ICHABOD, THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED - explores the Age of Apostasy, predicted in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, to attack Objective Faithless Justification, Church Growth Clowns, and their ringmasters. The antidote is trusting the efficacious Word in the Means of Grace. John 16:8. Isaiah 55:8ff. Romans 10. Most readers are WELS, LCMS, ELS, or ELCA. This blog also covers the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the National Council of Churches.
Friday, November 16, 2012
Becoming Inspector General Would Be a Pay Cut
bruce-church (https://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "The One Percent Can Plagiarize - Just Ask Tim Glen...":
Ihe salary and bennies of the Inspector General of the post office is in the news. I see he only makes a little bit more than the CEO of CPH, even though the post office has half a million employees and a quarter million vehicles. Talk about over-compensation at CPH, and talk about making seminarians pay for over-priced books so McCain can buy $3000 cameras and go on big trips yearly while other people have to save for ten or fifteen years before they can afford transatlantic trips.
What's missing in CPH's salary and benefits package is what the pension and medical plan will be after retirement. If that's factored in, and one assumes they retire and live to a ripe old age, their actual take may be twice as much as their yearly salary and benefits. And you know that McCain will live forever since only the good die young:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service
The USPS employs over 574,000 workers and operates over 218,000 vehicles.
CHP Form 990 for 2010:
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Sign in to see other 990 forms:
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Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe, for instance, earned a base salary of $276,840...
Top Five Posts - Last Seven Days
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bruce-church (https://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Top Five Posts - Last Seven Days":
I think that the tally for each post is of people clicking on that exact post, not just coming to Ichabod's home page and scrolling down.
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GJ - I think you are right, Bruce. I watch how the numbers develop.
Mark Bartling's False Doctrine Is Not Lutheran and Not Christian,
But It Is Halle Pietistic Rationalism
Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Christian News: The current debate in the WELS con...":
Pastor Mark Bartling writes, “This clear teaching that God has declared all people righteous, Objective Justification (WELS catechism, question 253) Rydecki refuses to accept and teach. Thus he is rightly to be removed from the ministry of the WELS!”
I agree with Pastor Bickel, Martin Luther would not hold back his disgust or disdain for how the Lutheran synods are waging war against Christ and His Church. It’s important to see that those who have chosen synod to be lord and master have in the same moment rejected Christ, the faith of the Holy Spirit (identifying it as a synergistic work) and God the Father. But by the grace and mercy of God working contrition and faith in Christ alone (as opposed to the object of the false gospel of UOJ’s faith: the forgiveness of sins imputed while rejecting Christ) these apostate men and women will continue to war against Christ’s Church while thinking they are doing God a favor.
Let’s test Pastor Mark Bartling’s teaching that God has declared all people righteous.
Scripture
Romans 10:4, "For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth."
Romans 4:5, "But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness." (BM – since the Faith of the Holy Spirit is counted for righteousness – how then is unfaith counted for righteousness or even Christ counted for righteousness to the unbeliever when he has not obtained Christ as Mediator – Scripture and the Confessions declare Christ is only received as Mediator through faith)
Romans 5:17, "For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ." (BM - Bartling and the false gospel of UOJ teach Universalism regardless of their denials. Scripture teaches that those who have received the grace of God and the gift of righteousness are saved eternally – “shall reign in life”. This is the same error they teach by abusing Romans 5:18)
Romans 10:3, "For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God."
The Christian Book of Concord
Apology to the Augsburg
48] "The adversaries feign that faith is only a knowledge of the history, and therefore teach that it can coexist with mortal sin. Hence they say nothing concerning faith, by which Paul so frequently says that men are justified, because those who are accounted righteous before God do not live in mortal sin."
