Strange Eulogies from LutherQuest (sic)

Harrison misunderstood St. Paul's passage about becoming a fool. Every Synod President wannabee who kissed Pastor Otten's ring - kicked him in the ribs later.

Steve Schmidt (Sschmidt) Senior Member Username: Sschmidt Post Number: 1360 Registered: 3-2017

Posted on Thursday, December 10, 2020 - 1:12 pm:       I can’t help but notice the contrast between the uniform expressions of sympathy and esteem for Rev. McCain and his work for the church and the uniform experience of those who interacted with him online as being argumentative and generally unpleasant. After all, who ever heard of a Lutheran pastor being banned from a Lutheran theology blog! Most of us who conversed with Rev. McCain online did so because we recognized a knowledgeable pastor of high standing in the church who was eager to communicate. Quite a rarity. What often transpired for most, however, was heated, hardheaded disagreement if you didn’t see things his way, which was unfortunate. Rev. McCain was not one to make friends easily. And yet, in spite of all of his (and our) many personal failings, at the end of our lives, God welcomes us into eternal life, saying, “Welcome, good and faithful servant! I see none of your sins, but only the perfect faithfulness and righteousness of Jesus Christ, who clothed you with his salvation in baptism!” It is heartening to read the many outpourings of praise for the life and work of Rev. McCain, since these godly words reflect and confess the very view that Christ as our righteousness has of each of us sinners. What a fantastic witness!

Rolf David Preus (Rolf) Senior Member Username: Rolf Post Number: 10711 Registered: 5-2001

Posted on Thursday, December 10, 2020 - 3:25 pm:       When I applied for readmission to the clergy roster of the LCMS, I met with three DPs who, during our conversation, suggested that I talk to Paul McCain to be reconciled with him. I was a bit perplexed about that inasmuch as I could recall nothing we needed to reconcile. But I called him on the phone as I promised to do, and when I related to him what they said to me he was as perplexed as I was. Neither of us could recall the alleged breach between us. Paul spoke his mind. So do I. He was a faithful Lutheran theologian. He said what he believed without apology.

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GJ - These two men seem unfazed that McCain linked plagiarized material on LQ (sic), verbatim, from The Catholic Encyclopedia, and never apologized for it.

Of course, LutherQuest (sic) did not apologize for their blindness or for misleading their readers.

They do not object to McCain's career-long repudiation of St. Paul's Gospel, which puts them in the same camp. Apparently, their precious world absolution - without faith or the Gospel - is especially potent for the unrepentant. 

What was the result of his work at CPH? 

1. Establishing Objective Justification in print, even destroying Luther's Small Catechism.
2. Giving the Rationalism of Seminex free reign in the Biblical department.

Richard Jungkuntz, you won on every front! LCMS publishes Seminex Biblical books! LCMS-WELS-ELS teach Objective Justification with ferocity and wrath. You even broke ground with the gay seminary at the portable school, where you were chairman of the Board: Christ Seminex and the Metropolitan Community Church. LCMS and WELS schools of higher education are now gayer than Shakespeare's sonnets. (Jungkuntz got in trouble at WELS Northwestern College for teaching the Historical Critical Method. Isn't reconciliation wonderful?)

One Month, Ten Days to Inauguration

One reader is sure that the inauguration of Present Trump for a second term will be used as point of contention forever. There is no reason to doubt that prediction. We still hear about the Florida recount in 2000, which took 37 days to solve, including numerous appeals to the Florida state supreme court and two trips to the Supremes themselves. The matter was simple - their state constitution required a recount of the entire state, not the just the two heavily controlled counties. Game over.

The House of Representatives receive the electors' names in January, and that is also where a solution can be found, with state delegations voting - one for each state. The Electoral College is balanced, with population and territory each counting toward the final outcome. The House has more Democrats in the total, but more state delegations which are majority GOP. In both cases, population alone does not determine the outcome. If it did, a few metropolitan areas would dominate control of the presidency. That is why the "popular vote" does not exist, except for  the TV Wheel of Fortune lit boards on Election Night. 

I kept explaining loudly to the TV on Election Night, "Your numbers are irrelevant!"

The big case (18 states) is going to the US Supreme Court. They should be deciding, based on the Supreme Law of the Land (the US Constitution) that the electors must be chosen according to that state's legislature. Nothing declared by state governors, secretaries of state, state judges, or local supreme courts can over-ride the state's own lawmakers. If state law says balloting stops at midnight, then that holds.

This is ultimately a case about the rights of each state to determine how voting can be accomplished legally. Although the fraudulent voting issue is obvious, that seems to be secondary - good for a lengthy study to prove everything. But - in order for the ballot box stuffing to work, a lot of illegal (lacking the state legislature) rules had to be instituted.

No one has ever won or lost the "popular vote," so the media simply show their own ignorance in perpetuating this folly. That is why people say, "But we already voted, and our candidate won. We don't need an Elector College." Wrong - everyone voted for their state's electors. There is no election so far and no "President Elect," let alone an "Office of the President Elect."

Lutherans should have no problem with this. The key factor keeping Luther out of the hands of the Pope was the fact of Frederick being an elector. The Spanish Emperor, Holy Roman Empire, was elected by five men, and Frederick's vote would un-elect him.

Of course this was by God's design. The next time you hear the strange title - Frederick the Wise, also known as  Frederick the Wise - remember that they too had electors during the Reformation and beyond.

Some of us give a hoot.