Maxfield Parrish - Birthday Today

Bearing Lanterns

We saw this painting at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. We attended a lecture about early American art.

The art historian said Crystal Bridges has become a destination. One woman flew in from LA. She told him, "Everyone I know has been here, so I had to visit too."

Norma Boeckler wrote that she really enjoys her Parrish book.

He was born today, in 1870.

Justification by Faith - Luther Always Taught It - As Everyone Knows - Except the Leaders of WELS

From the Apple-Dumbling Gang:Yale Is Roman Catholic

I posed with Ben to celebrate our purchase of Yale with Masonic Lodge funds.

But from what we have seen on his blog, and in spite of the degrees he boasts of from such illustrious liberal and Roman Catholic institutions as Yale and Notre Dame, we doubt he has the capacity to do that.

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GJ - Poor Glenda misses the point, but satire is not for academic under-achievers. Tim used used his unaccredited MDiv to prove that he was right and the member of his congregation was wrong. Most would call that logical fallacy pathetic.

And - He. Studied. Greek.

If those were valid arguments, my four-of-a-kind beats a single deuce - three master's degrees and a PhD.

He also defeated himself with a tortured sentence where Yale becomes a liberal and Roman Catholic institution.

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(W)ELS - Becoming more confessional

We'll be seeing more of this written in Synod communications. It's intent is to dictate an understanding primarily because it can be believed in no other way. Certainly not by studying (W)ELS practice or by comparing their doctrines to Scripture and the Lutheran Confessions. (W)ELS has separated themselves from Christ through believing and teaching the false gospel of Universal Objective Justification. They have established their own way to righteousness before God and have rejected the faith of the Holy Spirit. Orthodox Lutheran confessor Hunnius condemned the UOJ teaching of Samuel Huber as satanic and opposed to Christ just as faithful Lutheran's do today.

(W)ELS minder and hireling Pastor Jon Buchholz recently included such a mindwash in his June monthly news bulletin for Emmanuel.
 
http://www.elctempe.org/home/180001623/180001623/images/2012-06%20June.pdf  

Martin Franzmann, UOJ. Another UOJ Watertown Professor

Martin Franzmann, 1907-1976,
taught for WELS and then for Missouri.
He is most famous for his hymns.

Although I sent off four boxes of Lutheran books, I also ordered a few items from Amazon and Alibris. If I can get a well known volume for for a few dollars, I order it.

I had a scan of Franzmann's commentary on Romans, but I saw the book on Alibris and bought it. The book is not a commentary at all and is certainly not scholarly. There are no references and no index. There is a list of some books on Romans with a brief description. I would call it a homiletical book.

One sentence gives away the theme of the SynConference:

In raising him from the dead, God was "justifying the ungodly" for whom He died; God was saying to a doomed mankind, "You are righteous, you shall live." There is in our faith, therefore, the same realistic recognition of the death of man that was in Abraham's faith, and the same expectation of the creative miracle of God's grace which raises the dead and calls into being righteous men.

Martin H. Franzmann, Romans, A Commentary, CPH, 1968, p. 86.

That was his statement about the ending of Romans 4. Franzmann's obscure words are the opposite of what Paul wrote.


KJV Romans 4:24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; 25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

God was telling all of mankind "You are righteous"? Of course, Franzmann is not that explicit. The UOJ writers are seldom that clear. But the thoroughly brained-washed know that is what those words mean. They agree with the Pietist Rambach, who argued that the resurrection of Christ absolved all of mankind - especially the unbelievers. Jay Webber and Jon Buchholz support the Halle Pietism version of  universal forgiveness and salvation. You just have to believe their dogma is true: justification by faith in UOJ. 

Franzmann was a leader of the conservatives, and he was just as UOJ as Richard Jungkuntz, the leader of the Seminex coalition.

The UOJ position is not in harmony with the efficacy of the Word and certainly opposes the Means of Grace. Can the blue text be brought into agreement with Romans 10? Isaiah 55? Not at all.

Richard Jungkuntz also started out WELS, also at Watertown,
and also joined the Board of Doctrine, LCMS,
after teaching at Concordia, Springfield, Illinois.
As chairman of the Seminex board, he headed the first
gay Lutheran seminary, by partnering with the Metropolitan Community Church.
Deppe was the Seminex professor who went with the faculty to teach at LSTC, ELCA,
and later joined the MCC, where he belonged.