112] "But the remission of sins is received by faith alone, and, indeed, by faith properly so called, because the promise cannot be received except by faith. But faith, properly so called, is that which assents to the promise [is when my heart, and the Holy Ghost in the heart, says: The promise of God is true and certain]. Of this faith Scripture speaks. And because it receives the remission of sins, and reconciles us to God, by this faith we are [like Abraham] accounted righteous for Christ's sake before we love and do the works of the Law, although love necessarily follows. Nor, indeed, is this faith an idle knowledge, neither can it coexist with mortal sin, but it is a work of the Holy Ghost, whereby we are freed from death, and terrified minds are encouraged and quickened. And because this faith alone receives the remission of sins, and renders us acceptable to God, and brings the Holy Ghost, it could be more correctly called _gratia gratum faciens_, grace rendering one pleasing to God, than an effect following, namely, love."
http://www.bookofconcord.org/defense_4_justification.php
(BM – reconciliation to God is only by the faith of the Holy Spirit. Note too that it is that same faith by which men are acceptable to God – not before and without faith as the false gospel of UOJ teaches and the apostate clergy such as Pastor Mark Bartling and DP Jon Buchholz teach)
I will leave apostate Pastor Bartling and the anti-Christian UOJ hoard with Martin Luther’s condemnation:
Luther’s statements from his Galatians Commentary concerning the Faith of the Holy Spirit:
12. As before said, they regard faith of slight importance; for they do not understand that it is our sole justifier. To accept as true the record of Christ--this they call faith. The devils have the same sort of faith, but it does not make them godly. Such belief is not Christian faith; no, it is rather deception.
15. ...You see how they make faith of no value to themselves, and so must regard as heresy all doctrine based upon it. Thus they do away with the whole Gospel. These are they who deny the Christian faith and exterminate it from the world. Paul prophesied concerning them when he said (1 Tim 4, 1): "In later times some shall fall away from the faith." The voice of faith is now silenced all over the world. Indeed, faith is condemned and banished as the worst heresy, and all who teach and endorse it are condemned with it. The Pope, the bishops, charitable institutions, cloisters, high schools, unanimously opposed it for nearly four hundred years, and simply drove the world violently into hell. Their conduct is the real persecution by Antichrist, in the last times.
22. Now, the Cain-like saints have not, as they themselves confess, the Christian faith which would assure them of being the children of God.
29. You cannot extricate yourself from unbelief, nor can the Law do it for you. All your works in intended fulfilment of the Law must remain works of the Law and powerless to justify in the sight of God, who regards as just only believing children.
37. Note, Paul everywhere teaches justification, not by works, but solely by faith; and not as a process, but instantaneous. The testament includes in itself everything--justification, salvation, the inheritance and great blessing. Through faith it is instantaneously enjoyed, not in part, but all. Truly is it plain, then, that faith alone affords such blessings of God, justification and salvation-- immediately and not in process as must be the case with works
74. But what is the process whereby Christ gives us such a spirit and redeems us from under the Law? The work is effected solely by faith. He who believes that Christ came to redeem us, and that he has accomplished it, is really redeemed. As he believes, so is it with him. Faith carries with it the child-making spirit. The apostle here explains by saying that Christ has redeemed us from under the Law that we might receive the adoption of sons. As before stated, all must be effected through faith. Now we have discussed the five points of the verse.
http://www.trinitylutheranms.org/MartinLuther/MLSermons/Galatians4_1_7.html
Governor Cuomo Eats a Ton of Crow - Thanking Walmart.
NYC Has Kept Walmart Out, But Walmart Came Through for Sandy
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/11/04/pepsico-wal-mart-step-up-for-storm-aid-in-new-york/
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announces aid donated to New York by PepsiCo and Wal-Mart in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. (Credit: CBS 2)
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — PepsiCo and Wal-Mart have stepped up to donate supplies to the state of New York in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday was encouraging other corporations to do the same.
PepsiCo executive vice president and chief financial officer Hugh Johnston said Sunday that the company had donated 50 trailer loads of products, including Gatorade, Tropicana, Quaker Oats, Pepsi and Lays items, to storm victims.
“We couldn’t be prouder to help the region in its time of need,” Johnston said.
Meanwhile, Wal-Mart has pledged $1.5 million in donations of in-kind products, executive vice president and chief operating officer Gisel Ruiz said at the news conference.
“You might think some of these products might look a little bit basic, but you can’t underestimate the importance of products such as cleaning supplies,” Ruiz said.
Sixty pallets of dry food products for those who may still be without power have also been distributed. Pallets of toys for affected children are also being shipped out, Ruiz said.
“We’re glad to just take a small part in the help that we’re able to provide the citizens of New York under this state of desperate need,” she said.
The National Guard will distribute the products from PepsiCo and Wal-Mart, Cuomo said, adding that he is encouraging other corporations also to issue donations.
