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| Is there anything sillier than elaborate and expensive robes covered with even fancier cloaks? "When in Rome, do as the Roman Popes do." |
I wrote this previously - about the bloated and boring, watered down Luther's Large Catechism. The trouble with modern theologians is their obsession with replacing faith in Jesus Christ with philosophical concepts. Rather than opposing the Faith directly, they retain key phrases while removing the validity and authority of the Scriptures. Protestant theologians like Karl Barth and his live-in mistress, Paul Tillich and his bevvy of mistresses, and the so-called Biblical scholars (Bultmann) have generated a library of empty books and fancified theories.
One key test is the ELCA-LCMS-WELS-ELS-ELDoNUTS despising the King James Version and even the New King James Version.
If they must have a Bible in modern language, why do they NOT include the NKJV? The NKJV even bows to the modern Bibles by footnoting the errors of the moderns as reasonable alternatives (with no explanations, of course, so the footnotes remain claims without evidence). Besides that, the NKJV also changes its translations without notice, which should appeal to the synodical dunderheads, so they might declare "Almost as good as the NIV!"
The typical reader does not know or realize the enormous effort made to rid Christianity of anything true, faithful, and good. However, they do know how empty the modern congregations are. They have voted. The 50% who left ELCA did not join LCMS, WELS, or the other established synods. Where did they all go.
