Thursday, April 4, 2024

 

Why train the pastors to be wolves instead of shepherds?


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. 

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.

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

The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,

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:

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:

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.

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 ).

The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever. Psalm 12:6,7


In Christ 

Tom Fisher