“We encourage other corporations to step up to the plate and follow the lead of Wal-Mart and PepsiCo,” he said.
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GJ - I was at the Walmart Saturday Morning Meeting when they played the tape of Governor Cuomo thanking Walmart for the instant aid they provided during Hurricane Sandy. Cuomo looked as if he were dropping out of the race for president or announcing his retirement.
I said to LI - "That ton of crow he is eating - it's going down hard." We saw Gisel honored by Mike Duke, the CEO. She had the pleasure of being there for the video-op after arranging the transfers. Walmart brings in cases of free water, arranges for a giant BBQ from Johnsonville, and keeps the stores open. The FEMA center closed "on account of weather." The Walmarts and Sam's Clubs stayed open and never ran out of gasoline. Logistics brought in generators by the truckload.
Walmart also honored veterans, hosting Senator John McCain, who gave a humorous, self-deprecating, and inspirational speech. He told of a fellow prisoner who sewed a flag into his shirt so they could say the Pledge of Allegiance every day. When he was discovered and beaten severely, the same man got out of his cot and began sewing a new one.
Viet Nam vets have been very successful in American life. Walmart often honors our veterans, not just once a year. They have formal ceremonies in their office buildings, too, such as the Marines' birthday.
McCain went to downtown Bentonville for the Veterans Day ceremonies there, too.
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Paul McCain Probably Does Not Like the Photoshops, In Spite of His Claims.
Why Should We Believe a Plagiarist about Anything?
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Paul McCain has left a new comment on your post "Christian News: The current debate in the WELS con...":
Poor old Greg Jackson.
Greg, remember the day you came to the International Center and tried to sell me Northwestern Mutual insurance? What a pathetic site it was.
[GJ - A sermon never written - Paul McCain on the Apostle as a Tent-Maker. Paul, I remember you running up to meet me at a bookstore, writing me a long letter that still resides in my drawer, praising my writing against Church Growth. At the Purple Palace you boasted about your lies about "never working secretly with Otten." You also bragged about undercutting Robert Preus, with Barry's help. I thought, "What an evil, vindictive little man."]
Now you lie about using a copyrighted photo, even your own "investigator" proved that it was taken with the very camera I was using that day.
[GJ - This is getting comical. You got your fancy camera out and photographed a book photo. You did not photograph a painting way up on the wall. If you had done that and watermarked it, I would have observed the warning on Martin Crease-Face. I recall seeing my Photoshop appear on your blog, but your endless plagiarisms are so easy to forget that I am not going to swear on a stack of NNIVs that you would plagiarize me. I am not Roman Catholic. Please explain to the public how you copyrighted a photo owned by someone else when the Wikimedia restriction was clearly stated. Are you so hardened by your UOJ dogma that you cry "Thief!" while stealing shamelessly?
The expert responded already -
He says you used a "copyrighted photo," but there's no proof of that, since McCain did not post a copyright notice by his Chemnitz
photo until recently. A de facto posting of a notice doesn't
mean prior use is a violation.
McCain must not want to release the full Chemnitz photo since, I believe, it is a picture taken out of a gift shop book.
Also, it's odd that he'd take down his pictures from his 2006 post. I wonder is some German publisher contacted him with a Take Down Notice, or maybe even the St. Martini Kirche itself contacted him.]
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Everyone I know considers you a complete laughing stock.
[GJ - That is the key, Paul. Your few UOJ friends have a common bond. You and Bruce Kintz are raking in $500,000 a year while charging far too much for CPH books Have you no shame?]
You claim to be a "pastor" out of a spare room in hour (sic) rental house.
[GJ - Paul, you claim to be an editor and cannot spell. The congregation called me. Check your Walther since you reject the Word of God and the Book of Concord. I enjoy preaching and teaching about 60 times a year to many people, who have used the service and recordings thousands of times. Rental? Everything is rented. Look around your posh surroundings. All your guns and ammo will belong to someone else some day. So will your house. But - what congregation do you serve, oh collared one?]
You claim to give communion to your disciples, like Brett Meyer over the Internet.
[GJ - The Word consecrates. Members distribute Holy Communion. You have no concept of the efficacy of the Word. But that was already established in your UOJ rants.]
Face it Greg, you never have known what confessional Lutheranism is, or was.
