The talking points are the same, along with "I don't see that" and a few other refusals to engage the arguments against UOJ.
Here is a datum no one can dispute: The Missouri catechism taught justification by faith alone, decades before F. Pieper got UOJ into the Brief Statement of 1932. Before that, various brief statements did not mention UOJ. Sasse was concerned that the 1932 statement would supplant the Confessions, and it certainly has. Americans prefer junk food to the real thing.
Another datum is difficult for WELS to face. Their favorite catechism, perhaps their only one for years, was the Gausewitz. No UOJ can be found there. But there it is in the dreadful, expensive Kuske catchism.
UOJ did not appear until the unassailable Halle University, center of Pietism, taught it in the lectures of Georg Christian Knapp. The double-justification scheme of the Olde Syn Conference follows the Knapp wording, which was in print before C. F. W. landed in the Big Easy.
LCMS/WELS and the NIV
I may post more on Biblical translations soon. A WELS pastor admitted that all their precious books will be obsolete soon because the NIV will de-rez in 2012. They are not allowed to print their old false doctrine with the old NIV. Ditto Missouri. And get this, sports fans. The new, new NIV is loaded with feminist language, which is the reason for finding another bad translation. Who changed the hymnal while focusing on putting feminist language into it? Yes - WELS, as Victor Prange admitted. What the LCA/ALC did first (though not so stupidly), and WELS did next (really bad), the NIV will do decades later. So ban them! The logic is so Syn Conference.
Watch WELS and Paul McCain agree on another pea-brained Living Bible type version. It will not have "King James" in its title, although there are about six to choose from, including the very conservative KJV 21.
Once they finish agonizing over this, they will get to print new versions of everything and all the old books will be obsolete.
My translation - a publishing goldmine.
All my books are and will remain KJV.
