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| WAM II taught Justification by Faith, so the Otten-Preus Syndicate defamed him as a false teacher. WAM II was demoted as a professor. Robert Preus was promoted as equal to Walther in his doctrinal acumen, an oddly fitting honor. However, Robert repented of OJ before he died. |
I have pointed out in various circumstances that using "'my dogmatics textbook" versus "your dogmatic textbook" is not persuasive or effective. That is what the Calvinists in all denominations (Lutherans included) want. Their weak point is a unified Scripture knowledge. Their strongpoint is dogmatics. They have book chapter and verse for all their falsehoods, as CLC Pastor Mayhew displayed so convincingly in his YouTube.
Setting aside the actual arguments for a moment...Let's look at the state of the issue. There are two sides - clearly - because the UOJ Stormtroopers never stop attacking Justification by Faith. I simply want to emphasize honesty, which is entirely lacking.
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| Otten's copycat cover. He even copies and pastes book design, when it earns money for feigning sincerity in doctrine. |
Political Front
First of all, the Preus Family and Otten, Inc attacked Dr. Walter A. Maier II in a vicious, dishonest, and cowardly fashion - at a national level. They held up their precious UOJ and used the strange tactic of feigning horror that WAM II denied UOJ.
Robert's little essay (portrayed as canonical by Cascione and Paul McCain) is laughably bad, so alienated from the Scriptures that it does not hold up under the first reading.
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| The poorly educated political parson and plagiarist, Paul McCain, has so little reading comprehension that he should be banned from editing more difficult than Dick, Jane, and Sally Go to VBS. |
And yet, despite this national and ongoing beating, Otten and the Preus Family pretend they are huge fans of Dr. Walter A. Maier. Huge!
I have a signed copy of Otten's book on Dr. Maier I, the back cover containing the quote in the graphic. I scanned it lest someone say I was lying. Justification by Faith and Biblical inerrancy are the capstone and cornerstone of the Christian Faith.
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| This edition from Herman Otten, signed by Otten hisself, boasts this quotation, scanned from the back cover. The World Still Listens - but Otten is deaf to the Gospel. |
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| Chameleons can turn every color - but white. The Rolf Synod ran back to the Little Sect and the LCMS. |
Missouri made millions of dollars from Dr. Maier's ministry, even while publicly gutting his son. Marvin Schwan, the patron saint of adulterous millionaires, gave $20 million just for the Lutheran Hour building and grounds.
Doctrinal Front
Justification by Faith and Justification without Faith cannot be the same doctrine or harmonious doctrines.
However, the UOJ Hive continues to promote their sad, sick dogmas while the Biblical version has a chance to shine, here and there.
- The LCMS finally published the Apology of the Book of Concord, by Martin Chemnitz - Justification by Faith.
- They also published the bloated, neo-Barthian Confessing Christ dogmatics book, which features UOJ (ditto the new, Titanic-sized Small Catechism).
Is anything more despicable than using Luther's name and publications to promote an anti-Biblical agenda?
WELS professors like Bivens (copying Zarling) pretend that their UOJ is the same as the Book of Concord's Chief Article.
If fact, readers will find that the false teachers alive and well today are adept at introducing Justification as the theme of the Reformation and using that word to mean UOJ,
- which erupted first in the Calvinist Huber,
- then at Halle University, and
- found its OJ and SJ in the Calvinist explanation of a Halle theologian's dogmatics book. See Knapp and Woods below.
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| Do the OJists admit that their terms come from a Calvinist translator? This was and is a major book for Pietists. WELS admits the terms were adopted in Germany and Walther adopted them. Besides that, various cults use the term Objective Justification too. |
Do Otten's Baptist buddies notice that the editor is on the wrong side of the issue? Probably not, because the traditional Baptists are being taken over and replaced by Calvinist Baptists. The Calvinists were given a "seat at the table" long ago and now they want the entire table, food and dessert and wine and cigars for themselves.
