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Thursday, April 4, 2013
The Vast Gulf - And It Will Not Be Closed
The philosophy of UOJ cannot be harmonized with justification by faith alone, just as oil and water do not mix. Someone can shake oil and water up vigorously, as the Storm-Brownies do, creating a temporary, murky mixture, but the two elements will separate again.
Likewise, modern theology and Biblical theology cannot be made to agree. Modern theologians realize this and quickly spot the departure point in those who dissent from their Kantian wisdom. If the Bible is the revealed Word of God, and the Scriptures judge all books, then modern theology is a clever farce using stained glass words to cover the advance of their peculiar ideas.
The graphic above completely destroys the UOJ position, which is the singular dogma of ELCA, WELS, LCMS, ELS, and the micro-minis. Hundreds of other statements also eviscerate the smooth lies and demonic seduction of world absolution.
But when people are committed to modernism, they only need to gather their authorities, line them up, and repeat the same declarations, spiced with a mixture of flattery and rage, depending on which approach seems more useful at the moment.
Suddenly we learn, Luther discovered UOJ but hid it carefully in the midst of 100 volumes of published work, with Galatians being his late, brilliant final say on justification by faith alone. Robert Preus did almost the same thing. He really wanted to praise UOJ in Justification and Rome but ended up repudiating the dogma, perhaps due to a few hundred typographical errrors.
And just as suddenly, a well known pornographer, with the help of atheists, lesbians, and homosexuals, has carved a perfect Bible out of the granite of Hebrew and marble of Greek - the New NIV! This creative paraphrase is so good that the presses are all set to keep revising it infinitely. All have sinned (we knew that) and all are justified (we knew that, but the Bible finally said it for us, for Mequon, and for ELCA).
There is now grace for all people - for the Mao who butchered 40 to 100 million of his own people, for the SynCons who work with ELCA while denouncing ELCA, for Hindu polytheists, Hollywood Buddhists, and budding young atheists. A new dawn has arisen, as that poping pastor Preuss exulted. We are born forgiven.
Best of all, thanks to the UOJ NNIV, pastors and theologians who cannot spell will still have jobs. This UOJ racket is so good that the Storm-Brownies will not let anyone know the arguments and quotations for justification by faith. Instead they keep repeating their easily learned but impossible to explain dogma.
What better way to excuse their use of Schwan funds when they knew they were just mining his guilt for wrecking his marriage and leaving his first wife in despair. It is strange how everyone praised Marvin so much that they never touched upon the facts of this great conservative, Biblical leader. They all like their new Bibles with only ONE commandment - and it is definitely not the Sixth.
To fool us about their degenerate behavior, the UOJ advocates dazzle us with their John Maxwell biz-language loops. Leaders have to lead. (Pause. Think about that, you morons.) Goals must be set. (Didja hear that, Gertrude? Let's git some of them goals.) Are they SMART - Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Terrific? Never ask how well this has worked in the last 50 years of Management by Objective, but prioritize them and get those obstacle-makers out of the way by running them down or kicking them out.
Bishop Katie, Ski, and Glende bought into the biz-language blizzard and ran off to many different biz-language bistros to give the impression of actually working. But this exhausted them so much that they had to copy the sermons, themes, and graphics of one Craig Groeschel while denouncing anyone who took Luther seriously.
The lying, abusive, beer-soaked "ministry" of Jeske's Church and Change cannot be compared to the Means of Grace. There is no connection.
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