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| Walther knowingly covered for Stephan's adultery. Stephan left his wife and family in Dresden, but Walther helped make the man bishop-for-life. Missouri's leaders admitted they knew all along - see Zion on the Mississippi. |
     Barry Propst (Barry) Junior Member Username: Barry Post Number: 33 Registered: 10-2010 |
From my brief experience with ELDoNA about 10 years ago, they really have an axe to grind with Walther, and it doesn't stop at polity. If sacerdotalism is an issue in LCMS, it really is an issue in ELDoNA. As far as refusing to accept objective justification, I can only say that as a desperate group of "pastors", they may very well have come to acknowledge that at this point, I don't know. In a broad since, I think they must have been rejecting it for a long time to explain some of their strange-to-Lutheranism beliefs and practices, since this doctrine is ultimately tied to every other. This group is bent on attacking LCMS and now apparently WELS, and they will do about anything to show it. I think of ELDoNA like I think of an injured and cornered animal. They are unpredictable and can be dangerous, doctrinally speaking. Their "injury" in large part (from the instances I observed) came from a Missouri Synod that failed to discipline. The 'State of Confession' that some were making in an attempt to stand apart from a weak synod was carried too far. These guys got sympathy from the wrong crowd at the wrong time, and to ELDoNA they fled. Sad. |
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| Woods was a famous Calvinist, a wunderkind, and this book is still in print. UOJ is mainline dogma - everyone is forgiven and saved. |
