Letter from a Layman to Pastor James Heiser and ELDONA

Dear Pastor Jackson,

You may publish this letter I just mailed to Pastor Heiser if you think it will help in some way. I also sent Pastor Heiser your book The King James Version: Apostolic Texts, Precise Translation versus Fraudulent Texts and Heretical Translations plus your book The Path to Understanding Justification. I also mailed letters and books to Pastor Rydecki and Pastor Henson.

Dear Pastor Heiser,

I saw your presentations on ELDONA videos defending justification by faith in Christ. Wonderful!! This is what I believe. I am also writing very similar letters to your fellow pastors in ELDONA. Universal Objective justification is false as you clearly explained. Now the 2011 NIV teaches Objective justification without faith in Romans 3:22 adding 'all' (See page 34 of Pastor Gregory Jackson's book The King James Version: Apostolic Texts, Precise Translation versus Fraudulent Texts and Heretical Translations). I beg you to please use the King James Bible!!! It teaches all doctrine correctly and forcefully. The Textus Receptus, Luther's Bible, and the King James Bible were all confirmed by God the Holy Ghost during the reformation being dominant from the early 1500's to the early to mid 1900's. They are still dominant today in spite of the massive attacks of the fraudulent texts such as Nestle-Aland, Westcott-Hort, Vaticanus, Sinaticus, NIV, NKJV, ESV, RSV, NASB. True Christians are rejecting these corrupt texts and translations in favor of the reformation texts: Textus Receptus, Luther's Bible, The King James Bible. Show me one Bible translation established by the most powerful king in the world: King James of England. My dear man how much more clear does God the Holy Ghost need to be? It was only a short time earlier that another King of England burned William Tyndale at the stake who prayed "Lord, open the King of England's eyes." The Lord answered Tyndale's prayer with a King of England who established the translation and publication of God's living word in English throughout the entire world. 

I am very sad that ELDONA has rejected God's eternal word in favor of a corrupt and fraudulent translation: The New King James Version. The New King James Version destroys Holy Communion by changing Christ's Last will and Testament into a Calvinistic covenant in Holy communion. I firmly believe Christ my Testator gives me His last will and testament, bequeathing to me forgiveness of all sins and eternal life in Holy communion. Luther confirms this when he said: "So in this matter, you must above all else take heed to your heart, that you believe the words of Christ, and admit their truth, when He says to you and to all, 'This is my blood, a new testament, by which I bequeath to you forgiveness of all sins and eternal life. (Martin Luther, LW, CPH, vol. 35, pg. 88) The King James Bible says 'testament'. Luther's Bible says 'testament'. The Greek text says and means testament. Christ said Testament. That little word 'testament' must be adhered to with tenacity. Why?...because "that little word 'testament' is a short summary of all God's wonder and grace fulfilled in Christ." (Martin Luther, CPH, LW, vol. 35, pg. 84)

Hallowed by Thy Name Heavenly Father I earnestly pray,

Tom Fisher
tomfisher99@yahoo.com

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GJ - The ESV, RSV, and NRSV Bibles come from the same source, the National Council of Churches. The NCC entities are the most pathetic Left-wing denominations in America, dedicated to the destruction of all Biblical doctrine. They make money from the three precious Bibles above.

The first NIV was as bad as the three Bibles above, but got much worse with their 2012 edition, so bad that WELS clamored to make that their #1 Bible for their very cool hymnal and Christian education material.

 Here is your Snip and Clip Greek New Testament, the illustration used by WELS to warn people! Ha!

Let the readers note that those four Bibles do not have a Greek New Testament. Instead, they have a rag-tag snip and clip collection of passages from the smallest collection of Greek New Testament sources. The KJV has just the opposite, 5,000+ witnesses to the Majority Text - going back to the Apostles.

