification the Chief Article of Christianity! And then - to make matters worse - the LCMS-WELS official doctrine began as Justification by Faith. The poorly educated CFW Walther, who trained Pieper to be as dumb but more sly, inserted Bishop Stephan (STD) into the mix, but really did not win until 1932.

 Pastor Pepperpot repeats his points, pouting and extending the Left Foot of Fellowship when told he is completely wrong. He reads his cue cards sitting at a desk below an enormous collection of unread theology books. 

Please Do Not Watch - This Is Not Happening in China. You Are Imagining This Due to Extreme Prejudice

 

Many More Books on the Text, Translations, and the KJV Are Arriving

 

One reader suggested Pickering, and I am reading that author daily (the three Pickering books I bought). Next the Lutheran Librarian Alec Satin sent me books to use and to share with others. Finally, I checked in at Alibris - and like "Ring of Fire" - Bound by wild desire, I fell into a ring of fire. I found way too many books and began dropping choices.

One constant in text and translation issues is Bruce Metzger, Princeton University. Graduating from seminary, I wanted to study under Metzger. He survived my escape to New Haven, but he remains a primary author, often quoted. I am looking forward to reading his books since he went over to the paraphrase illusions.

Real scholarship means looking carefully at the opposition, not denying that the opposition exists. Jim Heiser only faintly remembers reading and selling Thy Strong Word in 2000 and realizing what Objective Justification really means. Of course he moved the epiphany date up to 2013 or so, to claim the revelation came from Rydecki. Both must have been shell-shocked in 2000 to have set up a scenario where Rydecki suddenly revealed the ugly truth of OJ to a panicked bishop.

People think - and professors teach - that the best minds detest the Majority or Byzantine text used for the King James Version of the New Testament. However, the facts say otherwise.

The errors and omissions loved by the modernist scholars really come from the heretics of the first 200 years or so changing and corrupting the text. That is why the Westcott-Hort-Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament is the Minority Text - 

• patched together, 
• corrupted,
• erased where convenient,
• an invented bad text.

As Pickering points out so well, and Metzger acknowledges, the Egyptian side of the Christian Church was weak and riddled with heresies. Codex Sinaiticus! The other side of the early Christian Church was the source of the original manuscripts, which were carefully copied and preserved to maintain accuracy.

A Bible used all the time wears out, so the Majority texts are found relatively late. However, a heretical Bible, like the RSV denying the Virgin Birth, can be stored in a library and seldom if ever touched - like the precious Sinaiticus.

To understand this shell game, one must realize that modernists assume Jesus 

1. was only a man, 
2. a good teacher, 
3. who died and never performed any miracles, 
4. because there is no Trinity - it was invented at Chalcedon 500 years later.

Like Westcott-Hort, they omit and paste in words to back up their idea that Jesus was never divine, that the Early Church added these inventions to the "original text" (Sinaiticus, Vaticanus).

 Princeton's Clyde Manschrek wrote the bio of Melanchthon I read long ago and bought again.

Watch China's Cookie Cutter Complexes Go Under. Evergrande Is Just the Beginning

 

 "I live in the tall one with the fancy top, officer. No, the other row. Third row? Where am I?"

More Chinese firms are in deep tofu from going into debt to keep the economy going. Evergrande has been forced to suspend trading. More oligarchs are raising their hands and asking to be excused, because...you know.

But look at how they saved on blueprints! If they only had buyers.

Back to Nutrition Articles

 

 I look a bit wired, as if a plate of donuts is coming my way.

One reader said he liked the nutrition articles, so I decided to post them every so often. Americans have more bad habits than most countries have food.

I get the A1C blood tests every so often, which show I no longer tolerate the level of sugar I used to brag about. The other news was that I was low in potassium, which means lower energy. The doctor put me on potassium pills, and I immediately had more energy.

I looked up causes for low potassium and learned that too much coffee and caffeinated drinks could cause that. At the time I was drinking more and more Diet Pepsi, in part for energy. I seldom drink coffee more than once a day, but Diet Pepsi was different. 

There are plenty of high potassium foods, says the Cleveland Clinic, such as - 

1. Potatoes and sweet potatoes
2. Beans, with white beans at the top
3. Prune, carrot, and orange juice
4. Seafood - like salmon, which has other benefits
5. Spinach and chard
6. Milk and yogurt
7. Tomatoes
8. Bananas
9. Fruits
10. Avocadoes

I noticed that Fritos, donuts, chocolates, ice cream, and apple pie were not on that list. I gave up on donuts a long time ago. We all know that Americans would rather eat fast foods than good foods.

When I was a young lad, a Pepsi was a rare treat saved for parties. Apart from donuts, danish, fudge, peanut brittle, and cookies - so were desserts. My mother was very fond of desserts, so they were fairly available, and we found her stash of candy at times, too.

Filling up on useless food is not a good idea, and water is much cheaper than any other drink. Sweets make us drink more fluid because the body is trying to dilute the sugar content. That can obviously lead to more colas for more sweets or more salty treats.

 At age 4 I was already promoting glazed donuts, because regular donuts do not have enough sugar!