rlschultz has left a new comment on your post "Dapper Don Pieper Responds With the Unloving Card":
The way that Satan uses false doctrine to undermine faith is to mix a tiny amount of it with correct doctrine. The rat poison analogy has been used here several times on Ichabod. When a Crypto-Calvinist acquaintance of mine tried to pooh-pooh the credibility of Ichabod, I reminded him that I had been following some of this for 15-20 years. There is a strange double standard at work here. Those who defend the apostates will say, "he's okay, I drank beer with him at the sem". The Ichabodians can discern only what is written. I have never seen one claim that he was a drinkin' buddy of Pastor Jackson.
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GJ - WELS pastors only need to look at their own documents. Although I am not a catechism collectors, I know that Gausewitz was a favorite edition used in many WELS congregations. When this came up, and Gausewitz was quoted by a current WELS pastor, a WELS member wrote me and said, "I still have the Gausewitz we used when I was confirmed in the Wisconsin Synod."
Like many others, this WELS layman only scratches his head when the Mequonites now try to advocate the alleged ancient truth of UOJ.
Wisconsin is an abusive cult. The cult-behavior is shown in the way the group changes doctrine and re-educates everyone, without ever acknowledging that they just reversed course on something.
Another example is gambling. It was a sin in WELS until they latched onto some wealthy casino people. Now gambling is entertainment and all the Sausages chant the same thing.
The way Sausage Factory graduates repeat the same thing in the same way is rather disturbing. The Little Sect on the Prairie is no better, except they imagine they are - making them worse.
