Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Lutheran Laity - Here Are Some Graphics for You":
The number of contradictions and false statements in (W)ELS DP Pastor Jon Buchholz' 2012 defense of his excommunication of faithful Pastor Paul Rydecki is staggering.
Buchholz claims, "It is objective and universal to say that all people were put to death in Christ." Page 4
This is clearly unScriptural because those people who are outside of Christ are alive to sin, under the Law and wrath of God by their unbelief. Following the earlier refutation of Buchholz it was made clear that the world only obtains Christ as Mediator against God's wrath over sin by believing in Christ which faith is a gracious gift of the Holy Spirit worked solely through the Word and Sacraments.
Buchholz even provides the Biblical chapter and verse that rejects his false teaching immediately after making the statement: Romans 6:3, "Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?" This verse confirms that only those who have been baptized by the Word are in Christ and therefore have been put to death in Christ and have died to sin through faith in Christ are now are no longer under the Law. The rest of the chapter underscores this as the faithful doctrine of Christ and condemns Buchholz' false teaching that the unbelieving world has been put death in Christ and therefore has been objectively and universally forgiven.
http://azcadistrict.com/sites/default/files/papers/Buchholz_2012-10.pdf
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GJ - I decided to turn the Buchholz essay into PNGs and post them as groups, so people can comment on them Each page is a PNG, which Adobe converts a PDF. I will also create a post for linking all of them together, so people can navigate from one error to another.
Jon-Boy's prolixity suggests that he had help from other errorists, since he has not shown himself to be studious.
One approach in conflict management is to address the issue at a lower level, so the bosses have room to maneuver and ways of getting out of blame. WELS has an elaborate but transparent system of denials, honed by years of plea-bargaining with the court system.
