When Will the Syn Conference Sects Return To Biblical, Lutheran Doctrine?

Martin Chemnitz and the Concordists established harmony through doctrinal agreement and rejection of false doctrine.

Summary

LCMS

The Missouri Synod did not teach UOJ/OJ (the absolution of the world's sins) until 100 years after the Knapp Pietism dogmatics book appeared. Walther taught the OJ/SJ absurdity but the official catechism of the synod did not, and the official statements before the 1932 Brief Statement did not.

Another UOJ hero of Missouri was Eduard Preuss, who left teaching at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis to teach theology in the Roman Catholic Church.

Robert Preus has been used as an advocate for UOJ, and he was, but his last book repudiated it in the clearest possible terms. No one is forgiven without faith.

WELS

The classic Gausewitz catechism used by Wisconsin did not mention OJ/SJ, but taught justification by faith.

Pastor Pappenfuss (of Kokomo fame) confessed that he never heard of the concept until he reached seminary.

Sig Becker and the Kuske catechism made UOJ the mantra of WELS. Years earlier, the heretic Richard Jungkuntz, who moved up to ELCA, gave a conference essay where he expressed alarm that UOJ was being lost.

WELS tries to make UOJ go back to Creation, but their own dog notes prove that they recognize justification by faith in the post-Concord theologians and caution their students against it!

ELCA
ELCA is now in the final, dying stage of Pietism, while the Syn Conference sects are not quite there yet, even though they covet their big cousin.

ELCA's earlier synods had excellent historians and theologians who taught the efficacy of the Word in the Means of Grace, even if they were almost as loosey-goosey with unionism as WELS, Missouri, and the Little Sect are now.

Pietism took over from the Confessionalists (like the Henkelites) and bent those bodies toward the inherent rationalism of the Pietistic movement. Like Schleiermacher (Halle student, Halle professor), ELCA accepted the natural consequence of universal absolution and simply believes that every single person is forgiven. Halle's Tholuck was a Universalist, and ELCA is Universalist. If everyone is already forgiven, everyone is also saved and going to heaven. According to ELCA, that is pure grace, and it is only one step removed from the UOJ of Missouri, WELS, and the Little Sect on the Prairie.

The so-called conservative sects crow about how orthodox they are, but they are really Pietist capons who cannot face doctrinal division and Biblical truths.