Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Mike Wallace Interview with Margaret Sanger, Plann...":
Oh gee, how did I know that the first comment would have a something negative about the WELS? Well, at least it keeps with the topic of this blog--more WELS bashing. Only season the blog with other things the number one priority of this blog and its supporters is to speak ill of the WELS.
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GJ - The number one priority of this blog is carefully and precisely described - dealing with doctrinal apostasy.
How ironic that the Church and Changers--like the Brothers Gurgle and Kelm and Valleskey and Roth--advanced their careers by bashing WELS. The first thing I heard upon joining WELS was a sneering comment about "page 5 and 15" Lutherans. Church Growth offered something so superior to the liturgy, the creeds, original (Lutheran) sermons, and actual hymns.
Like the Global Warming frauds, the WELS Changers had to suppress anyone who was Lutheran while their wolf-pack made fun of the substance of the Gospel. It worked great until they ran out of money to loot from the synod, foundations, and Thrivent.
I am only too happy to bash false doctrine, which is the purpose of this blog. I have to make up for what the colleges, seminary, and feckless DPs failed to do. Luther said he had a prayer for the false teachers - May God dash them to the ground.
The WELS answer has been to promote false teachers to the highest positions possible.
Those with reading comprehension skills have noticed my regard for the new leadership of WELS, for the positive steps taken (alone among all the synods) toward confessional integrity. It was a long way down, as Mischke and Gurgle know, so the road back will be lengthy and difficult.
The person commenting is like the man who refuses a scan because it might show a cancer growing. "You're just patient-bashing!"
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Kitteh on Lemons Makes for a Sour Puss":
I too had a similar experience of hearing all the bashing of p. 5 and 15 by some in WELS who have gone on to full blown Enthusiasts. It bother me enough to actually find out why. That was learned by actually reading the confessions of the Lutheran church.
I just nearly broke out in holy laughter a few minutes ago, when I realized that I thought seminary graduates had actually READ or STUDIED the confessions. I mean, I would THINK they would when they say they "quia subscribe" to them, but then never teach them in classes. Funny how those things just kind of hit you out of the blue.
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GJ - Justifying all kinds of Babtist and pop music with "adiaphora" is proof they have never comprehended the Book of Concord. That is like saying, "I can drink that fluid because the label says it's poison."
More proof - "You are equating the Confessions with the Bible."
Bonus proof - "I worship Jesus, not Luther."
And even more - "You are a legalist."
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Oh gee, how did I know that the first comment would have a something negative about the WELS? Well, at least it keeps with the topic of this blog--more WELS bashing. Only season the blog with other things the number one priority of this blog and its supporters is to speak ill of the WELS.
14In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:
" 'You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
15For this people's heart has become calloused;
they hardly hear with their ears,
and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.'[a] 16But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.
Pr. Jackson, please continue the health checks of WELS / ELS. They need the results but are too sick to do their own.
I too had a similar experience of hearing all the bashing of p. 5 and 15 by some in WELS who have gone on to full blown Enthusiasts. It bother me enough to actually find out why. That was learned by actually reading the confessions of the Lutheran church.
I just nearly broke out in holy laughter a few minutes ago, when I realized that I thought seminary graduates had actually READ or STUDIED the confessions. I mean, I would THINK they would when they say they "quia subscribe" to them, but then never teach them in classes. Funny how those things just kind of hit you out of the blue.
Your opposition of false doctrine would be admirable if it only stopped there (and in some cases, actually correct--think UOJ and your buddies Schmid and Lenski), but it doesn't. You make patently false statements and pair them up with ridiculous pictures in the manner of Dreck (the guy who wrote the 404 theses that said essentially said that Lutherans are no different from the Protestants). I suppose the closest "cognate" of sorts that would fit you would be too harsh to print on your blog, but I suspect/hope that anyone reading would figure it out very easily. The way to prove me wrong (that you aren't some barnyard animal like Eck.)
Anonymous 9:16 AM says that you should oppose false doctrine, but leave it there. Dr. Jackson did just that, and it didn't work. Recall that he wrote his Thy Strong Word book, and other books, BEFORE he started blogging.
What Anonymous 9:16 AM is saying is Dr. Jackson should only produce papers and books, and then ride off in the sunset. That's how the ELS and WELS have historically dealt with critiques of UOJ and enthusiasm, hoping they would just go away, or at least play the part of the "weak" Christian and just agree to disagree. It's worked for 150 years, but no more.
The 150 years of agreeing to disagree on the enthusiasm of UOJ was the recipe that brought Lutherans completely undone.
Divorced from 16th century Reformation theology....(i.e. Justification by grace, through faith alone (EPH 2:8-9))...Lutherans no longer had anything worthy of themselves believing in, nor worthy of others listening to.
When we should have been custodians of the faith, confessing and leading the entire Christian church, we sold our birthright for a mess of potage.
To: Anon 7:28PM,
Well said, and I agree with you wholeheartedly. I grew up WELS and never thought what they taught about justification made any sense when it was so straightforward in Scripture. Now I know why.
Anon 7:28PM and 10:25AM, I also agree. It took me some time to wade through what everyone was saying about UOJ but once I read what was written and not what someone said it meant I started to see the errors because it doesn't sync with Luther's Catechism not the new WELS edited version but the first one. Anyone wonder why they edited Luther's Catechism in the first place.
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