Daryl Meyer on Boisclair's UOJ Dogma

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I tried to wrap my head around David Boisclair’s accusation that some statements another Mr. Meyer made are a confusion of Law and Gospel. But it’s really the doctrine of UOJ that betrays an improper distinction between the two by concluding everyone under grace, as if Christ came into the world to abolish the Law rather than to fulfill it. Brett keeps hammering home the point that we are all held captive to the Law (i.e., sin and death) until we are brought to faith, the same point Paul makes to the Galatians (3:21-26):

(21) Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. (22) But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. (23) But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. (24) Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. (25) But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. (26) For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

And to the Romans (10:4):

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

Isn’t it ironic that the WELS, a synod so long bashed for its legalism, should hold fast to such an antinomian doctrine?

I’ve noticed recently that, to refute the charge of universalism, a number in the UOJ camp have emphasized that salvation is still by grace through faith, in contrast to justification which is without instrumental cause. They may want to seriously consider addressing the part in the Small Catechism under Holy Communion that reads, “for where there is forgiveness of sins, there is also life and salvation” the next time it’s up for revision. 

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GJ - WELS has more rules than it has members, but that does not keep the sect from being Antinomian.

Adulterous and alcoholic clergy are perfectly acceptable in WELS - and often defended under the banner of the Gospel. But everyone is fearful of criticizing Holy Mother WELS. That reveals legalistic Antinomianism at its best.  

Warning WELS - Kurtzahn Is Death on Pancakes, But Adultery and Incest Are Adiaphora

WELS Call Report.

Kurtzahn, Rev Stephen C    St John - Frontenac MN               01/06/2013
         Dual Parish with Immanuel, Rural Lake City

Rejoicing in Legalism

The old Synodical Conference (LCMS, WELS, ELS) had several doctrinal problems uniting them:
1. Universal Objective Justification - This is the fraud that God declared the whole world free of sin when Jesus died on the cross, without faith, without the Word, without the Means of Grace.
2. Receptionism - The elements of Holy Communion are not the Body and Blood of Christ until the believers receive them. This should be known as the doctrine of the efficacy of the hands.
3. Legalism - Instead of teaching God's Law, which prepares us for the Gospel, legalism splits hairs about everything and ultimately teaches salvation through the law, abeit man-made law.

All three errors are the bitter fruit of denying the efficacy of the Word, which was central to Luther's doctrine, the Scriptures, and the Book of Concord. The generation of theologians following the Concordists also made the efficacy the Word central to their teaching.

Let's look at the current state of legalism in the old Synodical Conference, now united once again - Oh Happy Day - through its work with ELCA.

Partners of the old Synod Conference spent an inordinate amount of time defining what they could and could not get away with. Legalism is wonderful that way. The farther they can get away from the Scriptures, the happier they are. Soon they are quoting the previous generation of writers, who become Holy Writ.

The new mantra is Outside the Framework of Fellowship. If I were to be invited to speak to a WELS conference, the hissy-fits would never end. But if Leonard Sweet, a liberal Methodist minister, teaches the Word to WELS, the occasion is Outside the Framework of Fellowship.

Martin Marty, once condemned by WELS, can address their college and their evangelism conference (Florida) because it is Outside the Framework of Fellowship.

They can work with John Nunes as the new head of Lutheran World Relief, even though Nunes joined ELCA after leaving an enormous LCMS scandal (his homosexual LCMS then ELCA organist murdering and burning an older lady). LWR is not concerned with gathering old clothes for the Third World. LWR is also involved in Left-wing political activism, but that is Outside the Framework of Fellowship.

Soon someone will ask for Outside the Framework of Fellowship to be studied by WELS. They will knit their brows, pick the most ecumenical of their apostate clergy, add one posturing conservative, and produce a statement of rare and precious casuistry. Whenever someone objects after that, they will cite their study.

Milwaukee locutus est, causa finita est. St. Augustine of Waukesha

Translation:The Love Shack has spoken, the case is closed.