AC V has left a new comment on your post "Wisconsin Sect Dirty Tricks":
"Easter celebrates the greatest treasure the world ever has received. If in this world a person has received nothing other than this treasure, he or she will have lived a rich life.
What is this treasure? It is the forgiveness of our sins. Psalm 32, verse 2 reminds us, 'Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord does not count against him…' Jesus’ physical resurrection on Easter declares the world 'not guilty' of sin."
http://www.bethlehem-luth.org/newsletter.htm
- Rev. George Ferch, Michigan Lutheran Seminary Governing Board Chairman
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AC V has left a new comment on your post "Wisconsin Sect Dirty Tricks":
Inquiring minds want to know. If Tiefel is positing the WELS worship conference as the gold standard for worship, then why as Dean of the Sausage Factor Chapel (i.e. the guy in charge of worship) is he turning out CORE clones?
Coming soon to a parish (sorry, "congregation." "Parish" is too Catholic) near you: Gown-less, chancel-wandering, Bible-thumping motivational speakers.
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AC V has left a new comment on your post "Additional Attempts To Rescue Crypto-Universalism,...":
"This is what has been taught for generations in conservative Lutheranism."
True, if you mean for the past 100 years or so. False, if you mean since the Book of Concord. Compare and contrast:
"The katallassein of Rom 5:10 and 2 Cor 5:19 does not refer…to any change that occurs in men, but describes an occurrence in the heart of God." - Francis Pieper, Christian Dogmatics, II, 348, circa 1917–1924.
"Although Christ has acquired for us the remission of sins, justification, and sonship, God just the same does not justify us prior to our faith. Nor do we become God's children in Christ in such a way that justification in the mind of God takes place before we believe." - Abraham Calov, Apodixis Articulorum Fidei, Lueneburg, 1684.
[GJ - J. S. Bach, thoroughly orthodox, owned the Calov Bible commentary]
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bruce-church (http://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Oh! Oh! I Just Discovered a UOJ Principle: Barth's...":
Lutherans bringing Hmong over to Minneapolis area makes Clint Eastwood movie:
http://pastelder.blogspot.com/2009/01/everybody-blames-lutherans_11.html
12 January 2009
"Everybody blames the Lutherans."
A great line from the latest canonical work of the greatest theologian of our time, Clint Eastwood's "Gran Torino".
Video clip--see last few seconds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XydN7j83m54&feature=related
