Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Getting Ready for Live/Saved Vimeo Short Lessons - Tomorrow (Thursday)

 


Job One today was getting the copies of Lutheran Christina out the door at Amazon. I dropped off copies at the Circle of Life hospice, too, with Sassy's help. I enjoyed taking them there, because the nurses were so good to Christina.

The new books will arrive at random times. If someone does not have one by Thanksgiving, let me know. I can also send extras any time. 

Second, I began shifting the computers around. The one with 32 megs of RAM is in the chapel for Vimeo. I also have 700-900 megs of download/upload from fiber optic. One computer is for writing and the oldest one is for backups, besides the backups, Dropbox, and cloud. 

I am behind in communication because the email program crashed and burned. I am recovering some from new emails and 1-800-NSA-HELP (great people but always whispering).

I am testing Vimeo for live/saved work Thursday-Friday. Note what one regular emailed me -

I clicked the link and it brought me to a page on the Ichabod site, which had a link to Vimeo. I clicked on the Vimeo link and it brought me to the Reformation Day video. I was able to start the video from there.

This morning I had gone to the Vimeo home page and searched and found your Bethany Lutheran site.


The site has links to the 3 videos posted thus far. I played the video for the Reformation Day service. I found that the video quality was better than the the IBM site. The sound quality for your voice was good, but the quality of the music was not quite as good as IBM, although this may have been due to my internet connection speed.

I noticed something interesting. When you select a video from the list on the Vimeo Bethany site, there is no button to download the video. But, when I followed the link you provided, the video came up and there was a button to download.

A plus for Vimeo is the option for a viewer to download a video as an MP4 file. I couldn't do that from the IBM site, I tried several video-download products, but it appeared that the IBM site was built not to permit downloads. I ended up using a video screen capture tool to save several of your services. 

Now we can have two operations at once. 1-The current production and saves on Vimeo, 2 - downloads from IBM and edits from Team Cartee, YouTube. The person who kept pushing me into video editing must be smiling. I am glad I did not want to retire at 65.

 "How about trying something new, Pastor, something you have no knowledge of and grave reservations about, you know, fun!"


Learning from Bruce Metzger, Princeton Seminary.

 

 Metzger's autobiography reminded me of Eighty Eventful Years, by Fuerbringer - but so dry. Young Calvinist, old Unitarian.

The bedrock of all modern English New Testaments is Vaticanus (B), kept under wraps by the Church of Rome until recently. My textual criticism library has almost nothing on Vaticanus, but quite a bit on Sinaiticus, Aleph. The two Tischendorf miracle codices - Aleph and B - do not agree with each other, so they are childless orphans. They are associated with Egypt.

 Aleph in Wonderland. I wonder how this parchment (skin) manuscript lasted 1400 years.


The situation today is something like 100 historians discussing the beginning date of the USA. Ninety-five of them agree that the Constitution in 1789 marks the beginning of our nation. Five deny the 1789 fact and quarrel among themselves about the original date.

That 95 to 5 ratio in Greek New Testaments means the traditional text was reproduced, published, and known by everyone - not hidden and cloaked with secrecy. Erasmus edited the GNT from Majority Text (the 95%) manuscripts.

The Latin Vulgate, attributed to Jerome, has been edited again and again by Rome, because certain popes wanted their edition to be the official Bible. They also hated the idea of people reading the Bible in their own language. Latin remained the only Roman Catholic language for Bibles until the Reformation forced their hand. 

In modern terms, the 95% ratio is a hindrance to accepting the Majority Text. Rationalists assume that those passages contrary to traditional Christian faith are the earliest and best (Aleph and B). Because a later church council used the new term Trinity to define the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, there is no Trinity in the Bible and Jesus is just a man - a boatload of prejudice among these scholars, eh?

The ecumenical scholars own the Greek New Testament now, and Roman Catholics are part of every modern Biblical effort - American Bible Society, United Bible Societies, etc.

Bruce Metzger, the leading and longest lasting text critic in America, left us an autobiography, which could be considered a series of crime scenes. The first edition of the RSV New Testament dropped the ending of Mark (16:9ff) into a footnote. The next edition lifted it back with a space between 16:8 and 16:9-20. If I recall correctly, that is the same point made by the neo-Seminex Gospel of Mark commentary - published by Concordia Publishing House. ("Tastes great, less doctrine!") 

Note this - a sure sign for most modern Bibles, though they all participate in the deception - footnotes below often reverse the meaning of the passage above. Many verses are simply omitted from the English text without comment.

Here is a simple Bible translation test. Look up Isaiah 7:10 - Behold a virgin will conceive...

The footnote will say "verse 10 - or a young woman." That is the great miracle from God Himself, and somehow Matthew and Luke continued the idea that a virgin gave birth to our Savior. 

The same frauds who do this to the text cannot find the Virgin Birth in John's Gospel (the Word became flesh and dwelt among us) or Paul 

Romans 1:3 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh4 And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead: