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| PhD graduation, not a drive-by DMin, from Notre Dame, 1982. |
Someone wrote:
I just want to thank you for being the real thing, Lutheran that is. Nothing artificial, no added ingredients or flavoring, just the real thing.
I look forward to your Sunday message and Luther's Sermons on Ichabod. You have helped me tremendously in the knowledge of the Confessions, early Lutheran Fathers, and Justification by Faith. May God continue to bless you and keep you proclaiming His Word!
And in another note from the same person:
Your blog helped open our eyes as we spent most of our time detoxifying ourselves from Calvinism, and didn't pick up their lack of justification by faith. Thank you for bringing that and many other problems to light.
People write or phone from time to time, and it is always good to hear from the readers. The opposition decided to stop sending nasty emails to me, perhaps because I laughed at them, quoted them, and used their eructations to reveal the apostasy of the Lutheran synods.
They probably concluded, correctly, that their viciousness only encouraged me and provoked me to write even more along the lines they suggest -
"Tired of justification by faith posts" - write more of them!
"He writes about his dog" - more Sassy articles!
"Hates the graphics" - more Photoshops!
"I could produce better Photoshops" - OK, try these!
"Makes fun of our leaders" - increase the apostasy articles!
The purpose of this blog is to deal with doctrinal issues, so the thank you note identifies the source of apostate fury. The apostate fraudsters are not about to admit their fraud, which means facing their own delusions about being Christian believers - they are not.
Chemnitz quoted Origen in writing, "Let him consider the doctrine itself."
The UOJ Stormtroopers follow the same method as the gay activists and radical Left. The tactic is called "jamming." When someone offends their party line, a few people pretend to be a mob of furious, wounded victims of hate. They generate a mountain of opposition from of a few fanatics, and try to force others to back down.
WELS has institutionalized this tactic under the leadership of Mark Jeske, Paul Kelm, and David Valleskey. They never stop their personal attacks because they want to poison the well, an age-old logical fallacy. The idea is to make everyone back away from associating with their target. While engaging in constant personal attacks, they view any discussion of their hideous dogma as a violation of the Eighth Commandment, not to mention Matthew 18.
The Book of Concord commends readers to study Luther's Lectures on Galatians for additional development of justification by faith. However, the Synodical Conference leaders argue that the orthodox Lutheran position, the Chief Article, is justification without faith.
