The Roll of Honor and the Synodical Big Picture

 

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.

Eat For Life - By Dr. Joel Fuhrman

I re-discovered Eat for Life when looking over my library. This book and Super-Immunity are excellent books for learning about food nutrition. Yesterday I wrote about all the bad foods we eat, loaded with fat, salt, sugar, sugars, and fake sugar. 

One of the best ways to start eliminating those damaging foods is to study their package labels and to learn about the good foods - greens, beans, fruit, nuts, and seeds. The best nutrition summaries of these foods is to Google "the nutritional value of..." I knew next to nothing about the good, unprocessed foods found in the produce department and a wee bit of them in the freezers. Our "largest WM in Arkansas" has one entire bank of freezers for ice cream, its crafts and assaults, but only one half of a bank for greens, raw vegetables, and frozen fruit. Yes, the rest of the nutritional freezer bank is filled with packaged, enhanced (salty, spicy, seasoned) frozen goods, much more expensive. Seasoned frozen blah-blah can cost many times more than its simply frozen counterpart. Check it out. Schocking!

The main leafy greens are kale, turnip greens, spinach, and collards. They have almost no calories.

Kale -

A single cup, or 21 grams (g), of raw kale contains (1Trusted Source):

• Calories: 7
• Carbs: 1 g
• Fiber: 1 g
• Vitamin K: 68% of the Daily Value (DV)
• Vitamin C: 22% of the DV
• Manganese: 8% of the DV
• Vitamin A: 6% of the DV
• Riboflavin: 5% of the DV
• Calcium: 4% of the DV

Spinach is an excellent source of many vitamins and minerals, including (3):

• Vitamin A. Spinach is high in carotenoids, which your body can turn into vitamin A.
• Vitamin C. This vitamin is a powerful antioxidant that promotes skin health and immune function.
• Vitamin K1. This vitamin is essential for blood clotting. Notably, one spinach leaf contains over half of your daily needs.
• Folic acid. Also known as folate or vitamin B9, this compound is vital for pregnant women and essential for normal cellular function and tissue growth.
• Iron. Spinach is an excellent source of this essential mineral. Iron helps create hemoglobin, which brings oxygen to your body’s tissues.
• Calcium. This mineral is essential for bone health and a crucial signaling molecule for your nervous system, heart, and muscles.

Spinach also contains several other vitamins and minerals, including potassium, magnesium, and vitamins B6, B9, and E.

Spinach contains several important plant compounds, including (4Trusted Source, 5Trusted Source, 6Trusted Source, 7Trusted Source, 8, 9Trusted Source, 10Trusted Source):

• Lutein. This compound is linked to improved eye health.
• Kaempferol. This antioxidant may decrease your risk of cancer and chronic diseases.
• Nitrates. Spinach contains high amounts of nitrates, which may promote heart health.
• Quercetin. This antioxidant may ward off infection and inflammation. Spinach is one of the richest dietary sources of quercetin.
• Zeaxanthin. Like lutein, zeaxanthin can also improve eye health.

The same type of nutritional value comes from frozen, unprocessed broccoli, carrots, green beans, peas, lima beans, onions-green-and-red peppers sliced, sliced onions alone, cauliflower, and brussels sprouts. 

The combination of greens and vegetables is satisfying, very nutritious and inexpensive, lacking in added salt.

I found super high salt content in my (former) favorite bread, in some canned beans but not others, in shockingly packaged pizza, snacks, and pre-cooked meals like Marie Calendars. I left one in the fridge with 650 mg of salt in one serving. I have found a can of beans with over 1,000 mg of salt, but the Cicero peas only 120 mg. I am keeping the 1,000 mg beans to use as snow melt.

If we are not satisfied with the super-salty processed meats, we can use ketchup and mustard to enhance their salinity with their contribution of salt. 

Daily Luther Sermon Quote - Epiphany 3 - "Therefore we here conclude and declare that in baptism the children themselves believe and have their own faith, which God effects in them through the sponsors, when in the faith of the Christian church they intercede for them and bring them to baptism."

