How Did the American Lutherans Depart from the Book of Concord?Walther Led the Apostasy and the ALC/LCA Followed in His Hoofprints

 

The editor frowns on tobacco products, but this Luther caricature is just too humorous.

Lutherans came to America through various European sources of Pietism. The Pietists were not all alike, but they were influenced by the fact of Pietistic societies and schools (like Halle) emphasizing good works and getting along (like Spener).

By Civil War times, the General Council came out of the General Synod. The original seminary was in Gettysburg (General Synod) and those who favored Lutheran teaching (General Council) formed their seminary in Philadelphia (Mt. Airy).

Pietism is fertile ground for everyone getting along together, ignoring differences, and leaning on rationalism. Mergers created the American Lutheran Church, The American Lutheran Church, the ULCA, the LCA, etc.

The Synodical Conference (LCMS, WELS, ELS) began with Pietism, though their history scribblers do a ferocious amount of lying about it. CFW Walther B.A. made himself the dogmatic dictator of the Pietists who came to America, led by Bishop Martin Stephan who was arrested in Germany for adultery and mismanagement of funds, a true Church Growth founder.

The Seminex liars came back the same day. The Preus brothers taught the same OJ as the Tietjen fans. This was the first split in history where both sides were consummate liars.

Walther and Company were radical Pietists, not unlike the Wheat Flour Messiah, and they both taught the Objective Faithless Justification of Halle University. Walther made sure that F. Pieper (Wisconsin Synod) followed him and his OJ, his seminary presidency, and his synod leadership. The natural affinity of Germans to follow Dr. Luther rather than Walther, B.A., kept back OJ - though no one cares to admit it today. The LCMS printed and still prints Justification by Faith catechisms and other sources from the Book of Concord.

A cast of hundreds, a wasted forest of innocent trees, an anchor for all the unread books above the pastor's desk.

Listen up, LCMS groupies. Missouri stopped being Biblical long ago and now publishes Seminex dreck almost exclusively. Try to read the giant "Small" Catechism, the toxic Dogma-tanic, or the bloated doubled-down Mark commentary. Seminex insiders took over Concordia Publishing House to print their rationalistic propaganda while making a few bucks on the side.

Book of Concord - Quia Fakes and Inerrancy Quakes.How the Lutherans Became Unitarians

WELS, ELS, and LCMS claim to have a quia subscription to the Book of Concord, but their allegiance really belongs to Understanding Church Growth. They mourn Peter Drucker!

The professors ridiculed the Apostolic KJV into the archives, using ridicule, while selling the Bad Bibles for their own profit - RSV, NRSV, NIV, ESV, Beck. 

Those who teach and confess the Book of Concord, using the KJV, are shunned, excommunicated, or - sob - forced to study the works of Waldo Vermin and Peter Drucker.

A few would rather have the truth of the Scriptures instead of cushy jobs, a fat retirement, and a building named after them.

The Reformation began with little more than the Apostles, but they also knew the power of God's Word.

Even the Great Commission is poisoned by their crypto-Unitarian slogans. Jesus commissioned the disciples to teach all nations through the Means of Grace, not recruit members for the Praise Band.

Let Us Pause To Consider Melanchthon - A Major Part of the Book of Concord

Melanchthon's Major Works - 

Studiously Ignored 

by 

Thrivent Lutherans Today

Loci Communi - Common Places

The Augsburg Confession, 1530

Apology of the Augsburg Confession

Commentary on Romans

I found an author who is studied even less than Luther - Philip Melanchthon. The rabid Objective Faithless Justification dolts hate Melanchthon even more than they hate Luther. The major authors of the German Reformation are Luther, Melanchthon and the genius who studied under both men - Martin Chemnitz. 

Beginning The Book of Concord Series. Luther- Melanchthon - Chemnitz.

 

A Sparkle creed link can be found - lower down -  extreme left column, and it is

1. blessed by your synod presidents, 
2. funded by your Thrivent sugar daddy, 
3. ignored or supported by your pastor.

 Martin Chemnitz copied Origen's statement, and I copied Chemnitz.

A reader asked if I could also start a series about the Book of Concord, writing, "Hardly anyone knows much about it." I always learn from such ventures, so I am happy to do that. The Luther Sermons (Lenker) are daily. The Biblical series and the Book of Concord will be a little slower.

One way to tell if it is new - look for a new graphic. I also add a summary statement from the material in the left column, which will change with newest topic.