Icahabod: Regarding your excellent recent posting:
“UOJ Questions Answered: Enthusiasm Breeds
Enthusiasm: Church Growth and Pentecostal:”
http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2012/07/uoj-questions-answered-enthusiasm.html
Dr. Jackson -
Thank you for posting in this one article; Warren
In this one article, you have presented the
clear difference between the error of “universal objective justification”
teaching, and that of Scripture.
Those of your opponents who call themselves
[true] Christian Lutherans cannot successfully dispute you, on the basis of
Scripture, the Book of Concord or Luther. Instead, I believe, they lash out at
you behind the scenes, incorrectly accusing you of breaking the 8th
Commandment, - when in reality, they should be welcoming your public rebuke. If
they cannot bear your website pics, humor and style, it is their loss. That
attitude only demonstrates [then] a lack of creativity on their part and a lack
of loving tolerance, as every Christian has his own personality and gifts, -
and, his own communication style.
Those who would dispute you, (but, apparently
don't publicly do so, online - at least on Ichabod), are publicly teaching and
preaching their damnable universal objective justification and then become
upset when they are publicly called to account for their error. If you and they
were living in times past, I have no doubt that you would have joined the likes
of Jon Huss, burning at the stake. [Thank the good Lord for our American right
of free speech, as put forth in the 1st Amendment of the Bill of
Rights! That, by the grace of God, helps to counteract the monopoly of error]
Furthermore, I think you
stand in good tradition. Didn't Stephen proclaim the following about those who
are were hard core and those who eschewed the truth?
Acts 7:51 - "Ye stiffnecked and
uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your
fathers did, so do ye." - KJV
Yet, even when you have come online with your
public rebukes, those warnings and presentations of rich Christian and Lutheran
tradition, go unheeded. Instead you are accused of not talking to those [dissenters]
in private about your weighty concerns. The same people, who fume about your
public pronouncements against their false teaching of universal objective
justification, etc. - continue to publicly teach and preach their false
doctrine. Yet, they would like to impose upon you a double standard to suit
themselves, - and hide their proliferation of false teaching. [Essentially,
they would like you to clam up and only communicate with them in secret while they
happily continue their public error, unopposed. Can you imagine Luther meeting
in private with the Pope?]
Ichabod – I understand
what you are uncovering and exposing. I can identify that which you point out.
I have experienced [heard / seen] this false teaching of universalism in my own
congregation and have even documented some of it, in some Ichabod postings you
have published. Here’s just one:
http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2012/07/pastor-nathan-bickel-on-uoj-in-wels.html
Finally, I think that
the reason that those in Lutheran high places cannot receive Ichabod's rebukes
is that they have closed themselves off from rebuke, by their very own [incorrect]
teaching. Recently in our WELS Bethel Bay County, Michigan congregation there
was the Romans 12 Bible study about the gifts. The official WELS Bible study
only categorized the gift of exhortation to mean encouragement. It did not
include that the very same gift could also, include exhortation in form of
rebuke, - such as Paul telling Peter to his face about his error [Galatians 2:11 ] and the thief on the cross
entreating the other thief, demonstrating his faith by his (rebuking) exhortation.
[Luke 23:39-43]
Ichabod - Continue to
highlight what you've been highlighting. I see your endeavors as the grace of
God, giving every opportunity to those in error. Whether you are received or
not, makes little difference. Keep on speaking in the tradition of Luther,
opposing Scriptural error!
Nathan M. Bickel - pastor emeritus – Bay City , MI
http://www.thechristianmessage.org/
http://moralmatters.org/
 |
| This could be taken for being anti-Confessional, if pixelated (isolated). The next quotation below shows what he is saying. This particular saying is a remedy against those who say they subscribe, but do not teach according to the Confessions. |
