The Papal Wrecking Ball | The American Spectator. Likewise Popes Otten, Harrison, Schroeder, John the Malefactor

 Pope John the Malefactor proved what a unifying dogma UOJ can be.
He kicked UOJist Rolf Preus to the curb, only to have Heiser do the same.
But he is a scholar!
After he obtained the call to Bethany Seminary,he finally finished his college degree,
making him more qualified than the Theologian of the Synodical Conference,
Bishop Martin Stephan.

Protestant education is so deep and wide.
People keep calling him a Franciscan
because his new name is Francis.
That would make me a Gregorian.
No, Francis belongs to the Jesuits,
the most extreme, corrupt, and immoral order of them all.

Pope Herman the Copyist not only backs
Roman Catholics like Randy Engel,
but sells anti-Luther books for Reformation -
a true LCMS pastor. The only thing that offends
His Holiness is the Chief Article of Christianity.

 He signed the document making a syphilitic adulterer
the bishop, robbed the bishop and had him kidnapped,
to make himself the Pope of the Synodical Conference.

The Papal Wrecking Ball | The American Spectator:

"Once again, the pope’s priorities have been revealed. Countless Catholic organizations, schools, and orders, starting with the pope’s own, the Jesuits, promote heresy and scandal of one kind or another. Yet he never lifts a finger to police any of them. On the contrary, they receive his warm praise. Only conservatives fall under his withering gaze. He is indulgent toward every flock except his faithful own, whom he showers with epithets, from “rigid” to “judgmental” to “neurotic.” His papacy has proceeded like an endless serious of Onion parodies."

 Don't cross Pope Paul the Plagiarist.
No one makes up stuff faster or apologizes slower,
if at all - and only under duress.
UOJ unites them all - Moldstad, Preus, Otten,
Heiser, Cascione - in mutual loathing.

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Book Ministry Continues - Some Free Books

The first offer is the four-volume Kretzmann Popular Commentary. The first one to respond will get it. Just send $10 for mailing it to you.

Email me at greg.jackson.edlp@gmail.com

The UOJ set is in the public domain, so it can be read at the link above -

Welcome to The Kretzmann Project. The Popular Commentary of the Bible by Paul E. Kretzmann, Ph. D., D. D., has been a favorite among confessional Lutherans since publication of the first volume in 1921. The four volume work, completed in 1924, consists of nearly 3,000 pages. Kretzmann, as it is popularly known, has been out of print for quite some time. Many of us have found copies in used bookstores. The project was initiated so that Kretzmanncan be available to everyone with the click of a mouse.

Lindee wrote:
In 1951, Dr. P. E. Kretzmann left the LCMS along with sixteen other clergymen and laymen, forming the Orthodox Lutheran Conference (OLC). A brief, early history of the OLC, written by Dr. Kretzman, can be read here: A Short History of the Orthodox Lutheran Conference.

Although just a small collection of men, this group supplied such pressure on the LCMS, that the objections of the WELS and ELS over the same issues could not be ignored. In fact, the OLC was credited by their contemporaries in the LCMS with forcing that Synod to take the doctrinal concerns of WELS and ELS seriously. As all to often happens, unfortunately, division within this small group developed within a short period of time. Charges of unionism were levied against Dr. Kretzmann by some of the OLC members, leading, in 1956, to the separation of Dr. Kretzmann, and four others who supported him, from the Conference. Later, after the withdrawal of WELS and ELS from the Synodical Conference over the persistent errors of the LCMS, Dr. Kretzmann and his supporters joined the WELS. A more thorough history of the OLC, which includes many of these details, can be read here: A Popular History of the Concordia Lutheran Conference (through 1980).

Second Offer - Leupold's two volume Genesis Commentary, plus Luther's Genesis, plus a few other books, such as Pilgrim's Progress and the Iliad.

Email me at greg.jackson.edlp@gmail.com

Leupold is fairly well known among conservative Lutherans. He taught at the same ALC semnary in Columbus as Lenski.

 Lutherans build statues of Luther
and write statutes against his Biblical doctrine.

Rolf Preus Endorses Fellow-UOJist Jack Cascione, Who Enthused That We Are Justified Before Birth

UOJists were united at the ELDONA conferences,
but Heiser said, "We will get rid of Rolf."
Nevertheless the Rolf Synod, minus Rolf, continued with ELDONA
until the slightly larger sect discovered Justification by Faith.