The modernist, Wescott-Hort-Tischendorf New Testament (now called the Nestle-Aland) depends on two dubious codices - Vaticanus and Sinaiticus. Vaticanus is from the papacy, with a long history of fraudulent documents. Sinaiticus suddenly appeared at a monastery, where Tischendorf conveniently and "heroically rescued part of it" from being burned to heat the library. (Doesn't everyone burn ancient leather pages for a toasty warm fire?)

Those two codices, which do not agree with each other, are vaguely described by the modernists as the "oldest and best manuscripts of the New Testament." They are actually the newest and worst, since Vaticanus only saw the light of day in modern times, when the pope released it. Some see the magical 19th century appearance of Sinaiticus as a way to make Vaticanus seem solid and reliable. 

Voelz the Gullible chose Vaticanus for his endless, boring, and foolish commentary on St. Mark's Gospel, $130 of bilge in two volumes.

The NEW King James Version constantly cites the Westcott-Hort-Tischendorf readings, giving them credibility when none is due. 

 Eugene Nida dominated the translation business with his dynamic equivalence paraphrasing of all translations.

 This came out first in paraphrased Spanish, then received rave reviews for the English, cheered on by Nida. The four modernist translations are homage to Nida, not the original manuscripts.

Charlton Heston, In the Arena: An Autobiography, pp. 554-555

“The authors of several boring translations that have followed over the last fifty years mumble that the KJV is "difficult" filled with long words. Have a look at the difficult long words that begin the Old Testament, and end the Gospels: 'In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; darkness was upon the face of the deep.' and 'Now, of the other things which Jesus did, if they should be written every one, I suppose the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.' Shakespeare aside, there's no comparable writing in the language, as has been observed by wiser men than I.

Over the past several centuries it's been the single book in most households, an enormous force in shaping the development of the English language. Carried around the world by missionaries, it provided the base by which English is about to become the lingua franca of the world in the next century. Exploring it during this shoot [Ten Commandments] was one of the most rewarding creative experiences of my life."

Humor Department - Category, Heiser's ELDONUTS

The Right Reverend James Heiser, STM, claimed on his own video tape that he knew nothing about Objective Justification until Rydecki was being tossed out of WELS. The tell (as they call it in spycraft and poker) is the gulp as he tries to sell the deception - he does not believe his own lies. We were discussing OJ on the phone before 2000, and he sold copies of Thy Strong Word where the differences are laid out.

This is the latest - Hollywood Heiser - the archbishop in the Philippines. His outfit would feed a family for a year, if converted into the local currency. Get your bishop's uniform here.

"The pride, luxury, and profligacy of the clergy, led not a few laymen to ask if better and more certain guides were not to be had. Many of the troubadours were religious men, whose lays were sermons."

Wylie, J.A. . The History of the Waldenses (p. 16). Kindle Edition. 

Notables - Interesting Fellows of America - An OJ Tale of Wonder, Intrigue, and Scams

 Moses denied Objective Justification!

Long ago, No-Synod Pastor Jack Cascione met us. His son Jerry wanted to go to the WELS Michigan Lutheran Seminary, so we took him the next day for a visit. Jerry went there one year. Cascione filled me in on the politics of the Ohio District, which ended in him helping to get another liberal voted in as District President. Needless to say, Cascione's only dogma is OJ.

Cascione used to publish McCain's plagiarism from the Roman Catholic Encyclopedia. The knuckleheads on Jack's blog never realized that fact until I posted the proof five or more times on my blog. McCain's plagiarized blog disappeared without an apology.

ELS Pastor Jay Webber was a Missouri vicar when I was leaving the LCA. He walked away with a ton of books from my library. He was welcome to them. He was furious when Patsy Leppien asked me to help with the research for What's Going On Among the Lutherans. Ft. Wayne know-it-all! Later, I was disgusted when he chose to work with disgraced ex-pastor Floyd Luther Stolzenburg, who had been eased back into the pastoral office by WELS District VP Paul Kuske and other scoundrels. Jay, like Rolf Preus, considers himself the first and last word on OJ.

 OJ Webber, Floyd Luther Stolzenburg, Roger Kovaciny, Jon-Boy Buchholz!

WELS DP Jon-Boy Buchholz deserves special mention. Spencer claimed that he got Buchholz elected, so blame Steve. Normally WELS pastors look down upon ELS pastors and avoid them, even though WELS "cherishes their fellowship with the ELS." Spencer told me that Buchholz wanted to meet me etc. Buchholz lied to one of my members that I agreed with him about OJ. Jon-Boy was working with Webber, another Odd Couple, traveling together so Jay could give his Luther OJist paper at the Emmaus debacle.

LCMS Pastor Paul McCain spotted me at the bookstore, introduced himself, and wrote letters to me about how much he appreciated my CN articles. I kept one for laughs. In a letter, which he did not send to me, he accused Larry Darby and me of warping a California pastor's brain about Objective Justification. I never communicated with that pastor, but clearly McCain wanted to poison the well early. Also, I thought Barry was wimpy about Church Growth and told Paul - the new graduate of Ft. Wayne - that to his face.

We met Pastor Herman Otten and his family when changing to WELS. He published my articles, which he got for free, over 300 of them when I stopped counting. Members of Trinity, LCMS, Bridgeton, told Otten to spike anything I wrote when I emphasized Justification by Faith in the face of their OJ obsession. Or else - no more donations.

Pastor Steve Spencer was always trying to move WELS to the right, so he thought. I helped with the Orthodox Lutheran Forum, which he abandoned. He wanted to help his classmate Mirthless Mark Schroeder, so I encouraged Steve to start the discussion blog he named Intrepid Lutherans. He was the first to abandon it when the leaders debated and realized Objective Justification was from Pietism and a complete crock.

We met Mirthless Mark Schroeder when he was a high school principal in Watertown. He was actually friendly, unlike the frozen chosen at Northwestern College (RIP). Later, guided by Steve Spencer, he phoned me and emailed me, after he became SP. Like Barry, he was all smoke and mirrors.  I noticed later - that when people met with Schroeder, they stopped talking to me - like forever. He has a great system. The conversation is pledged to utmost secrecy. How do I know? I was told by some before...

I met Dan Fleischer's brother when we were in the God-forsaken CLC (sic). He is now helping Spencer shill for Cascione, proving that likes do attract. Paul Gerhardt Fleischer set a record for excommunicating 105 members of his congregation, according to Dave Menton.

Menton once guarded the CLC (sic) Talmud on fellowship principles, shouting at me during lunch that it was unionism to write for CN -(unless copied from another source, like the CLC rag) - until he wrote for CN. Menton railed against the Ark guy and later joined the Ark crew.

The Right Reverend Bishop James Milhous Heiser, STM, deserves a special place in this collection. He appeared on the radar screen when Bishop Randy DeJaynes started the Lutheran Confessional Synod, with Jay Webber and Kincaid Smith as midwives. The LCS was accepted into fellowship with the WELS and ELS, so they could pray together, a blissful moment, to be sure. "In October 1995, he [DeJaynes] was consecrated Bishop of the Lutheran Confessional Synod, following his election and call during the First General Meeting of the Synod, held at Christ Lutheran Church, Decatur."

 Heiser loved the classes of OJ fanatic David Scaer - he joined up with Rolf Preus and his ex-ELS OJ swarm.

In 2019, Heiser declared on YouTube that he never heard of Objective Justification until Rydecki was kicked out of WELS for questioning it. How was the LCS in fellowship with WELS and the Little Section on the Prairie - OJ is their only dogma.

When Heiser wanted to raise money for some rare books, he was very friendly, and I helped. When he "borrowed" a rare set of Gerhard, he kept it. I gave him lots of old and rare books in the hopes that others could use them in a library setting. Later, someone bought a bunch of Bibles and my books for ELDONA to have. Heiser's response (via his thug assistant) - "Make those Jackson books disappear."

The hostility toward me at that ELDONA conference was constant. How sharper than a serpent's tooth, indeed.

