I love it when unpublished, anonymous snarkers try their GA-style humor in the comments section.
Flash news for y'all - Your publishing house sold my Liberalism: Its Cause and Cure for years and gave me the publishing rights. The book went through three printings, so someone was buying it. Liberalism will be available soon, via Lulu.
According to the logic of many Sausage Factory graduates, you are in fellowship with me and approve every word I have ever published, every book I have ever quoted, every comic book I have ever read. See the fake blog for examples of WELS illiteracy.
That also means Liberalism will be a free download for anyone.
NPH is currently selling Catholic, Lutheran, Protestant.
NPH wants me to review its books, and I have several more to write up in the near future.
Justification will be done fairly soon, March, God willing. I can do revisions instantly through Lulu, so I can move that along. Future question - do you subscribe to the Unaltered JBF?
More bad or good news - Printed copies of Thy Strong Word are gone, except for the second-hand market. I found all the files on my computer. I will probably print each chapter as a small book and everything together as a monster book.
All the PDFs are free from Lulu. I could charge but I would rather sow the seed than build new barns. Look what that did for St. Marv of Schwan. Premature death. Second wife went back to Rome. Foundation loot facilitated WELS/LCMS financial meltdowns.
I gotta hand one thing to Marv, and only a billionaire could do it. He proved once and for all that money is NOT a Means of Grace.
---
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Unpublished Snarkers Get Themselves into Trouble":
Brett,
I am firmly in Pastor Jackson's camp. However, I am one of many people who absolutely cannot be publicly associated with this blog. It is not a matter of faithlessness or cowardice. It is simply a matter of survival. I do not know if you have every been under the authority of the CG crowd, but they are unforgiving and ruthless when openly challenged. Here is the choice many of us face: openly attack and undermine them, and lose the ability to do what good we can for and with faithful people in the WELS or resist them behind the scenes and continue to serve, encourage, and strenghthen those we are called to serve and serve with.
Not all of us have the luxury of fighting our battles out in the open, and life is not always as black and white as you may like it to be. Believe me when I say that hundreds of little skirmishes in WELS and its institutions are fought every day (still at great risk to those who fight them) in ways that you will never see or know about.
***
GJ - I don't remember "fighting a battle out in the open" ever being a luxury! I do know the apostates never fight in the open. They deny, deceive, and destroy.
I recognize that there are many faithful pastors who are doing the best they can. I have been impressed with the number of LCMS pastors who identify as pro-life Book of Concord Lutherans.
---
Scott E. Jungen has left a new comment on your post "Unpublished Snarkers Get Themselves into Trouble":
Brett,
I'm going to have to second that Anonymous 4:08PM has to say. I'm in the Northern WI District, can you imagine having to fight Deputy Doug publicly? Who do you think makes up the call lists for the District? Since I'm no longer a WELS called worker, I have the freedom to speak my mind. I've already had my "means of income" taken away. There's nothing the district as a whole can do to me. Anonymous 4:08, feel free to look up my e-mail address in a WELS 2008-2009 yearbook and contact me. I'm the son of a CIA cryptographer, I know how to keep a secret!
Hi Steve! (inside joke to a friend I've steered to this website.
---
Scott E. Jungen has left a new comment on your post "Unpublished Snarkers Get Themselves into Trouble":
Dr. Jackson,
Ooops! It should read "second what Anonymous 4:08..." I've already seen you wield a pretty mean red pen so I will correct myself.
***
GJ - I chasten those whom I love.
There are many different ways to blow apostasy wide open. Providing information that I can publish is one way. Many people participate. I shared some between two researchers and one said, "That person is doing some heavy-duty research." They did not know each other and still do not. Others get in touch with each other various ways, but I do not reveal sources unless there is an agreement to do so. Once two people got together for something worthwhile and I did not even know the identity of one of them at the time.
The Internet means that most of us will not meet each other face-to-face on this earth.
I think it is essential to know how the money is being spent on apostasy and to stop it every way possible. Anyone can oppose these louts to their faces. Not everyone feels strong enough to do so, but there are those who are glad to do what is necessary and possible. Not attending is another vote against apostasy.
Pastors and councils and voters can write letters. A letter has a lot of impact. It should be factual, doctrinal, and copied all over the place.
DP Robert Mueller did not even acknowledge my letters, so I sent one all over Creation. That shocked him. "Why did you do that?" He must have heard from a few people. I said, "You never even acknowledged my letters."
Some people start blogs. A blog can be read all over the world and gets picked up by various softwares and Google. The best blogging is persistent, but even a good collection of facts, documents, and opinions will get around.
