Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "How Did WELS DP Buchholz Excuse Foreclosing on the...":
This letter should be read by every (W)ELS member.
http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2012/10/letter-to-wels-district-president-jon.html
The (W)ELS has condoned DP Pastor Jon Buchholz' applying the label of heretic, then the excommunication of faithful Pastor Paul Rydecki from fellowship in the WELS.
Rydecki to Buchholz, "But in true papistic fashion, you have refused from the beginning even to admit the possibility that you could have erred or that the WELS doctrinal statements may be wrong. You called me to repentance for preaching that “all who trust in Christ are absolved before God’s courtroom.” You stood in front of my congregation and called me a false teacher for teaching the Gospel that sinners are justified by faith alone in Christ, and now you have suspended me from the ministerium of the WELS."
Are the actions of DP Buchholz, which have been condoned by the WELS, ELS and LCMS, in opposition to Christ and His Church when Scripture and the Lutheran Confessions only teach that sinners are justified by faith alone in Christ? Yes.
an·ti·christ/ˈantēˌkrīst/Noun:
1.A great personal opponent of Christ who will spread evil throughout the world before being conquered at Christ's Second Coming.
2.A person or force seen as opposing Christ or the Christian Church.
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GJ - The aggression of bullies like Buchholz is not so shocking, given the extensive cult training forced upon the supposed elite in WELS.
But the passive surrender of the clergy and many laity - that is surprising. They should be driving Buchholz out of town, baiting him with dogs and pelting him with manure - for teaching against the Gospel in the name of the Gospel.
Luther was quite explicit about lazybones pride-swells like Jon-boy, who has to tell everyone who his relatives were, as if he picked them hisself.
Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "DP Jon-Boy Buchholz Got Away with Tyranny, Just Li...":
Correction to the post title - DP Buchholz didn't get away with tyranny.
Because, to date, he has rejected faithful Pastor Rydecki's call to repentance and has refused to return to the Scriptural and Confessional Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. His heart is hardened against Christ and the one true Gospel and... actually Hunnius spoke about Buchholz's huberianism years ago (Intrepids that are sympathetic to those UOJists who hold authority in the Synods may want to look away at this point or suck on a tablespoon of sugar):
Hunnius refuting the UOJ of Huberite DP Jon Buchholz, ”We are pleased to explain with clear words what our sentence is regarding his points, and to lay the foundation of Scriptural support and, by the grace of God, to fortify our position on all sides in such a way that not only will Huber be completely unable to defend against it, but not even the gates of hell will be able to prevail against it. Nor shall we hesitate to defend publicly the doctrine contained in these propositions, either in solemn colloquy or also, if it seems appropriate, in general council against this insolent and insulting Thraso and, by the grace of God, so to stop up his impudent mouth (which knows how to spew forth nothing but the most shameful lies) that learned and unlearned alike may carefully observe who that spirit is by whose dictation Huber vomits forth his writings in the Christian world and truly tries to sell and thrust his belchings and vomitings upon all people even rulers in place of the heavenly truth, to the extent that his gift for impudence is able.”
Theses Opposed To Huberianism, Page 6
Those who pervert the Gospel of Christ stand condemned by God.
Matthew 12:37, “For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.”
Matthew 18:6-7, “But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. Woe unto the world because of offences! For it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!”