[GJ - Paul, do you mean as defined by the syphilitic founder of your sect? or as defined by his pimp, the Great Kidnapper Walther? I have have studied UOJ at great length and found it completely opposed to the Gospel, as you are.]
You never received any credible Lutheran education.
[GJ - Many of your Ft. Wayne seminary professors got their doctorates from Notre Dame. The former president did too. And Robert Preus went to...Luther Seminary (now ELCA). But you loathed and pitied him, too. I think you loathe and pity people who can earn graduate degrees. Paraphrasing Herman Melville, the Synodical Conference was my Harvard and Yale. I learned the most from all the errors being taught by the Church Growth/UOJ false teachers.]
You wasted your money and your family's time getting degrees from non-Lutheran institutions.
[GJ - I am so ashamed of the $2,000 I borrowed to earn an STM from Yale University. And worse, I am doubled over in grief that I received free tuition and a grant for an MA and PhD from Notre Dame. I actually studied American Lutheran synodical history for my dissertation. Advisors were a famous Roman Catholic historian, which McCain would love. I also had Stanley Hauerwas as an advisor - he is probably the most distinguished modern theologian in America today. And I also had John Howard Yoder, the Mennonite historian, as my main advisor. Nothing promotes study more than trying to explain Lutheran mergers to a Mennonite and a Catholic. That was one of 15 books I have published, and I give 14 of them away.]
Pathetic.
[GJ - Your comments always bring a smile to my face, Paul.
I confess, sometimes I burst into tears - of laughter.]
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LPC has left a new comment on your post "Paul McCain Probably Does Not Like the Photoshops,...":
And he said...You wasted your money and your family's time getting degrees from non-Lutheran institutions.
Hahahaha.
Rev.(sic) McCain, you are a sour grape because you did not get a well rounded proper education like Dr. Jackson. You are really astounding.
You consider the following a good thing:
a.) engaging in fallacy
b.) intellectual-in-breeding
In your world what is good is considered evil and you hold what is considered by decent people as evil, good.
Your smugness reminds me of Pentecostal pastors I know when I was a Pentecostal.
They think to themselves they are not heretics because they are card carrying member of their denomination, another form of Romanism.
Yet, I do not think you are convinced of your Lutheranism either since you often laud Roman Catholic dignitaries and use RC sources in your blog.
LPC
The UOJ Tree of UnFaith Does Not Bear Good Fruit
Mrs. Ichabod sat next to one of the Walmart staff at the famous Saturday Morning Meetings. He said, "I deal with apples."
She thought Apple computers and began talking about them.
He said, "No, apples for eating." So I began talking about my favorite, Honey Crisp. They are really quite tart but also juicy. They often sell out, so I chided him about that.
Meeting people at a college, I was impressed how friendly and thoughtful they were, especially since I came from a different background.
It made me think about the SynCon efforts to promote Friendship Evangelism, surely an example of trying to find apples where there are no trees. As Luther said at great length, the good tree is faith is Christ, the good tree that produces good, worthwhile fruit.
Love does not produce conversions - only the Word can do that. Faith in Christ generates love - for God and neighbor.
We can ask of a loveless sect and congregation, why are they so hateful, vindictive, corrupt, and greedy? The answer is - no faith. The sermons are mostly law, so they do not generate the fruits of the Spirit. The pastor opposes faith, but tacks it on the end of his little UOJ rant - but you have to believe UOJ.
Those who are convinced by UOJ are also Antinomians. The Law of God is obsolete to them, even though they adore their own man-made laws.
Before UOJ and greed triumphed in the Synodical Conference, pastors and teachers worked for almost nothing. They taught the Gospel and earned great respect. The parochial school teacher was an honored member of his community, even though he made very little money. Respect for the Word means respect for the one who brings that Word.
The Gospel bore fruit and people gave generously. The current SynCon leaders like to skim the money for themselves while burdening the next generations of pastors and teachers. I hope the leaders do not criticize the president and Congress for following their example in higher education. The SynCon seminaries are sinfully corrupt, lazy, and greedy.
Concordia Publishing House is run by plagiarists and Mequon wants a horrible Leftist Biblical paraphrase called the New NIV.
I feature the nastiness of the SynCons because people need to know about their abusive sects. Someone is always trying to prove me right, so I publish what they say. They are ashamed to quote me or to borrow my Luther graphics. I am happy to quote them.
