Dear Pastor Jackson,
LCMS
pastors are oblivious to the fact that they have once again caused
doubt in the resurrection of Christ by using the ESV Bible to suggest
Mark 16:9-20 is actually not present in the text. They are not afraid to
speak a word against God the Holy Ghost saying, "We do not have the
original autographs, therefore we do not have any words God inspired the
prophets and apostles to write with any certainty." They place this
footnote in reference to the entire Bible. No Bible translation or
Hebrew text, or Greek Text is immune from this blasphemous footnote
against God the Holy Ghost.
Back in the 1990's I
was seriously considering going to seminary to become a LCMS pastor. At
that time I was working at Caterpillar in Joliet, Illinois. The Joliet
plant manufactured the massive 994G wheel loader. I was in charge of
coordinating engineering changes on the line. It was awesome when they
cranked up the 16 cylinder Cat diesel engines and wound them up to full
throttle. I had a great boss who would let me take vacation days. So I
would take a few days off work and head for Ft. Wayne Seminary to talk
with professors of theology and sit in on their classes. I even went to
several seminars for laymen. I would stay overnight in the dorm and
became friends with many of the seminary students.
On
Sunday morning, I would attend Zion Lutheran Church and listen to
Matthew Harrison preach. After one of the services, we discussed the
TEXTUS RECEPTUS and how LCMS should return to it. I even told him the
"critical apparatus" was worthless and created doubt rather than
certainty. It would list all the "earlier more accurate" manuscripts to
create doubt in the pure Word of God in the Greek TEXTUS RECEPTUS.
Toward the end of our discussion Pastor Harrison leaned forward and with
seemingly genuine sincerity said, "Tom it would be so much easier to
just go back to the TEXTUS RECEPTUS". I said, "Amen".
Later
in the afternoon, I visited the Ft. Wayne Seminary library. I searched
and searched and searched for at least one copy of the Greek TEXTUS
RECEPTUS. I found many copies of the corrupt Nestle-Aland Greek Text.
Finally I found a dog eared battered TEXTUS RECEPTUS. It was completely
abandoned and forgotten on the bottom shelf.
But
God the Holy Ghost never abandoned His pure Words He preserved for us
in the Greek TEXTUS RECEPTUS: Words He inspired the prophets and
apostles to write thousands of years ago. He is the Spirit of truth and
guides us into all truth. He attached Himself to the Greek TEXTUS
RECEPTUS for 400 years with no blasphemous successful challenges from
the enemy.
Finally Satan launched his most
successful blasphemous and cunning attack against God the Holy Ghost and
His Words that He preserved for us in the Greek TEXTUS RECEPTUS. Satan
commissioned two men to launch a most successful, cunning, deceitful,
and blasphemous attack.
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I bought a Wescott and Hort Greek New Testament. I was surprised that "Son of God" was omitted from Mark 1:1 - with no explanation or references below. |
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BibleGateway.com provides all these Greek New Testaments for free on their site. Ask your pastor about the Westcot and Hort. The Stephanus is the Textus Receptus or Traditional Greek Text. |
Here comes Bishop
Wescott and Reverend Hort to print their own Greek text with the
fraudulent Greek Texts (Sinaticus and Vaticanus) promoted by sneaky
Tischendorf (see pgs. 170-189, The King James Version: Apostolic Texts,
Precise Translation verses Fraudulent Texts and Heretical Translations;
Gregory L. Jackson, PhD, ISBN 9798429093451). Oh my! We are getting in
the weeds too much! Let's take a break. I still need to prepare for the
First Sunday after Easter.
So I open the
English Standard Version LCMS pew Bible to Acts 1 and begin reading.
Everything seems somewhat fine. Wait a minute! Something is missing in
Acts 1:3. I type in Bible gateway on my cell phone and pull up Acts 1:3
in the King James Version:
"To
whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible
proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things
pertaining to the kingdom of God:" Acts 1:3
The
word "infallible" is missing from the corrupt ESV. There is no
footnote from a renowned doctor of theology. They just removed it to
get rid of the absolute infallible proofs of Christ's resurrection from
the dead. Here are the words God the Holy Ghost attaches Himself to
today in Acts 1:1-5
1 The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,
2 Until
the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost
had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:
3 To
whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible
proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things
pertaining to the kingdom of God:
4 And,
being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not
depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which,
saith he, ye have heard of me.
5 For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.
I was so excited by my discovery I told my LCMS friend that the ESV omitted the word "infallible" from Acts 1:3.
My
friend yawned deeply and replied, "Oh it doesn't matter. The ESV is the
Word of God the same as the King James!! It's close enough. Quit being
so picky. Hey did you see the Cardinal's baseball lineups." I had to
laugh because I needed to laugh at his puppy like instinct to run away
from a potential spanking from the true Word of God in the King James
Bible. My friend's puppy play puts him under the control of Satan's
ultimate footnote referencing all Bibles:
"We
do not have the original autographs, therefore we do not have any words
God inspired the prophets and apostles to write with any certainty."
Oh,
I forgot to mention the decadent wine and cheese tasting I stupidly
attended with renowned Fort Wayne professors of theology and other
Lutheran Laymen and seminary students. I wanted to ask the professors
challenging questions about the corrupt Nestle-Aland Greek omitting
"Theos" (God) from 1 Timothy 3:16.
"God was manifest in the flesh" 1 Timothy 3:16
They
were NOT amused! "How dare you interrupt our decadent wine and cheese
tasting get together!! HOW DARE YOU have the audacity to question the
Nestle-Aland Greek Text!!!. We do not have the original autographs,
therefore we do not have any words God inspired the prophets and
apostles to write with any certainty."
Wait,
Wait, Hold on guys. No need for you to get all feathered out! I didn't
do it!!!! Honest! God did it!! Yes, God the Holy Ghost perfectly
preserved the Words He inspired the prophets and apostles to write. He
preserved them in the Greek TEXTUS RECEPTUS and the translations that
followed (Luther's 1545 Bible, King James Bible, and many more). So
everything you say against the Greek TEXTUS RECEPTUS and it's
translations (Luther's 1545 German Bible, King James Bible and many
more) is spoken against God the Holy Ghost.
In contrast listen to pastor Gregory Jackson, PhD describe his professor at Yale:
"Yale's
Nils Dahl asked his doctoral seminar what they knew for certain about
the New Testament. We were all stymied. He said, "The text! The text! We
have the text!" That is how he moved away from 19th century apostate
theories." (See Figure 18 on pg. 189; The King James Version: Apostolic
Texts, Precise Translation verses Fraudulent Texts and Heretical
Translations; Gregory L. Jackson, PhD; ISBN 9798429093451 ).
6 The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
7 Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever. Psalm 12:6,7
In Christ
Tom Fisher