From this point error soon goes on to its natural end, which is to assert supremacy. Truth started with tolerating; it comes to be merely tolerated and that only for a time. Error claims a preference for its judgments on all disputed points. It puts men into position, not as at first in spite of their departure from the Church's faith, but in consequence of it. Their recommendation is that they repudiate that faith, and position is given them to teach others to repudiate it, and make them skillful in combating it." (pp. 195-196)
From: "THE CONSERVATIVE REFORMATION AND ITS THEOLOGY as represented in the Augsburg Confession and in the history and literature of the Evangelical Lutheran Church" by Charles P. Krauth, D.D. (1871). [Note date]
J. Thomas Shelley
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GJ - When I created the graphic above and posted it, someone wrote, "Are you the one who sent around the Krauth statement? It sounds like you, but it has no name attached." I wrote back, "It is fitting for all the synods. I do not put my name on any graphic, because I want them to circulate, not to have them immediately banned."
The Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry from Alec Satin has produced far more than a bookmobile-worth about the Lutheran Church and related topics. LL consistently outranks on Google the hideous Concordia Publishing House (note the Krauth statement) - which charges a fortune for their apostate creations and the occasional classic.