Did Jon Buchholz stop to wonder how many WELSians said "No way" to a church vocation when they heard about his abusive, dishonest behavior toward Pastor Paul Rydecki's family? Buchholz is just one more bad example of the impoverished leadership of today.
A "love" program is not going to do it - nor will constant exhortations that members are obliged by law to witness to others so the sect can grow.
The Synodical Conference tree cannot bear the fruit of the Gospel when the Gospel is not taught.
BREAKING NEWS: Pastor Herman Otten leaving Trinity Lutheran Church after 55 years | www.quicknewhavennews.com
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BREAKING NEWS: Pastor Herman Otten leaving Trinity Lutheran Church after 55 years | www.quicknewhavennews.com:
New Haven, Mo. –PastorHerman Otten officially announced in a press release this morning the he will be leaving Trinity Lutheran Church after 55 years.
Otten will remain editor of Christian News “To promote 21st century reformation and realignment in all of Christendom."
In a “Farewell Address” that Otten had presented in a voters meeting at Trinity Lutheran Church on July 15 announced that he would be leaving Trinity after 55 years as pastor on Easter 2013. He said he wants to give Trinity time to call a new pastor. Few congregations have kept their same pastor for so many years.
Otten, however, will not be retiring from the ministry. He will continue serving as editor of Christian News, now in its 50th year with issue No. 2,326, until a new editor takes over. Otten said once he no longer has weekly pastoral duties he plans to travel promoting the need for a realignment in Christendom and a 21st Century Reformation as the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s
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rlschultz has left a new comment on your post "BREAKING NEWS: Pastor Herman Otten leaving Trinity...":
Before Al Gore invented the Internet, Christian News certainly filled an information void left by official denominational publications and rags like Christianity Today. I used to read CN from front page to back every week. It was there that I discovered a middle aged Lutheran pastor who was selling cassette tapes and other materials, including posters, which opposed the Church Growth Movement. Needless to say, I eventually stopped being a synod minder. Corky Koeplin also had his essay, "Whither WELS" published in CN.
News travels a whole lot faster these days. But I wonder whether the Intrepid Lutherans would have been possible if all that there was for alternative news was CN. By the way, that Lutheran Pastor wore a roman collar. We all know who that was.
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GJ - Little Ichabod helped me get started with Martin Chemnitz Press. I did a "This is your brain on Church Growth" poster. Someone reported seeing that hanging in a seminary dorm room. I also wrote an article on amalgamation and lead, which was cut out of CN and posted in a dorm. Little things like that made me think the good yeast was leavening the dough.
I sent Corky's essay to Christian News and got reamed out by a "friend" for doing so. My name was not associated with the article, but I picked up the phone and got the usual WELS rant - not unlike Cascione's accusation that I wrote the anti-UOJ essay composed by his LCMS colleague. However, I was guilty as sin and free as a bird.
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QUAERITUR: Are priests required to wear clerical dress at all times? | Fr. Z's Blog – What Does The Prayer Really Say?
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Are preist (double-sic) required to wear them at all times?
I'm sure you’ve been asked this before. I’m a new reader I cant find the answer on your blog. I’ve tried for two months. Can you answer or refer me to it? Thank you. P.S I really like your site.
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I believe that pastors should look like a pastor when they are on official business or in his office. He should not look like one of the boys. It is said that familiarity breeds contempo.
Christian News: The current debate in the WELS concerning universal, objective Justification
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Christian News: The current debate in the WELS concerning universal, objective Justification:
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2012
The current debate in the WELS concerning universal, objective Justification
Christian News, October 29, 2012, Vol. 50, No. 42
The conference of presidents, on the recent call list, Oct. 2012, reports that Paul Rydecki has been suspended from ministry of the WELS. No further information is given, and one is left to wonder what did he do????
On the Intrepid Lutherans web page there appeared the announcement that one of its contributors, Rev. Paul Rydecki, has been suspended from the WELS. Following articles and an explanation from Rydecki explained that the reason was because of Rydecki’s views concerning objective, universal, justification. He stated and defended his position in a paper given last June in Oshkosh, “Are You A Dresden Lutheran?” A copy of the DP letter of suspension to Rydecki was also posted.
One wonders why more information concerning suspensions for doctrinal reasons cannot be given. It seems that in order to understand what is going on in the Synod one must go to unofficial sources.
