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ICHABOD, THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED - explores the Age of Apostasy, predicted in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, to attack Objective Faithless Justification, Church Growth Clowns, and their ringmasters. The antidote to these poisons is trusting the efficacious Word in the Means of Grace. John 16:8. Isaiah 55:8ff. Romans 10. Most readers are WELS, LCMS, ELS, or ELCA. This blog also covers the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Left-wing, National Council of Churches denominations.
Friday, March 8, 2024
Whom Do We Follow? Jesus Christ Our Good Shepherd - Or CFW Walther, The Pietist Who Covered for His Bishop's Syphilis?
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| A Stephan descendant wrote this book. Walther talked Stephan's son out of his father's land. I photoshopped the cover because CFW Walther and his circle covered for their bishop. Walther's circle took control over the cult - nabbed from Bishop Stephan - when they suddenly "discovered" the syphilis and the STD the bishop gave to young women. |
Walther and his associates were severe Pietists and began to follow Pastor Martin Stephan after their earlier mentor moved away and died. A letter from Stephan "saved CFW's life," teaching the whole world is righteous, forgiven of sin. Walther not only stole land, books, chalice, and money from Stephan, but also the bishop's Objective Faithless Justification. Stephan himself was a dedicated Pietist who attended Halle University, a Pietist citadel, the Jerusalem of all who followed Philipp Spener.
The Walther Circle must have been pretty dense, because Stephan took his son and his mistress to America, excluding his wife and his sickly children. Walther and Company agreed to make Pastor Stephan a bishop before they disembarked in New Orleans. The LCMS has continued to deny their dogma, as taught by Spener (Pietist), Knapp (Pietist), Stephan (Pietist), and Walther's Circle (Pietist).
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| Note the extreme dump of malarkey in this statement, which Robert Preus cited. The LCMS and its sister-sects consider this to be far more significant than Luther and the Scriptures. Does anyone wonder why the failing three sects are racing downward, as if trying to catch up with ELCA? |
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| LCMS, WELS, and the ELS consider "in Christ" as their lifeline to their peculiar dogma, but Calov said it best, and Preus cited the repudiation. |
Anyone in the LCMS-WELS-ELS who disagrees with Walther is condemned as a "false teacher." Robert Preus' final book, Justification and Rome, edited by two of his sons, repudiates Objective Faithless Justification, but his children and grandchildren still do not acknowledge Justification by Faith.
Pietism always decays into Unitarian rationalism, rejecting the Trinity and almost everything else. ELCA began as a series of Pietist missions to America. Now they embrace every kind of radicalism and reject
- the Scriptures,
- Luther's works, and
- common sense.
Now the Big Five - ELCA-LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic) are shrinking fast from following the chimera of progress.
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| Universal Pietism embraces Universalism - everyone is saved and happy. That is why the Unitarians merged with the Universalists. |
Daily Luther Sermon Quote - Lent 4 - Matthew 23:10 says: “For one is your master, even the Christ,” who sits in heaven, and he teaches all only through the mouth and the word of preachers by his Spirit, that is, against false teachers, who teach their own wisdom."
Complete Sermon ->Luther's Sermons - John 6:1-15.
Laetare. Fourth Sunday in Lent
7. The very same is taught by the people sitting on the grass; for the true saints despise outward holiness, as Paul does in Philippians 3:8, in that he counted his former righteousness to be filth and even a hindrance. Only common and hungry people receive the Word of God and are nourished by it. For here you see that neither Caiaphas nor Anna, neither the Pharisees nor the Scribes follow Christ and see Christ’s Signs; but they disregard them, they are grass and feed on grass. This miracle was also performed near the festive time of the Jewish passover; for the true Easter festival, when Christ should be offered as a sacrifice, was near, when he began to feed them with the Word of God.
8. The five loaves signify the outward, natural word formed by the voice and understood by man’s senses; for the number five signifies outward things pertaining to the five senses of man by which he lives; as also the five and five virgins illustrate in Matthew 25:1. These loaves are in the basket, that is, locked up in the Scriptures. And a lad carries them, that means the servant class and the priesthood among the Jews, who possessed the sayings of God, which were placed in their charge and entrusted to them, Romans 3:2, although they did not enjoy them. But that Christ took these into his own hands, and they were thereby blessed and increased, signifies that by Christ’s works and deeds, and not by our deeds or reason, are the Scriptures explained, rightly understood and preached.
This he gives to his disciples, and the disciples to the people. For Christ takes the Word out of the Scriptures; so all teachers receive it from Christ and give it to the people, by which is confirmed what Matthew 23:10 says: “For one is your master, even the Christ,” who sits in heaven, and he teaches all only through the mouth and the word of preachers by his Spirit, that is, against false teachers, who teach their own wisdom.
