My Gausewitz catechism, 1943, came in the mail today. It cost me about $10 and had 10cents marked on the cover. Nice mark-up!
The volume is compact, easy to read, and still in excellent condition. Nothing is said about Gausewitz. The emphasis is upon the Small Catechism of Luther, upon Biblical quotations in the second part to support each section.
WELS had not laid their corrupting hands on the text yet, although I hear that the "improved" version is not bad. I have one of those ordered too.
I will do a more detailed discussion later. I can find no hint of UOJ in this edition.
Readers may recall my pilgrimage to Kokomo, Indiana, where I talked to the two families kicked out of WELS for believing in justification by faith and rejecting UOJ.
Pastor Papenfuss admitted to his members that he had never heard of UOJ until he reached the seminary at Mequon (aka The Sausage Factory). That testimony is consistent with the Gausewitz catechism teaching everyone justification by faith until the David Kuske UOJ catechism replaced it in 1982. Nice switcheroo and fraud, Mequonites. The members who remained faithful to Luther and the Bible were kicked out, while the Shrinker UOJ Enthusiasts were promoted, praised, and protected.
I have posted his class photo below, so people can see the vast amount of UOJ propaganda forced upon the innocent in those days. Look at the faculty members - UOJ Stormtrooper generals! The dregs of the Shrinkers came from the same class - no shock at all.
Mark in Yellow and Avoid
2 comments:
Kuske was dishonest in revising Luther's Catechism. (W)ELS is dishonest to continue to promote it.
From: brett meyer
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 7:42 PM
To: Stephan Rodmyre
Cc: Pastor Humann; Pastor Seiltz; Greg Thiesfeldt
Subject: Re: ELHS and HTLS teaching Objective Justification
Mr. Rodmyre, why did you summarize and not just quote the Scripture passages verbatum?
This happens to be the same approach to these passages that David Kuske used when he revised Luther's Catechism for the WELS in 1982(current Catechism used by HTLS). Page 210, section 252 On What Basis Did God Declare Guilty Sinners To Be Righteous? Kuske posts: Romans 3:23-26 (So that God could be a good judge and still declare sinners righteous, he had Christ pay the debt which sinners owed for all their sins.)
He doesn't quote verbatum as with 99% of all other Scripture passages in the Catechism, he summarizes as you did.
From: Stephan Rodmyre
Brett,
It was my fruitless attempt to show you the subject of the sentence, which relies on the understanding of the original language, which is exactly why Pastor Kuske phrased it the way he did. I suggest you take your argument up with the men at our seminary or college if you have questions concerning the meaning of the text.
In His Service
I'll post the Romans passages here that Kuske perverted in his summary:
Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
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;
26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Kuske intentionally removed faith in Christ from the Gospel promise.
Revelations 22:18-20, For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Where can I get a copy of the Gausewitz Catechism?
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