Keil-Delitsch Set Has Been Spoken For

A Lutheran pastor asked for the set.

Universal Objective Justification and the Church of Rome

Walther promoted and insisted upon UOJ,
just as he assumed the papacy of Bishop Stephan, STD.
Episcocide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please. (from MASH theme)

Someone wrote:

Hi Greg. I have a question!

I found the following quote from the 6th Session of the Council of Trent

"CANON XIV.-If any one saith, that man is truly absolved from his sins and justified, because that he assuredly believed himself absolved and justified; or, that no one is truly justified but he who believes himself justified; and that, by this faith alone, absolution and justification are effected; let him be anathema."

The second part (underlined) of the Canon seems very much like the view of UOJ supporters. Am I reading something into the text that is not actually there? Do UOJ and Rome agree on this point? 

The statement is an assault on Justification by Faith, and was intended that way, but I agree that Roman Catholicism today is completely harmonious with UOJ.

The main reason would be the New Theology embraced by the Roman pontiffs. They gave the impression of being conservative, especially John Paul II and Benedict XVI (16 for those who went to WELS schools).

But Rome shares a deception common to modern Protestant theologians. Each group has favorite authorities, but they share a common starting point - not the Scriptures but the rationalistic philosophy of the 19th century. They use the vocabulary of faith but without meaning those words. Everything is either mythological or symbolic.

For Roman Catholic leaders, Holy Mother Rome is that One Church that includes all world religions.  

Protestant mainline leaders (including LCMS-WELS), there is great urgency to cooperate, work together, and preserve the perks and benefits of leadership, because nothing really matters, given the great uniting truth of UOJ.

Barth (Kirschbaum) and Tillich are loved by Catholic and Protestant leaders, because their language perpetuates the great scam of talking about but not meaning the categories addressed. God's grace cannot be constrained by actually requiring or expecting faith. Then grace is not grace!

In other words, God's grace demands that all men be forgiven and saved. They only need to know it is already true.

Note how the leading faction of the LCMS loves UOJ and Roman Catholicism - so easy to see in the now erased ravings of Paul McCain, Jay Webber, the Purple Palace pundits, the two LCMS seminaries, and Chad Bird:

1. Pastors are priests.
2. Holy Communion has to be called Mass.
3. Lutherans should not longer neglect Mary and the saints.

I would join them in their smoky, incensed processions on designated holy days, if they only taught the Gospel, but they reject and repudiate Justification by Faith.

The LCMS Romanists are sinuflecting to the Vatican, pretending their high church entertainment evangelism is superior to the circus clowns of Church Growth entertainment services. The elaborate robes are just as comical as the deliberately dirty and wrinkled jeans.

Jim Heiser is more out in the open than most Ft. Wayne graduates.
They are the reason Robert Preus wrote Justification and Rome, to battle The Fort's embrace of Rome.

Briefly Noted after Vacation Night in Joplin, Missouri, Home of Bob Cummings

 Bob Cummings (Joplin native) and Julie Newmar

We visited the frozen tundra of Joplin, Missouri, famous for the tornado and Bob Cummings. It so happened that we had just seen Dial M for Murder, a superb movie by Hitchcock, with Cummings in a lead role. Grace Kelly was the intended victim.

We returned with a boot full of books. Sorry, I switched to Hitchcock English. A trunk full of books.

One bunch is a complete set, free -  Keil-Delitsch Old Testament Commentaries. Readers get the first dibs on the set. The first email gets it. Big, very detailed set. I suggest asking only if you really want to use it. I will send it for $30 media mailing cost.

There are more theology books, which I will detail later.

1. Creation Gardening is being proof-read. Artwork is next, then final fixing up and finishing via Janie Sullivan.
2. The Lost Dutchman's Goldmine will be completed fairly soon.
3. Next week is a broadcast on New Testament Greek. Classes will follow the next week.

 Keil-Delitsch. One of the authors was very close friends with Bishop Stephan. I used to own the set in German, owned by a faculty member from Mordor.

Bird Is Not the Word

Chad Bird, LCMS,
former UOJ professor at The Surrendered Fort.
Bird is not the Word.

From a Reader -

Thanks for the Ichabod post concerning Chad Bird. Not surprising to see that universalism is alive and well in the LCMS, but tragic to think of the people led into accepting such gross error.

The post was so bad, in multiple ways, I was, thankfully, driven to read Luther. From his Commentary on Galatians (with this masterpiece available, why read Bird?):

Luther - Galatians, Chapter 5:

The battle of the sinful nature against the Spirit is something all God’s children have felt. If we search our own conscience and are not hypocritical, we will see that what Paul says here is true in ourselves: our sinful nature battles against the Spirit. All believers, therefore, confess that their sinful nature resists the Spirit and that these two are so contrary to one another that whatever they do, they cannot perform what they want to do. Therefore, the sinful nature stops us from keeping God’s commandments, so that we cannot love our neighbors as ourselves, much less love God with all our heart; therefore, it is impossible for us to become righteous by obeying the law. Indeed, there is a good will in us, and so there must be (for it is the Spirit himself who resists our sinful nature). This good will would gladly do good, fulfill the law, love God and neighbor, and so on; however, the sinful nature does not obey this good will but resists it. Yet God does not impute this sin to us, for he is merciful to those who believe, for Christ’s sake. But it does not follow from this that we should make light of sin. It is true that God does not impute sin to us, but for whom is this true, and why? It is true for those who repent and lay hold by faith upon Christ the mercy-seat; just as all their sins are forgiven them, so the remnants of sin that are in them are not imputed to them. They do not make their sin less than it is but amplify it and set it out as it is indeed, for they know that their sin cannot be put away by what they do or by righteous works, but only by the death of Christ. And yet the enormity of their sin does not cause them to despair, but they assure themselves that it will not be imputed to them or laid to their charge.

I say this lest anyone should think that after faith has been received, there is little account to be made of sin. Sin is truly sin, whether committed before receiving the knowledge of Christ or afterwards. And God always hates sin. All sin is damnable in itself, but it is not damnable to the believer, thanks to Christ who by his death has taken away sin. All the unbeliever’s sins are damnable, and even his good works are sin (Romans 14:23). Therefore, it is a pernicious error to distinguish sins according to the fact and not according to the person. The believer’s sins are just as great as the unbeliever’s, but the believer’s sins are forgiven and are not imputed; the unbeliever’s sins are not pardoned but are imputed. To the believer sin is venial or pardonable, while to the unbeliever it is mortal and damnable, not because of any difference in the sins or because the sin of the believer is less and that of the unbeliever greater, but because of the difference between the persons. Believers assure themselves, by faith, that their sins are forgiven since Christ has given himself for them. Therefore, although they have sin in them and sin every day, they remain godly; the unbeliever, on the other hand, remains wicked. It is the true wisdom and consolation of godly people that although they have and commit sins, they still know that for Christ’s sake their sins are not imputed to them.

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GJ - The frauds who manage and manipulate the synods should worry that the top views for the month are from the Book of Concord selections.

Readers also go to Luther's Sermons all the time. In time people will see the vast gap between the reign of the mini-popes and Biblical, Lutheran doctrine.

The big laugh is that these Thrivent insurance salesmen are educating their members to vacate their own quasi-Lutheran synods, to join the generic Evangelical entertainment centers the synod presidents try so hard to emulate.

If anyone wants a glimpse of the future, simply look at the National Council of Churches:

• Millions in endowments
• Closing and merging schools
• Almost vacant congregations
• Extreme Left-wing political agenda.

The captains are willing to go down with their ships, as long as they can pull a huge salary, princely benefits, and a cadre of toadies to praise their glorious work.