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WM asked about the ELDONA YouTube series on Justification, so I looked them up.
They prominently feature The Right Reverend James Rodham Heiser, STM, so I have trouble taking them seriously. He read Thy Strong Word in 2000 or so, found out what Objective Justification really was, and then ignored the issue while working closely with OJ fanatics, especially the Rolf Preus Synod crew, who went back to their original OJ synods (Little Sect on the Prairie and LCMS).
So - which is the real bishop? - the one working with Paul the Plagiarist McCain? - the one grinning with Rolf Preus and crew at Jim's altar? - or the patriarch explaining how bad OJ is, wearing a smug, knowing smile, saddened that so many are deceived by this false doctrine?
ELDONA suddenly switched to Justification by Faith when WELS Pastor Paul Rydecki and a group from Washington State advocated the Chief Article. The Rolfites were furious and horrified, which tells a tale in itself.
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One of our future members gave up on ELDONA when he learned first-hand how nasty, petty, and dishonest ELDONA was, the venom fed by Heiser and his toadies. I was glad to see them change from virtual Universalism to the Biblical view of Justification by Faith, but sorry to see Heiser cloak his opportunism in typical Ft. Wayne rudeness.
The problem with Ft. Wayne seminary graduates is their idolatry of a few professors, notably Robert Preus, Kurt Marquart, and Dave Scaer. The Waynites are prone to unearned vanity and reproducing the same troubled triumvirates. They graduated extolling OJ without knowing what it is - how comatose were they in school? The triumvirate is infallible; QED, OJ is infallible.
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| In 2008, the Right Reverend Bishop-for-Life Heiser was grinning in his purple bishop's shirt, next to OJist-for-Life Rolf Preus. Missing are - stacks of Thy Strong Word, given to the Heiser book selling operation years earlier. |
The YouTube Videos
ELDONA has a string of YouTubes on Justification, so I began watching them. They want to honor the Reformation but they do so in a strangely Methodist way, gently talking about Justification by Faith and smiling about those who actually believe and teach OJ (see the Rolf-ELDONA photo).
The ancient Christian and Reformation teaching style is to identify truth, support the truth with Scripture, and reject falsehoods about that truth. I did not take notes on what I saw, but where is that? The OJists rage against those who "reject OJ" - as Heiser did before reading Thy Strong Word. But after? - he was with the Rolfians!
Why not identify those errors, the errorists, and show why they are wrong? I missed that entirely. Wading through history, especially in dealing with Zwingli, is jarringly ineffective. The Word is effective. Church historians turn into Leftists (Ralph Bohlmann, etc) who cleverly spin the facts their way. Example - the Lutheran Left said inerrancy was a new word, though it is found in its Latin form in the Book of Concord. How new is the BoC?
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| To Mars and beyond! |
