Tom Fisher - Notice How Deceptive Walther Is

 

Tom Fisher's twin lambs.

Dear Pastor Jackson,

America is NOT a Christian nation!!! WHAT!!! How can you say that?? 

America is a 'works righteousness' nation that despises, rejects, and mocks God's work in Faith, Baptism, Office of the Keys, Holy Communion, and His exact efficacious Word in the King James Bible, Luther's 1545 Bible, and the TEXTUS RECEPTUS. 

America is a nation that trusts reasoning instead of the all clear Word of God. Oh my!  The yowling favoring reasoning over God's Word is deafening:

"Baptism is just water that gives nothing. Faith is NOT God's work. Faith is your work of making a decision for Christ. You MUST do the work of accepting Jesus into your heart. Infants must NOT be baptized until they are old enough to do the work of making a decision for Christ and accepting Jesus into their hearts. Just say, 'Dear Jesus come into my heart." You must do the work of dedicating your life to God. You must do the work of getting closer to God.  You MUST follow these awesome steps and techniques to get closer to God. Close your eyes and work yourself into an emotional frenzy as you feel the 'spirit' move you with the squalling 'bust a gut' church music. Lift your hands high in the air to praise God with your own works , reasoning, and will power. You must do the work of speaking in tongues. Baptism is just water that gives nothing. Fasting actually attracts God to come to you. God's Word is NOT efficacious. It is just empty words that do nothing and give nothing. The Office of the Keys does NOT forgive sins. It is just an empty nothing. Holy Communion is just bread and wine that gives nothing. Holy Communion is NOT Christ's Last Will and Testament bequeathing to us forgiveness of sins and eternal life. YAAA HOOO!!! Cowboy church sure sounds fun!  I just love being a cowboy that can bring his horse into a church roping arena where what matters most is center stage: cowboys, horses, and roping. Just keep the Bible submissive to cowboy squalling, yipping, and yapping, spitting, and chewing. Oh my!! Cowboys love to mock God and His Word! 

Repent America!! Turn away from trusting your corrupt darkened reasoning and will. Your reasoning and will have taken you far far away from God your Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ His only begotten Son. You cannot come to God. God must come to you. He comes to you in the gentleness of His infant child Jesus born of the virgin Mary for you. 

"Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men." Luke 2:10-14

Reasoning takes away the truth that this baby born of the virgin Mary is God and man in one person. He took all our sins upon Himself, was crucified, dead, buried, and then rose from the dead and ascended into heaven for us.

"All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." Isaiah 53:6

Darkened reasoning rejects God's grace and forgiveness in favor of works righteousness. Reasoning and the will is the way Americans " get closer to God."  Surely there is at least a spark of good in our highest and most noble powers of our reasoning and will.

I remember graduating with honors from parochial high school. Everything went well. I even delivered a good speech in spite of my nervousness.  I was feeling encouraged and happy as I received words of encouragement from friends and family. Then my heart sank as I saw the sad, gaunt, tortured face of "Mr. Calvinist" purposefully making his way toward me, eager for malignant debate. He wasted no time pressing his attack against me.  "So you still don't believe there is any good in man, not even a spark of good?", he snarled. And so the war began with "Mr. Calvinist" arrogantly and condescendingly pressing forward with his invincible and superior reasoning while I deftly countered  his lies with the clear Word of God I knew and believed so well.

Reasoning, the ultimate power and seat of all wickedness and unbelief, attacks us poor Christians from within our own hearts as well as externally from apostate heretics and this evil world. Christ our Lord warns us about having a wrong understanding of His Words when He said,

"The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!" Matthew 6:22-23

"Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness." Luke 11:35

"While ye have light,  believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light." John 12:36

Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth. He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now." 1 John 2:8,9

In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. John 1:4,5

For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light." Ephesians 5:8

Our highest powers of reasoning and will is darkness. They lead us farther and farther away from God.

Scripture describes our reasoning and will as deceitful and desperately wicked in Jeremiah 17:9

"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?"

Our highest powers of reasoning and will take us farther and farther away from God. 

"For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his." Romans 8:5-9

Luther describes the wickedness of our most exalted powers of reasoning and will.

"Therefore, those most exalted virtues of the best men are in the flesh; that is, they are dead, and at enmity against God; they are not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be; and they please not God. For Paul does not only say that such men are not subject, but that they cannot be subject. So also Christ saith, "An evil tree cannot bring forth good fruit." ( Matthew 7:17). 

.....So that these two sentiments of Paul, that the just man liveth "by faith" (Romans 1:17), and that "whatsoever is not of faith is sin," (Romans 14:23), stand confirmed: the latter of which follows from the former. For if there be nothing by which we are justified by faith only, it is evident that those who are not of faith, are not justified. And if they be not justified, they are sinners. And if they are sinners, they are evil trees and can do nothing but sin and bring forth evil fruit--Wherefore, "Free-will" is nothing but the servant of sin, of death, and of Satan, doing nothing, and being able to do or attempt nothing, but evil! (Martin Luther, Bondage of the Will; Associated Publishers And Authors, pg. 141 )

Our Baptism in the name of God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost crushes and mortifies our old man of reasoning and will. Jesus said:

"Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again." John 3:5-7

God clothes us in the righteousness of Christ in our Baptism.

"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." Galatians 3:26,27

American "do it yourself" Christianity rejects true Faith, Baptism, The Office Of The Keys, Holy Communion, and the true pure Word of God in the King James Bible. The reasoning of CFW Walther rejected Faith, Baptism, The Office Of The Keys, and Holy Communion.

According to CFW Walther, objective universal justification occurred over 2,000 years ago without baptism, without Faith, without the Washing of Regeneration, without the Renewing of the Holy Ghost. 

C.F.W. Walther said, "For God has already forgiven you your sins 1800 years ago when He in Christ absolved all men by raising Him after He first had gone into bitter death for them " (The Path To Understanding Justification, Gregory L. Jackson, PhD; pg. 12; ISBN 9781072530428

Let's step out of the weeds for a moment and attempt to grasp this highest blasphemy and mockery against God and His work in Baptism, Faith, The Washing of Regeneration, and Renewing of the Holy Ghost. Do you see how they are all permanently tore away from justification. Yes, all of these most necessary works of God in Baptism, Faith, the Washing of Regeneration, and Renewing of the Holy Ghost are permanently tore away from justification. These works of God must come first in justification. 

In contrast OJ / SJ insists universal forgiveness comes first, prior to and without Faith, Baptism, the Washing of Regeneration, and the Gift of the Holy Ghost. 

God does not change. CFW Walther and Franz Pieper taught that God changed the instant Christ rose from the dead, moving Him to justify the whole world prior to and without Faith, Baptism, the Office Of The Keys, and Holy Communion.

"For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed." Malachi 3:6

LCMS, WELS, ELS, ELCA are all stuck with this blasphemous objective universal justification that has permanently tore away God's work of Faith, Baptism and the Renewing of the Holy Ghost from justification. 

True justification by faith was given to Abraham 400 years before the law and thousands of years before CFW Walther's blasphemous objective justification without faith, without Baptism, without the renewing of God the Holy Ghost.

CFW Walther's reasoning even added man's work of personally 'accepting' Universal Justification as his own without true Faith. CFW Walther said:

"Only one thing remains on your part so that you also possess the gift.  This one thing is--faith. And this brings me to the second part of today's Easter message, in which I now would show you that every man who wants to be saved must accept by faith the general absolution, pronounced 1800 years ago, as an absolution spoken individually to him."  (The Path To Understanding Justification, Gregory L. Jackson, PhD. ; pg.12; ISBN 9781072530428)

Notice how deceptive Walther is when he called man's work of "accepting" true faith. This is justification by the work of "accepting" NOT justification by faith in Christ. 

God's Word overcame the ultimate lie of Calvinism for me: that there is at least a spark of good in man especially after he becomes a Christian. God's Word grinds this lie to powder in many passages:

"For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not." Romans 7:18

"But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities like the wind, have taken us away." Isaiah 64:6

"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" Jeremiah 17:9

Our reasoning and will are the seat of all unbelief and wickedness in us Christians. We are constantly vexed by them and driven to constantly confess that we are sinful and unclean in our highest and most noble powers of reasoning and will. Luther is correct when he said that man is a donkey. He is either ridden by Satan or by God. Shall we as true Christians turn to the most vile and wicked powers of reasoning and will to war against Satan. 

The war is between God and Satan. God has completely defeated Satan for us in His holy child Jesus, true God from all eternity and true man born of the virgin Mary. He took all our sins upon Himself, was crucified, dead, buried, and then rose from the dead and ascended into heaven for us.

"Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men."

 Luke 2:10-14

O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God! Isaiah 40:9

Say unto the cities of America, Behold your God!

In Christ,

Tom Fisher

 Luther says, with John 16 - "Faith is righteousness."

Thirty Minutes with Melanchthon

 

Our leaders in Scriptural studies, the key Reformation teachers, are:
Luther,
Melanchthon, and
Chemnitz.

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Clyde Manshreck, one of Roland Bainton's students at Yale, wrote an excellent book, Melanchthon, The Quiet Reformer. I first became interested in Melanchthon at Augustana (Augsburg Confession) College.


1. Melanchthon and Luther lived to be 63 years old. Melanchthon (1497-1560). Luther (1483-1546).

2. They had opposite personalities and both were language geniuses. They greatly admired each other and also had their conflicts. Philip gave the sermon at Luther's funeral.

3. The Walther Four - LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic) - like to brag about being Confessionals, and Orthodox. However, they despise the Augsburg Confession, which is the standard across the world. Their so-called Orthodoxy is largely from Pietism and Calvinism.

4. One clear statement of doctrinal agreement on Justification is found in the graphic above.

5. Melanchthon was denied a priceless library from his great-uncle John Reuchlin when he sided with the Reformation. Reuchlin, like Erasmus, supported the Reformation a bit but returned to the Roman Catholics.

6. Melanchthon had far more students than Luther because of their age difference. Philip was greatly admired across Europe and could have accepted an appointment as the greatest scholar in any kingdom.

7. Philip's contributions to the Book of Concord, 1580, were: 

• The Augsburg Confession, 1530 - with notes from Luther at a safe castle.
• The Apology (Defense) of the Augsburg Confession.
• Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope

Martin Chemnitz edited the Book of Concord, widely admired, seldom studied or taught. He learned from Luther and Melanchthon and enjoyed the combination of polemics (Luther), humor (Luther and Melanchthon), and an enormous knowledge of theological literature.

Daily Luther Sermon Quote - "On the other hand, that poor, wretched, abject male counterpart of Cinderella, Abel, well represents the obscure little brotherhood, the Church of Christ."

 

Luther's Sermons - 1 John 3:13-18.
Second Sunday after Trinity

8. When mother Eve, the dear, godly woman, bore her first son, she declared in her joy and her hope of God’s promise of the future seed that should bruise the serpent’s head: “I have gotten a man with the help of Jehovah” (Genesis 4:1); and she named him Cain, which means “obtained,” as if she would say, “I have obtained the true treasure.” For she had not before seen a human being born; this was the first, precious fruit of man. Over Cain she rejoiced, pronouncing herself blessed. This son was trained in the hope that he should be a savior of the future race, a comfort to his brothers and sisters with all their offspring. Nor was he unaware of these proud hopes. Proudly he lorded it over his brother, who in contrast had to bear the ignominious name of Abel, meaning “nothing,” or “vanity,” as if voicing the thought of the parents’ hearts: “Alas! this one has no future. Cain is the rightful heir to the blessing God has promised man; he is lord and master of his brethren.”

