Freddy Finkelstein has left a new comment on your post "LP Cruz Explains Calvinism to the Crypto-Calvinist...":
If, as LP suggests, it is true that UOJ has turned the Law into a farce, it would explain the conspicuous rarity of Second-Use preaching. Who really needs it after all? Why not dumb-down Law preaching and adopt a more relevant, seeker-sensitive effeminate approach? You know, upside-down evangelism! Speak the Gospel, and the Law stuff can come later, if at all. That is, Speak to the unconverted righteous person as if he is already a believer! But wasn't that Karl Barth's error, a notion he derived from a mistaken interpretation of Aquinas? Wasn't failing to take sin seriously a hallmark of neo-orthodoxy? And wasn't Karl Barth a celebrity at Fuller in their early days?
If LP is correct in his analysis, it seems to me that in UOJ, while the doctrine of Original Sin is still acknowledged, the doctrine of Actual Sin has been rejected.
Is this the case?
Freddy Finkelstein
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GJ - WELS Pastor Robert Schumann, a Wally Oelhafen fave, loved the Church Growth Movement and preached that the Law was obsolete - the classic Antinomian position. His members asked him if he really meant that - and he did mean it. He also denied Creation, which is why St. Paul, German Village left the ALC - denial of Creation.
WELS really did a number on that congregation. They made Stolzenburg a fake-pastor for years, and now Floyd is taking members from St. Paul whenever there is turmoil. With such abysmal doctrinal leadership, turmoil is a sure bet.
Antinomianism is big in WELS, but try to explain that to a layman whose pastor is sleeping around the parish.
