Watching the LCMS Go Roman Catholic, More Popish than the Pope

Paul McCain posted the Miraculous Lactation of the Virgin Mary into the Mouth of St. Bernard.
A reader added the UOJ gargoyle in the background.

Readers are getting a blitz promotion of the Apocrypha, the books of the Old Testament rejected from the canon. Concordia Publishing House, with too much money and time on their hands, is producing this epic fail. Judging by the frantic tone of the ads, this volume is destined to be pulped faster than McCain's edition of the Book of Concord.

McCain's Book of Concord had more recall notices than the Ford Pinto.

On LaughQuest, one of the LCMS Romanizers was pumping for the Apocrypha. Required reading!

The SynConference has failed to comprehend Paul's Epistle to the Galatians. Why should they study the works used to support Purgatory and other abominations? I know the arguments for the Apocrypha having some value, but the Gospels and Epistles have supreme value. If the MDivs cannot master the basic building blocks of Christian doctrine, why should they turn to ornamentation?

If they can make a best-seller out of the Apocrypha, the price of the book is 99% profit. Large printings pay for themselves, so the overhead is little more than the price of paper. However, that works best if the work sells. I doubt whether anyone really wants to read the Apocrypha. A few will put it on their shelves because the cover is pretty. Try opening or closing a sermon with "As II Maccabees says..."

ELCA bishop Mark Hanson met with John Paul II, D.D. Notre Dame.

More important is the constant promotion of Romanism among the Lutherans. ELCA started it, especially during the waning days of James Crumbly, LCA president (upgraded to bishop). Mark Hanson has followed  that example. Both Concordia seminaries promote Romanism and Eastern Orthodoxy, proving that  ecumenists love every confession of faith except their own.

There are open--and likely secret--groups to promote a return to Holy Mother Rome. One faction uses STS after their names. Some will say, like Weedon, "I will never join Rome." Some never will. But the crafts and assaults used to promote the Vatican view are many. Like slot machines, they do not tempt everyone, but they entice enough to make a real profit.

Paul McCain, faux-pastor and faux-blogger, uses his sinecure at CPH to promote the Roman Catholic recruitment site called New Advent. That is a pleasant name, a welcoming name - New Advent. New Advent posts the entire, gassy Catholic Encyclopedia on its website. They give away DVDs packed with more material, so poor little Protestants can see The Real Church.

McCain uses the Catholic Encyclopedia articles verbatim to make his posts look long and scholarly. The content of his meager efforts consist of: gun posts and videos, copied material (without clear attribution or any at all), and CPH ads. What a yawner.

Missouri, WELS, and ELCA follow the Vatican lectionary series and the gay-friendly liturgical colors. They even use the same names--or drop the same names--for the church year. When Rome talks, everyone listens and obeys. Who decided this? Who voted to spend millions to make sure the Lutherans followed the example of Rome in worship?

WELS bows toward the Vatican and Fuller Seminary.
Dr. Moo will lead them to the green pastures of the New NIV.

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Perhaps, the reason that CPH is printing this non Scriptural Roman Catholic favorite, is because they received some grant from the Vatican? Who knows? And, who knows if CPH'S McCain gets a small stipend percentage cut of it so that he can buy and stock up on all his Mother Mary lactation milk?

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Archbishop Weakland: blackmail funds embezzled to pay off his boyfriend -
just the guy to speak at Wisconsin Lutheran College.

GJ - A Thrivent grant would fulfill their outreach to all religions, all wallets. Notice the pan-Lutheran reconciliation with Rome:

• ELCA began decades ago with James Crumley.
• Missouri trains men who become Roman Catholic priests, including Paul McCain's late go-to guy, Father Richard John Neuhaus.
• WELS invited Archbishop R. Weakland and his Sodomite priests to give a series of public lectures at Wisconsin Lutheran College.
• The Evangelical Lutheran Synod invited a former Roman Catholic bishop to march in a religious procession with the Bethany faculty and to speak at the religious dedication of a new Schwan building.
• The Church of the Lutheran Confession (sic) promoted Roman Catholic materials from David Koenig and Paul Tiefel.

Justification by Faith Is the Chief Article of Christianity

Andromeda was called a nebula until larger telescopes resolved the stars.
One galaxy, the white glow on the lower right, is captured by Andromeda's gravity.
Genesis 15:5-6 is the argument behind Romans 4 - not exactly a UOJ text!

Bankers teach tellers to identify counterfeit currency by showing them the attributes of genuine currency.

UOJ has plenty of bad attributes - Antinomianism and Enthusiasm, to start the list. UOJ is a counterfeit gospel for a counterfeit faith.

But I told one person that I would continue my series on genuine Christian doctrine, featuring the justification by faith quotations from Luther's Galatians Commentary, the Kregel edition, which is easy to obtain and inexpensive.