Going back to Spencer's Intrepids - Who admitted that OJ came from Pietism and not from the Scriptures? - Rydecki, Lindee, and Knepprath. Who was blamed for that? Short answer - moi.

Here is a good example of that discussion from Lindee.

Those three men joined ELDONA and the curtain of silence descended. I have noticed that people who have some connection to ELDONA stop communicating with me. They write to me, drive to my home, meet my wife, then.......silence. I am thinking Heiser studied How To Be a Bishop under Mirthless Mark.

Nevertheless, I have enjoyable days filled with contacts from all over the globe. I am happy that synodocrats - even from tiny glowering sects - have culled the contacts so well. They are the velcro for the lint.

 St. Paul denied Objective Justification!

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Another Belch from the LutherQuislings.

One should have a look at the latest Ichabod! It is a autobiography or apologia pro vita sua of the Rev. Dr. Gregory L. Jackson. To Mr. Krohn: you can see here what Dr. Jackson's roots are as well as his life conflicts [GJ - ignorant, lazy false teachers]. His hobby/vocation as a botanist is a welcome diversion to the false doctrine that you need to wade through [GJ - Creation, the Chief Article, etc]. He makes a statement below one of his showcased, illustrated boxes: "St. Paul denied Objective Justification!" Brothers and Cistern in Christ, that is a lie. Especially when you consider that St. Paul wrote Romans 5:18, 2 Cor. 5, specifically verse 19, and Romans 4:25. The belief in what we call Objective Justification IS NOT A DENIAL OF JUSTIFICATION SOLA FIDE. Dr. Jackson calls us Quislings, i.e. traitors, collaborators with Our Father Below, when by his broadsides it is he himself who is a Quisling to the Pietists, Calvinists, and Universalists we venerate.

Forget Wikipedia - Someone Needs To Revise the ELDONA Propaganda Videos on YouTube

ELDONA's Wiki Entry Has Serious Errors of Omission. Their Videos Are Fake History


Pastor Heiser admitted to learning how the evil of Objective Justification in 2000, when he admired and sold Thy Strong Word on his website. We often talked about OJ, which he certainly knew, because he supported OJ at the earlier independent church conference he attended in Norfolk, Nebraska. Heiser's comment about Balmer at the conference was, "He denies Objective Justification!"

2006 A.D. - ELDONA was founded, after Heiser was vested in his LCMS retirement fund. I had asked him if anything was going on, a handy honesty test. He said "No," but I had already found his new domain - eldona.org - on one of my searches. Nothing was going on, but he registered a domain name of his nascent archdiocese.

All the ELDONA pastors (except one) were graduates of Ft. Wayne, an OJ seminary. They adored the ravings of David Scaer, the avid castigator of Justification by Faith and the Walter A. Maier patriarchs, I, II, and III.

As I wrote before, at some point Heiser was deliriously happy about fellowship with the Rolf Preus Synod, comprised of Rolf plus a few pastors also kicked out of the Little Sect on the Prairie, united by a common dislike of Pope John the Malefactor. When Heiser made it clear that he had no problems with OJ, I gave up on him. Likewise, he stopped phoning me for advice, money-raising help. book-selling, etc.

 Heiser posed with Rolf's OJ posse for his Salem, Malone and ELDONA group. He said they would get rid of Rolf in time, and they did.

2013 A.D. - ELDONA had a sudden and convenient passion for Justification by Faith - after Pastor Paul Rydecki found his mind clarified by discussions among the WELSian Intrepid Lutherans. The Rolf Synod angrily responded and left the alliance. One ELDONUT was angry with me about the sudden change of doctrine, which is odd, given the shun button pushed by Heiser years earlier.

2019 A.D. - As a group, ELDONA has videotaped themselves lying about their doctrinal history.



The Right Reverend Bishop James Milhouse Heiser was not "fully cognizant of the extent of this heresy OJ being taught - until Rydecki was kicked out of WELS for denying it. (16.57)

Orwell's 1984 - ATP, aka The ELDONA Ministry of Truth - is busy manufacturing its history, just as the Walther Perryville cult did - after they robbed and kicked out their bishop.