9. It is likely that the godly father and mother for many years drew their solace from the hope placed in their first-born son, as they looked forward with intensest longing to the redemption from their deplorable fall.

Doubtless they trained both sons very carefully and instructed them concerning their own sin and fall and the promise God had given them, until they were fully grown and had entered into the priestly office. Cain the first-born was particularly zealous in that respect, desiring to be first inasmuch as he offered his first fruits of the earth, given by God and obtained by his own labor, as he no doubt had seen his father offer. Abel, however, the inferior, the poor shepherd, offered the firstlings of his sheep, given him of God and obtained without effort and toil of his own. Now, God in a wonderful way manifested his preference concerning the gifts upon the altar. Fire descended from heaven and consumed Abel’s offering, but Cain’s remained. The fire was the sign of God’s favor. The text says: “And Jehovah had respect unto Abel and to his offering: but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.” Genesis 4:4-5.

10. Thereupon Adam and Eve saw that the hope and solace centering in their first-born son, were a delusion. They began to learn the wonderful judgments of God, who gave precedence to Abel, the male counterpart of Cinderella —which is all he was in his own sight when he compared himself with his brother. Now Cain, with full confidence in his position, spoiled by the delusion of his parents that as the first-born he was God’s preference, felt himself outraged. His hypocrisy, hitherto masked, comes to the surface. He burns with secret hate against God, with hate and anger against his brother, which he takes no trouble whatever to disguise. The parents rebuke him, but effect nothing. The flame of his resentment rises higher, and meeting him alone upon the field, he fells him to the ground.

Far from contemplating amendment of life or seeking grace from God, he has no mercy upon the only brother he has on earth, who has done him no harm whatever. He cannot forgive him and leave him in unenvied possession of the grace of God.

11. Such was the solace and joy poor Adam and Eve lived to experience in their first children! From this time on their earthly life was fraught with gloom and sorrow, particularly since they could not but see the source of these in their own fall and they would have pined to death had not God comforted them with another son. For when it became evident that the hope they had placed in Cain was a delusion, and that they were deprived of the son who, beyond a doubt, possessed the grace of God, they, without another son, would not have known where to look for the solace of the promised seed.

CAIN THE WORLD, ABEL THE CHURCH.

12. Note, in this man Cain is pictured the world in its true, characteristic colors; in him its true spirit stands reflected. Certainly his equal has never been. In him are unquestionably prefigured the very flower, the very quintessence, of holiness on earth—the most pious servants of God. On the other hand, that poor, wretched, abject male counterpart of Cinderella, Abel, well represents the obscure little brotherhood, the Church of Christ.

She must yield to Cain the lord the distinction of being everything before God, of being the recipient of every gift of God, of being entitled to all honor and every privilege. He feels important in his imagined dignity, permits this spirit to pervade his sacrifices and his worships, and thinks that God cannot but favor and accept his offering rather than that of his brother.

Meanwhile, the pious Abel goes his way, meekly suffering his brother’s contempt. He willingly yields Cain the honor, esteems himself vastly inferior and beholds no consolation for himself aside from the pure mercy and goodness of God. He believes in God and hopes for the promised future seed. In such faith he performs his sacrifice as a confession, a sign, of his gratitude.

13. This illustration is intended by God as solace for his little throng; for the incident is not written for Abel’s sake but for the sake of the humble children of God, whose condition is like that of Abel. God has not forgotten them, though they are haughtily ignored by proud Cain, who regards them as nothing in his presence. God graciously looks upon them and rejects proud Cain with his birthright and offering.

14. Innocent Abel becomes the object of anger and hatred when the Word of God lays hold of Cain revealing God’s displeasure where he had fancied himself worthy, and God’s unwillingness to regard his offering and devotion as superior to this of his brother and more meritorious. Cain begins bitterly to hate and persecute his brother. He finds no rest until Abel is laid low and cut off from the earth. Now you have the cause of the world’s hatred and anger against Christians; simply this, as John says of Cain: “Because his works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.”

