Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Brett Meyer on Buchholz Essay":
LutherRocks, I had the same experience multiple times. They would argue that it was different for Abraham since "Christ hadn't come yet". When I pointed out that Scripture declares the way of righteousness, for the forgiveness of sins, is the same for us as it was for Abraham, they told me to speak to the Synod officials. My brother-in-law even began yelling at me over the phone. He was on the (W)ELS school board that sent me the letter quoting August Pieper who said that you stab the Gospel in the heart if you ever so much emphasize Justification by faith and are on the way to losing your faith altogether.
The Lutheran Synods, churches and schools have abandoned Justification by Faith. It is now anathema. And cling to Justification before and without faith for assurance that they are forgiven, justified and children of God regardless of their faith. They have gone about to establish a new way to righteousness before God and have condemned themselves and those who believe what they teach without testing the spirits with Scripture and the Lutheran Confessions. The Lutheran Synods, Thrivent and a love of man has made them ripe for the picking by the New Age Religion.
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GJ - I hear Kudu Don Patterson loves the Buchholz essay. You can bet that Buchholz speaks the same double-talk as SPindoktor Mark Schroeder about UOJ double-justification.
The sad thing is - they do not realize that their incomprehensible words are the opposite of Luther and the Book of Concord.