What Paul Rydecki (also the egocentric synergist Greg Jackson) is teaching on justification is nothing new to the Lutheran Church and something which Confessional Lutherans have always rejected.
The position that Rydecki is promoting has its origin back in Melanchthon’s teachings on the three causes of conversion — the Holy Spirit, the Word of God, and the will of man. In the discussions in the 50s between the old American Lutheran Church and the LCMS concerning justification, the ALC wanted to teach that God had secured and provided salvation for all people. This is objective or universal redemption, not objective justification. The LCMS along with the WELS insisted on the words, that God has not only secured and provided salvation for all, but that God has declared the whole world righteous in Christ Jesus. This they called objective Justification. (A term that is preferred over universal justification, which can cause some misunderstandings.) By only saying “secured and provided salvation” the door is open for some cooperation or contributions on the part on man. Good, God has provided it, how do I get it? But by insisting on the term God has DECLARED the whole world righteous, all works or cooperation on man’s part are removed.
The men in the ALC, from the old Ohio Synod, wanted to teach “Erst muss der Mensch glauben, dann wird er gerechtfertigt (first must the man believe, then he becomes justified). This old error taught that first one must believe that Christ died for all, then he will be justified. This puts the cart before the horse, my faith before my justification. Against this old heresy Walther and others maintained the formula – Justificatio non post fidem, sed per fidem(Justification not after faith, but through faith). This is the position of Lutheran Orthodoxy. Today we use the term objective justification to teach this truth. God has declared the whole world righteous in Christ Jesus (God so loved the world, John 3:16; The Lutheran church sings, “Christ thou Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world, have mercy on me.”)
Of course now, the other side, the Holy Spirit working through the means of Grace must now change the hard and disobedient will of man which is dead in sin and an enemy of God. The Holy Spirit moves the will of man to accept and believe this objective justification. This we call subjective justification. The two must go together; — and you can’t have one without the other!!! If one rejects the objective, universal justification, he cannot be saved. He is lost. We do not believe in universalism, everyone is going to heaven.
The Bible connects universal redemption and universal, objective, justifi- cation and treats them as the same.For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. Romans 5:5-7. Christ died for all. This Rydecki does not reject. But in the same book, a chapter earlier, Paul writes, But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness, Romans 4:4-6
God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. 2 Corinthians 5:18-20 Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life. 19 For as by one man’s disobedience many (i.e., all) were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many (i.e., all) will be made righteous. (Rom 5:18,19)
The Lutheran Confessions, although not using the term objective justification, teach this concept.
But when the Lord Jesus Christ came, He forgave to all people the sin, which no one could avoid. … Christ took away the sin of the whole world, as John testified saying in John 1:29, “Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” Apology, Art IV, Justification, 103 Concordia, page 99
Just as the preaching of repentance is universal, so also the promise of the Gospel is universal, that is, it belongs to all people. Formula of Concord, Art XI, 28, Concordia, p. 606
All have sinned and (all) are justified freely. Smalcald Articles, second part, Art. I,3, Concordia, page 263.
By way of illustration: A man pays my entire debt, gives me a check, and declares me debt free. But I must believe this, cash the check. It does me no good until I cash it. But I cannot cash it before he declares me debt free.
This clear teaching that God has declared all people righteous, Objective Justification (WELS catechism, question 253) Rydecki refuses to accept and teach. Thus he is rightly to be removed from the ministry of the WELS!
Pastor M.F. Bartling
Onalaska, WI, Oct. 2012
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By reading Rev. Bartling's commentary and pathetic thumbs down pronouncement of Pastor Rydecki, it is obvious that he has now cushioned himself in good stead with his synodical higher-ups. It is so frustrating to read how such Lutheran pastors so easily diss the importance of the Holy Spirit and faith and in the process miss out on Scripture's clear teaching of grace through faith alone. Luther would slap him up the back side of his head.........
http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-christian-message-part-2-how-does.html
Nathan M. Bickel
www.thechristianmessage.org
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LPC has left a new comment on your post "Christian News: The current debate in the WELS con...":
It’s important to see that those who have chosen synod to be lord and master have in the same moment rejected Christ
I believe there is so much truth in this and it leads to Romanism.