A Missouri Synod Pastor Wrote To a Layman.
Which Man Supports Luther, Melanchthon, and Chemnitz?
From the Pastor -
Dear Tom,
Your unkind accusations betray the fact
that you are NOT a Christian. I have answered you
with direct quotes from the Holy Bible which you
persistently dismiss, again showing you are NOT a
Christian but are rather a person who mocks and
rejects God's Holy Word!
The entire world is forgiven IN CHRIST,
since God does NOT IMPUTE THEIR TRESPASSES unto them
(in Christ). Outside of Christ, that is, without
God-given faith in Christ, NO human being personally
receives the forgiveness of sins and salvation! That
is what the BIBLE TEACHES! If you have a problem
with it, take it up with the LORD who gave us His
Word!
I'll continue to pray that you
sincerely repent of your sins and believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ, and that you surrender your
thoughts to His thoughts as put forth in Holy
Scripture.
God's Word says: "Seek ye the
LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while
he is near: Let the wicked forsake his way, and
the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him
return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon
him; and to our God, for he will abundantly
pardon. For my thoughts are not your
thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,
saith the LORD. For as the heavens are
higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than
your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts."
(Isaiah 55:6-9)
In obedience to God's command, I
now drop this discussion, for I cannot cast the
pearls of God before swine.
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Dear Pastor,
You must answer
my question!!! Does objective justification teach that God has already
justified the whole world without faith in Christ? The answer is
obvious, but you refuse to answer it because you are a deceptive and
dishonest pastor.
You teach God has already
justified the whole world without and prior to faith. In contrast I
teach and hold to justification by faith in Christ as taught by Luther,
Chemnitz, and Christ Himself. This is why you eagerly rush to
mercilessly condemn me to hell as a non Christian. You seek to destroy
my faith in Christ and my baptism in the name of God the Father, Son,
and Holy Ghost. I am baptized and clothed in the righteousness of Christ
in the name of God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. I am Christian
because God has clothed me in the righteousness of Christ in my baptism
in the name of God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. In contrast you
teach the whole world is in Christ and clothed in the righteousness of
Christ without faith and without baptism. I am in Christ and clothed in
the righteousness of Christ by my baptism in the name of God the Father,
Son, and Holy Ghost. Here in my baptism God gives me faith, makes me
His child, and clothes me in the righteousness of Christ in the name of
God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
"For ye
are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you
as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ." Gal 3:26,27
I
hold to this passage. In contrast you teach the whole world is already
in Christ and clothed in the righteousness of Christ without faith in
Christ and without baptism into Christ. You teach against faith in
Christ and against baptism into Christ. You teach another gospel not
found in the Word of God. You have fallen from grace. You are
completely unworthy of being a pastor.
"I
marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the
grace of Christ unto another gospel: which is not another ; but there be
some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But
though we, or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto you than
that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As I said
before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you
than that ye have received, let him be accursed." Gal 1:6-9
Pastor, you clearly teach another gospel not found in the Word of God.
God's Word teaches justification by faith in Christ. In contrast you
teach that God has already justified the whole world without faith in
Christ. The Word of God teaches we are in Christ and clothed in the
righteousness of Christ in our baptism into Christ. In contrast you
preach the whole world is already in Christ and already clothed in the
righteousness of Christ without faith in Christ and without Baptism into
Christ.
Pastor, you are completely
defeated. Your precious objective justification without faith in Christ
lies in a faithless heap. It is time for you to admit your defeat and
cease your hostilities against justification by faith in Christ, and
against baptism into Christ. Repent. Stop condemning true Christians who
hold to justification by faith and who cling to their baptism into
Christ in the name of God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
In Christ,
Tom
On Tuesday, March 5, 2024 at 12:00:47 PM CST, Pastor wrote:
Dear Tom,
Your
unkind accusations betray the fact that you are NOT a Christian. I have
answered you with direct quotes from the Holy Bible which you
persistently dismiss, again showing you are NOT a Christian but are
rather a person who mocks and rejects God's Holy Word!
The
entire world is forgiven IN CHRIST, since God does NOT IMPUTE THEIR
TRESPASSES unto them (in Christ). Outside of Christ, that is, without
God-given faith in Christ, NO human being personally receives the
forgiveness of sins and salvation! That is what the BIBLE TEACHES! If
you have a problem with it, take it up with the LORD who gave us His
Word!
I'll
continue to pray that you sincerely repent of your sins and believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ, and that you surrender your thoughts to His
thoughts as put forth in Holy Scripture.
God's Word says: "Seek
ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts:
and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and
to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as
the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your
ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." (Isaiah 55:6-9)
In obedience to God's command, I now drop this discussion, for I cannot cast the pearls of God before swine.
In Christ, my Savior and Lord,
Pastor
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