Pastor Rolf Preus on SpenerQuest:
The owner of this website, Rev. Jack Cascione, has written a book that disproves the documentary hypothesis, a theory that has held sway in liberal theological institutions for many years. He demonstrates the single authorship of the Pentateuch.

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GJ - "Those Missourians!" as Paul McCain said, quoting the Pope. They are so full of themselves.

Forty-four years ago, I took Hebrew exegesis of Genesis with Dr. Robert Wilson, whose achievements included chairing the Department of Religious Studies at Yale.

During the class. one student said, "The names of God are supposed to tell us who the editors of Genesis are, but they do not match up." The student was quite concerned since most of us were spoon-fed the Documentary Hypothesis in college.

Wilson said, "What do you say about the theory when the facts do not support it?

The student said in a quavering voice, "The theory is wrong?"

Wilson said nothing more.

My three Biblical professors at Yale - 

• Nils A. Dahl - Gospel of Mark, New Testament Christology, both Greek exegesis
• Abraham Malherbe - Greek exegesis of 1 and 2 Thessalonians
• Robert Wilson - Hebrew exegesis of Genesis -

wanted us to know the modern theories and their authors. Liberal scholars like Mowinkel were their professors. But these three Yale professors insisted on us studying the text itself and not filtering our knowledge through the theories popular in Biblical studies.

So I am almost impressed that Jack Cascione has discovered a reason why the Documentary Hypothesis is wrong. Perhaps he can move onto the dogma of Universal Objective Justification.

He quoted Robert Preus' citing Edward Preuss, approving this nonsense, which is comical and illogical -

 Has he even read Romans 4?

Herman Otten's Brother Demonstrates How the LCMS Myths Get Retold.

http://steadfastlutherans.org/2008/08/this-was-your-grandfathers-church/

LCMS Pastor Walter Otten:

Each chapter begins with a quotation from the Word of God and a statement of Martin Luther, but throughout the book there are also the words of those that Missourians truly consider their grandfathers, Drs. C. F. W. Walther and F. K. D. Wyneken, the first and second presidents of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. Many of the words of these grandfathers of the Synod appear for the first time in the English language in Christ Have Mercy, translated by Harrison himself. Harrison clearly demonstrates that these grandfathers of the synod were orthodox theologians in their confession of the faith, and that “mercy” was a vital part of the content and confession of their faith.

 Walther Otten, Herman's brother,
moves the Missouri myths forward,
like all good Bronze Age LCMS pastors.

Harrison writes in the preface, “I write as a convinced, convicted, and unapologetic clergyman of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. The public confession of the Lutheran Church–most fundamentally stated in the Book of Concord–is my own, without equivocation. I believe C.F.W. Walther, the founder of the LCMS (double sic), explicated the faith correctly, also on the doctrines of church and ministry. These pages will show a side of Walther’s divinely given role of the care of the needy.”

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GJ - The double sic fits the description of Walther being the founder of the LCMS. He was not even the founder of the Stephanite exiles. Martin Stephan was finished in his self-appointed ministry to young women and Pietist conventicles when he led his loyalists out of Europe. Walther was his enforcer, applying discipline to anyone who offended Stephan.

The group landed in New Orleans with a disgraced ex-pastor. He insisted on being named their bishop-for-life, and CFW Walther signed the document, a fact often denied by LCMS fans. The former pastors were allowed to be leaders only if they were 100% loyal to Stephan and blind to his adulteries.

The eeevul Loehe pastors invited the Stephanites to work with them, so Loehe was the true founder of the LCMS. The Loehe pastors were not blind followers of a syphilitic bishop, so Walther had to part ways with the real founder while keeping the Loehe congregations. I called them eeevul because it is still popular among the Walther worshipers to be against Loehe.

Later, Walther asked for and received the Ft. Wayne seminary as a free gift from Loehe. He also asked for Loehe contributions to continue. And they did. Whadda sharp operator, that CFW Walther!

I should not need to spend too much time on the orthodoxy of the Walther circle. They all followed one abusive Pietist guru, who died, and subsequently affiliated with Martin Stephan, an organizer of cell groups - the mark of Pietism. 

The era is complicated in terms of Pietism and genuine Lutheran Orthodoxy. The Rationalists were in complete control of the ecclesiastical structure, so most Pietists could not get a call. Anyone who had faith was called a Pietist or a mystic by the Rationalists, and Pietism seemed to be a refuge from the sterility of Rationalism, which is how future clergy were trained in Germany.