Once the senior generation dies off or becomes equally forgetful, the residue can build some shrines to The Great Heiser.

 

Heiser spoke at Higher Things, the  OJ Jungendbund of the LCMS. Klemet Preus (RIP) was president of that group - and was known for his OJ fanaticism, no less than his brothers Rolf and Dan Preus.

Bishop Heiser - What Did He Know and When Did He Know It? The Internet Is Brutally Honest

 Bishop and Seminary President James Rodham Heiser, STM, posed in the library of St. Ignatius School of Theology, Malone. No students.

 For more, see ELDONA - Home of the Whopper

In a video series on YouTube, Heiser claimed that he "was not cognizant" of Objective Justification until Paul Rydecki was given the Left Foot of Fellowship by WELS in 2012, for the crime of teaching the Chief Article, Justification by Faith.

Heiser complained about Balmer "denying Objective Justification" at the Norfolk conference, long before 2012, and Heiser said he saw the light when he read Thy Strong Word in 2000, liking it enough to sell it with the books he offered.

But here is an interesting highlight, established in the precious WELS Essay File, the Holy of Holies for that sect, in an essay written by a seminary professor - Cherney.

In 2008 there also was published a doctrinal statement of the Association of Confessional Lutheran Churches (ACLC). This group, led by Rev. Rolf Preus, consists of six pastors and eight congregations that left the ELS in one way or another in the past two years over the doctrine of the ministry. (Cherney, p. 1)

But the ACLC and Rolf Preus divorced, as recorded here:

Let me clue you in, Mr. Ames. The ACLC did not break off fellowship talks with ELDoNA. ELDoNA broke off fellowship talks with us. Why? Because of my paper, “Making a Clear Confession in Muddy Waters,” that I gave in January of 2009. ELDoNA took strong exception to my insistence that there are indeed orthodox pastors and congregations in the LCMS with whom we may express altar and pulpit fellowship without insisting that they first either condemn or leave the LCMS. I was the impediment to the ACLC and ELDoNA establishing fellowship with each other.
I resigned from the ACLC in March. The ACLC declared fellowship with ELDoNA at their meeting in April. Once I was gone, the impediment was removed. (Rolf Preus on LutherQuest sic)

 As I mentioned, more than once, Heiser told me they would "get rid of Rolf," as if he were the Oracle of Malone - and they did.

The Right Reverend would have us believe that he went through Ft. Wayne's seminary program (OJ and Church Growth), some graduate school there, partnered with notorious OJ salesman Rolf Preus, contining with the rest of the ACLC pastors. The remnants of the Rolf Synod could not believe that ELDONA was suddenly in favor of Justification by Faith.

As told to me, Heiser promoted fellowship with Rolf and his come-outters from the Little Sect on the Prairie, even though he knew Rolf was 100% OJ, except for fleeting moments of JBFA. The rest of them were OJ too, and they were shocked at the arrival of Rydecki and JBFA. The pivoting was quick and unexpected, so they went back to Pope John the Malefactor, who knows little more that OJ.

I can only conclude that Rolf and his ACLC (aka Rolf Synod) were not very astute about Heiser's doctrine, if they failed to detect glimmerings of JBFA. Also, Heiser was not even conscious if the went through Ft. Wayne with no knowledge of OJ from Scaer and Robert Preus, Rolf Preus, and the ELS.

 "Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
when first we practice to deceive."
Sir Walter Scott

Ichabod Reader Amused by Philip Hale's Book on Objective Justification. Does Heiser Know Hale? Did This Ever Come Up at The Fort?

According to Bishop James Rodham Heiser, he was not "cognizant" of Objective Justification until Paul Rydecki was kicked out of WELS in 2012. However, Heiser's favorite professor at Fort Wayne, David Scaer, is and was obsessed with OJ and settling that issue once and for all - Surviving the Storms.

