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| Paul McCain posted the Miraculous Lactation of the Virgin Mary into the Mouth of St. Bernard. A reader added the UOJ gargoyle in the background. |
Readers are getting a blitz promotion of the Apocrypha, the books of the Old Testament rejected from the canon. Concordia Publishing House, with too much money and time on their hands, is producing this epic fail. Judging by the frantic tone of the ads, this volume is destined to be pulped faster than McCain's edition of the Book of Concord.
McCain's Book of Concord had more recall notices than the Ford Pinto.
On LaughQuest, one of the LCMS Romanizers was pumping for the Apocrypha. Required reading!
The SynConference has failed to comprehend Paul's Epistle to the Galatians. Why should they study the works used to support Purgatory and other abominations? I know the arguments for the Apocrypha having some value, but the Gospels and Epistles have supreme value. If the MDivs cannot master the basic building blocks of Christian doctrine, why should they turn to ornamentation?
If they can make a best-seller out of the Apocrypha, the price of the book is 99% profit. Large printings pay for themselves, so the overhead is little more than the price of paper. However, that works best if the work sells. I doubt whether anyone really wants to read the Apocrypha. A few will put it on their shelves because the cover is pretty. Try opening or closing a sermon with "As II Maccabees says..."
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| ELCA bishop Mark Hanson met with John Paul II, D.D. Notre Dame. |
More important is the constant promotion of Romanism among the Lutherans. ELCA started it, especially during the waning days of James Crumbly, LCA president (upgraded to bishop). Mark Hanson has followed that example. Both Concordia seminaries promote Romanism and Eastern Orthodoxy, proving that ecumenists love every confession of faith except their own.
There are open--and likely secret--groups to promote a return to Holy Mother Rome. One faction uses STS after their names. Some will say, like Weedon, "I will never join Rome." Some never will. But the crafts and assaults used to promote the Vatican view are many. Like slot machines, they do not tempt everyone, but they entice enough to make a real profit.
Paul McCain, faux-pastor and faux-blogger, uses his sinecure at CPH to promote the Roman Catholic recruitment site called New Advent. That is a pleasant name, a welcoming name - New Advent. New Advent posts the entire, gassy Catholic Encyclopedia on its website. They give away DVDs packed with more material, so poor little Protestants can see The Real Church.
McCain uses the Catholic Encyclopedia articles verbatim to make his posts look long and scholarly. The content of his meager efforts consist of: gun posts and videos, copied material (without clear attribution or any at all), and CPH ads. What a yawner.
Missouri, WELS, and ELCA follow the Vatican lectionary series and the gay-friendly liturgical colors. They even use the same names--or drop the same names--for the church year. When Rome talks, everyone listens and obeys. Who decided this? Who voted to spend millions to make sure the Lutherans followed the example of Rome in worship?
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| WELS bows toward the Vatican and Fuller Seminary. Dr. Moo will lead them to the green pastures of the New NIV. |
Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel has left a new comment on your post "Watching the LCMS Go Roman Catholic, More Popish t...":
Ichabod -
Perhaps, the reason that CPH is printing this non Scriptural Roman Catholic favorite, is because they received some grant from the Vatican? Who knows? And, who knows if CPH'S McCain gets a small stipend percentage cut of it so that he can buy and stock up on all his Mother Mary lactation milk?
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| Archbishop Weakland: blackmail funds embezzled to pay off his boyfriend - just the guy to speak at Wisconsin Lutheran College. |
GJ - A Thrivent grant would fulfill their outreach to all religions, all wallets. Notice the pan-Lutheran reconciliation with Rome:
- ELCA began decades ago with James Crumley.
- Missouri trains men who become Roman Catholic priests, including Paul McCain's late go-to guy, Father Richard John Neuhaus.
- WELS invited Archbishop R. Weakland and his Sodomite priests to give a series of public lectures at Wisconsin Lutheran College.
- The Evangelical Lutheran Synod invited a former Roman Catholic bishop to march in a religious procession with the Bethany faculty and to speak at the religious dedication of a new Schwan building.
- The Church of the Lutheran Confession (sic) promoted Roman Catholic materials from David Koenig and Paul Tiefel.