Stephan called Walther "a fox," which may explain how CFW,

• the son of a Rationalist pastor 
• who also graduated from a Rationalist university - Leipzig.

was approved as a pastor by the Rationalist leaders of the church body. CFW and his brother kidnapped their nephew and niece from their father's home, and took them to America. The police had a warrant for CFW's arrest, but he let his mother-in-law be thrown into the clink instead. Whadda guy! I wonder what he bought her on Mother's Day each year - ankle chains as a clever joke?

 Otto W. Heick wrote a popular two-volume history of doctrine.
He was my professor in Christology and also a close friend.

Heick described Spener, the founder of Pietism, as "first union theologian," because Spener merged his own Lutheran background with Calvinistic doctrine. One WELS scholar, when asked, wrote something like this - "You could say Spener was against infant faith and the Real Presence, but he probably wrote on the other side too. He wrote an enormous amount and was all over the place with doctrine."

Let me frank, if not downright cruel, for a moment. All our founders were Pietists, from Henry M. Muhlenberg (Halle graduate) to Adolph Hoenecke (Halle graduate). The Swedish Augustana Synod was formed by Pietists who were led toward Book of Concord Orthodoxy by Passavant. 

And in-between, Martin Stephan, who never graduated from any university but attended Halle University, was clearly identified as a Pietist. Stephan was able to get a call to Dresden because that church, with close ties to Zinzendorf (a Pietist) had the right to call anyone and to have cell groups meeting at their congregation.

Stephan's ethnic group, the Bohemians, were Pietists. As a Lutheran leader, Stephan emphasized the Book of Concord when most were neglecting it, so he deserved some Brownie points for orthodoxy, but that was definitely a blend fitting the union theology of Pietism.

Walther is quoted as admitted that "Stephan was a bit of a Pietist," which is like CFW being "a bit of a kidnapper, pimp, and thief.' Walther began the white-washing of their early history, so LCMS history could officially start with his election as the president of the sect.

Nevertheless, Pietism did not dominate completely, nor did UOJ - which came from Halle University - until the 1932 Brief Statement, which canonized this bizarre claim and the even more deceptive Scripture support:

Scripture teaches that God has already declared the whole world to be righteous in Christ, Rom. 5:19; 2 Cor. 5:18‐21; Rom. 4:25;

Note well the two errors - 

1. Scripture teaches, when the passages teach just the opposite.
2. "God has already declared the whole world to be righteous in Christ."

Walther carried forward his Pietistic fanaticism with 

1. Forcing F. Pieper on the sect, breaking their own rules for filling the job;
2. Insisting that God elected "without faith;" and
3. Turning faith into some kind of sin, because the only faith Walther recognized was agreeing that the entire world was already absolved of sin.

So the LCMS continues this smoke and mirros game by debating whether Loehe or Walther was better when they barely know the Scriptures and the Book of Concord.

LCMS and WELS ecclesiastical honors remind me of the Hollywood entertainers getting up and awarding each other statues roughly six times a year, so even the least talented celebrity can have more honors than a North Korean army general. Those men barely have room on their jackets for all the brass.

 Anyone who parts company with the LCMS mythology factory
will experience personal attacks, as Forster did.
Notice how today's fanatics match the slavish zeal of
the Stephanite sex cult.

Third Greek Lesson - Easy Passages - Little Gospel and I AM

 Chi Rho forms a cross, for us, the first three letters in Christ.
That is where people get Xmas for Christmas.

Οὑτως γαρ ηγαπησεν ὁ θεὸς τον κοσμον                                              3:16

ὡστε τον υἱὸν τον μονογενῆ εδωκεν

ἱνα πᾶς ὁ πιστευων εις αυτὸν μη αποληται

αλλ' εχῃ ζωὴν αιωνιον.