This is what happened to the late Fr. Neuhaus, ex-Lutheran clergyman. He saw the synods operating like the Roman Magisterium and comparing it with his synod(s) behaving the same way, the natural question arises, why not go for the one who has a pedigree? So he turned Roman.
LPC
Clerical Shirts - The Fabric of Our Lies
I looked at Intrepid Lutherans to see if more comments were appearing about Gerhard on Romans 5:19 - one of many places the Enthusiasts have "discovered" UOJ.
The translation still has only five comments, even though the lies about UOJ being orthodox Lutheran doctrine gravitate around such key atonement passages.
Which new article has nine comments? Clerical attire!
Lutherans do not want to face the main issue of today. They have a Squirrel! response whenever the Gospel comes up as a disputed topic. (Our Sassy can be distracted from anything if someone says, "Squirrel!")
That reminds me of the ELCA merger, when the largest share of memorials concerned the pension fund, which continued to be a contentious topic for some time after 1987. No one recognized the gay quotas and false doctrine propping up the new beast, conceived by Diaprax, the process of involving everyone in moving toward the assumed end-point, even letting them vote on it.
There is an inverse relationship between attire and doctrine. Those who must - or must not - wear a Roman collar are also those who dodge the doctrinal issues. I remember John Seifert, the future DP at the time, scowling at me because I wore a Friar Tuck to the WELS district convention. He had no scowls for clergy adultery or Fuller doctrine. But a black shirt made him see red.
The confusion about attire parallels that about education. What we wear or where we wen to school are truly matters of indifference. But we believe and teach - that is number one. If incense is number one, sound doctrine below that by definition.
If the right degree from the right school from the right synod from the right person from the right clerical family equals orthodoxy - then Paul Wendland stands at the fulcrum of the ages.
Christ is the same whether grasped by the faith of a baby, a teen, or senior citizen. Education may help in explaining Christian doctrine, but it often gets in the way, since people feel obliged to honor their relatives, professors, and institutions rather than the Word of God. They do not know that they do not know, because everyone around them says, "This is the right way to think."
In a corrupt, degraded, abusive sect like WELS, someone with a few questions feels like a prophet. He can pretend to be "confessional" after assuming the role of conformist again. After all, few were intrepid enough to say anything. Spurning the cross, he dons a store-bought Medal of Honor when he only earned a good conduct medal.
As everyone knows, WELSians are experts on every denomination on earth (all bad). They often comment about others in their misguided, proud way, a Latourettee tirade of abuse. I received one email about someone's relative who is WELS. The LCMS relatives have to make sure the WELS person gave the blessing at dinner, because he could not let a Missouri member lead the prayer.
I wrote, in effect: "You! Must! Be! Kidding! Their New NIV is total unionism at work."
WELS and Missouri clergy meet with ELCA pastors at Fuller and Willow Creek to learn about how to do real ministry. Moreover, WELS and Missouri leaders work constantly with ELCA and follow ELCA rules in their joint endeavors. Those who have qualms about gay and women pastors best hush up - not that WELS and Missouri leaders really care about that anyway.
WELS and Missouri preserve their exquisite practice of pan-denominational unionism while practicing it without ceasing.
Ski and Tim Glende get their liturgical jeans in a knot if I quote from a Lutheran author not on their required reading list from Mequon. Scholars are divided about whether they read anything there, but that is not the point. They routinely channel Groeschel verbatim, just as Paul McCain channels the Catholic Encyclopedia verbatim. And both plagiarism teams unite to denounce me for teaching Luther's doctrine of justification.
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Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel has left a new comment on your post "Clerical Shirts - The Fabric of Our Lies":
Ichabod -
My compliments of your Ski pic!
At least you chose a pic of Ski with his shirt draped down upon his pants. That way your web viewers were spared the popular cultural ____ ______ look........
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Fareed Zakaria apologizes for plagiarism - POLITICO.com.
Suspended by Time and CNN.
Removed from Yale Board, But CPH Rewards Plagiarism
Fareed Zakaria apologizes for plagiarism - POLITICO.com:
Fareed Zakaria apologizes for plagiarism
Time Magazine columnist and CNN host Fareed Zakaria has apologized "unreservedly" to Jill Lepore for plagiarizing her work in The New Yorker.