Paul McCain and his ELCA-Jesuit advisor are complaining, so I must be doing something right. They never thank me for featuring Luther's doctrine. I wonder why.

I have 45 graphics done from the Kregel edition, and I am on chapter 3 of Galatians.


KJV Galatians 3:1 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? 2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

That quotation is certainly up to date for all Lutheran synods today. Turning away from the Gospel, the preaching of faith in Christ, they have been teaching the works of the law for many decades. Most of them were fairly close in doctrine, since all of them were spawned in the era of Pietism. But now they are far apart, driven by extremes of Pentecostalism, Romanism, and Groeschel-Methodism.

Their only area of agreement is a common hatred of Luther's doctrine.

Whoever then believeth the Word of God as Abraham did, is righteous before God, because he hath faith, which giveth glory unto God

Whoever then believeth the Word of God as Abraham did, is righteous before God, because he hath faith, which giveth glory unto God: that is, he giveth to God that which is due Him. For faith saith thus, I believe Thee, O God, when Thou speakest. And what saith God? Impossible things, foolish, weak, absurd, heretical things, if ye believe reason. For what to reason is more absurd, foolish, improbable, yea impossible, than when God said unto Abraham, that he should have a son of the barren and dead body of his wife Sarah?

Martin Luther, Kregel, Galatians 3:6, p. 126.

Paul by these words, “Abraham believed,” maketh of faith in God the chiefest worship, the chiefest duty, the chiefest obedience, the chiefest sacrifice.

Paul by these words, “Abraham believed,” maketh of faith in God the chiefest worship, the chiefest duty, the chiefest obedience, the chiefest sacrifice. Let him that is a rhetorician amplify this place, and he shall see that faith is an almighty thing, and that the power thereof is infinite and inestimable; for it giveth glory unto God, which is the highest service that can be given unto Him. Now, to give glory to God, is to believe in Him, to count Him true, wise, righteous, merciful, almighty, briefly to be the Author and Giver of all goodness. This cometh not of reason, but of faith.

This is it which maketh us divine people, and (as a man would say) it is the creator of a certain divinity, not in the substance of God, but in us. For without faith God loseth in us His glory, wisdom, righeousness, truth, and mercy. To conclude, no majesty or divinity remaineth unto God, where faith is not.

Martin Luther, Kregel, Galatians 3:6, p. 125.

As though a single life, or not to have a wife, were a spiritual life, if a man not content with one paramour, have many.

Whatsoever therefore is most excellent in man, the same Paul calleth here flesh. And this place must be well considered because of the slanderous papists, who wrest the same against us, saying, that we in popery began in the spirit, but now, having married wives, we end in the flesh. As though a single life, or not to have a wife, were a spiritual life, if a man not content with one paramour, have many. They are mad men, not understanding what the spirit is, or what the flesh is. The spirit is whatsoever is done in us according to the spirit: the flesh is whatsoever is done in us according to the flesh, without the spirit. Wherefore all the duties of a Christian man, as to love his wife, to bring up his children, to govern his family, and such like (which unto them are worldly and carnal) are the fruits of the spirit. These blind guides cannot discern things wich are the good creatures of God from vices.

Martin Luther, Kregel, Galatians 3:3, p. 120.

Amputee makes Ark. cheer squad

Amputee makes Ark. cheer squad:

Freshman Patience Beard had her left leg amputated when she was nine months old—the result of Proximal Femoral Focal Deficiency (PFFD), a disease that affects bone growth. But that hasn’t stopped her from cheering on the Hogs and performing the same difficult maneuvers her teammates do.

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Our adversaries think that faith, whereby we receive the Holy Ghost, is but a light matter

Our adversaries think that faith, whereby we receive the Holy Ghost, is but a light matter; but how high and hard a matter it is, I myself do find by experience, and so do all they which with me do embrace the same. It is soon said, that by the hearing of faith the Holy Ghost is received, but not so easily laid hold of, believed and retained. Wherefore, if thou hear of me that Christ is that Lamb of God sacrificed for thy sins, see also that thou hear it effectually.

Paul, very aptly, call it “the hearing of faith,” and not the Word of faith (although there be but small difference), that is, such a Word, as thou hearing does believe, so that the Word be not only my voice, but may be heard of thee: then it is truly and indeed the hearing of faith, through the which thou receivest the Holy Ghost: which, after thou hast once received thou shalt also mortify the flesh.

Martin Luther, Kregel, Galatians 3:2, p. 119.

Faith therefore embraceth and wrappeth in itself Christ Jesus the Son of God, delivered to death for us, Who being apprehended thus by faith, giveth unto us righteousness and life.

This He did  of inestimable love; for Paul saith, “which loved me.”

He that can utter this word “me,” and apply it to himself with a true faith, as Paul did, shall be a good disputer with Paul against the law.

