UOJ Name-Calling at Its Finest - How They Avoid the Truth

This looks ridiculous, but so does a Lutheran espousing justification without faith
during Reformation - or the rest of the year.

Almost 30 years ago, when I began to look into UOJ - Forgiveness without Faith - the names began flying from Paul McNasty and his grace-filled friends, including Rolph Preus. "You are a Walter Maier disciple!" That sounded odd coming from men who studied under Walter Maier at Ft. Wayne - I didn't. The rainbow faculty at Ft. Wayne agreed they were all orthodox Lutherans, too.

And I was called a "Darbyite," because I knew Larry Darby. Paul McNasty wrote at least one letter accusing me of drawing an elderly California pastor into UOJ. The pastor in question wrote to me, but the facts never mattered to McNasty.

Corrupt fruit comes from a corrupt tree, so McNasty and his nasty circle of faith-deniers are still at it. This is an era where a Lutheran can make a career out of attacking Luther's doctrine and call himself  a "Confessional Lutheran," while praising the pope and promoting the Miraculous Lactation of Mary.

Now the name calling from the same nasties is just as odious. They do not admit their hatred of Luther's doctrine, their rejection of Gausewitz. Instead, anyone who reads the Book of Concord on his own, anyone who grasps the plain language of the Bible is a "Jacksonian" or worse.

McCain loved the essay where this was quoted favorably.
Preuss became a Roman Catholic theologian.

The name-calling assumes that individuals cannot study the Confessions and the Scriptures and make up their own minds. Poor me - I think the Word of God is efficacious, so the Word must teach them discernment. I have seen that almost all laity have no trouble with justification by faith as taught by the Apostle Paul. They find the apostate Paul...appalling.

The exceptions among the laity are those who have been brain-washed, verbally abused, and broken by their UOJ dominatrix pastors.

I was on one Facebook thread, where people were having a friendly exchange, when one UOJ lay-zombie began attacking me about his favorite topic. I tried to ignore him, but he kept going. I hadn't heard from him for years, when the LutherQuest (sic) denizens converted him with Sisera counseling.

One LCMS pastor told me that he could not find a single pastoral contact who agreed with UOJ. The WELS UOJ fanatics are much denser but not unanimous. Papenfus admitted to the families he excommunicated that he never heard of UOJ before seminary at the Sausage Factory in Mequon. Indeed, until the horrible Kuske catechism was introduced, the Gausewitz reigned supreme in WELS.

The issue is doctrine. No one can make someone else believe this or that. Doubtless some resent me a bit for staying up late at night to publish, for waking up early to publish. They have never written anything of note, so their brain muscles are rusty and flabby from lack of exercise. A few are irritated by good spelling and grammar, the residue of 15 years of higher education.

What should bother them the most is the writing of the WELS Church Lady. She is not seminary trained. Her prose needs a bit of editing. But she does more plain speaking than all the clergy put together.

The UOJ Stormtroopers make the issue personal so they can avoid discussing their own false doctrine. An honest approach from McNasty would be, "Romans teaches justification by faith, but I reject it. The Book of Concord teaches justification by faith, but I reject that too."