Book Progress - Galatians, Walther, Bible

Luther's Galatians Commentary is published at Kindle and percolating in the print editions (color and BW) at Amazon. Janie Sullivan is working out the details for the print versions.

After a project is completed next week, I will hasten to complete Walther, the American Calvin: A Synod Built on Felonies.

I thought of reprinting Walther's Pastoral Theology as a joke book, but it stands on its own as an example of irony and burlesque.

I have started to refresh my research on the Biblical text and translations. That will involve the Bethany Scholars (as much as they wish) who contribute so much to my perspective. The book will be very basic about the trashing of the traditional text used by Luther and the KJV. It is really a swindle much bigger than anything in history. The issue of translation is actually a growth on the same neoplasm. They belong together, helped by the clergy's ignorance and apathy.

 Walther confessed what? - universal forgiveness and salvation, except someone has to make a decision for OJ.

The Rice Mission Now Has $500 $600 toward the $700 Goal

More gifts have arrived for the Bethany Mission Rice Trip. Pastor Jordan Palangyos buys the rice and drives them to the mission, where the food has been scarce. Last night the goal of $700 was halfway reached - at $350 total sent.

The total sent is now $500 $600.

The airplane was out of reach, but Pastor Palangyos was able to do a deal with car payments. He will use the car to get rice to the mission and to visit more freely.

From 2010 - Luther's Commentary on Romans Destroys UOJ

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A little off topic but...Here's a passage from Luther that destroys the UOJ interpretation of Romans 5:18-19.

(NAS) Romans 5: 18 So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men. 19For as through the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous.

Luther wrote:
"(v. 18) Here the Apostle says 'all'; first, because as all who are begotten of Adam are born again (through faith) in Christ; and secondly, because as there is no carnal begetting except through Adam, so also there is no spiritual begetting except through Christ. (v. 19) Here the Apostle speaks of "many" and not of "all" to show that the emphasis is not on the number of the sinners or the righteous, but on the power of sin and grace. If sin proved itself so powerful that a single transgression has perverted many, or rather all, then divine grace is much more powerful; for the one act of grace (Christ's atonement) can save many, indeed all men, of many sins, if they only desire it."
(Martin Luther, Commentary on Romans, trans. Theodore Mueller, 1954, Zondervan, pg. 97)

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GJ - Update from The Little Sect on the Prairie - One pastor has condemned his own member on Facebook for failing to see justification and reconciliation as synonyms. That is the foundation of the ELS-WELS-LCMS-ELCA error. They make the Atonement the forgiveness and salvation of all people for all time.

Intuitu Fidei Page
"Moreover, Ben seems incapable of understanding that our Lutheran Fathers used certain terms as synonyms, not the least of which are "Reconciliation" and "Justification."
Not only do I give everyone permission to quote what I have written here, I urge and encourage everyone to do so anytime they see Ben post anything whether it is true or false. He presents himself as a teacher--as one who thinks he knows something. He is trapped by his own conceit."

Sincerely yours in Christ,
Pope Steven Brockdorf

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GJ - The Lutheran Fathers seem to be limited to Bishop Martin Stephan, the syphilitic user of young women; Walther, the American Calvin, "saved by Stephan"; and the carefully chosen and appointed hod-carriers of Walther.

 Yes, some of us have read Luther on the Eighth Commandment.