When I was your age, I would say to a new blogger, I did my own copying, addressed my own envelopes, paid my own postage, and reached about 20 people at the time, most of them trembling in their rabbit-warrens, fearful that someone would see my envelope on their desk. Now people can read it without fear of discovery and act upon the facts.
Ah, how the apostates are crying and whining now. Team Ichabod can outproduce them easily, by multiples. Over 40,000 pages were read here last month. Meanwhile, the CG experiments are oozing flop-sweat and clawing for more money to support their Copy and Paste Ministries.
This is what tickles me the most. What is the one prevalent theme of the Shrinkers in WELS? Right. They plagiarize.
What do they do to counter me, after howling about my creative artwork?
Correct. They plagiarize, without permission, from my blog. I am happy that they do. If I were not proud of Deputy Doug's graphic, I would not have designed and posted it - truly a labor of love. If five more people see it, I am happy, even if the thief is ranting about something he cannot comprehend, drunk or sober.
The Shrinkers cannot compose a case for what they do, so their only refuge is to obsess about what I do and call it a sin. A fake blog aimed against one person is rather peculiar, most people would say. I am not going to say the guy was potty-trained at gunpoint, but something went terribly wrong in his upbringing.
I assume he will run away and erase all his files, as he did twice before. If so, I will be crestfallen, because his fulminations are the nilhil obstat and imprimatur of this blog.
13 comments:
The fake ichabod blog site is an absolute joke. They posted an invitation to discuss the doctrine of Election. I said, "Are you gentlemen looking for a legitimate discussion or just venting?"
January 12, 2010 10:48 PM
Anonymous said...
Brett, we are definitely looking for a discussion on the doctrine of election, because it ties in so clearly as mentioned by a previous poster to UOJ. Where do you stand on the question? #1 or #2?
January 13, 2010 6:59 AM
Note that the moderators of the blog also post anonymously - it was my first unheeded warning. I wound up posting three brief comments on the doctrine of Election and how it ties into the doctrine of Justification by Faith alone leaving no room for UOJ. Not once did they post a counter point or discuss the doctrines. They then went on to throw another worm and bobber into the water fishing for Pastor Jackson. I commented that they didn't address my statements on the Election question. They said, "We will not be posting any more of your comments on the subject, since you have presented your false claims here and in other contexts previously, and you fail to listen to the admonitions of others who are clearly grounded in the Scriptures."
A week later they went back and removed all of my comments from the one sided Election discussion.
They are obsessed with Pastor Jackson and although they moderate anonymously I think their name is Legion.
Posting as "Brett Meyer" or posting as "anonymous" are equally meaningful or meaningless. Anonymity does not establish or destroy credibility. Just as posting as "Brett Meyer" doesn't establish or destroy credibility. It is the argument that matters.
That being said...
Luther has pointed out that Christ propitiates for the entire world (cf. LW v.30 p. 235-237).
Calvin, on the other hand, insisted that this forgiveness does not extend to the whole world, but rests upon those "who should believe" who are spread out around the world. He condemned universal objective justification (as does Jackson, Meyer, et. al.) as "dotages of the fanatics." (cf. Calvin's Commentaries: Hebrews, I Peter, I John, James, II Peter, Jude, p. 173)
Anonymous at 1:38PM, posting your true full name is seldom an issue of credibility. Unless the person has written extensively and the significance of those writings weigh heavily in the discussion at hand.
The significance of posting your full name and certainly do so when a person intends to stand boldly for and with Christ and His Word is indicative of their level of God given courage and strength. Likewise posting anonymously and certainly do so as the blog owner supposedly blogging for "the truth" is equally indicative of weakness of conviction, fear and neither come from Christ and His life giving Word.
You turn the issue to credibility to cover your true condition.
Your quote of Luther is in error. Luther did not embrace the false gospel of UOJ but declared Christ's Gospel that forgiveness is available to the whole world through faith in Christ.
Romans 3:25, "Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;"
Your inference that since Calvin rejected UOJ and I reject UOJ then I am a Calvinist is absurd and shows the absence of any real doctrinal contention on your part. The Roman Catholic Church has from inception condemned UOJ by their doctrine of works righteousness. Am I also a Catholic? No I'm not by my open and public confession. Note though that since the Roman Catholic Church has always rejected UOJ then if UOJ was a Scriptural doctrine it would have been covered by the Lutheran Book of Concord confessions as a chief article of Christian faith - it wasn't. Nor was it ever talked about in the BOC and was never a doctrine of Scripture.