Philip Hale graduated from "The Fort," where all the professors (except Walter A. Maier II) taught Objective Justification, following Pieper, Walther, Calvin, and the Jehovah's Witnesses. 

I have read with amusement the book by Philip Hale Aspects of Forgiveness: The Basis for Justification and its Modern Denial.

Chapter 18, "Justified for the sake of Faith, not Christ" is one of my favorites, full of fallacies and straw man arguments and Walther quotes! A brief sampling of excepts:

"Though, if justification is only tied to faith, there is no other aspect, rendering it incomplete without man’s involvement." p. 137 (Except no one that believes the Bible teaches that faith is in any way a work of man or that faith completes salvation - which are both false OJ claims.)

"But today, faith is what makes forgiveness real for many Protestants, so that ‘‘ faith itself becomes with them a meritorious human work.’’ p. 137

(UOJists to the crowd at Pentecost and the jailer at Philippi - don’t you know, you are already saved (and forgiven and justified and a saint)?!? Just believe it! The Bible to the same audience - "repent, be baptized, believe and you will be saved." The irony is that the faith that God creates in us IS what leads to our forgiveness, “repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins” Acts 2:38)

"Justification by faith is a simplistic slogan. 'The expression, ‘we become righteous through faith,’ is a metonymy; that is, the container is here named in place of the content.'" (Hale quoting Walther)

"The traditional Lutheran phrasing is shorthand, but what was formerly assumed no longer can be, due to new errors." p. 137 

(Instead of correcting the errors by teaching what the Bible actually says, the UOJ gang feels that they need to protect the Bible and the Gospel by claiming that all are already justified - that will show them!)

"The phrase 'justified by faith alone’ is, at best, incomplete. It can be defined to not require the death of Christ, let alone His resurrection." 

(I don’t even know how to respond to this, complete nonsense.)

"In fact, the word ‘‘ justify’’ need not always be articulated, any more than the word ‘‘faith’’ is needed to actually bestow justification and faith in Christ. ‘‘ We do not say that one by necessity always has to use the expression: ‘the world is justified in Christ’ . . . for we know very well that this article of faith can be explained and represented completely and correctly by other words.’’ 

(This may be my favorite quote and it is Walther and ingenious! Since the UOJ camp cannot find one single verse in the entire Bible that says “the world is justified in Christ” or “God justifies the world” or “God forgave the world”, just use a quote from Walther that says no problem, you can use other phrases and words because that is all there is....pure gold)

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Does this read like a correction against those influenced by Calvin? Judge for yourself - do not rely on Hale to think for you.

 Does this read like a correction against those influenced by Calvin? Judge for yourself - do not rely on Walther to think for you.

 Imputation (counting) is the Greek word used for Abraham in Genesis 15:6 (LXX) and again in Romans 4. When are we counted forgiven? Before birth (Edward Preuss)? At the resurrection of Christ? (Halle's Rambach, Stephan, and Walther) 

ELDONA - Home of the Whopper. Heiser Graduated from Concordia Seminary, Ft. Wayne, Without ever Hearing Objective Justification?Fellow Alumnus Verified David Scaer Taught OJ in Dogmatics

 The Right Reverend James Rodham Heiser, STM, has no credibility when it comes to Justification by Faith.
ELDONA has a strange passion for beards.

Mars Society Presentation




Note on the video above -

1. Rydecki knew there were pastors who actually taught the Chief Article 16:50;
2. ELDONA certainly had pastors who were loudly UOJ and ones like Heiser who knew the difference, but gladly worked with Rolf Preus;
3. Bishop Heiser gulped (17:03) when he lied about "not being cognizant of this heresy"  UNTIL Pastor Rydecki was booted from WELS, 2012. Heiser was quite aware in 2000. He refused to deal with the issue for 12 years, so ELDONA was not a swarm of OJ deniers, as he claims. An alumnus of Ft. Wayne verified that Scaer taught OJ in Dogmatics class. Scaer mentioned OJ twelve times in his autobiography.
4. The video at 5.20 is fun, all kinds of excuses for not knowing OJ was wrong in seminary. Nobody mentions who troubled the waters of OJ while they were still comatose - moi.

