Many secular actions follow the same path as found in the denominations and parishes today. For instance, to enhance the lawn, people have nitrogen compounds sprayed on, sometimes with green dye added. For very little money they can mow leaves into the last grass cutting and build the soil.
The church leaders follow the spray on method. They promote enthusiasm - in the classic and current forms - and extol their excitedness. Luther's Biblical concept of enthusiasm is declaring doctrine apart from the Scriptures - as in Objective Justification aka General Justification aka Universal Justification aka The Justification of the World aka Universal Objective Justification (extra dye). Without the faith generated by the Gospel Word, there is no grace, no forgiveness, no eternal life.
The self-promoting "conservative" Lutherans want to comfort themselves and their victims by declaring they are good and noble while the rest are apostates. Boo, ELCA. But the "conservatives" agree with ELCA! What sign of apostasy is greater than denying the Chief Article of the Christian Religion? Note - not the Chief Article of Lutheranism, but the Chief Article of all Christians - Justification by Faith. What began in Genesis 15:6 is illustrated and fulfilled in all the Scriptures, Old and New Testaments.
KJV Genesis 15:5 And He brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and He said unto him, So shall thy seed be. 6 And he believed in the Lord; and He counted it to him for righteousness.
But the "conservatives" deny this in Romans 4 and its summary in Romans 5:1-2. In their drunken stupidity, so full of themselves and fermented drinks, the "conservative Lutherans" try to make the rest of Romans 5 argue against the entire Bible.
Luther, Melanchthon, and Chemnitz emphasized the Chief Article, embedded in the Book of Concord. The greatest spiritual leaders of the Christian Church - Luther, Melanchthon, Chemnitz - hardly get a nod. But the WELS-LCMS-ELS-CLC bow, scrape, and slobber over the fetid Calvinism of Fuller Seminary and Trinity Divinity School. They have no faith, so they have no growth.
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| The cowardice of WELS is monumental. |
