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| Mirthless Mark Schroeder loathes one of these and loves the other. Has Holy Father stepped into congregational matters for you? |
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| The Mark Schroeder legacy - public absolution for felony child trafficking, previously known, excommunication and foreclosure for Justification by Faith. |
Eric Metaxas' Martin Luther: The Man Who Discovered God and Changed the World should be carefully and slowly read by everyone, especially the laity.
Lutherdom has re-captured the Medieval Church, and this came to fruition - this rotten, corrupt fruit - in the last few decades.
Luther was unusual in his devotion to Biblical teaching versus the established authority of Aristotle, Aquinas, and the papacy. Luther's supervisor Staupitz welcomed and encouraged this, so Staupitz was an enabler of the Reformation, though he never left Holy Mother Rome.
Whether ELCA, WELS, LCMS, ELS, CLC (sic) or ELDONUT-land, the leaders reject the efficacy and authority of the Scriptures and assert their own, infallible, and not-to-be disputed power.
Anyone who has a thought must first check in with the Thought Police and see if that idea has been banished forever. This works very well for the few. Someone known for dissent is going to face a rough time before learning that shunning has been initiated and the Left Foot of Fellowship has been extended.
ELCA polished this approach with decades of experience in associating with hard Left activist groups. Even the bishops who eventually left (but only after retirement) went along with all the strategies, crafts, and assaults - until 2009 was one mincing step too far. But the WELS leaders are not innocent babes, with an abusive history going back to Protest'ant days in the 1920s. The ELS gladly beat up their own when told to do so by the Receptionists. Missouri is legendary in leaking defamatory letters to the entire synod (Jack Preus) while hailing the dogma of a seminary professor who became a leader of Roman Catholics (Bob Preus for Edward Preuss).
This corruption will continue and worsen as long as the clergy and laity accept the dictatorship of Holy Mother Sect and reject the clarity, efficacy, and authority of the Scriptures.
Meanwhile, check out the group blogs:
- LutherQueasy
- Dead Last Lutherans
- ALPB Online Cloaca
They specialize in trivia and avoiding the real issues.
