Modest Proposal

When Will the Syn Conference Sects Return To Biblical, Lutheran Doctrine?

Martin Chemnitz and the Concordists established harmony through doctrinal agreement and rejection of false doctrine.

Summary

LCMS

The Missouri Synod did not teach UOJ/OJ (the absolution of the world's sins) until 100 years after the Knapp Pietism dogmatics book appeared. Walther taught the OJ/SJ absurdity but the official catechism of the synod did not, and the official statements before the 1932 Brief Statement did not.

Another UOJ hero of Missouri was Eduard Preuss, who left teaching at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis to teach theology in the Roman Catholic Church.

Robert Preus has been used as an advocate for UOJ, and he was, but his last book repudiated it in the clearest possible terms. No one is forgiven without faith.

WELS

The classic Gausewitz catechism used by Wisconsin did not mention OJ/SJ, but taught justification by faith.

Pastor Pappenfuss (of Kokomo fame) confessed that he never heard of the concept until he reached seminary.

Sig Becker and the Kuske catechism made UOJ the mantra of WELS. Years earlier, the heretic Richard Jungkuntz, who moved up to ELCA, gave a conference essay where he expressed alarm that UOJ was being lost.

WELS tries to make UOJ go back to Creation, but their own dog notes prove that they recognize justification by faith in the post-Concord theologians and caution their students against it!

ELCA
ELCA is now in the final, dying stage of Pietism, while the Syn Conference sects are not quite there yet, even though they covet their big cousin.

ELCA's earlier synods had excellent historians and theologians who taught the efficacy of the Word in the Means of Grace, even if they were almost as loosey-goosey with unionism as WELS, Missouri, and the Little Sect are now.

Pietism took over from the Confessionalists (like the Henkelites) and bent those bodies toward the inherent rationalism of the Pietistic movement. Like Schleiermacher (Halle student, Halle professor), ELCA accepted the natural consequence of universal absolution and simply believes that every single person is forgiven. Halle's Tholuck was a Universalist, and ELCA is Universalist. If everyone is already forgiven, everyone is also saved and going to heaven. According to ELCA, that is pure grace, and it is only one step removed from the UOJ of Missouri, WELS, and the Little Sect on the Prairie.

The so-called conservative sects crow about how orthodox they are, but they are really Pietist capons who cannot face doctrinal division and Biblical truths.

Caution! Caution! - Ignore the Clear Justification by Faith Quotations in the Dog Notes.Line Up, Sausages, In Alphabetical Order.

"Sorry. I printed dog notes with justification by faith in them.
I put a caution in each one. That should do it.
Are you going to believe Brug or your lying eyes?"


There is a God has left a new comment on your post "Dog Notes from The Sausage Factory (Mequon, WELS)":

Note p. 357, from The Order of Salvation:

Quenstedt: The essence of imputation is a real assessment, which absolves the sinning man who believes in Christ [Caution: this could be misleading] from all his sins before the divine tribunal and actually ascribes to him in a judicial way the righteousness of Christ.

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There is a God has left a new comment on your post "Caution! Caution! - Ignore the Clear Justification...":

You want others? Here's two more:

p.355:

Gerhard: "Since the remission of sins has its foundation in Christ's righteousness on account of which, when it is laid hold of by faith, [Caution!] God receives us into grace, forgives our sins, and, in turn, when these sins have been remitted, imputes to us the righteousness of Christ;

p.356:

Baier: In other words all we have in mind is that the imputation of righteousness and of faith itself as the basis for justification (Caution!) is prior to that forensic act of justification by which men are absolved from the guilt of their sins, because when we are asked, ―Why does God justify men?‖ we answer, for the reason given previously, ―Because God imputes to man the righteousness or merit of Christ which he apprehends by faith, or because he judges that it belongs to this man in such a way that because of it he is absolved from the guilt of his sins‖ (Compendium, part III, chap. V, par. 11d, p 457).

