If the New Bible Versions Cannot Agree about Their Greek Text, How Can They Strut about Their Virtues?They Contradict Their Earlier Editions, Too!

 Dynamic Equivalence from Eugene Nida replaced the concept of precise translation in the KJV.

 

An important point comes from the various books about text criticism. The so-called modern, "scientific" Greek text of the New Testament does not come from a single source. No, it is patched together by the committees and sub-committees appointed to oversee them. 

The modern translations - paraphrases, to be honest - do not agree at all about how to treat the text they claim to own, copyright, brand, and protect. Even their own editions are at war with each other. For example, the first RSV dropped the ending of Mark's Gospel, after Mark 16:8. Next - after the furor - they brought it back up from the footnote to the chapter with a space between verse 8 ("for they were afraid") and verse 9. Likewise, they turned the Virgin Birth of Isaiah 7:10 into a woman having a child in the first RSV Old Testament. Then they replaced "young woman" with virgin in the next edition and put "or, young woman" in the footnote. That footnote is a shining example of denying the Two Natures in Christ, human and divine, and the truth of the Gospel, Jesus Christ dying for our sins and rising from the dead.

We can make judgments on Bible versions and their deficiencies without being professors of text criticism who know 10 ancient and modern languages. Basic logic shows how empty their claims are - that they take comfort in creating a monopoly over the Bible, getting friendly kisses and hugs from the Church of Rome.

Much of the prejudice of 19th century rationalists taint the explanations of the 21st century experts. For example, the 19th century rationalists reasoned that the simple narratives about the Jesus the Teacher turned into elaborate Gospels and apostolic letters. Therefore, these apostates argued that the simpler Gospel of Mark was the original one, with Matthew and Luke "adding Q to their versions." They have never found that Q document, which has nothing to do with Trump supporters. Nevertheless, modern Biblical scholarship - to stretch the term scholarship - still harkens back to that notion. Many, if not all professors, think Mark was the earliest and crudest Gospel.

If we read the Gospel of Mark straight through, it is clearly stressing the miracles performed by Jesus Christ and at the end, the Passion. Rationalists are allergic to miracles, so that annoys them. They are very sensitive about divine healing and the Virgin Birth, even more about the Resurrection. When I wrote a letter to each ELCA seminary about whether any professor taught the Virgin Birth and the actual Resurrection, only one letter came back  - and that had a maybe on the Resurrection. That was the best they could do. 

If we end the second Gospel at Mark 16:8, there is no Resurrection and no Virgin Birth. According to the modernists, Jesus is a miracle worker because people loved Him and followed Him. Should we bind the wounds or make the road to Jericho safe? (That is the Social Gospel twist on the Good Samaritan, thank you Walter Rauschenbusch, rationalist Baptist.) Every text of the Bible is really a call to arms "to make the world a better place" because "justice demands that we act now!"

The Scriptures do not shape the agenda; the agenda imprisons the Scriptures. 

Testing this notion, we can see that WELS-LCMS-ELS-ELDONA are indifferent about translations and what they really mean. They agree on hating and banning the KJV, but their alternatives show hatred or indifference about Christian doctrine and the actual wording of the Bible.

The old NIV led the way in denying the sacraments and teaching Church Growth (Make disciples!). The new NIV does more of the same and deliberately perverts Romans into teaching that the entire world is forgiven. 

New NIV Romans 3: Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. 

KJV Romans 3:22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: 23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; 24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

The Fort Whiners are weak on Biblical languages, much like their idol CFW Walther. No wonder Objective Justification and its twin, Universalism, find advocates and comfort there.

So you see, there is nothing in this post that requires years of Biblical languages to see that massive deception of the modern Bibles - all of them under the umbrella of Eugene Nida's Bible associations (ABS, UBS) and his invention of "dynamic equivalence." 

Do you believe the New NIV is the dynamic equivalence of the KJV? Hardly! The New NIV is the opposite, which is just what the rationalists and the Romanists want.

The high church smells and bells Lutheran clergy are ferocious about every little detail in copying Rome, and that includes obedience to their Father Below and veneration of Holy Mother Church.

The Great Biblical Perversion - Replacing the KJV and Majority Text.WELS New Calvinistic Hymnal Is All NIV

 

Today we have fairly dense fog, which reminds me of Kurt Aland's boast. All the denominations have united with the Church of Rome to produce the snip and clip, copy and paste text of the Bible. Aland calls it the "Standard Text." They have expelled the Majority Text, used since the Reformation.

 Barbara and Kurt Aland

Apparently the earlier name - the Eclectic Text - did not roll smoothly off the tongue - or brain. Eclectic gave away the truth - they assembled a text that is not found anywhere in this universe, picking and choosing, and constantly changing their minds. A new edition of "the Greek text" can have thousands of changes, but no matter - they are in charge.

