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Walther's False Doctrine and Bad Character
Walther got his Easter absolution nonsense from Bishop Martin Stephan, an alumnus of Halle University, where Georg Christian Knapp was the last of the old Pietists. The school became rationalistic, and Knapp shared in that rationalism, questioning the biblical basis for the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.
Walther knowingly associated with an open adulterer and syphilitic liar, Stephan, who blamed his marital problems on his long-suffering wife. Walther and Stephan shared the same lawyers, so Walther had to know about the court testimony against Stephan, just before they departed for America, leaving Mrs. Stephan behind to fend for herself. Nevertheless, Walther swore lifelong obedience to his diseased bishop, a few months before plotting the mob action, grand larceny, and kidnapping of bishop-for-life Stephan.
How is this for leadership? Walther avoided confronting Stephan about adultery (and the syphilis outbreak among the young women) choosing instead to use a mob to get rid of the boss. No Law and No Gospel from Walther. The disciple preferred to be a criminal.
District Presidents Today Are Waltherian
Walther was a double-talker. For instance, he listed the reasons why a Christian should not take a brother to court, then excused his own lawsuit against two ministers in the same paragraph. All the modern DPs have shown a great eagerness to use the courts to steal land, to deny justice to abused children and women, to nullify written contracts. But they are horrified that any layman or pastor would use a lawyer after getting no response to personal visits, phone calls, emails, and certified letters to the DP.
DPs pose as orthodox Lutherans, but on what basis?
Like Walther, they are their own experts. What they say is the last word on anything.
Like Walther, they are bullies, shouting and threatening when they can get away with it.
Like Walther, they avoid dealing with situations when they can use others to do their dirty work.
Time to face this, readers. Walther's Easter absolution cannot be harmonized with the Scriptures, the Book of Concord, or the Galatians Commentary commended for study by the Book of Concord.
I have known three DPs reasonably well. They are cut from the same piece of burlap. They lie, make excuses, and always support what is wrong - in doctrine and practice.
Has Jon Buchholz suspended any Church and Changer? Has he disciplined Rick Johnson or Jeff Gunn? He studied Jeff Gunn's congregation for four years before welcoming the faux-Lutheran church into his faux-Lutheran district.
Where is Mark Schroeder? He was going to oppose the Church and Changers, too. I warned one WELS hopeful against Gurgle, who soon made Mischke look good. I warned him again against Schroeder, who has made Gurgle look good.
Faith Makes Us Bold - Luther
Lutherans are cowardly because they have no faith. They trust in the power and majesty of Holy Mother Synod, but not in the efficacy of the Word. Mama Synod gives love, fellowship, cash, and benefits. God's Word brings the cross. Boo.
One of my Moline friends, a non-Lutheran, took over one of my threads on justification by faith, expressing no interest in any confessions, just the Word. Any doctrinal issue can be settled by the Word alone, but a Lutheran friend kept defending something unknown to the Moliner - the Book of Concord.
The same is true of the DPs. They have the same love and knowledge of the Book of Concord as my Moline classmate - zero. Worse, as Pietists, they have a loathing of the Confessions. They know even less about the Word of God, because they begin with their synodical eyeglasses on.
That is why all the Lutheran fuss in the last 50 years has concentrated on who will get the big job. Everyone gets to write and email and blog and organize and discuss and vote and start all over again. The clergy are very sharp about politics but very dull about Biblical doctrine.
In all-LCA (Augustana Synod) Moline in the 1960s, no Lutheran congregation would have attempted a pathetic rock service, a minister wearing his change-the-crankcase-oil outfit while preaching a sermonette stolen from a Methodist. Where is the opposition? Toothless, gutless, numb with anxiety about who will feed and clothe them (Matthew 6 for Mequon graduates).
Faith makes us bold because it puts our trust in the majesty and power of God, who can stop the earth on its axis and drop the dew on the fleece (or off the fleece)--Judges 6 for Mequon graduates.
No wonder the leaders of all the Lutheran sects have rushed off to Fuller Seminary to study marketing. They trust Management by Objective, but not the Means of Grace.
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