 

Complete Sermon -> Third Sunday after Epiphany. The Leper and Healing the Centurion's Servant

Therefore we here conclude and declare that in baptism the children themselves believe and have their own faith, which God effects in them through the sponsors, when in the faith of the Christian church they intercede for them and bring them to baptism. And this is what we call the power of alien faith: not that anybody can be saved by it, but that through it as an intercession and aid he can obtain from God himself his own faith, by which he is saved. It may be compared to my natural life and death. If I am to live, I myself must be born, and nobody can be born for me to enable me to live; but mother and midwife can by their life aid me in birth and enable me to live. In the same way I myself must suffer death, if I am to die; but one can help to bring about my death, if he frightens me, or falls upon me, or chokes, crushes or suffocates me. In like manner, nobody can go to hell for me; but he can seduce me by false doctrine and life, so that I go thither by my own error, into which his error has led me. So nobody can go to heaven for me: but he can assist me, can preach, teach, govern, pray and obtain faith from God, through which I can go to heaven. This centurion was not healed of the palsy of his servant; but yet he brought it about that his servant was restored to health.

32. So here we also say, that children are not baptized in the faith of the sponsors or of the church; but the faith of sponsors and of the church prays and gains faith for them, in which they are baptized and believe for themselves. For this we have strong and firm Scripture proof, Matthew 19:13-15; Mark 10:13-16; Luke 18:15-16. When some brought little children to the Lord Jesus that he should touch them, and the disciples forbade them, he rebuked the disciples, and embraced the children, and laid his hands upon them and blessed them, and said: “To such belongeth the kingdom of God” etc. These passages nobody will take from us, nor refute with good proof. For here is written: Christ will permit no one to forbid that little children should be brought to him; nay, he bid them to be brought to him, and blesses them and gives to them the kingdom of heaven. Let us give due heed to this Scripture.

33. This is undoubtedly written of natural children. The interpretation of Christ’s words, as if he had meant only spiritual children, who are small in humility, will not stand. For they were small children as to their bodies, which Luke calls infants. His blessing is placed upon these, and of these he says that the kingdom of heaven is theirs. Will we say they were without faith of their own? Then the passages quoted above are untrue: “He that disbelieveth shall be condemned.” Then Christ also speaks falsely or feigns, when he says the kingdom of heaven is theirs, and is not really speaking of the true kingdom of heaven. Interpret these words of Christ as you please, we have it that children are to be brought to Christ and not to be forbidden to be brought: and when they are brought to Christ, he here compels us to believe that he blesses them and gives to them the kingdom of heaven, as he does with these children. And it is in no way proper for us to act and believe otherwise as long as the words stand: “Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not.” Not less is it proper for us to believe that when they are brought to him he embraces them, blesses them, and bestows upon them heaven, as long as the text stands that he blessed the children which were brought to him and gave heaven to them. Who can ignore this text? Who will be so bold as not to suffer little children to come to baptism, or not to believe that Christ blesses them when they come ?

34. He is just as present in baptism now as he was then: this we Christians know for certain. Therefore we dare not forbid baptism to children. Nor dare we doubt that he blesses all who come thither, as he did those children. So then there is nothing left here but the piety and faith of those who brought the little children to him. By bringing them, they effect and aid that the little children are blessed and obtain the kingdom of heaven; which cannot be the case unless they themselves have their own faith, as has been said. So we also say here, that children are brought to baptism by the faith and work of others; but when they get there and the pastor or baptizer deals with them in Christ’s stead, he blesses them and grants to them the faith and the kingdom of heaven: for the word and deed of the pastor are the word and work of Christ himself.

35. With this agrees also what St. John says in his first Epistle,1 John 2:13: “I write unto you, fathers; I write unto you, young men; I have written unto you, little children.” He is not satisfied to write to the young men; he also writes to the children, and writes that they may know the Father. From this it follows that the apostles baptized children also, and held that they believe and know the Father, just as if they had attained to reason and could read. Although somebody might here interpret the word “children” as adults, as Christ designates his disciples sometimes: yet it is certain that here they are meant who are younger than the young men; so that it is evident he is speaking of young people who are under fifteen or eighteen years of age, and excludes nobody down to the first year: for these all are called children.