Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Can Any Pope Be a Believing Christian? - No: Impos...":
If the clergy in the Lutheran synods do not take a public stand against UOJ as their call into the Public Office of the Ministry requires, then they’re no better than Joel Hochmuth in the ongoing spiritual abuse of the laity they are responsible for. DP Pastor Jon Buchholz did everyone a favor by clearly showing that UOJ is incompatible and contrary to Christ’s central and chief doctrine of one Justification solely By Faith alone in Christ. He publicly anathematized Christ’s doctrine of Justification by labeling faithful Pastor Paul Rydecki as a heretic for rejecting the false gospel of UOJ.
A comparison of the tolerance for UOJ in the Lutheran synods with the recent, putrid Joel Hochmuth case (at the time he was the (W)ELS Director of Communications) is supremely accurate. Hochmuth was convicted as a computer pedophile who sat at synod headquarters watching children being violently abused and raped by homosexual men. The Lutheran synods are full of silent clergy who watch as their Synod and clergy abuse men, women and children in their churches – by teaching and allowing to be taught the faith destroying false gospel of UOJ which separates the confessor from Christ and eternal salvation. How many souls are gnashing their teeth in eternal torment because they embraced (W)ELS UOJ at the expense of the Holy Spirit’s faith in Christ alone? Many in the Lutheran synods sit by and either condone UOJ or reject it - but still silently watch as men and women in their fellowship use it to privately and publicly manipulate the laity, with the effect of tearing them away from Christ, the forgiveness of sins, the comfort and peace of the Holy Spirit and eternal life.
Right now is the time to stand up and be publicly counted as a faithful Christian, by the grace and mercy of God, who is willing to carry the cross of Christ, teach and defend pure doctrine and right practice as Scripture clearly teaches and the Christian Book of Concord faithfully explains. Test the Spirits and identify the posturing clergy, hold them accountable for what they teach, confess and condone. Study the doctrine of UOJ as the synods teach the various versions of it and compare it, not to some professors class notes, but to Scripture and the Lutheran Confessions. Now is not the time for equivocation and ambiguity in doctrinal matters and neither is it the time to entertain those who have become masters of both.
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Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel has left a new comment on your post "Luther Said Much the Same Thing - False Doctrine I...":
Ichabod -
In your Luther pic, a nun asks:
"How can a man from 500 years ago speak so clearly to me today?"
If one but believes the Scripture and the Romans 12 gifts; it is not difficult to understand that some of Luther's gifts were prophecy and exhortation.
Consequently, if modern day Lutherans actually believed in these gifts to the church, they would happily accept Luther's preached word about "justification by faith alone." Instead they go astray and worship their false god of universal objective justification.
Sadly, Lutheran church big wheels lead the people astray. They no longer believe that Luther could be one of those of whom Scripture speaks:
"Consider your leaders; those who spoke to you the Word of God; consider the outcome of their life; and imitate their faith." [Hebrews - RSV - as I recall it]
