I unraveled The Roll of Honor yesterday to awaken the innocent about how badly the Synodicals behave in their jobs: LCMS-ELCA-WELS-ELS-CLC-ELDONA.
Many members already know because they have left the synods in the thousands, leaving the officials with their titles, salaries, crumbling properties, secrets, and dictatorial malignancies. Following are the basics for this debacle.
The Failed But Malignant KJV Revision, 1881
The foundational error was the rejection of the Apostolic Text (New Testament) and the Hebrew Old Testament. That started in earnest with the apostates creating the 1881 Revision of the King James Bible, which continued to fester even though that liberal American-British project was a complete failure.
From KJV Revision to the Revised Standard Version - 1952
Many scholars among the Presbyterians and the Lutherans were caught up in that Revision, to some extent, . Lenski, who was loathed and silenced by his own synod, offered a complete set of New Testament commentaries, still used today. However, he was also caught up in the text corruptions developed from using Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus, known as frauds but protected and praised by the radicals. He was one of many. (He often cited the KJV Revision in his commentaries.) After all, by the time National Council of Churches' Bible came out - the Revised Standard Version - the Virgin Birth had become "behold, a young woman will conceive" - not much of a miracle direct from God.
The RSV opened the way for denominations to gradually and dishonestly drop the KJV. The Wisconsin Synod's seminary graduates began the corrupting influence of the NIV, making fun of the KJV as they spread their mocking enlightenment around the congregations, as vicars and as young pastors. How did they learn that? - from their infallible college and seminary professors. Likewise, the spirit of Seminex rose early in the LCMS while the "conservative" ALC played the same game of watering down the Scriptures, changing passages, and erasing them, notably the Empty Tomb and resurrection in Mark 16.
I know of WELS pastors who were outright fired for using the KJV instead of the notoriously bad NIV.
Slipping Away from Greek and Running from Hebrew
Today the synod students listed above hardly study Greek and avoid Hebrew. Summer Greek has become the winter of their discontent, a joke. That means the students have almost no grasp of the Scriptures, and almost never use the Apostolic (Traditional) Greek text, which is far less costly that the Union Bible Society version. (I know, United, but it includes all denominations and religions.)
The synods are really all the same now, and they know it. One clue is that they all use a rainbow of translations and remain indifferent to the pablum they are feeding their members. They use the ESV from the National Council of Churches license! ELCA uses all kinds of "translations" in their printed liturgy material, meaning, "Everyone knows. Anything goes."
Another clue is that the synods are injected with Fuller Seminary nonsense and imagine the alternative is Romanism. I have watched the LCMS District President fancy themselves in fancy robes as Bishops! Miters are on the way, starting from the bottom (ELDONA) up.
This has all happened because people let the rot begin and wanted more of the same. Believers will regroup in time and find the efficacious Word in the Means of Grace, not Pasadena and Rome.
