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| The Stephanite cult was Pietistic? Yes, they had special rules allowing them to have their cell group meetings at the church, in spite of state law against conventicles. |
Someone got the idea that I was picking on ELDONA, specifically WEL-DONA in this linked post. WEL-DONA members are those who were in WELS and immediately silenced themselves once they joined ELDONA. But that is another story.
I ran into some links from the so-called Intrepid Lutherans, founded by Steve Spencer - who bailed out first - and those posts reminded me of the Synodical Conference disease.
The SynCon (for short) caught this disease from Walther, who imagined himself The Great Prophet sent by God
- to explain all matters,
- to condemn anyone opposed to his zany ideas,
- to subvert and replace Luther and the Book of Concord.
The method is simple - start with Walther and his disciples, quote this band of criminals as if they were the Twelve Apostles, and simply avoid the ruling norm of the Scriptures and the ruled norm of the Confessions.
That is where the current crowd of UOJ Stormtroopers got their whackadoodle ideas about the doctrine of Luther, the Book of Concord, and various others. If Walther and Company are wrong, then the heavens will come crashing down on us.
To quote John Sparky Brenner, they do not lead people into the Scriptures or from the Scriptures.
The Calvinists led the Lutherans into squirrel chases using Latin terms and philosophical reasoning. That became so sterile, long after the Formula of Concord era, that Pietism erupted as an answer. However, the rationalistic and philosophical style remained. How was Walther trained? -
- Rationalism for his BA and ordination.
- Pietism from two abusive cell group leaders.
Stephan did emphasize the Book of Concord more than most at his time, but he mostly taught Himself, which meant he was the sole Means of Grace in Europe. Thus Walther and Company made him Bishop-for-Life. No wonder the Stephan sect members were confused and in disarray after robbing and kidnapping the Means of Grace, forcing Stephan over to Illinois.
Thus I quoted the entire fourth chapter of Romans - not so long - with the transitional conclusion of that chapter - Romans 5:1-2.
That alone refutes the entire corpus of UOJ, which is a vast ocean - two inches deep.