Faith therefore embraceth and wrappeth in itself Christ Jesus the Son of God, delivered to death for us, Who being apprehended thus by faith, giveth unto us righteousness and life. And here he setteth out most lively the priesthood and offices of Christ; which are to pacity God, to make intercession for sinners, to offer up Himself a sacrifice for their sins, to redeem, to instruct, and to comfort them. Let us therefore define Him as Paul doth here: namely, that He is the Son of God, Who not for our deserts, or any righteousness of ours, but of His own free mercy offered Himself a sacrifice for us sinners, that He might sanctify us forever.

Martin Luther, Kregel, Galatians 2:20, p. 96.

Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Did Walther Suffer from the Dunning-Kruger Effect? It Must Be Contagious - Look at the DPs!

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Dunning–Kruger effect

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer fromillusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their mistakes.^[1]

Actual competence may weaken self-confidence, as competent individuals may falsely assume that others have an equivalent understanding. As Kruger and Dunning conclude, "the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others" (p. 1127).^[2]

Contents   [hide]  1 Historical references 2 Hypothesis 3 Supporting studies 4 Awards 5 See also 6 References

[edit]Historical references

Although the Dunning–Kruger effect was put forward in 1999, David Dunning and Justin Kruger have quoted Charles Darwin ("Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge")^[3] and Bertrand Russell ("One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.")^[4] as authors who have recognised the phenomenon.

[edit]Hypothesis

The hypothesized phenomenon was tested in a series of experiments performed by Justin Kruger and David Dunning, both then ofCornell University.^[2][5] Kruger and Dunning noted earlier studies suggesting that ignorance of standards of performance is behind a great deal of incompetence. This pattern was seen in studies of skills as diverse as reading comprehension, operating a motor vehicle, and playing chess or tennis.

Kruger and Dunning proposed that, for a given skill, incompetent people will:

1. tend to overestimate their own level of skill;
2. fail to recognize genuine skill in others;
3. fail to recognize the extremity of their inadequacy;
4. recognize and acknowledge their own previous lack of skill, if they are exposed to training for that skill

Dunning has since drawn an analogy ("the anosognosia of everyday life")^[1][6] to a condition in which a person who suffers a physical disability because of brain injury seems unaware of or denies the existence of the disability, even for dramatic impairments such as blindness or paralysis.

[edit]Supporting studies

Kruger and Dunning set out to test these hypotheses on Cornell undergraduates in various psychology courses. In a series of studies, they examined the subjects' self-assessment of logical reasoning skills, grammatical skills, and humor. After being shown their test scores, the subjects were again asked to estimate their own rank, whereupon the competent group accurately estimated their rank, while the incompetent group still overestimated their own rank. As Dunning and Kruger noted,

Across four studies, the authors found that participants scoring in the bottom quartile on tests of humor, grammar, and logic grossly overestimated their test performance and ability. Although test scores put them in the 12th percentile, they estimated themselves to be in the 62nd.

Meanwhile, people with true ability tended to underestimate their relative competence. Roughly, participants who found tasks to be relatively easy erroneously assumed, to some extent, that the tasks must also be easy for others.

A follow-up study, reported in the same paper, suggests that grossly incompetent students improved their ability to estimate their rank after minimal tutoring in the skills they had previously lacked—regardless of the negligible improvement in actual skills.

In 2003 Dunning and Joyce Ehrlinger, also of Cornell University, published a study that detailed a shift in people's views of themselves when influenced by external cues. Participants in the study (Cornell University undergraduates) were given tests of their knowledge of geography, some intended to positively affect their self-views, some intended to affect them negatively. They were then asked to rate their performance, and those given the positive tests reported significantly better performance than those given the negative.^[7]

Daniel Ames and Lara Kammrath extended this work to sensitivity to others, and the subjects' perception of how sensitive they were.^[8]Other research has suggested that the effect is not so obvious and may be due to noise and bias levels^[vague].^[9]

Dunning, Kruger, and coauthors' 2008 paper on this subject comes to qualitatively similar conclusions to their original work, after making some attempt to test alternative explanations. They conclude that the root cause is that, in contrast to high performers, "poor performers do not learn from feedback suggesting a need to improve."^[4]

Studies on the Dunning–Kruger effect tend to focus on American test subjects. A study on some East Asian subjects suggested that something like the opposite of the Dunning–Kruger effect may operate on self-assessment and motivation to improve.^[10]

[edit]Awards

Dunning and Kruger were awarded the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize in Psychology for their report, "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments".^[11]

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The veneration of Mary does not compare to the veneration of CFW Walther,
Bachelor of Arts.

Seminex started by stealing books from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, which was founded with the
1500 stolen books from Stephan's library.

This scholarly book spelled out the origins of the Missouri Synod,
which was a cult serving in utter obedience to a monster, Martin Stephan, STD.