Kurtz und Schmertzlos

   The Germans have an idiom for describing a solution to a problem
that is arrived at quickly and easily: "short and painless." In America
it can be stated as "simplifying a problem and bringing it to a
conclusion without a lot of wasted time, money, hot air, and rhetoric."

   We here print the best summary I have ever seen of the "Battle for
the Bible" between the modern, apostate Fundamentalists who are engaged
in exalting MAN and humanism above the Book and the Lord, and Bible
believing Christians who still go by the Book instead of "following a
man."

   As anyone knows, the problem is much simpler than Christian
educators and Christian scholars would have you think. It is really so
simple it is funny. They want you to accept THEM as your final
authority over THE BOOK.

   As all humanists, they followed men instead of God, and since they
lost their faith in the Book they now want you to follow THEM and "join
the club," so to speak.

   This article is by Herb Evans, who has a great talent for seeing the
bare essentials of an issue and presenting them in the clearest and
plainest language. The article is quite timely, as it is "time to make
hay while the sun shines" for the apostates. The are going at it full
speed, FINALLY doing what we tried to get them to do for forty
years--openly admit that Christian scholarship is the highest authority
on this earth wherever it corrects the Book.

   It has been a battle to bring them into the open, but thanks to the
publications of Hymers and Hudson (flunkies who front for the
faculties) the lines are getting drawn clearer and clearer: those who
believe in THEMSELVES, and those who believe in the BOOK.

   This is the way we desired it to be. For ten years we have published
(in every issue of the BBB) the "Creed of the Alexandrian Cult," and
probably not more than ten thousand Christians took us seriously.

   Now five hundred thousand are going to have to take us seriously,
because every man-following "manuscriptolator" in America is
distributing literature to let them know that he has no final authority
above someone's OPINION. That is what we said in the "Creed" that we
printed. You will find it again in THIS issue.

   Look at the first and last points in the "Creed." They were printed
more than ten years ago. Read them carefully and note that they sum up
the entire teaching of The Sword of the Lord, The Ruckman Conspiracy,
Faith Magazine, The Baptist Bulletin, The Biblical Evangelist, Why I
Left Ruckmanism, and The Biblical Viewpoint. We were able to sum up the
entire teaching of all seven of these publications on the Bible in less
than twenty lines of print, and we printed it more than eight years
before these publications brought the issue to light.

   The complete, total, and entire teaching of Hymers, Hudson, Hutson,
Kutilek, Scumner, Duncan, Walker, Combs, Jennings, Moser, Bob Jones
III, Waite, McHugh, Melton, Afman, Martin, Price, Farstad, and their
supporters is that there is not one Book on this earth that they are in
subjection to, even though YOU are, and the final authority for YOU is
their OPINION ABOUT YOUR BOOK.

   Evans sums it up beautifully as follows:

   THE KING JAMES SCOREBOARD

   by Herb Evans

   The King James Only Crowd

   1. certain rude, crude, and lewd;

   2. certain overzealous zealots;

   3. certain flawed arguments;

   4. certain bitter polemics;

   5. certain unanswered questions;

   6. certain questionable doctrines;

   7. certain unethical behaviour;

   8. certain divorced brethren;

   9. certain matters of concubines;

   10. certain liars and kooks;

   11. certain misspellers;

   12. certain hyper-dispensationalists;

   13. certain interdenominationalists;

   14. certain Briders;

   15. certain super- and non-soul winners;

   16. no original manuscripts;

   17. more than six editions; a. spelling variations, b. grammar
variations, c. word variations, d. non-word for word translational
variations, e. variations from the original Koine Greek.

   18. history, scholarship, and men's traditions are no authority;

   19. scriptural quotations are sufficient to resolve the issue;

   20. use Scriptural terminology and clear positional proof-texts;

   21. God preserved His inspired word.

   The TR Only (and worse) Crowd

   1. certain rude, crude, and lewd;

   2. certain overzealous zealots;

   3. certain flawed arguments;

   4. certain bitter polemics;

   5. certain unanswered questions;

   6. certain questionable doctrines;

   7. certain unethical behaviour;

   8. certain divorced brethren;

   9. certain matters of concubines;

   10. certain liars and kooks;

   11. certain misspellers;

   12. certain hyper-dispensationalists;

   13. certain interdenominationalists;

   14. certain Briders;

   15. certain super and non-soul winners;

   16. no original manuscripts;

   17. more than six editions; a. spelling variations, b. grammar
variations, c. word variations, d. non-word for word translational
variations, e. variations from the original Knine Greek.

   18. history, scholarship, and men's traditions are the only
authority;

   19. scriptural quotations are not sufficient to resolve the issue;

   20. use extra-scriptural terminology and no clear positional proof-
texts;

   21. men preserved God's uninspired word (almost).

   A-1. Outstanding. You'll never see it any better--kurtz und
schmertzlos (German for "brief and painless"). Nothing else will ever
be said on this earth that will add anything more to the scoreboard--
on either side. The scoreboard is absolutely complete. Now choose sides
(Rom. 14:12).