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GJ - I do not know who There Is a God might be, but he or she found this in the Dog Notes, Order of Salvation. I thought the cautions were a bit of sarcasm from There Is, but no - that is the exact quotation, including the caution.

I know some of the current students at Mequon. I saw some of them playing on the floor at the Free home. I held another one at Ft. Wayne. I hope they wake up to the UOJ swindle.

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LutherRocks has left a new comment on your post "Caution! Caution! - Ignore the Clear Justification...":

Laity are encouraged not to split hairs over this...and yet this forensic justification that the synods attribute as 'objective' is in fact subjective. In other words there is no justification aside from faith alone...

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GJ - I know what you are saying Joe, but we should not kelm the dishonest and misleading terms Objective Justification and Subjective Justification. One cannot find the terms OJ and SJ in Luther, the Book of Concord, or the Post-Concord orthodox writers. The terms come from the English translation of the Halle University (Pietistic) dogmatics book by Georg Christian Knapp. I will publish more on this in a moment.

Dog Notes from The Sausage Factory (Mequon, WELS)

The dogmatics notes were previously the yellowed notes from J. P. Meyer. They were revised in 2005.

Here is the link. Look of the Order of Salvation file. I just found them today because I was looking for something else.

End the Ecclesiastical Bullying.Start By Saying "No!" To Synodical Thugs

"My word of honor - no more bullying."

Exposing and describing the bullying tactics of the synods will make the thugs think twice before trying it again. I am only too happy to publish accounts on this blog.

Laity and pastors should remember that the same tactics used against others will eventually be applied to them, unless they adopt a cringing, Gollum-like synodical servitude.

There are many clues that someone is being given the Sisera treatment. The apostates no longer use tent pegs - too messy. But the effect is the same. These are examples from my experience and from the accounts of others:

1. Multi-layered pounding. The pastor allows an appeal to the CP, VP, and DP - so each one can take his turn delivering the thumps.
   
2. Not answering requests or emails, or taking far too long. This is another way of saying, "You are becoming a non-person."
   
3. Using so-called friends to attack. To keep a genuine solution from developing, an alleged friend is selected to attack and threaten. Relatives are even handier; "Son, Fred told me you are ruining your career by..."
   
4. Bribes and flattery. Synod officials are especially worried when they start using flattery and bribes. "Not everyone is as well read as you, but I am concerned that you are letting your idealism divide you from your friends. I am thinking of you serving St. Peter by the Golfcourse..."
   
5. Delayed action shunning. "You didn't get that mailing? But I thought you dropped out of that committee. We already filled your slot. Oh my, I am so sorry."
   
6. Hurting the synod, church, parish, district. "If you keep this up, it will destroy the (fill in the blank)." Does a correct diagnosis kill the patient at a hospital? No, it is the first step toward a possible cure. Everything is top secret, too. Top secret means a cover up is that much easier.
7. Eighth Commandment, Matthew 18, Procedure. Misuse of Matthew 18 and the Eighth Commandment are combined with an appeal to procedure. All these concocted barriers to the truth are far worse sins than murder, adultery, embezzlement, and false doctrine. Violating procedure absolves the crime instantly and indicts the person raising the issue, prompting a trial on the evil of violating procedure.
8. Screaming, table-pounding, manipulating. One LCMS pastor opposed letting a known child-molester back into the ministry. The DP stopped by, screamed at him, and slammed his briefcase on the man's desk. On the way out, the DP said to a church member there, "Your pastor is one of the finest pastors in the district."
9. Dividing family and friends, polarizing congregations. Synodical bullies love to turn family members against one another, to polarize friends and congregations. They imagine they gain from getting rid of their opponents. That is why the synods are weak, broke, and dying.
10. Threatening. Pope John the Malefactor (ELS) is famous for this. "Get rid of the pastor or I will kick you out of the synod." DP John Seifert (WELS) did the same thing. A congregation that buckles under such threats is partaking in the bullying and abuse.
    

The bullies do not want others knowing the truth about them, so they use their limited IQs to suppress the truth.

Let me explain what we mean, Sisera.