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| Listen up, folks. This is my last post on Lutheran apostasy... until tomorrow. |
Anyone complaining about the decline of the synods must understand it as a coordinated, military style war that the present managers fashioned for their own prestige, luxuries, and loot.
They worked together while pretending to be disgusted and alarmed at the other synods, which made cooperation much easier long ago, starting with seminary professors and Lutheran insurance. But let us get down to the basics.
Justification Without Faith was a bit difficult, in one form or another, but they all built up a great war machine against anyone who criticized Objective Faithless Justification or another generic brand - Universal Salvation (all grace, man, all!). That has been completed 100%, so that anyone with an IQ will find a truckload of manure poured on him and anyone he knows.
Parallel is the attack on the Hebrew and Greek texts of the Bible. But there was more on the Greek text (called Byzantine, Traditional, or Apostolic) since Judaism did not throw away the Old Testament the way the 20th century Lutherans repudiated theirs, with a vengeance.
Lenski, like several other respected Biblical scholars, fell for the phony Greek texts (Vaticanus and Sinaiticus of the 1881 KJV Revision) that the Bad Bible Brokers have used ever since. The genius of the BBBs comes from erasing passages for the most part - like the empty tomb in Mark 16. They teach the poorly educated seminarians with enough conjured contradictions that the poor things graduate full of confusion and weak on faith in the efficacious Word.
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| I predicted this in 2015, with Photoshop, no magic globe needed. |
The "conservative" Lutherans bray about Biblical inerrancy - like donkeys on a forced march - but they prove all their Bibles to be errant, contradictory, and false, negating inerrancy completely. (Thanks Rev. Lito Cruz, PhD.) The NIVs do not even agree with each other on the Chief Article.
This two-pronged attack (Bibles and Biblical doctrine) has turned the synods listed into a joke, still trying to be good businesses while their management and sales schemes falter and fail. Not long ago, their heroes questioned the Lutheran basics and fought to change them. Traditional clergy were shunned and ridiculed because they clung to their KJV Bibles and their old hymnals. One WELS clown said, "We have to give up a whole generation of the retired to attack the youth of tomorrow." Does that sound like Paul Kelm and his buddies? How well has it worked?
The managers, sub-managers, and disciples stand together against anyone favoring Reformation doctrine, the KJV, and good hymnals. The synod parasites will spread any falsehood to keep their Thrivent goodies flowing, from deluxe conferences to special deals known only to them.
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| Hundreds of pounds later, these three Bachelor of Divinity graduates are still keeping us stunned by their lack of sincerity. Cry the Beloved |
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| Waldo Werning serviced pastors in WELS, ELS, and LCMS. |
I knew "Dr" Waldo Werning fairly well - but not that well. He admitted that he studied at Fuller Seminary, which I recorded in my Day-Timer. Later, he denied it and I cited his admission from my Day-Timer. An ELS pastor asked me what made Werning fly into a rage.
Others, like his pal David Valleskey, also had the practice of gushing over Church Growth - and raging if anyone told the truth about him. I asked him face-to-face and poor David did his best to not answer. David's buddy Frosty Bivens blurted the same denial, even though he admitted going to Fuller and loving it. DP John Seifert was there when Bivens made his confession and denied the truth about Frosty twice. Fuller-denial was once a deadly virus that even spread to those who knew but did not know.
Now that the dust has settled, does anyone have any claim that Fuller Seminary and copy-cats caused the Christian Faith - or even statistics - to grow during those decades of folly, lying, and disgrace?
