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Rolf's citation of "It is finished" is an old LCMS bromide to claim God pronounced the absolution of the world the moment Jesus died, but that is not what the verse says. Besides that, Rolf also uses "Raised for our justification!" - from the Halle-centric Easter absolution, based on the erroneous Pietistic understanding of 1 Timothy 3:16. Those two errors cannot be reconciled with each other, let alone with the Scriptures and Confessions.
The next part is accurate about the Word as a Means of Grace - God brings us salvation - but does Rolf mean it? He ululates between Objective Justification and Justification by Faith, but always comes to rest on OJ.
For example, he sounds Lutheran for several sentences and then retreats into OJ again - here - We were saved when Jesus died for us. That is pure Edward Preuss, as quoted favorably by his father in the attempt to crush and displace Walter Maier II.
That suggests to me that the middle part was another shell game, a swindle, a con, starting with OJ, switching to the Means of Grace, and ending with his true love - Enthusiasm.
This little paragraph by Rolf, from the same FB page, is another deception. I traveled to Kokomo and met with the two families WELS kicked out for rejecting the four Kokomo Statements. WELS and UOJ sects engage in willful deception about this.
Pastor Papenfuss (WELS) began teaching his Kokomo congregation that the entire world was declared forgiven. Two families were shocked by this, and Papenfuss gave them JP Meyer's Ministers of Christ (WELS, still in print). They copied the first three statements from the book and added a fourth one from an earlier debate. These men asked them, "Is this what WELS believes?" Papenfuss said "Yes" but added that he never heard of UOJ until he began studies at Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary in Mequon.
That means Papenfuss had a Lutheran education and confirmation, probably with the Gausewitz (non-UOJ) Catechism, attended four years of Northwestern College (RIP) which was for future WELS pastors only. And yet never heard of UOJ.
Rolf - They snookered their pastor into acquiescing to statements written by a WELS theologian but taken out of context. It is dishonest to set forth the Kokomo statements a representative of anyone's teaching of objective justification.
Rolf - please stop lying. The two families took their case to WELS and WELS, headed by Armin Panning (chairing the Committee to Extend the Left Foot of Fellowship) agreed with the excommunication. The Four Statements were in the letter, saying (Thy Strong Word) that they were being removed for not accepting those four statements. Sig Becker supported that as well.
WELS re-published Ministers of Christ with the same offensive statements in the "new" version, edited by Armin Panning, president of Mequon and New Testament professor. Since Panning agreed with extending the Left Foot of Fellowship, was he also snookered? Poor Rolf - one should not put whoppers into print where they can be subjected to the truth.
In conclusion, without quoting everything Rolf has written, I can only conclude that he enjoys wearing fleece when confronted by someone who understands Justification by Faith. But he cannot resist letting the slavering lupine jaws and sharp claws emerge from his ovine camouflage.
