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| LCMS and ELCA pastors who join Rome or Eastern Orthodoxy have this comfort awaiting them. |
Someone theorized that some UOJ cheerleaders are justification by faith alone - deep down. I am sure that some are confused and really JBFA, but most are not.
Furthermore,
their ambiguous language deceives many people. One must account for their
belligerent name-calling and attacks against faith itself. In addition,
some--like Rolf--switch sides when convenient and switch back again. That is not
a confession but opportunism. The Preus clan is famous for that - The Two
Natures of Jack Preus, etc.
Most of the UOJ tribe suffer from top-doggism. Each one wants to be more UOJ than the others. Knapp's original formula is flexible enough
to appease mild Lutherans, but it gets more ridiculous with each generation. The
Sodomites are righteous Christ? Guilt-free saints in Hell?
My doctrinal test is this - If someone
cannot articulate the efficacy of the Word in the Means of Grace, then he is not
an orthodox Christian. He has no grasp of Luther, Melanchthon, Chemnitz,
Chytraeus, Leyser, or Gerhard.
The people who fail the test are really
unionistic Pietists. They have taken on the patina of Lutherdom but they are
Calvinists on the inside, in substance. That is why Pentecostalism and Church Growth grew so fast in Missouri, CG in WELS and the Little Sect on the Prairie.
The answer is Eastern Orthodoxy or joining the Church of Rome - proof that Missouri pastors are devoid of Lutheran doctrinal discernment.
WELS pastors are so starved for the Gospel that the Babtists draw them like Velcro attracts lint.
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| Rolf Preus is UOJ, except for brief JBFA vacations. |