 Between the *** - WELS has no self-awareness about their pick of the worst translation ever, but it does deceitfully promote OJ.

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Hands off the Bible! - WELS Fulminations in Royal Purple

The Bible is God’s Word. He doesn’t want us to pick and choose what we believe. 

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A few men and even fewer women made those choices.

Rev. Simpleton (MDiv, Ft. Wayne, DMin Fuller Seminary) is satisfied. "Now we have a standard text!" 

No so fast. Each new translation (paraphrase) picks and chooses the text they use for their English version and carry on a footnote debate with that. The highly promoted ones - NIV, NRSV, ESV - do not agree with each other, except for rejecting the Majority Text and the KJV.

The New KJV changes its English, with new editions, whenever the itch is there. They also have quasi-KJV English footnotes smooching up to Kurt Aland. M is for Majority Text and NU is for Nestle-Aland-United Bible Societies. This accentuates the propaganda that the modern text critics have the oldest, best, most accurate original.

I have quite a pile of books on text criticism, so one fact struck me - Vaticanus (B) is a ghostly figure with very little said about it. Vaticanus has supposedly been owned by the Vatican for centuries and was completely ignored. Although it is newly promoted as the co-exemplar with Sinaiticus, the codex was ignored until recent times and disagrees with Aleph extensively.

Another fun fact - they often show a type set version of an old text because the original is extremely difficult to read. So what people see is really an edition, not the real thing at all, even if they could translate what they see.

I have used the Greek New Testament for 55 years and I would not call myself an expert, so I truly wonder if all the New Testament professors in Lutheran colleges and seminaries really know what they are promoting with their modern texts and their hatred of the KJV and the Majority Text. It is easy for academics to fall into a rut of school matters, denominational busywork, and other distractions. "Synod says" solves so many problems.

 Eugene Nida wanted to get as far away from the text as possible - hence the Spanish Good News for Modern Man as the stepping stone for radical bad Bibles - TEV.

Eugene Nida was there the whole time, working away from the text and translation of the KJV. We could call him the Hort of 20th century, tremendously powerful from his century of connections, influential posts, and rewards. 

Has the English language improved from the simpleton translations sold to the public? Each new edition is worse than the previous one.

Cleaned Garage, Now Musing about Bible Wrecking

 

From Westcott Hort, to Nestle, to Aland - the harmonious KJV Majority Text was replaced by an imaginary one, where omitted passages and words were favored.

I did the work of several men this morning, mostly because there were no conflicting opinions. I opened the garage door for light and went to work. Faithful Sassy watched by the driveway, to make sure no one stole the junk I was throwing away.

The couch has been declared a no-laundry zone, so I fixed up a little used open chrome closet, from our dear friend Mike, Ranger Bob's sainted brother. Two bookshelves were ooched over to replace it and the chrome contraption was ooched over to be close to the washer and dryer. The bookshelves are the remainer of our library room in Phoenix.

 Tischendorf

While I was working, I thought about the effect of four con-artists on the English-speaking Bible. Doubtless that spread to other translations simply of their international influence in texts and translations. Sometimes I compare the Luther Bible to the other German Bibles and see the same decay.

How did this happen? First of all, Tischendorf made a name for himself with a manuscript where the valuable writing was erased to be replaced by Ephraim the Obscure. He found the writing underneath and became famous.

His next two adventures involved Sinaiticus and Vaticanus, two highly suspicious manuscripts that he pumped, inflating his reputation.

Meanwhile, Hort was dreaming about getting rid of the traditional New Testament text behind the KJV, called the Received Text, or Majority Text, or the Stephanus. Almost all existing manuscripts and scraps and versions and lectionaries and quotations support the Greek text of the KJV.

Westcott and Hort secretly prepared their own Greek New Testament, based on wild non-sensical rules and their hatred of the KJV. When the revision of the KJV came out, the Westcott Hort Greek New Testament was revealed at last. The English revision failed (except in America it became the NASB), but the Westcott Hort took over. 

The late Kurt Aland declared the Majority Text defeated and dubbed his constantly changing Westcott Hort variation - The Standard Text of the New Testament.

Eugene Nida had tremendous influence and took great liberties with his PhD, longevity, and leverage through the United Bible Societies.

To cap the destructive actions, Eugene Nida introduced an entirely new way of translating, which inserted or erased concepts in the actual text. The best example is Romans 3 now declaring "all" are justified, which matches the dogma of LCMS-WELS-ELCA and the apostate mainline denominations. 

It only took four dishonest men to accomplish this:

1. Tischendorf's magical minority manuscripts;
2. Hort's fanatical hatred of the KJV and love for Romanism;
3. Westcott's partnership and support;
4. Eugene Nida's translation revolution - dynamic equivalence - or, Who Do You Trust?*

* I know it should be whom, but that would be "wooden" in an age where grammar don't matter nohow.

