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Previously I described three gigantic failures in the dogmatics business:
- Charlotte Kirschbaum's and her lover's effort - Barth's Church Dogmatics.
- Braaten-Jenson's misnamed Christian Dogmatics, which cries out for a name, like Misthaufen.
- The Missouri Synod's Dogma-tanic.
Luther simply worked on the text itself, since he already knew how Aquinas and the rest filled libraries with gigantic but unreadable theology tomes.
Dogmatics are like the footnotes in Bibles, bound to send people in the wrong direction, always quite deliberate.
The New King James Version is actually the NIV of KJVs, cleverly done with footnotes, something the RSV (from the Marxist National Council of Churches) revived.
The original King James did not like the way the Geneva Bible created an alternate Bible in the footnotes. The footnotes easily become the real content. It works like this on candy.
"Chocolate is the best candy in the world." * (footnote)
*Some scholars think that carob pods are the best.
Bible footnotes are anonymous and yet carry a lot of weight, as if the alternate NKJV readings, from the scoundrels and fakes of modernism, have the same status as Majority Text.
Virtually all the alternate readings are from the jowls of Westcott and Hort, who were unbelievers raging to make their Greek New Testament the standard - without any explanations for removing text. That GNT catastrophe, now 150 years old, remains dominant in all modern Bibles.
