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| Pastor Loerber heard the confessions, but the alternative story is that many already knew. Bishop Stephan was already in court in Dresden for his infidelities, before they left for America. The confessions were used as an excuse to suddenly turn on their leader. |
I believe many can benefit from studying the Walther edition of the Baier compend. Learn redaction criticism the hard way - by reading.
Baier-Walther.
This is in English - easy going.
When you find something, send a comment with the link. Exact quotations are appreciated. So is commentary.
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| Walther's Pastoral Theology is filled with wisdom. Missouri and WELS follow the same abusive template today. |
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Part 3, Chapter 3, On faith in Christ
http://www.projectwittenberg.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/baier/cpt-3-03.txt
1. So that sinful humans may reach eternal salvation through Christ the mediator, faith in Christ is required or, it is required that they trust in Christ as mediator.
7. However at the same time it is clear, in what way the same merit of Christ, the forgiveness of sins and life eternal, acquired by Christ for all humans, are applied to the believing through faith, so that truly the sharers of those things are restored.
Part 3, Chapter 5, On justification
http://www.projectwittenberg.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/baier/cpt-3-05.txt
1. Justification, which closely follows conversion, has a legal significance and it indicates that act, by which God the judge pronounces a human guilty of sins and so also a criminal of guilt and punishment, but the ones believing in Christ, he pronounces righteous; about which it is not established from reason, but from the evangelical Scriptures.
5. And thus to this same process of justification pertains, that God, as a judge of a human accused by the law and convicted of sin, however at the same time by believing in Christ thus he recognizes a cause, so that indeed special justice catches one to be left both to death and to eternal damnation, however he judges to pertain to him or he imputes to him the merit of Christ received by faith, so that therefore he does not fully hold for the sinner, but he absolves from the accusation and obligation to punishment.
15. It is possible to define justification, that it is an act of the divine will, by which the triune God by his free grace on account of the merits of Christ apprehended by human sinners through faith, reborn or converted, forgives sins - the cause of the following eternal salvation.
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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Happy Hunting - Baier Walther Compend":
All UOJ proponents play loose with the Words of Scripture. They determine the rules of the game, when Justification means Objective and when it means Subjective. Their penchant for wider and narrower meanings of God's concise and specific declarations in Scripture have carried them to the edge of the abyss. One word which they haven't been able to play so recklessly with is 'reconciled'. UOJ perverts God's Word and teaches that the whole unbelieving world has been reconciled to God through Christ's atonement. They point to Walther's universalistic statements to prove that's what God meant when He had the prophets write His "Do-words" (a reference to the false ichablog's disjointed diatribe).
Contrary to UOJ's blasphemy here is a clear and faithful statement that harmonizes with the Lutheran Confessions:
"24...truly the gospel points to the mediator himself, and through him the being accomplished grace of God and the forgiveness of sins. From where the law indeed prepares the human soul for the receiving faith, however the gospel kindles the same faith, by which sinners are reconciled to God."
http://www.projectwittenberg.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/baier/cpt-3-07.txt