The Villain Nobody Knows - Eugene Nida. Used Nida Books Sell for $100!

Walther Rauschenbusch is an example of liberal Baptist thinking, or rather a re-thinking the Bible. If you are meeting at Rauschenbusch Hall, you are not in a Southern Babtist camp.

VI. Eugene Nida United the Roman Catholics and Protestants with Bad Paraphrases Called Dynamic Equivalence Translation

 

              Pastors and laity will little note nor long remember the name of Eugene Nida, who was born in 1914 and captured the world of Bible translation because of poor health on his first trip to Mexico. Nevertheless, he lived to be 96 years old, and was hailed with his glorious but erroneous epitaph:

“The promotion of professional expertise, the development of translation theory and of translation procedures based on such theory, began when Eugene A. Nida joined the American Bible Society staff in 1943.” For more than fifty years, Gene Nida was the leader of the translation program of the American Bible Society, and subsequently the intellectual leader of the global program of the United Bible Societies, as well as consultant to that organization.[1]

In the Biblical field, Nida’s name is often spoken with the enthusiasm of a sports fan or gambler on a winning streak. Left unspoken is the abrupt change from the precise translation of the Biblical text to the barbaric paraphrasing and mistranslation of God’s Word. Nida was not a quiet translator bent over the text, praying for guidance in giving the revelation of God to a new audience. He was a manager of translations everywhere and an activist uniting everyone under one umbrella, his new style playing with the words of the Bible.

              The history of New Testament text editing brought forth a completely new text, one which never saw the light of day in earlier times. The current Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament is a deliberate rejection of Traditional Text, which is called the Majority Text for its overwhelming dominance. Note this simple fact -

The New Testament has been preserved in more manuscripts than any other ancient work of literature, with over

5,800 complete or fragmented Greek manuscripts catalogued,

10,000 Latin manuscripts and

9,300 manuscripts in various other ancient languages including Syriac, Slavic, Gothic, Ethiopic, Coptic and Armenian. The dates of these manuscripts range from c. 125 (the 𝔓52 papyrus, oldest copy of John fragments)…[2]

Following Hort and Wescott, Nestle-Aland buried the Traditional Text and replaced it with their own invention – the best, the purest, the most scientific Greek text ever, so perfect that individual Greek words are voted on and off the Standard Text – as they call it, tongue in cheek. The Bible societies of the world no longer print the Traditional (Majority) Text of the King James Version, but the current Nestle-Aland. Thus the playful – or careless – attitude of the Nestle-Aland monopoly is echoed by the carnival approach of Nida’s offspring.

 

Nida’s Physical Collapse – The Beginning of Unified Paraphrasing

            Nida attended a summer camp for training Bible translators – Camp Wycliffe, run by Cameron Townsend. Nida had just finished bachelor’s degree summa cum laude at the University of California. He was not sure what he wanted to do, so the invitation connected him to his childhood training in the Bible. However, when he joined others in a working trip to Northwestern Mexico, work and the climate contributed to a major breakdown in his health. Recovering back in the US, he enrolled in a master’s program at the University of Southern California. In 1943, he completed a PhD at the University of Michigan. His doctrinal orientation was indicated by ordination in the Northern Baptist Convention, in 1943, where Social Gospel leader Walther Rauschbusch and the John D. Rockefeller Senior and Junior were members.

            The rationalistic doctrine of Rauschenbusch is clearly revealed in his interpretation of the miraculous in the Gospels, his Yale lectures on the Social Gospel in 1917.[3] Human reason explains them away, so the basic words of the New Testament are used to claim their meaning was quite different. Jesus died on the cross to show His solidarity with the poor. The miracles are not miracles at all, but somehow express something important. I attended an American Baptist camp in the 1960s, and we met in Rauschenbusch Hall where the Social Gospel leader was treated with great reverence. That shows how different Northern (now American) Baptists are, compared to Southern Baptists, though the differences are fading. The same is happening with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, sharing so much in common with the Missouri Synod, Wisconsin Synod, and the Evangelical Lutheran Synod.

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[1] Philip Stine, Eugene A. Nida: Theoretician of Translation, http://www.internationalbulletin.org/issues/2012-01/2012-01-038-stine.html, quoting William A. Smalley, Translation as Mission: Bible Translation in the Modern Missionary Movement (Macon, Ga.: Mercer Univ. Press, 1991), p. 28.

[2]Biblical Manuscript, retrieved from - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_manuscript#:~:text=The%20New%20Testament%20has%20been,%2C%20Ethiopic%2C%20Coptic%20and%20Armenian.

 

[3] My Notre Dame dissertation was about A. D. Mattson, who was converted to the Social Gospel at Yale Divinity, and taught at Augustana Seminary for three decades. His inaugural address, after gaining tenure at the school, was on the Social Gospel.

Wescott Hort laid the egg - and Nida hatched it.