Is Walther's Election Argument Just Another Calvinist Gambit?

The Flight of Dresden sex cult is told in terms that remind us of another escape and return.
Walther and Stephan left as criminals and repeated the same crimes in America.

Walther's supposed great insight was that faith had nothing to do with election. The UOJ Hive is great at separating forgiveness from faith and grace from the Means of Grace.

My argument is not repeat words words fought over in the past, but to ask, "How can we separate the Gospel from election?"

Walther's efforts to remove faith from forgiveness and election are an ideal foundation for the Calvinism he pretended to critique.

Where did he get this view? His college education (and that's all he had) stopped at graduation. It was purely rationalistic from the state system. In other words, Calvinism and Pietism brought rationalism into the state church and that state church ordained Walther, who served one (1) parish a short time before vamoosing to America with the kidnapped children, Stephan, Stephan's mistress, and the rest of the cult.

Walther's respite from pure rationalism was Pietism, not exactly a remedy. Walther had no grounding in Lutheran doctrine. Stephan, noted for his Pietistic leadership, not a remedy for rationalism - perhaps an improvement, to stretch the point.

KJV Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who
are the called according to his purpose. 29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be
conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom
he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he
justified, them he also glorified.

KJV Galatians 3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith,
preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

When forgiveness, salvation, grace, the Means of Grace, and faith are associated together--as they are in the Word and the Confessions--Walther's illusions fall apart.

One or Two Thoughts on Justification by Faith versus Pietism's UOJ

Mainline Protestant theology constantly emphasizes the same theme as UOJ -

Do not make faith a contingent - if we believe. Because that destroys the concept of grace.

UOJ is exactly the same as mainline liberal theology, which can easily be traced from Halle University - starting with the double justification of Georg C. Knapp and the single justification (everyone forgiven) of Schleiermacher.

But let us focus on the Synodical Conference today. Like all Pietists, the question is not what we believe (adiaphora) but what we do. That is the contingency.

They do not care what someone teaches or another believes, as long as they belong to the right sect.

The LCMS, ELS, and WELS are almost the same, but they mutually condemn one another while working together with ELCA. The Big Boys can handle such temptations. They can separate the wheat from the chaff, or at least the good chaff from the bad chaff.

So the SynCons do not teach Lutheran doctrine because they do not know it. The little they know is used to condemn Luther's doctrine and to reject or make obsolete the Confessions.

But they do teach shunning. They have elaborate mechanisms of shunning, from pre-shunning (double secret probation) to excommunication (with ardent prayers for your repentance).

So Mark and Avoid Jeske can teach his borrowed New Age boosterism, whether in WELS or LCMS, because both sects recognize his delusions as valid and edifying. But that does not lead from a doctrinal merger to an actual merger.

WELS Complains - "That's Our Job!"

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Did Pope Francis poke Protestants in the eye?

by Jimmy Akin Tuesday, June 04, 2013 12:14 AM Comments (20)

Did Pope Francis intentionally poke Protestants in the eye?

In a recent column, Presbyterian Bill Tammeus appeared to accuse Pope Francis of "intentionally offering a poke in the eye to people outside your faith tradition."

He asks if Pope Francis is "saying that I, as a Presbyterian, cannot follow Jesus outside of Catholicism? That's what he appears to be claiming, and I think it's a dicey position to highlight so early in his papacy."

Did Pope Francis "intentionally" poke Protestants in the eye? Did he say that Presbyterians cannot follow Jesus?

Or is Tammeus misreading the pope?

Here's the story . . .

Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/blog/jimmy-akin/did-pope-francis-poke-protestants-in-the-eye#ixzz2VGaeOTOy



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GJ - After all the qualifications are lined up in neat little rows, the answer is - The Roman Catholic Church of the Antichrist IS the Only True Church - in Their Eyes.

Pope John Paul II clearly stated that all other churches were "defective" in his words - including the Eastern Orthodox. The EO crowd went nuts and the ecumenical officers of the mainline apostate groups went bonkers. Like the famous student thrown out of college, "All those years wasted."

Classic Ichabod - Cinnamon Coffee

Friday, November 5, 2010

Cinnamon Coffee from the Master Chef

The Velie Mansion, Moline, was once The Plantation, known for great food.

Great coffee starts with high quality beans. I buy Starbucks beans from Sam's Club, which costs $8 a pound, about half the price of Gevalia or other expensive beans. Those who drink Sanka may think $8 a pound is expensive, but that comes down to $1 per pot of coffee (8 cups), or 12 cents a cup. I drink 4 cups in the morning, which may explain my energy.

One vente latte at Starbucks is $4, and that is nothing more than my coffee with sugar and milk products added.

A good coffee maker will drop the brew into a thermo-carafe instead of a glass pot on a burner. Coffee is meant to be enjoyed rather than burnt to death. At my father's coffee and doughnut shop, coffee was kept on the burner no more than 15 minutes. We used a special blend at that time, which included Maxwell House and Yuban. Leaning into the coffee barrel to get more Yuban was one of my favorite chores at the doughnut shop. Eating fresh danish was forbidden, because they were expensive to make and time-consuming. More than once I had a warm danish on the way down into the basement for bags of coffee.

The key to making great cinnamon coffee is not buying one of those special coffees which claim to be cinnamon coffees. I suspect they use a chemical flavoring agent, which is fine if one's taste buds were shot out in a war or destroyed from eating too many habanero peppers.

The answer is quite simple. I sprinkle pure cinnamon on top of the grounds before I make a pot of coffee. I put enough on the grounds to cover the top with a light dusting.

Mrs. Ichabod and I love it. Guests also love it. I made it every day for our artist in residence, Norma Boeckler, and for others as well.