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| WELS is delighted to embrace Objective Justification with the LCMS, ELS, and ELCA - instead of the Chief Article, Justification by Faith. |
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| J. P. Meyer taught OJ infallibly for 50 years at Mordor, aka Mequon. |
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| Walther taught "making a decision for Christ," just as J. P. Meyer did. He shattered the Synodical Conference by insisting on Stephan's Halle Pietistic (and rationalistic) dogma of OJ. |
The Lutherans will be avoiding the Reformation this Sunday - not just ELCA alone or Missouri alone - but all of them alone. Those are the three solas hauled out of the closet for the end of October.
Pietists sent pastors over who had the perfect combination of Luther and Calvin. Bishop Martin Stephan was a leader in Pietism, and all of the Walther circle were ardent Pietists following Stephan and loving their cell groups. Stephan loved his cell groupies, young women who caught the fever, the fever of syphilis. That is how the Stephan migration took place, organized carefully in advance. Once he was placed under house arrest for his crimes, which his inner circle knew well, they packed up and left for New Orleans.
The LCMS likes to date their beginning date as 1847. But they landed in 1839, swearing obedience to Stephan as their bishop. CFW Walther cleverly bided his time until he could take over the sect, robbing his bishop of the man's gold, land, house, books, and personal possessions. Walther also embraced the Objective Justification of Stephan, who studied at Halle University, where OJ and rationalism reigned supreme.
The Wisconsin Synod, like Missouri, fakes its own history and talks about how orthodox they were from the beginning. No, they were Calvinist-Lutheran from the beginning, and the dogma of Calvinism took over a long time ago.
The Little Norwegians, aka the ELS, are a bit more honest. They left the 1917 pending merger of Norwegian sects to have their own sect based on Objective Justification, which they teach with a passion unknown since the invention of lutefisk.
ELCA is made up of many different Pietistic sects, finally merged into one swell foop, 1987. They also teach that God has forgiven everyone in the world - that is their definition of grace.
Like the others, ELCA is allergic to the concept of faith in Jesus Christ. Like the others, the synod leaders and professors loathe the King James Version but adore the NIV, RSV, ESV, NRSV, and a smattering of other transient paraphrases.
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| WELS' Bivens and Zarling baldfacedly declared Objective Justification to be the Chief Article of Christianity. No, OJ is the final belch of Calvinism, loud enough to silence the tepid, timorous Lutherans of today. When Jay Webber and Jon-Boy Buchholz showed up to promote OJ at Emmaus, they were like the disciples - KJV Luke 24:16 But their eyes were holden* that they should not know him. |
* Arrested, held back in Greek.
Where Did They Go Wrong?
Calvinism clings to Lutheran doctrine the way mercury clings to silver and gold. As a group, Calvinists teach:
- The Scriptures are a dead letter, because the Spirit roams the world apart from the Word.
- The Sacraments are merely symbolic, ordinances (yes - laws) to obey.
- Human reason judges the Word, making it reasonable, appealing, and germane.
- The entire world is predestined in advance to salvation or damnation, the majority being damned. This double-predestination was in every edition of Calvin's doctrinal book.
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| How else do you explain ELCA, WELS, ELS, and Missouri rushing to get their DMins at Fuller Seminary? The pigs "believe" but their hides bristle. |