Watch on Ustream here

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bethany-lutheran-worship


6:35

35 ειπεν δε αυτοις ο ιησους εγω ειμι ο αρτος της ζωης ο ερχομενος προς με ου μη πειναση και ο πιστευων εις εμε ου μη διψηση πωποτε

8:12
12 παλιν ουν ο ιησους αυτοις ελαλησεν λεγων εγω ειμι το φως του κοσμου ο ακολουθων εμοι ου μη περιπατησει εν τη σκοτια αλλ εξει το φως της ζωης

10:9
9 εγω ειμι η θυρα δι εμου εαν τις εισελθη σωθησεται και εισελευσεται και εξελευσεται και νομην ευρησει

10:11
11 εγω ειμι ο ποιμην ο καλος. ο ποιμην ο καλος την ψυχην αυτου τιθησιν υπερ των προβατων

11:25
25 ειπεν αυτη ο ιησους εγω ειμι η αναστασις και η ζωη ο πιστευων εις εμε καν αποθανη ζησεται

14:6
6 λεγει αυτω ο ιησους εγω ειμι η οδος και η αληθεια και η ζωη ουδεις ερχεται προς τον πατερα ει μη δι εμου

15:1
15 εγω ειμι η αμπελος η αληθινη και ο πατηρ μου ο γεωργος εστιν

8:58
58 ειπεν αυτοις ο ιησους αμην αμην λεγω υμιν πριν αβρααμ γενεσθαι εγω ειμι

Paul McCain Forced To Apologize. Top Views For the Last 24 Hours - From 2012. No Apology Yet for Plagiarizing the Church of Rome?

bruce-church (http://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Universalism from the Glende/Ski WELS Theologians":

First Rolf Preus has to apologize to the Jesus First crowd, and now McCain has to apologize to Missouri's CCM (Commission on Constitutional Matters):

A Public Apology from Paul McCain
May 29th, 2012, Post by Norm Fisher

http://steadfastlutherans.org/?p=19851

A Public Apology from Paul McCain Posted on May 29, 2012 by Norm Fisher

It is important that I publicize an apology I recently made to the Synod’s Commission on Constitutional Matters for a comment I posted on the Brothers of John the Steadfast site on April 18, 2012. Here is my original comment, posted on BJS on April 18, 2012.

I believe when there is a less than partisan and agenda-driven CCM in position after the next Synodical convention we may find resolution to these issues. As it stands now, the present CCM is issuing opinions that are based on idealogical (sic) loyalties, not balanced, objective opinions, such as their latest position that a pastor who communes at an ELCA altar is not participating in the rites and ceremonies of a heterodox body as long as he is not participating in the sense of being involved In the liturgical observances, that is, vested and involve directly in the worship service. Yes, I know, plainly absurd, but this is the kind of vacuous opinions we are getting at present from the CCM, so do not look to them to sort through these issues in any helpful way. 

Here the apology I sent to the CCM.

Thank you for your letter of May 15 offering me brotherly reproof and admonishment, sent in the spirit of Matt. 18. I’m humbled by it and confess my sin against the Eighth Commandment, and all of you, as you rightly point out. You have my apology and request for forgiveness, and I ask you to share this letter with the members of the CCM.
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Norman Teigen has left a new comment on your post "The Forgiven at Birth Repent in Public":

Celebrity Lutheran bloggers who regularly disparage other honest Christians shouLd desist from further offense by agreeing to be silent. The problem is that these persons cannot distinguish between their pious baloney and libel and slander. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Norman Teigen, Layman
Evangelical Lutheran Synod

Now It Belongs to the Printers - Creation Gardening: By Him Were All Things Made Is Finished

Luther's Biblical Doctrine of the Word - partially finished.

Theology Is the Grammar of Faith - Why UOJ, OJ, and SJ Are Evil Terms Used To Promote or Hide False Doctrine

 Paul L. Holmer, Professor of Philosophical Theology
at Yale University,
posed with Little Ichabod on one trip to the campus.
Holmer used the expression - "Theology is the grammar of faith."

I tried to cover the main issues about Universal Objective Justification as a bad paroday of Justification by Faith.

UOJ terms - Objective Justification, Subjective Justification, General Justification - are the same as bad grammar and poor word usage in writing. The reason is - precise language conveys the correct concepts, or at the very least - the intended thoughts to be communicated.

Long ago, many of us assumed that Objective Justification was another word for the Atonement - Christ died for the sins of the world. In fact, before donning the bishop's mitre, Jim Heiser thought the same thing. Heiser was appalled by the actual use of Objective Justification, as quoted extensively and fairly in Thy Strong Word. Nevertheless, Heiser affiliated with the Rolf Synod, which escaped the Little Sect on the Prairie, but have returned to the ELS/LCMS, wagging their little tails behind them. They were and are gung-ho for UOJ.

