Tim Rossow Agrees with Ichabod, But He Called JBFA Supporters "Morons"

bruce-church (http://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "The Slandering So-Called Slander-Victims of WELS":

Pastor Tim Rossow on how critique is not slander as some claim:
http://steadfastlutherans.org/?p=18330&cpage=1#comment-318868

Pastor Tim Rossow: Theological critique is not slander. If it were, we would all have to change our name from Lutheran, because our namesake was the king of theological critique and indeed to a salutary end.

I have met Dr. Hartung, debated him, been encouraged by him, read dozens of his articles in the Reporter and I am convinced that his psychological and sociological approach to theolgy is deserving of critique.

The very notion of mistaking honest and edifying theological critique in this post and on this string for slander, is exhibit A of the need for such critique. It is the woosification of society and also church culture that has people being offended by the mere exchange of ideas. This woosification is a product of the psychologizing and sociologizing of culture and theology.

Wussification (or Woosification):

Brad Stine - The Wussification of America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgNWqt_t1i4

Google: Wussification:
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=wussification&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

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LPC has left a new comment on your post "Tim Rossow Agrees with Ichabod, But He Called JBFA...":

Indeed Rossow does call JBFA people morons. However, I would have believed him if he did not exhibit his own stupidity in display when he moderates his Steadfast Waltherian blog.


LPC

Paul Wendland promotes UOJ in his 2012 convention essay on the (W)ELS gospel.

Paul Wendland, WELS, lives and breathes UOJ,
but presents it as justification by faith - the only dogma of WELS-ELS.

Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Emmanuel Lutheran Church » 20120916 Children's Ser...":

Paul Wendland promotes UOJ in his 2012 convention essay on the (W)ELS gospel.

"This understanding of justification also means that, by God’s grace, we are the church of the unconditional gospel, the pure gospel, the gospel with no strings attached (universal and objective justification). The pure gospel states: “Just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people” (Ro 5:18)."
page 10
http://scdwels.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/not-ashamed-of-the-gospel.pdf

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Interesting that many false teachers promoting UOJ use Romans 5:18 as a proof text of Universal Justification without faith. See that Life: eternal salvation, is also included. If they are to strip this verse from the rest of Scripture and teach that justification has been divinely declared upon the whole unbelieving world then its inseparable companion - eternal salvation (life) is also declared upon the whole unbelieving world. Again, UOJ asserts its Universalism although vehemently denied by the false teachers who promote it.

What Romans 5:18 confirms is that through God's gracious faith in Christ an individual receives the forgiveness of sins and life eternal. The false teachers have separated Salvation from the forgiveness of sins in order to establish their new way to righteousness but it is not Christ's way and therefore it is not Christian. Scripture teaches and the Confessions confirm that Christ is our Mediator between God and man through faith alone. Without faith in Christ, of which He is the Author and Finisher of, no one is justified, forgiven or saved.

Having rejected the Holy Spirit's faith, the UOJists will continue to blindly wage war against the Church of Christ and His chief and central doctrine while promoting all kinds of heinous doctrines, practices and persecute those faithful to Christ. Fortunately they will continue to leave a bloody trail of Scriptural contradictions and false teachings all the way to Rome.

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Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel has left a new comment on your post "Paul Wendland promotes UOJ in his 2012 convention ...":

Ichabod -

Very well stated:

>>>>>> .... The false teachers have separated Salvation from the forgiveness of sins in order to establish their new way to righteousness but it is not Christ's way and therefore it is not Christian...... <<<<<<< [Your words]

A major error that is continually being perpetrated by these theological lame brains, is that they isolate certain Scriptures to build their false universal objective justification house of cards. They conveniently overlook one of the first and foremost basic hermeneutical principles; that being, comparing Scripture with Scripture. As with others who molest Scripture, these UOJ enthusiasts begin with their form of eternal security presuppositions and then bend Scripture to satisfy and suit their own selfish and carnal desires.

Nathan M. Bickel

www.thechristianmessage.org

www.moralmatters.org

Unbelievers Are Allergic to Faith, As Demonstrated by the SynConference And ELCA UOJ Enthusiasts

One Arkansan was describing her fall allergies yesterday. She said, "I want to take my eyes out and itch them with steel wool." Allergic reactions can be quite powerful. The spring blooming season this year had everyone scratching, crying, sneezing, and reaching for their medications. Apparently allergies are a hyper-reaction to the proteins of pollen.

Unbelievers react to the Biblical concept of faith the same way. The rationalists who teach world religion and theology classes are always engaged in mocking faith. Supposedly, the SynConference conservatives kicked rationalism out the door, so they can look down on ELCA rationalists, who place human reason above the Word of God.

But UOJ Enthusiasts have the same allergic symptoms as ELCA, because faith gives them systemic reactions. Our allergist kept a hospital bed and supplies in his office, in case a patient had a systemic reaction with life-threatening symptoms.

The UOJ Stormtroopers react switftly against faith, going into a hyperbolic frenzy, lest anyone pursue that line of thinking. I recall a frequent Stormtrooper warning: "You cannot quote Luther's Romans Commentary, because that was an early work." So were the 95 Theses, and I would rather read the early Luther than the latest Buchholz or Wendland. Both of them have divorced themselves from Lutheran doctrine - inept teachers, blind guides, enemies of the Faith.

There are only two justifications - not the ones named by the UOJ Hive. The two justifications are:

1. Justification by the law.
2. Justification by faith.

This is clearly taught by the Holy Spirit in Galatians and Romans, but the Hive--with a great show of their own sanctity--turns that into:

1. Forgiveness, absolution, and salvation of all unbelievers (Hitler and Mao, but not UOJ critics)
2. Forgiveness again - which really counts only if one makes a decision for #1.

KJV Galatians 3:2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the
hearing of faith?


KJV Romans 10:16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our
report?



Note that "hearing" and "report" are the same Greek word, uniting the concepts of preaching-hearing-believing. The Holy Spirit is active in all three, which we separate for discussion, although God unites them in action. There is no Holy Spirit at work without the Word, no Word at work without the Spirit, no preaching or believing without the Word and Spirit.

The UOJ Pixelators find an atonement passage and exclaim, "Aha! Every single pagan, head-hunter, and polytheist is in Christ, justified without faith, forgiven, and saved."

If someone mentions faith, these Pixelators are filled with wrath. When Tim Glende was running his little blog for his little friends, he raved against intuitu fidei - or Inuit Fidei, as he spelled it. At the same time he was giving Methodist sermons, in concert with Ski, copied from Groeschel, an Arminian works-salesman.

Deputy Doug approved, because "everyone plagiarizes" in his Anything Goes District.

Pope Paul the Plagiarist chimed in to join the chorus of boos (or is that booze in Appleton?), because he hates Luther's doctrine even more than the Fox Valley wolves.

When babies face-palm, it's going to be a bad day.