Steve Ames (Sames) Senior Member Username: Sames Post Number: 1819 Registered: 11-2004 |
Dick Rockenbach: “it seems to me the LCMS was in merger mode with both the WELS and ALC and when the ALC began to ordain Women WELS immediately withdrew merger efforts with the LCMS.” Mr. Rockenbach, it is hurtful and offensive to suggest that the WELS would ever have considered merger with the ALC or tolerated the LCMS merging with the ALC. The short-hand explanation that the WELS broke church fellowship with the LCMS over fellowship leaves out the more troubling aspect of the LCMS practice of fellowship. That is for the LCMS what constitutes agreement on doctrine for the establishment of church fellowship. A WELS paper given in 1954 identified the false doctrine of the ALC as: • Rejection of the teaching of Objective Justification • Man cooperates in his conversion • The doctrine of Election as solely God from eternity knowing who would come to faith -- in view of faith • Inerrancy of the Bible as an open question • Rejection of papacy as the Anti-Christ “The Inadequacy of the Common Confession as a Settlement of Past Differences” -- By Ernst H. Wendland -- August 8-10, 1954 http://essays.wisluthsem.org:8080/bitstream/handle /123456789/670/WendlandDifferences.pdf?sequence=1& isAllowed=y |
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Missouri addressed this in a classic roundabout, befuddled way - "There is no Scripture warrant for it, and though the phrase is capable of correct interpretation, it can be seriously misunderstood."
Missouri promoted this because CFW Walther knew more Latin than Scripture and barely knew the Biblical languages.