Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Ingredients, the Church of Rome, and UOJ":
I noticed that the Intrepid Lutheran blog site hasn't posted the latest of faithful Pastor Paul Ryckeci's translations which defends one Justification solely by faith alone.
Paul Rydecki's books are linked here.
It may be an oversight. The downside to being abundantly fruitful in the public defense of God's Holy Word is that people have been conditioned to expect a low yield. Specifically the low yeild produced by those suffocating from the false gospel of UOJ and it's terminal effects. By the grace and mercy of God such low yield is no longer the case with Pastor Rydecki. His recent translation of Gerhard is outstanding and continues the Juggernaut defense of Christ's pure Gospel and Chief Article of Christian faith.
Regardless of the reason why the Intrepid Lutherans haven't posted his article I would recommend posting it again. Twice on Ichabod - Zippo on Intrepid.
http://www.faithalonejustifies.com/gerhard-on-justifies-the-ungodly-romans-45/
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| Paul McCain and his Romish fan-club should read Chemnitz, eh? |
narrow-minded has left a new comment on your post "Intrepids - Zero.Ichabod Two.No - Make It Three. T...":
One has to wonder when the Intrepids will follow suit of the Steadfast Waltherians and officially declare the JBFAers as "morons." Perhaps it has already happened and I missed it. If the WELS papists run Intrepids, as the LCMS papists run Steadfast, it's only a matter of time.
Steadfast is mostly the bells and smells faction of UOJ in the LCMS, whereas Jesus First is the Babtist-wannabe faction. The Steadfasters are just happy their guys are in power; and like Barry's tenure, the "confessional" wing of the LCMS will tolerate errors. The cushy Concordia Plan is the carrot dangling in front of the clergy.
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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Intrepids - Zero.Ichabod Two.No - Make It Three. T...":
I recently shared Intrepid Douglas Lindee's email to me with Pastor Jackson. I thought it was a veritable window into the machinations of those who operate the Intrepid blog. I left it to his discretion if he wants to post it. We all have a different approach to the apostasy in the Lutheran Synods and that is as it should be. It provides a wider breadth of exposure and perspective.
I don't believe faithful Pastor Rydecki's confession regarding the Chief Article is the norm for the other Intrepid founders and from my perspective he may not be as influential as he once was because of it. To be faithful to Christ's Word and identify UOJ as a false gospel is a complete game changer - something that many are unwilling to deal with.
When reading the statements of those who publicly sit on the fence regarding Justification I always remember Luther's statement posted on Ichabod:
Martin Luther to George Major:
"It is by your silence and cloaking that you cast suspicion upon yourself. If you believe as you declare in my presence, then speak so also to the church, in public lectures, in sermons, and in private conversations, and strengthen your brethren, and lead the erring back to the right path, and contradict the contumacious spirits; otherwise your confession is sham pure and simple, and worth nothing. Whoever really regards his doctrine, faith, and confession as true, right, and certain cannot remain in the same stall with such as teach, or adhere to, false doctrine; nor can he keep on giving friendly words to Satan and his minions. A teacher who remains silent when errors are taught, and nevertheless pretends to be a true teacher, is worse than an open fanatic and by his hypocrisy does greater damage than a heretic. Nor can he be trusted. He is a wolf and a fox, a hireling and a servant of his belly, and ready to despise and to sacrifice doctrine, Word, faith, Sacrament, churches, and schools. He is either a secret bedfellow of the enemies or a skeptic and a weathervane, waiting to see whether Christ or the devil will prove victorious; or he has no convictions of his own whatever, and is not worthy to be called a pupil, let alone a teacher; nor does he want to offend anybody, or say a word in favor of Christ, or hurt the devil and the world."
Martin Luther, quoted in Bente's Historical Introduction, Concordia Triglotta, St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1921, p. 94.
