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| Ordination - aren't we having fun? |
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| The Lutheran leaders, ELCA and ELCiC are seated. The previous Episcopal Bishops of Canada and the US are standing. |
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| WELS used this snip-and-clip Bible graphic to warn people against their own policy of promoting and requiring the odious new NIV, the worst paraphrase to use. Sure, there are others worthy of projectile vomiting, but they do not have the marketing horsepower to sell them on a major scale. The KJV and its cousins clobber the NIV, the Marxist-Woke RSV, NRSV, and ESV put together. And you trust those leaders? Ha. |
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| We teach forgiveness without faith - it is in Romans. At least, it is now. |
Let's get one thing straight. The Bibles being forced on denominations, colleges, and seminaries are not sold because people are clamoring for new chock-full-of-holes paraphrases.
A new Bible sold on a large scale is a license to print money. The awesome, cool array of Youth Bibles, Women's Study Bibles, and Holy Spirit Bibles are almost 100% cash for the publishers and those who kiss up to them - the denominations, colleges, and seminaries.
As a micro-mini non-profit publisher, I can say this - five thousand Bibles cost a bit more to print than a thousand - or five hundred. Once those presses get going, a book costs no more than its paper and ink.
Those Bibles are the cereal aisle of the supermarket - rainbow colors, variations, sizes, packaging, and graphics to make the younglings break out into tantrums to get them - but still junk.
The only way to make this happen is to entice and bribe the decision-makers. I recall John Jeske, father of Mark and Avoid Jeske, bragging about his free trip to Israel for supporting the old NIV. Who knows what else is given away to keep the denominational officers and professors mellow, happy, and purring like the cat who found the cream?
The denominational leaders will deny their corruption, but the evidence is there to admire or loathe.
Forcing horrible butchered Bibles on all the denominations is simply one aspect of Romanism and apostasy being injected into the membership and clergy.
The clergy are too ignorant to argue for or against Bible translations, especially the Greek New Testament text. Someone is selling his collection of Greek New Testament texts and books on Facebook - $225. The entire collection promotes Westcott-Hort, Nestle-Aland, and the modern apostates: not one suggestion about the KJV or Majority Text.
