# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S603
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PUBLICATION MATTERS

dicals, have been valuable tools of Synod

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in carrying out its extensive program,

Resolved, That this convention express its appreciation to all
of those who were engaged in writing and editing the large volume
of material that was produced during the past triennium.

Publish Its Own Bible Translation
(Memorial 709) .

Give Us a Good Bible!

Ten years have passed since the RSV New Testament first

appeared. By this time we should have had a sound, Christian
favorable pub-

estimate of it. But we have had, instead, a lot of
licity which has not helped us.

We have looked for information about the translators of the
RSV. But there has been nothing about them in our periodicals.
When we read the books of these translators, we find that, as
a group, they deny every article of our Christian faith. Their
coarse rejection of the Savior horrifies every sincere Christian.

The RSV comes from these Modernists, and their unbelief is
expressed in the RSV. There are at least thirty-nine important
passages of the Bible into which they have injected their Mod-
ernism. Twenty-seven of these passages are about the person
and the work of Christ. How can we praise such a version? Doesn’t
anyone who praises it also recommend the denials of the Christian
faith which are expressed in these passages?

The enemies of Christ have most fiercely attacked the Old

Testament. Therefore many Old Testament prophecies have been

changed in the RSV so that they no more speak clearly of the

coming Savior. Our children cannot recite such passages as they
ry to the best

are in the RSV in our Christmas services. Contra
evidence, the RSV has taken the virgin birth out of Is.7:14. But
the Concordia Theological Monthly (March 1956, p. 176) tells us
that those who criticize the RSV in regard to Is.7:14 are “con-
juring up a difficulty which does not exist.”

The RSV has removed the deity of Christ from Paul’s clear
statement in Rom. 9:5. This removal of the deity of Christ is
treated with a tolerance as though it were of little importance to
us (Concordia Theological Monthly, 1956, p.174). The RSV trans-
lators have boldly injected their Unitarian unbelief into their
translation of Phil. 2:6: According to the RSV, the deity of Christ
was something “to be grasped” and therefore. Christ was not really
God during His suffering and death. But the Concordia Theological
Monthly (March 1956, p. 175) says about this passage: “The RSV’s
rendering of v.6 appears preferable to that of KJV.”

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