Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Chemnitz Provokes Comments":
Bivens showed himself to be opposed to Christ and His chief doctrine of one Justification solely by Faith Alone in his 1996 (W)ELS essay.
“The truth of justification, above all others, distinguishes Christianity from all other religions. If this teaching were obscured or lost, attempts to show significant differences between the Christian religion and others would ultimately prove to be futile. Also, as revealed and emphasized in the Bible, all other doctrines either prepare for or flow from this chief article of faith. Without this truth, all others would mean little. This doctrine is the source or basis of the benefits and blessings which mankind receives from God. What precisely is this “master and prince, lord, ruler and judge” over other doctrines? Justification is a declaratory act of God, in which he pronounces sinners righteous. As revealed in the Bible, this declaration of God is made totally by grace and on account of Jesus Christ and his substitutionary life and death on behalf of mankind. To phrase it somewhat differently, God has justified acquitted or declared righteous the whole world of sinners. He has forgiven them. They have been reconciled to God; their status in his eyes has been changed from that of sinner to forgiven sinner for the sake of Jesus Christ. Since all this applies to all people, the term universal or general justification is used. In our circles an alternate term, objective justification, is also used. If justification is universal, it must also be objective - sinners are forgiven whether they believe it or not.”
http://www.wlsessays.net/files/BivensPrimary.pdf
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GJ - If a few WELS essays are compared, it can be easily seen that they chant the same note all the time - the Chief Article is the forgiveness of every single atheist, polytheist, head-hunter, and pagan. They take pride in saying that, contrary to the Scriptures, contrary to the Book of Concord. But they say they are Scriptural and Confessional. Clearly one must bow to this heathen dogma to be someone in WELS.
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AC V has left a new comment on your post "WELS UOJ - Johnny One-Note. They Must Have 50 Essa...":
Biven's essay was presented at the very first and foundational WELS National Worship Conference. You want to know what WELS worship is all about? Read the essay, and nota bene, there's not a word about the sacraments. Imagine that! The "primary doctrine" (UOJ) in the "primary setting" (liturgical worship because we have to; whoopee worship because its popular) has little need for the sacraments!
"The Primary Doctrine in Its Primary Setting: Objective Justification and Lutheran Worship"
[Prepared for the WELS National Conference on Worship, Music and the Arts Carthage College, ELCA, Kenosha, Wisconsin, July 23, 1996.
http://www.wlsessays.net/files/BivensPrimary.pdf
