I was thinking about this post from Jay Webber, which WELS Discussions made disappear on Facebook.
Jay's tactic, modeled after David Scaer's maneuvers, is older than ragweed and just as prolific.
If you start listing the Objective Justification bullies -
- Jack Casione
- Paul the Plagiarist McCain
- Jay Webber - with an ELCA online STM
- ELDONA (post-conversion, they are just bullies) -
they have one thing in common, a bad education at Concordia Seminary, Ft. Wayne, Indiana, 46825.
Scaer bragged about his longevity in his overpriced autobiography. The Lulu book should be printed free as a warning to all. He failed his German PhD so he recycled his credits at Concordia St. Louis, submitted the same thesis, and got a seminary PhD. All he wanted was being a parish pastor, which is why he went to two different schools for a PhD. Sure, parish pastor Dave, so why not help out a struggling parish now?
That nostalgic claim is not exactly fresh and unusual. All the synodicats who have big salaries and deluxe benefits loudly long for the joys of the parish ministry. They are like the professional baseball players who ache for the joys of backstreet baseball with worn bats and makeshift equipment.
What came through Jay's incautious eructation actually expressed the spirit of the entire Scaer book - disgust with Justification by Faith. Scaer's vendetta against the Chief Article is striking and revealing of the radicals in the LCMS-WELS. In both sects, the radical Leftists took over their synod by replacing Justification by Faith with the mainline favorite - Justification without Faith - Objective Justification.
Just as the abortionists must get rid of all pro-life people, so the OJ fanatics - who are just plain stupid about Biblical doctrine - must rid their synod of any outbreak of Justification by Faith. Like the abortionists, they must paint the traditionalists as entirely evil, destructive, and menacing to all.
Scaer was appalled that Walter A. Maier II was hired to teach at Concordia, Springfield, where he was teaching. The school was transported to Ft. Wayne by Jack Preus, years later.
Scaer was even more appalled that WAM III was hired at Ft. Wayne, hinting at the fatherly influence of WAM II, but never mentioning his own son teaching at Ft. Wayne.
Scaer is like his former students on LutherQuest (sic) who are scandalized by my PhD from Notre Dame but not by the many PhDs from Notre Dame at Ft. Wayne. They need to review the saying about what comes out of a man
Mark 7 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
Scaer also indulges in the categories used by Calvin and Walther.
- Calvin - anyone who disagreed with him was an Arminian.
- Walther - anyone who disagreed with him was a false teacher.
"Yet both Robert Preus and Jack Preus could not accept what they saw as the denial of objective justification by both Walter Maier I and his son Walter Maier II. His views also became an issue in September 1989 with the calling of Walter Maier III, whose views were seen by some faculty members as virtually identical with his father’s view. Neither understood this doctrine according to traditional Missouri Synod definitions. For the Preus brothers, this was not a minor issue. Jack Preus was not the only one to look into the issue. Ralph Bohlmann also did. The inability of the Missouri Synod once and for all to bring this matter to a conclusion may partially lie in that the Missouri Synod had long been “Protestantized” in an Arminian direction."
Scaer, David P.. Surviving the Storms: Memoirs of David P. Scaer. Luther Academy. Kindle Edition. #5646.
We never learn the reason for Scaer's disgust with the Chief Article, other than the false claim of Justification by Faith going against the LCMS traditional view.
Thanks to prior research done by the sainted Pastor Harley and additional research done by someone else, it is clear that the original official view of the LCMS was - Justification by Faith - for many decades.
Like the warning of Orwell's 1984 novel, all of history must be re-written and the past destroyed to support the newer, better understanding.
And where else is this practiced, even on Luther's grave? Jay Webber's ELCA online ILT -
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| Since David Scaer's pal Jack Kilcrease teaches there, we can assume they are slaves of the crafts and assaults of OJ. |
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| Note the language - the Quia Marias miss that the Chief Article is by faith, not at all bad in Paul or Luther, even if it gives the fanatics the heebie-jeebies. They believe, as James says, but their hides bristle. James 2:19 |
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| The Walter Maier clan looks jolly rather than fierce. |
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| Why did the LCMS fail to stop Dr. Walter Maier I from teaching inerrancy and Justification by Faith? Now the OJ LCMS of Matt the Fatt opposes inerrancy and Justification by Faith. |