15. What offense had godly Abel committed against his brother to be so hated? He had even regarded that brother as the first-born, as vastly superior to himself, and had done him all honor and loved him as became a brother. He was easily satisfied, desiring simply the grace of God. He prayed for the future seed, that is, for the salvation and happiness of his parents, his brother and the entire human race. How could Cain be unmerciful and inhuman enough in his frenzy to murder his own flesh and blood?

The answer is found in the fact that the devil had filled Cain’s heart with pride and vanity over his birthright. He considered himself a man of distinction, with every claim upon God’s favor and sinless, whilst his brother was nothing whatever. Cain’s heart is devoid of true brotherly love; he has only contempt for Abel. He cannot endure God’s manifest favor toward his brother, and will not be moved by the injunction to humble himself and seek God’s grace. Anger and envy possess him to the extent that he cannot tolerate his brother alive. In violation of God’s commandment and his own conscience, he becomes a murderer, and then goes his way as if he had done right.

16. This is what John means when he says that Cain had no other cause for his crime than that his own works were evil and his brother’s righteous.

Missouri Follows ELCA! - The Walther Four - LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic) - Follow Harrison!

 

The Missouri Synod is comprised of followers, not leaders. The clergy learned more from Fuller Seminary graduate programs than they did from their two, feeble seminaries. Ditto WELS, ELS, CLC - and they all bragged about it from their neo-Calvinist pulpits. But face it - the LCMS continues to worship CFW Walther, who was a greater scoundrel than his Bishop Martin Stephan, because Walther signed on Stephan's bishop promotion, knew of the bishop's adultery long before staging a riot, and stole Stephan's gold, books, and property - for the glory of God, of course.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion was a manufactured fad from the 1960s, but it was forced upon higher education only a few years ago. It seems as if many institutions were lying in wait for more to join the happy throng.

Unlike many other destructive ideas for the masses, DEI soon created a backlash against its destructive agenda. Decades ago, Fuller Seminary stated in its catalog that anyone who questioned women's ordination would get a visit from their Church Growth secret police. Perhaps the futurist revolutionaries will back down before everything is destroyed. ELCA is doing its worst, and Missouri will continue to serve as the Judas Goat, leading everyone else to the slaughter house.

Judas Goat - 

a person who betrays followers or dependents, often unwittingly as the tool of an enemy:

Some say the leader of the union is a Judas goat, far too cozy with management and making too many compromises.

Missouri Synod - One-Stop Shopping for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion

 

Rachel Furgeson is the ninth "conservative Lutheran" with a Jesuit PhD, from St. Louis University.

"A small group of faculty and staff members at Concordia University Chicago (CUC), River Forest, Ill., recently field-tested a new CUC curriculum titled Unity and Civility in a Diverse Community. The group, which numbered about 10, worked through the curriculum together, led by CUC Professor of Music Dr. Maurice Boyer. The curriculum was created by a committee chaired by Dr. Rachel Ferguson, director of CUC’s Free Enterprise Center and assistant dean of the CUC College of Business. 

Ferguson, who has also been instrumental in developing the curriculum, said its purpose is “to provide a biblically grounded approach to many of the questions that other institutions of higher education are answering with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion content."

Diversity, unity, civility: New curriculum grounds all three in Christ

Thank you - LutherQuest -

Erich Heidenreich (Erich) Senior Member Username: Erich Post Number: 1785 Registered: 12-2004

Posted on Wednesday, June 05, 2024 - 9:45 pm:       From The Reporter, June 3, 2024, Diversity, unity, civility: New curriculum grounds all three in Christ quote: The curriculum was created by a committee chaired by Dr. Rachel Ferguson, [co-author of Black Liberation Through the Marketplace: Hope, Heartbreak, and the Promise of America]... Some of the topics covered in the course include... The blessing of diversity and how that, too, flows from the Creator; How people navigate issues of power and authority as they serve in the roles into which God has placed them...