Do not ask them questions or they will excommunicate.
If you are a fellow pastor, they will block the email.
Ichabod readers can compare this blog to others. Come back in a few minutes.
OK. Welcome back. Notice the difference. I post all their favorite UOJ essays and even kelm their posts with the links.
All they do is post their favorite talking points and only the UOJ essays that recycle those talking points.
They could kelm my doctrinal graphics. I have given advance permission to use them. They could deal with the points brought up by many people about the short and dreadful history of UOJ, starting with Knapp at Halle University and ending with universalism, atheism, and Church Growth (in descending order).
They deal with objections this way:
- The efficacy of the Word in the Means of Grace. Never heard of it.
- The Holy Spirit works only with the Word and never apart from the Word. Never heard of it, so can't discuss it.
- Robert Preus - deny and avoid that topic, Justification and Rome.
- Gausewitz - forgotten. Nothing to see or address.
- The 1901 German LCMS catechism with no UOJ and the current CPH catechism (KJV) with no UOJ. Silence.
- Luther, Chemnitz, Melanchthon, Gerhard, Calov, Quensted - they do not read those authors.
- The Book of Concord - denial of the entire content of the Confessions.
I have noticed an excess of nastiness on the part of UOJ Enthusiasts, which they pursue anonymously if at all possible. They also lie a lot, as if "All men are liars" is a command rather than a description.
They howl with rage if anyone challenges for obvious sin, even when this is done with hat in hand, and beggin' the pardon, sir. But they have no compunction about excommunicating - not exactly an excess of grace or forgiveness.
