“The Waltherites claim that their fight is a fight for divine truth and for God’s Word… [but] where is it expressly said in the Bible, that faith comes from election, that the Holy Ghost in conversion also overcomes and removes willful resistance, that God could convert all men, but from some unknown reason chooses not to do it—that the reason why some men are converted, and others not, is simply because God removes willful resistance in some and in others He does not—that He bestows larger measures of grace upon some than upon others, etc.? Where are these and other similar things which New Missourians now hold, set forth? Not a shadow of proof has been furnished for any of them. And yet they are all boldly declared to be Bible truths and parts of the “reine Lehre,” just as the Papists claim their tenets to be contained in the Bible, being slow, however, to adduce the evidence."
From “The Lutheran Doctrine Of Election: Its Scriptural Evidence And Proof. By Rev. P. Eirich, Hoboken, N. J.” in The Columbus Theological Magazine, Vol 1, 1881, Matthias Loy, editor. LutheranLibrary.org
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| Walther lied about Stephan's many affairs with young women, until an opportune time came to talk about the bishop's syphilis and that of his young girlfriends. He insisted on his false doctrine and controlled everything as a cult - seminary, publications, synod, calls. So Missouri built him a shrine or two. |