"Media reporters have pointed out that paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's essay in the April 22nd issue of The New Yorker. They are right," Zakaria said in a statement to The Atlantic Wire. "I made a terrible mistake. It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault. I apologize unreservedly to her, to my editors at Time, and to my readers."
Zakaria's column about gun laws for Time's August 20 issue includes a paragraph that is remarkably similar to one Jill Lepore wrote in April for a New Yorker article about the National Rifle Association. (The similarities were first flagged by NRANews.com and first reported by Tim Graham of the conservative watchdog group Newsbusters, who leveled the plagiarism charge.)
From Lepore's New Yorker article:
As Adam Winkler, a constitutional-law scholar at U.C.L.A., demonstrates in a remarkably nuanced new book, “Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America,” firearms have been regulated in the United States from the start. Laws banning the carrying of concealed weapons were passed in Kentucky and Louisiana in 1813, and other states soon followed: Indiana (1820), Tennessee and Virginia (1838), Alabama (1839), and Ohio (1859). Similar laws were passed in Texas, Florida, and Oklahoma. As the governor of Texas explained in 1893, the “mission of the concealed deadly weapon is murder. To check it is the duty of every self-respecting, law-abiding man.
From Zakaria's Time Magazine column:
Adam Winkler, a professor of constitutional law at UCLA, documents the actual history in Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America. Guns were regulated in the U.S. from the earliest years of the Republic. Laws that banned the carrying of concealed weapons were passed in Kentucky and Louisiana in 1813. Other states soon followed: Indiana in 1820, Tennessee and Virginia in 1838, Alabama in 1839 and Ohio in 1859. Similar laws were passed in Texas, Florida and Oklahoma. As the governor of Texas (Texas!) explained in 1893, the "mission of the concealed deadly weapon is murder. To check it is the duty of every self-respecting, law-abiding man."
In its initial statement earlier today, Time Magazine said it "takes any accusation of plagiarism by any of our journalists very seriously, and we will carefully examine the facts before saying anything else on the matter."
UPDATE (4:22 p.m.): A Time Magazine spokesperson emails:
TIME accepts Fareed's apology, but what he did violates our own standards for our columnists, which is that their work must not only be factual but original; their views must not only be their own but their words as well. As a result, we are suspending Fareed's column for a month, pending further review.
This post has been updated to include Zakaria's comment.
'via Blog this'
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/10/fareed-zakaria-plagiarism-new-yorker-time_n_1764954.html
Time editor-at-large and CNN host Fareed Zakaria was suspended from both places for a month on Friday after admitting to lifting parts of a story from the New Yorker.
Conservative media watchdog Newsbusters was the first to spot the similarities between a Zakaria piece on gun control and an article by Jill Lepore that appeared in the New Yorker in April.
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The Associated Press
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- A journalist recently accused of plagiarism has resigned from his position on Yale University's governing board to better focus on his work.
The New Haven Register reports (http://bit.ly/OIHJP3) that in a letter to Yale President Richard Levin, Fareed Zakaria said he needed to shed some of his responsibilities as he re-examines his professional life.
Levin thanked Zakaria for his time and service.
Paul McCain published another deceptive, copied post on November 11th -
The citation first read "source" at the bottom of the full article. Now it says Source: Catholic Cyclopedia.
That must be a co-inky-dink, that he changed it so fast. However, that does not spare him from the charge of plagiarism. The post is set up to look like he wrote it, with no indication on the main page that Roman Catholics wrote it for them.
As I wrote many times before, a citation at the end says, "I wrote the entire article, but I used this source as my research."
Here are references provided by the Church of Rome for publishing the article -
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GJ -
That must be a co-inky-dink, that he changed it so fast. However, that does not spare him from the charge of plagiarism. The post is set up to look like he wrote it, with no indication on the main page that Roman Catholics wrote it for them.
As I wrote many times before, a citation at the end says, "I wrote the entire article, but I used this source as my research."
Here are references provided by the Church of Rome for publishing the article -
About this page
APA citation. (1910). St. Martin of Tours. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.Retrieved November 15, 2012 from New Advent: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09732b.htm
MLA citation. "St. Martin of Tours." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 15 Nov. 2012 <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09732b.htm>.
Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Michael C. Tinkler. In honor of the Societas Sancti Martini Episcopi Turonensis at Emory University.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. October 1, 1910. Remy Lafort, Censor. Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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