What did he know and when did he know it?

 "Bishop Jim Rodham Heiser - what did we teach you at Concordia, Ft. Wayne? Bob Preus and I hammered OJ into you. You were upset at the Norfolk conference that someone "denied OJ", your words. Have you forgotten so soon?"

First, Pastor Paul Rydecki (formerly WELS) speaks about DP Buchholz lying to his congregation. All the WELS DPs are liars - Buchholz is just especially inept.

Rydecki was in the WELS Intrepid Lutherans (sic), a blog I suggested for group discussion of doctrine. They argued and were divided over Justification. At first, Rydecki argued for Objective Justification. My blog posts got them debating the origin of OJ, and Doug Lindee on that blog and now in ELDONA, I think agreed that OJ came from Halle Pietism.

Note this post on Pietism and OJ in particular - and the date - 2011.

Heiser's claim, 16.44 on the tape - that he "first became aware" of OJ during the Rydecki-Buchholz battle - is a blatant lie. He became aware when he read and sold copies of Thy Strong Word in 2000, which anyone can read for free here. He sold the first edition in 2000 and also told me he discovered how bad OJ was from my OJ quotations there. Before that, as a typical Ft. Wayne student, he thought OJ was fine. However, like many, he assumed OJ meant the Atonement - another deception by the OJists.

I challenged Heiser when he aligned with the Rolf Preus Synod and pretended nothing was wrong. He said, "We will get rid of Rolf later." I told him he would have to deal with Justification eventually, and that happened only with the prospect of Rydecki's congregation and property joining ELDONA and Kneprath's group also joining.

I gave up on Heiser when he decided to link up with the Rolf Synod, but I was encouraged when he was motivated to teach the Chief Article, even if a decade later. They did get rid of Rolf, as planned, but the rest of the tiny group ran back to the Little Sect on the Prairie, sobbing on Pope John the Malefactor's shoulder, hoping the terms of reconciliation would not be too harsh (Krauth reference). Rolf was not alone in his OJ fanaticism. His group agreed with him completely.

Rydecki conveniently skips the fact that he and I were in contact about Justification by Faith. Through a WELS friend, I put him in contact with the Latin works of Hunnius, which he translated.

 Most ELDONUTs are from Concordia Seminary, Ft. Wayne.
That may explain their attitudes and poor education.

Unfortunately, the OJ seminaries of WELS-LCMS-ELS teach their students to play political games and venerate their immaculate sect. OJ is the fuel that energizes deception - a habit that is hard to break.

How does one leave the greatest seminary ever - Bethany or Mordor or the Concordias - and not know what the Chief Article is? Please someone explain that to me.

 Fuller Seminary alumnus, Mordor President, destroyer of congregations.

Funniest or Saddest Posts among Lutherans

 After.

Hilarious gun videos - after.

 Before - Paul McCain's Roman Catholic training - as solid as a Jesuit.

Herman Otten's Christian News complained that Paul McCain was an "unelected ruler" in the LCMS. Who made that happen? Herman Otten did. He arranged with Paul McCain to get early copies of Al Barry material, turning the unknown DP into the Synod President. Paul and Herman separately bragged about their methods to me: both also denied to everyone that they worked secretly (almost secretly) together. If Herman had told the truth, McCain would now be chanting the Rosary in an ELS parish in Northern Minnesota.

 Matt Harrison, Before.

After, with dewlap.

In running a secret campaign with McCain, Otten helped get Barry elected. Likewise, Otten did not reveal The Ballad of Herman Otten sung to him by Harrison himself in that campaign. Once elected, Matt rewarded McCain, who suddenly became more visible again. Unfortunately, McCain's plagiarized Roman Catholic blog is now invisible.

