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As their Father Below would say, in an ironic twist - "That they may be one, all mine."
Some of us remember Seminex, 1974 - when the established LCMS professors at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, and most of the students started their own synod. They vowed they would win - and they did.
Look at the virtues of Seminex then and see how they are today.
- Seminex used the same formula as the ELCA - rejecting the Chief Article of Christianity, Justification by Faith and embracing Objective Faithless Justification. Everyone is forgiven and saved.
- Seminex included a gay professor who had been arrested in a St. Louis park. Deppe and the Seminex profs joined the LSTC. Seminex became the official seminary of the Metropolitan Community Church, and former WELS professor Jungkuntz was chairman of the Seminex board. He was also a rabid promoter of Objective Faithless Justification.
- Jack Preus, LCMS, was good at driving Seminex advocates wild about the objective truths of the Bible. Jonah was a key point. Now all the groups vary between Romanism, Fuller boosterism, and outright denial of the Scriptures. Given their disgust with the Traditional, Apostolic New Testament text, the various groups love every "translation" except the KJV, every version of the Tischendorf-Westcott-Hort amalgamation but not the 5,000 traditional witnesses of the New Testament.
- Seminex had no trouble with their men wanting to be women and teaching the Scriptures, and their women wanting to be pastors and bishops. Many Seminex veterans became key leaders in the LCA/ALC, and they worked as one, a miniature version of the Jesuits. If three Seminexers were at a local LCA conference, they sat together!
- When Seminex itself was broke, the professors moved north to mooch off the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, always voting as a block. Thus Seminex and their AELC mini-synod became an essential part of the ELCA merger, having a greater voice in the discussions than their total membership allowed.