Likewise, the Easter absolution of the world language, from Walther via Bishop Stephan and Halle University, is a dangerous flirtation with Universalism, whose teaching is almost the same. No better are the ridiculous Objective Justification and Subjective Justification terms, because OJ means "the entire world has been declared by God to be forgiven and saved  - without faith." See the LCMS 1932 Brief Statement on justification.

Likewise, Subjective Justification means agreeing that the absolution of the world - without faith - is Biblical. Subjective Justification does NOT mean Justification by Faith. So we have two sets of terms that are completely alien to:

• The Scriptures
• Luther
• The Lutheran Reformation
• The Book of Concord
• The Post-Concord theologians - Gerhard, Leyser, Hunnius, Calov.
• Modern examples in the LCMS and WELS.

How did the Reformation happen without those odious UOJ terms? and why must we constantly default to OJ and SJ?

The liberal mainline theologians simply dropped their SJ, just as Schleiermacher and Barth did - the entire world is forgiven and saved period. Requiring faith repudiates grace - yes, they really mean that and constantly warn against faith. The reason - they lack faith completely, so that is their subtle evasion, using the words of faith while repudiating faith in the Word of God. As my friend at Notre Dame said, "Faith without belief. They have a sentimental attachment to the Bible." (The sainted Charles Caldwell, Episcopalian conservative)

I used to grieve that I wasted so many hours studying modern theology and Roman Catholic theology at Notre Dame, but that is how I came to recognize UOJ as another form of apostate teaching.

Like the creatures of decay in the garden, the UOJ teachers hide under the rocks and logs whenever discovered. But they go back to their work.

Bivens and Valleskey taught UOJ an d Church Growth at Mordor Seminary in Mequon (WELS). Their deception or self-deception is so complete that Bivens called UOJ "the Chief Article of the Christian Faith."

The 10th Annual Emmaus Conference is Friday, April 28th, 2017, with a banquet the evening prior on Thursday, April 27th. The topic for the 2017 Emmaus Conference will be: “The Unsuspecting American Luthers”. The backgrounds, challenges, and impact of several Lutheran theologians in the 20^th Century will be explored and discussed.

• C. F. W. Walther, by the Rev. Dr. VP Daniel Preus
• A. Hoenecke, by the Rev. Dr. Prof. John Brenner
• U. V. Koren, by the Rev. Prof. Markos DeGarmeaux

Daniel Preus

John Brenner

Markos DeGarmeaux

2016 Emmaus Topic & Speakers

December 26, 2015

The 2016 topic for the Emmaus Conference is entitled, “Are We Experiencing the Lutheran Reformation Eve or Twilight?” We are excited to have the Rev. Dr. Lawrence Rast, Jr. from Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana, as our lecturer.

Lawrence Rast, Jr.

Dr. Lawrence Rast serves as the sixteenth president of Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne and is a professor of American Christianity and American Lutheranism. Dr. Rast joined the Department of Historical Theology in the fall of 1996 after serving as pastor of Ascension Lutheran Church, Madison, Tennessee (1992-96).
The following speakers will give the lecture and reactions.
2016 Emmaus Conference Speakers:

• Lecturer: The Rev. Dr. Lawrence Rast (LC-MS)
• Reactor: The Rev. Pres. Paul Wendland (WELS)
• Reactor: The Rev. Prof. Erling Teigen (ELS)

Our Righteousness before God

December 23, 2015

The theme of the 2015 Emmaus Conference proved a timely topic. “Our Righteousness Before God…Is Revealed in the Gospel. On this Righteousness Faith Relies.”

The lecture was given by the Reverend David Jay Webber in two parts.

• Part I: Why Objective Justification Mattered to the Reformers
• Part II: Why Objective Justification Matters to Us

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GJ - As one person said, if Lutheran doctrine can be explained without OJ/SJ - why use the terms?

If OJ/SJ must be used, why did Luther, Melanchthon, Chemnitz and the Reformers fail to use those terms?

I would add the new extra calvinisticusm - If the terms came from the Calvinist translator of a Pietist theologian, how can they be used in the Lutheran Church without shame and remorse?

 WELS-ELS-LCMS-CLC (sic) today.

 My professor at WLS, Otto Heick, a favorite of WELS pastors,
wrote that Spener was the first union theologian,
merging Lutheran and Calvinistic doctrine.