BOC declaring that it explains the chief articles of Christian faith:
"3] Afterwards many churches and schools embraced and defended this Confession as a symbol of the present time in regard to the chief articles of faith, especially those involved in controversy with the Romanists and various corruptions of the heavenly doctrine [sects], and with perpetual agreement have appealed to it without any controversy and doubt. The doctrine comprised in it, which they knew both to be supported by firm testimonies of Scripture, and to be approved by the ancient and accepted symbols, they have also constantly judged to be the only and perpetual consensus of the truly believing Church, which was formerly defended against manifold heresies and errors, and is now repeated."
http://www.bookofconcord.org/boc-intro.php
UOJ is a man made doctrine birthed by reason and nurtured by Satan, separating those who confess it from Christ.
Brett Meyer
Brett,
I am firmly in Pastor Jackson's camp. However, I am one of many people who absolutely cannot be publicly associated with this blog. It is not a matter of faithlesssness or cowardice. It is simply a matter of survival. I do not know if you have every been under the authority of the CG crowd, but they are unforgiving and ruthless when openly challenged. Here is the choice many of us face: openly attack and undermine them, and lose the ability to do what good we can for and with faithful people in the WELS or resist them behind the scenes and continue to serve, encourage, and strenghthen those we are called to serve and serve with.
Not all of us have the luxury of fighting our battles out in the open, and life is not always as black and white as you may like it to be. Believe me when I say that hundreds of little skirmishes in WELS and its institutions are fought every day (still at great risk to those who fight them) in ways that you will never see or know about.
Anonymous at 4:08PM, first, my comments were directed at contending for the pure Word and not specifically to commenting on Ichabod. Would it be fair and accurate to say you fear what those around you would do to you if you were to witness openly about what you confess anonymously?
Brett,
I'm going to have to second that Anonymous 4:08PM has to say. I'm in the Northern WI District, can you imagine having to fight Deputy Doug publicly? Who do you think makes up the call lists for the District? Since I'm no longer a WELS called worker, I have the freedom to speak my mind. I've already had my "means of income" taken away. There's nothing the district as a whole can do to me. Anonymous 4:08, feel free to look up my e-mail address in a WELS 2008-2009 yearbook and contact me. I'm the son of a CIA cryptographer, I know how to keep a secret!
Hi Steve! (inside joke to a friend I've steered to this website.
Dr. Jackson,
Ooops! It should read "second what Anonymous 4:08..." I've already seen you wield a pretty mean red pen so I will correct myself.
Scott, would it be fair and accurate to say that it is fear that causes some people to remain anonymous when contending for the truth of God's Word?
Fear of losing a job and income? Fear of the district president? Fear of losing friends and church?
Brett,
Yes, I would say it's fear, fear of all the things you mentioned. There are people with kids in college, mortages, people with a lot to lose. You know that pastors, and to a greater extent teachers, who "rock the boat" find themselves gone.
A year ago had I found this website I would have read but not posted. Personally, I won't post anything I'm not willing to sign. I would not have felt comfortable while teaching to post here. As "just a member" now, I have the freedom to sign my name. However, I do respect those who do not have that freedom. They do have things to lose, I don't!
I do not know if you have every been under the authority of the CG crowd, but they are unforgiving and ruthless when openly challenged.
Yes, they are zealots on a personal mission from God. At least that is what they want you to think. Then they wonder out loud why people become critical of them.
They show very little of the love they harp on all the time. They are crazy.
Not all of us have the luxury of fighting our battles out in the open, and life is not always as black and white as you may like it to be.
Forget about conducting holy wars in the open, and stop supporting the evil bastards.
Scott, most in this country have not been challenged to stand for Christ at direct risk to thier life or the lives of their spouse and children. What will happen at that moment when they now hide for fear of an unChristian district president, or losing their job or simply the disdain of their friends and relatives?
I wrestle with fear myself knowing that fear doesn't come from Christ but from my weak and sinful flesh. Point is we should love the Word more than fear men and what they can do to us and should not encourage others to accept the actions that are a result of fearing men more than God.
Interesting that those in the WELS who they say are called by Christ to be in the Public Ministry, both men and women, are too afraid of the administration to shoulder the responsibilities God says accompany that calling - openly and publicly opposing false doctrine and practice and openly and publicly promoting pure doctrine and true practice.
They call it survival.
You're right Dr. Jackson. Schwan the billionaire is dead, and neither the MLC college or Mequon seminary has an endowment fund to speak of, much less the other schools. Thus, the Gospel is at an disadvantage compared to secular institutions. Why is it that secular schools can be trusted with mega-endowment funds, but Lutheran-Pietistic schools cannot? I'd like to hear Schwan explain that.
Post a Comment