Ever since the Golden Age of Athens, some 2500 years ago, analytical thinkers have examined arguments and countered them. One reason for the failure of UOJ Stormtroopers is their inability to back up their own statements or argue against justification by faith. As Dr. Lito Cruz has observed, the UOJ Hive quickly turns to personal attacks and other logical fallacies.
The UOJ lack of honesty is telling. After promoting Unfaith Objective Justification, they claim they really believe in justification by faith. This double-talk comes from their Father Below, the Father of Lies, who fills them with malice and revenge against Biblical revelation. The Enthusiasts cannot present their dogma as sound doctrine, so they resort to threatening, silencing, and bullying people. Watch WELS move toward removing anyone who questions their New NIV or their Church Growth machinations. All of this comes from UOJ, since unbelief is the foundation of all sin.
Walther-Stephan Adultery Cult
Bishop Martin Stephan managed a cell group cult of Pietists. Stephan was the second or third guru of the Walther circle, a tight circle of friends, united by not fitting in with the ecclesiastical rationalism of the era. The Walther circle belonged to:
1. A Halle Bible study cell group.
2. A cell group dictated by Johann Gottlieb Kuehn until he finally got a call, moved, and died.
3. A cell group managed by Pastor Martin Stephan.
They all overlooked the obvious signs of infidelity, from Stephan's late night "walks" with young women, to his treatment for syphilitic rashes at spas, to abandoning his wife and children on the trip to America - but taking his mistress and groupies.
Most importantly, Walther got his UOJ from Stephan, who studied at Halle University, home turf of Georg Christian Knapp, whose book in English coined the double justification language later adopted by Walther Himself.
Infallible Walther
At the Perryville riot, CFW revealed what happened when someone got in his way. Walther organized the mob, stole 120 acres of Stephan's land (by deception in both cases), threatened the man's life, stole the bishop's gold and books, kidnapped him at gunpoint, and slandered the man's family forever after.
Walther had to be top dog in everything, but he did not want the early history of the Missouri Synod written. He changed the rules in operation at the time (as Ludwig Fuerbringer noted) to have F. Pieper replace him at the seminary, to have Pieper repeat the same garbled dogma. From that time on, anyone who questioned UOJ was a demon from Hell.
All UOJ Arguments Begin with Walther
Many have become frustrated arguing against UOJ with its bilious advocates. Justification by faith begins with the Scriptures, Luther, and the Book of Concord. The key terms are Enthusiasm, the Means of Grace, and the efficacy of the Word.
UOJ Stormtroopers do not begin with Luther's doctrine, or the Scriptures, or the Book of Concord, or the post-Concord era of Lutheran Orthodoxy. They begin with Walther and his Halle UOJ, betrayed by their own language. They begin with "You reject UOJ." In other words, UOJ (a decidedly novel term and concept) is the gold standard. Why? Because Walther taught it.
Romans 4:25 proves UOJ - because Jesus "raised for our justification" - even though Romans 4:24 obliterates the claim of Unfaith Justification. This Easter Absolution was Walther's mantra throughout life. He got it from Stephan, a mediocre student, who got it from Halle University, the Mother Ship of Pietism.
Anyone who disagree with Walther was a damnable heretic.
1 Timothy 3:15 supports the Easter Absolution of the entire world (without the Means of Grace). Why? Because Rambach, the Halle Pietist, said so. Chemnitz said the opposite of 1 Timothy 3:15, but that does not matter, because Bachelor Degree Walther was far wiser than Dr. Martin Chemnitz, the senior editor of the Book of Concord, the student of Luther and Melanchthon.
John 1:29 means that Jesus forgave the entire world for not believing in Him, even though the Fourth Gospel teaches exactly the opposite of that nonsense. Why is John 1:29 UOJ? - because the Waltherians need it for their dogma.
Because Walther could not distinguish between the atonement and justification by faith, the Waltherians must also merge the two. Every atonement passage is UOJ to them, the blind following the blind guide Walther and falling into a pit.
True Lutherans Are Waltherians, Say the Waltherians
The short-circuit of SynConference thinking is revealed when they argue that the true Lutherans are the ones who always begin with the Walther filter.
Other Lutherans look at the SynCon carnival and shake their heads. They consider Krauth, Jacobs, and Schmauk secondary to Luther. They value the era of Lutheran Orthodoxy, but Luther and the Book of Concord are far more significant. To begin all Lutheran doctrinal discussions with a kidnapper, land-thief, and mob organizer is absurd.
Walther was a college graduate. Period. He went to a rationalistic university and served a parish all of two years. His spiritual maturity was based upon severe, dictatorial Pietistic cell group methods. As most Lutherans realize, cell groups are unionistic, anti-Means of Grace, and creepy.