Almost all American denominations came out of Pietism. They all had a great affection for Spener, the first union theologian. The current WELS-ELS-LCMS allergy to the Book of Concord comes from the re-establishment of Pietism in those groups, as shown by their Pietistic cell groups (lay led share, care, Bible study, prayer, affinity, or prayer groups).

Those that use Pietistic methods also employ Pietistic doctrine.

Reviews of Thy Strong Word, Which Addresses Modern Lutheran Errors

 Available in printed form, Kindle e-books,
and the earlier version free as a PDF.

Magisterial Defense of Truly Confessional Lutheranism

By Gerald Parker on April 14, 2007

Format: Hardcover Verified Purchase

I am a layman, not a theologian, but I have read fairly widely in the literature of Lutheranism, my heritage faith, so I do not hesitate to praise with the highest encomia possible this very fine and much-needed book that refutes the errors of latter-day North American Lutheranism, alike the unbelieving "liberalism" of the E.L.C.A. and E.L.C.i.C. as well as the pseudo-conservatism (which falsely poses as Confessional) of the denominations deriving from the old Synodical Conference (most notably the L.C.M.S., W.E.L.S., E.L.S., and the L.C.M.S.' sister sect, the Lutheran Church Canada), which have betrayed genuine Confessional Lutheranism with their bizarre speculations embodied in the theological paradigm of "Universal Objective Justification and Subjective Justication" (U.O.J.), which Ptr. Dr. Gregory Lee Jackson anathematises and disproves, as well he should do, showing these heinous false speculative ideas to be being neither Scriptural nor Confessional, and, hence, not genuinely Lutheran at all. (Coming back to this review to revise it some, I would point out that Jackson has written and published a separate book, one that handles the matter suberbly, on the U.O.J. heresy, titled "Luther versus the U.O.J. Pietists: Justification by Faith".) Jackson also scathingly and realistically savages the venal "Church Growth Movement" tendencies in all forms of this hemisphere's Lutheranism, liberal and pseudo-confessional alike.

There are magnificent defenses of "genesio-Lutheran" Confessional teaching versus the claims of what Ptr. Dr. Jackson calls the "Reformed" (by which he includes all non-Lutheran Protestantism and sectarianism, rather than only, more properly, the teaching of other genuinely Protestant churches that follow the doctrinal teachings of Martin Bucer, especially, and of Jean Calvin, as well as the Three Forms of Unity and Westminster Standards that so principally, soundly, and moderately codify them confessionally). Jackson's defense of the Lutheran and hence Orthodox Christian "Means of Grace" is a stunning refutation of the claims of Baptists, Pentecostals/Charismatics, the loud-mouthed "Fundamentalists" who are so fundamentally wrong, the so-called "Neo-Evangelicals", Campbellites/"Restorationists", and other "cheap white [or black] theological trash") by explicating from the Scriptures (using, wisely, the Authorised "King James" Version, free of the sectarian bias that afflicts to one degree or another the modern versions in English of the Bible) the true Lutheran and biblical teaching about Holy Baptism and the Eucharist (Holy Communion, Mass). For the fine defense of Lutheran sacramental theology alone this book would be worth the purchase, but there is so much more as well!

A fault, a minor but nonetheless somewhat irritating one, is Jackson's intemperately vituperative assaults on other Lutherans and their squabbles and peccadillos over relatively minor matters of turf, petty corruption, and so forth which, really, are of only passing interest or importance compared to the major issues that this book addresses, something that inevitably will cause this book become a bit dated in that regard. (That said, though, Jackson`s comments on such matters are reasonable and, I believe, true.) Dr. Jackson's book is already a classic of Lutheran exegesis and sound doctrinal teaching.

A note of warning is in store for those who purchase the book second-hand; the earliest printing of this book had some pagination and binding irregularities, but even a copy with these defects is worth having, since they do not affect any of the most important passages of the book.

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This is one of the best modern Christian polemics books out there

By Glen on October 25, 2016

Format: Kindle Edition

This is one of the best modern Christian polemics books out there. Pastor Jackson does an excellent job of teaching God's Word and exposing the false teachings of men in the various Lutheran sects. It is very edifying to Christ's Church to have this publication to share with laity and Pastors alike. Most Lutheran laity I have met are uniformed that their Church leaders reject the efficacy of the Word and teach a damnable false gospel of Universal Objective Justification. Much like the polemic publications of the church fathers during the reformation, (1500's) Jackson's Thy Strong Word serves to the posterity of God's people in guarding against false doctrine.