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3.20.2008

Interview with Critical Text Proponent Maestroh (Bill Brown)


ME: So you really don't like not only the Authorized Version of the Word of God but the manuscripts underlying the AV?

MAESTROH: To say I don't like them is quite false and very nonacademic. We don't speak in such terms in the academy. However you of course couldn't be expected to know that. You see, in the academy these matters are spoken of very differently than at the level of the general lay person. But let's set that aside and allow me to articulate the subject in a way you may be more able to understand...

ME: Are you wearing a hair piece?

MAESTROH: If I were you wouldn't be able to tell.

ME: It's an academia hair piece?

MAESTROH: Hm, so, allow me to articulate the subject at hand in a way you will have more of a possibility to grasp so that you nor I will chance on wasting our precious time, though I suspect my current doctrinal work surpasses a bit in importance your need to get to your favorite television program, hm, yes?

ME: Yes, continue, Maestroh.

MAESTROH: OK, first of all-

ME: Oh, no. Could you summarize everything in one point? I have a very short attention span.

MAESTROH: You're absolutely correct, and I doon't knew why I didn't think of it myself! Bravo. Here it is: you're an idiot, and you must accept what your betters say. Concise enough, young Alcibiades?

ME: Yes, perfect, except my brain exploded at the Alcibiades reference.

MAESTROH: So sorry, should have kept that one to myself. I'll think better of it next time.

ME: Very good. So, when Erasmus rejected the very readings you champion he wasn't listening to his betters?

MAESTROH: Oh, dear. You mean Erasmus the pig-buggering, clinically insane opponent of Luther regarding the will of man?

ME: Is that ad hominem?

MAESTROH: That's a Latin term, and you've misspelled it.

ME: I said it out loud.

MAESTROH: It's still a Latin term, and you should be shot for uttering it.

ME: Forgive me, Maestroh, for using a Latin term.

MAESTROH: It's not that you've used it, it's that you don't understand it. Ad hominem is a form of argument that rests on prejudice rather than on proof, designed to influence emotion rather than intellect.

ME: Pig-buggering, clinically insane...

MAESTROH: Now back to the facts. Westcott and Hort-

ME: Madame Blavatsky's dog walkers...

MAESTROH: Now see what you've engaged in just now is called ad hominem. Learn something. You haven't made an argument, you've attacked the reputation of two of the greatest Christian scholars not only of the 19th century but since Christ.

ME: The 19th century was a golden age of Christian scholarship. Charles Finney, Scofield, Joseph Smith...

MAESTROH: Guilt by association. More fallacious delinquency.

ME: Back to Erasmus...

MAESTROH: Yes, Erasmus, a man who dined on blood with the Pope of his day...

ME: Ad homnibus and guilty asocialization, sir! Here, here!

(Suffice to say Maestroh didn't come around to my way of seeing things. It just isn't taught in the academy. I did get out of him though the title of his work-in-progress doctoral thesis: "Reasons the Shepherd of Hermas should not be presented as canonical to the general lay audience until such time as they are educated and prepared sufficiently for the truth." It should be available to Christian scholars, he said, within a couple of years...)

5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

There's some eternal sophomore over at James White's blog writing a series on textual criticism and using the Romanist-tainted term "laymen" and "lay person" in every other sentence. "The lay people are confused. We must carefully explain to them the discipline of how we scholars go about discovering the Word of God and hence what they are to believe and hold to be authoritative. It is something that calls for the highest of excellence in scholarship."

The Critical Text scholars have entered a comical realm similar to Darwinian evolutionist academics. "We're the intelligent ones, can't you recognize that!?! Of course you can't, because you're ignorant lay people!!! We will tell you what the Word of God is!!! So what if the Reformation thing had their own ideas regarding all this, did they have phones in their cars back then? Did they get to figure everything out and get all the credit for eternity? We are intellectuals too!!! We know much more now than they did back then too!!! If you continue to ignore us you will be forced to obey!!! We will burn you alive!!! That will put fear into all of you!!! You will show respect to those who are above you!!! You ignorant little ungrateful heretics!!!!! Waldensians!!!! You think you're like them, don't you??!! God's special little people!!! Look what happened to them!!! Burned, slaughtered, man, woman, child, infant!!! And God bless the good Christians who did it!!! Stamp out that pride!!! That heresy!!! We will deal with you "received Word of God" people!!!!!! Just wait!!!!!!!!!!" - ct

March 20, 2008 at 4:20 AM  
Blogger Maestroh said...

To be clever, satire must be based on truth. What you posted here - while I'm honored that you don't have time to debate this in a cross-exam format, but you do have time to post insults about me - is Inquisitional type thinking.

So you're UK67 and c.t. - and nobody knows your name. And you think such deception is representing God greatly, do you?

Once again - the challenge has been laid down. It is time to put up or shut up. Do you wish to debate the issue of KJV Onlyism or not? You have already indicated you cannot - while spreading lies about me for the whole world to see.

The Judge who gave His Son does not wink at the cleverness of your own depravity.

April 2, 2008 at 9:08 AM  
Blogger The Puritan said...

You write:

>To be clever, satire must be based on truth. What you posted here - while I'm honored that you don't have time to debate this in a cross-exam format, but you do have time to post insults about me - is Inquisitional type thinking.

I suppose it's best that we allow neutral observers to determine how much truth is in my 'interview' with you and in your 'interviews' with other people.

Meanwhile, as to a debate: once again, you tried that on the PuritanBoard with Winzer and Rafalsky, and the results are still there for all to see (your footprints making a hasty retreat). I myself would just continue to make fun of you because your whole thing is to say that what came out of Madame Blavatsky's nether region is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness...

April 3, 2008 at 2:26 PM  
Blogger c.t. said...

I've given your response much more visibility by making it a post. Now my vast audience over here will know of your PuritanBoard adventure...

April 3, 2008 at 2:42 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Nice satire. I have seen this infidel's writings on other forums as well, and he is quite in love with his pea-brain, and full of intolerant hate for anyone daring to question or challenge his heretical views, or the fact that he is addicting to lying.

January 24, 2010 at 10:46 PM  

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