Antinomian? Walther blamed Stephan's adultery on Mrs. Stephan, who bore his many children and passed on his syphilis to them. There is no indication, from childbirth alone, that the bishop was deprived of affection, but he cruelly inflicted his wife and family with his STD. He moved a young girl into his home. When Mrs. Stephan kicked her out, her husband moved the girl back in, claiming he was lord of the house.
When Stephan was kidnapped and forced across the Mississippi at gunpoint, his main mistress followed him and cared for him. The bishop was not forced out for adultery, because his obedient clergy had no trouble with that. Stephan was kicked out for spreading syphilis to the young women in the group, ending their futures and shaming their families.
And those obedient clergy, those founders of the Missouri Synod, looked the other way, just as their modern counterparts did when Marvin Schwan left his wife and married his mistress. And guess what? One WELS pastor told with, with solemn tones, that Marvin had a "Scriptural divorce." Pregnant pause. Marvin, with four children, was also deprived. Pastor Otten has asked the image-makers in a letter, "Did Mrs. Schwan kill herself and leave a suicide note, because of Marvin's adultery?" (I am paraphrasing.)
De-Mythologizing Walther
Walther's myth and shrine need some work. Too many facts have come out. Most is already recorded in Zion on the Mississippi, about 50 years old already.
The support for justification must be renewed, because UOJ is not the Gospel. If the clergy continue to look the other way, they will follow Lutherdom down the circling drain. Apostasy accelerates - it does not slow down.
Apostasy fights back and bites back. Sassy Sue, our wonder dog, found a baby squirrel on the ground. She followed that baby across the driveway and nuzzled it with her nose. Sassy never hurts anyone or anything, but she is Cattle Dog and programmed to herd. The baby squirrel went into the grass and tried becoming still, blending with the grass. Sassy approached and put her big black nose up and down the squirrels body.
The baby squirrel threw rolled over on his back, extended his claws, and let out a hellish "Screeeee!" Sassy and I both stepped back.
UOJ will do the same thing when approached.
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| How often do they admit, "This Ed Preuss dude joined the Roman Catholic Church and defended their dogma"? Never. |
A pastor asked:
"Stephan was kicked out for spreading syphilis to the young women in the group, ending their futures"
Not questioning the validity of that statement but are their futures actually ever mentioned? Don't remember that from Zion on the Mississippi. I think that if those women all die young, unmarried you have proved your point, other wise ...
I know you over-attack Walther for polemic purposes, but... I do like your point that he didn't accept any competition.
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GJ - I have a low regard for those who enable clergy adulterers. They are worse than the adulterers themselves, because they increase the damage done to the family, the congregation, and many others. Moreover, many more lies must be told to keep the adulterer in business. It is no longer the clergy adulterer lying about his wife, but the clergy friends slandering the wife in concert with their pal or boss.
I am too kind to Walther. His devious, dishonest nature is a reflection of his false doctrine. He passed on his doctrinal syphilis to the SynConference, while pretending to be a Lutheran.
The young women Stephan infected? - A Missouri Synod pastor researched this and found out the facts that are so carefully hidden. I could reveal my ultimate source, but that is not necessary. I do not make statements unless they are backed up by research. Some of the LCMS clergy know this. That is why Paul McCain goes nuts when the Stephan book is mentioned.
McNasty is just following the example of Missouri's founder - Martin Stephan.
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Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel has left a new comment on your post "Reverse Engineering the UOJ Arguments":
Ichabod -
Very good posting about connecting the dots of Walther's Joe Paterno type sins overlooking Stephan's adultery. And, that has certainly spilled over to the Missouri Synod leadership of today. They refuse to tear down their graven image Walther security blanket statues; thus promulgating their affinity to that which is contrary to Scripture.
I just submitted a comment (which you graciously posted), stating that Christians need to be politically astute and circumspect by not being deceived by the immoral Network news media. I connected some dots there, basically stating that the false "universal objective justification" teaching lends itself to numbing the spiritual senses of Christians making important voting decisions:
http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2012/10/msnbc-network-of-bigotry-hate-mongering.html
Universal objective justification's slimy tentacles extend to destroying the "saltiness" of Christians, which Christ spoke about in Matthew 5:13. The long and short: When Christians screw-up the grace of God through faith [justification by faith alone] their Christian witness as Christ’s disciples is certainly wounded and greatly diminished!
It is no small wonder why our USA is in such moral decline. Christians have dropped the ball.............
Nathan M. Bickel
www.thechristianmessage.org
www.moralmatters.org
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Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel has left a new comment on your post "Reverse Engineering the UOJ Arguments":
Ichabod -
I'll put it another way:
Christians who allow their religion to take a backseat to their religion, are simply being disingenuous and hypocritical. They need to repent of their sinful support and vote for politicians and a political party which is most anti-Scriptural.
Nathan M. Bickel
www.thechristianmessage.org
www.moralmatters.org