 Which is funnier? - Preus is against high church, or,
Heiser is against Objective Justification?
Or Otten is for Walter A. Maier? or is it OJ?

Rolf Really Needs To Study His Father's Book, But He Should Start with the Large Catechism

 I realize this is irrelevant for those on SpenerQuest.

Pastor Rolf David Preus (Rolf) Senior Member Username: Rolf Post Number: 9819 Registered: 5-2001

Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - 10:22 am:       I should also point out that Jackson has falsely stated numerous times that my father abandoned the doctrine of objective justification before he died. He appeals to his book, Justification and Rome, in which he set forth the historic Lutheran doctrine of justification using the terms that the Lutheran dogmaticians used. Jackson imagines that since the 17th century dogmaticians didn't articulate objective justification by using the same language as the 19th and 20th century theologians of the Synodical Conference, this must mean that the 17th century theologians taught a different doctrine than we who use the terms objective justification and subjective justification teach. He interprets my father setting forth the 17th century theologians' teaching in their own language as my father abandoning his life-long teaching of objective justification. What Jackson demonstrates is not that the 17th century Lutherans taught differently than the 19th and 20th century theologians of the Synodical Conference, but rather the rigidity of his own thinking. To understand theology, we must know how to express the same truth with different words. When Jackson accuses my father of changing his doctrine on this critical topic he bears false witness against him.

 Rolf Preus agreed with Chapter Five of Thy Strong Word, when I sent it to him. Shortly after, he said he had the entire book (when nobody did) and it was full of false doctrine. He was the one who asked for the chapter, and I sent it to him by email. Later he wanted the whole book. Ha!

Let me briefly rehearse Robert Preus on Justification. Robert posted a bizarre and foolish little essay endorsing Objective Justification, which Ft. Wayne bullies Cascione and McCain have cited to prove that Robert Preus taught OJ.

Here is my post from 2011 on Preus' change in position.

Jack Cascione boasted here about his significant role at Ft. Wayne and his expertise in OJ. This post includes the Preus essay.

ELDONA, which is 95% Ft. Waynian, switched from OJ to Justification and Rome.

Another Preus on the warpath is posted here.

John Sparky Brenner on Election without Faith, which is another way of arguing Justification without Faith.

Robert Preus' Shift from Objective Justification
Rolf has a way of amusing people about his doctrinal blindness. The essay which he, Cascione, and McCain adore is pure OJ rubbish - laughable in every possible way. I wrote a critique of it, but I have lost the blog link for now.

At one point I had a Robert Preus typescript essay where he quoted OJ arguments and also the critiques which I copied from his last book, Justification and Rome.

I carefully read Justification and Rome and copied the citations from Quenstedt and Calov and Preus! which destroy OJ.  In his last work, which was probably much better before his sons mangled it, Robert was 99% Justification by Faith and 1% OJ.

 Bishop Heiser and the Pope of All Synods worked closely together - until they no longer did.

Rolf is constantly stirred up because I wonder about him being bedfellows with a self-appointed OJ/JBF bishop and the self-appointed dogma-shifting bishop for being bedfellows with Rolf.

Disagreeing with Rolf is not the same as slander, which he would know if he comprehended the Book of Concord. Nor do I consider his careful, nuanced mistakes as slander against me.

My only goal is to get Lutherans to study Biblical doctrine from the ruling norm (not from Stephan's pimp) - and from the ruled norm, the Book of Concord. (PS - It is not slander if it is true - Walther backed a promiscuous, syphilitic, abusive man as bishop. Recent history tells me that is one way to become a bishop.)

Readers can judge for themselves whether Justification by Faith or Objective Justification without Faith is Biblical. I would write less about OJ if the Stormtroopers did not obsess about it, offer absurd syllogisms to support it, and invent personal attacks to support their grace-filled ministries.

"SpenerQuest is pacified once again, Cardinal.
Now we will work on the rest of Lutherdom."