Daniel - The Dense - Preus Unravels the Walther Myth and the Swindle of the Synodical Conference - Unawares, As Always

 Walther was the new Pope, the Anti-Luther.

 The ELS-WELS-LCMS celebrated Luther's 500th by having a conference about their local heroes: Walther, Hoenecke, and Koren.

I do not have time to expose all the knee-slapping honkers in the Daniel Preus essay, found here. CFW Walther was another Luther - without knowing it.

In the Synodical Conference, 90% of the clergy believe only 10% of the Walther mythology, and only 10% believe 90% of the fables.

Walther was Bishop Martin Stephan's pimp and enforcer, never standing in the way of the founder's young female groupies, always enforcing the law imposed by the bishop. Yes, Walther signed the document making Stephan their bishop for life, much as Heiser gathered clergy around him who would who also give him his heart's desire, a fish hat and stick.

To Fall for the Walther Mythology...

1. We must forget Walther's Pietistic and rationalistic circle moving to Stephan's cult once their first cell group leader died. 
2. We must ignore that Stephan was often seen in the company of young women in the wee hours of the night, breaking the law about having conventicle meetings away from his Pietistic congregation.
3. We must deny that Walther happily kidnapped his niece and nephew, boarded a ship with them - 
4. And even knew Stephan abandoned his wife and family to take his mistress to America with him - on the same ship, with her cabin nearby. Walther's brother was on that adulterous ship - and CFW did not know? Please.

Daniel the Dense was once the curator of the LCMS Hysterical Society, a parachurch organization that has fits when Walther is considered less than divine. Paul McCain was too. It seems the organization was a halfway house for unemployable synod ex-bosses. Both men should know better, but they repeat the old bromides learned at Ft. Wayne, which lacked a library at that time. No, it must have, because a few books on the Reformation would have taught them the folly of applying Calvinistic and Pietistic dogma to the Reformation.

So Much For Walther the "Founder." Now - the "Theologian."

Preus uses the term "justification" no less than 28 times! - but Justification by Faith - not even once. Preus is not even related to John Sparky Brenner, but they have the same deceptive streak in the history of doctrine. Anyone can trace the history of doctrine - believer or not - if the individual is honest about it. But they are both dishonest in the same way, and they are not even related (so far). Give the Preus clan enough time and they will marry into all the families of the Synodical Conference. They even have their own publishing firm to produce books about...The Preus Family.

 Preus uses "objective justification" four times, but the word "objective" another eight times, in relation to his special pleading for objective justification. In his dimly lit den of dogma, Preus imagines -

The whole world has been justified and declared righteous in the eyes of God by virtue of Christ’s death and resurrection. p. 20

As I have written many times before, the Absolution of the World - without Faith - is the strange merger of the Atonement and Justification by Faith, accomplished by the Calvinistic and rationalistic elements in Lutheran Pietism.

Walther was trained in this Easter Absolution of the World by a syphilitic cell group guru - Martin Stephan - who studied at Halle University but never graduated from any university. Stephan only had his call by virtue of being a Bohemian Pietist. The congregation had some special privileges, which he abused steadfastly until he was finally tried, convicted, and allowed to escape with his cult, the Walther circle, and some minor children.

Daniel also quotes Walther's absurd sermon, Halle rationalistic Pietism, false exegesis of 1 Timothy 3:16.

Just as Christ’s condemnation was the condemnation of all mankind, Christ’s death the death of all mankind, Christ’s payment the payment for all mankind, even so Christ’s life is now the life of all mankind, His acquittal the acquittal of all mankind, His justification the justification of all mankind, His absolution the absolution of all mankind. p. 18

1 Timothy 3:16 does not teach that God "justified the entire world" when Jesus rose from the dead. Has anyone read Chemnitz on this?

Walther is Luther? or Rambach?

Walther is Huber Unaware - not Luther at all.

Rydecki on 1 Timothy 3:16

Intrepids on 1 Timothy 3:16; Jay Webber sides with Rambach.


Daniel's essay is another example of Walther's impoverished thetical style -
A. Proclaim the dogma.
B. List some Scripture to prove the dogma.

David Valleskey - another fan of Universal Absolution without Faith - defended Church Growth the same way, with paper thesis statements so contrary to Scripture that I called it "Figs from Thistles."

Fate is capricious, unless we believe that God is at work in history, even in our puny lives. Daniel Preus is listed with his brother Rolf as editors of Justification and Rome, by their father. And yet the book refutes their passionate promotion of Pietistic World Absolution.

Daniel and Rolf like to mention their authorities. I will quote the book.

 "No fair quoting Luther, Melanchthon, and the Concordists from the Book of Concord." Does anyone read today?