Introduction to The Gospel of Faith: Written by John, The Disciple Jesus Loved

John the Evangelist, by El Greco
Norma Boeckler will illustrate this book,
so I am inserting what works for now.

Introduction

Those who took the Greek class from Bethany Lutheran Church in 2017 studied the entire Gospel of John in the original text. The students asked for a book based on the lessons learned in English.

The size of books on the Gospel of John can thwart any student. Luther’s and Lenski’s commentaries are excellent in detail, vast in knowledge, but overwhelming in size. The purpose of this book is to introduce pastors and laity to the main themes of the Fourth Gospel and provide insights directly from the Greek text. English-only readers can skip the Greek section below each English part. However, those who want to learn New Testament Greek can start with Paine’s superb textbook and use the Greek portion as a guide. John’s Greek is easy and fun to learn.

The apostates declared war on the Fourth Gospel some time ago, as soon as rationalism emerged from the Pietism of Halle University. The objections from this quarter, disguised as Biblical scholarship, have set aside this wonderful document and made it suspect in any treatment of the mission of Christ Jesus, the Son of God, Savior.

St. John is clearly a Gospel assuming the reader’s knowledge of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, the Synoptic or seen-together Gospels. Because we already know so much of the basic narrative from the Synoptics, the Fourth Gospel emphasizes the teaching of the Savior and His purpose. This Gospel is attributed to “the disciple Jesus loved,” a modest description from the pen of John, and gives this book the highest possible authority.

St. John has three remarkable characteristics, which set it apart from the New Testament.

1.      The language is simple, basic, and the words repetitive. The best way to learn any new language is to study the Gospel of John in that language. The grammar and vocabulary will become natural by the end of the Gospel. Yale’s famous church historian, Roland Bainton, used this method to learn 20 languages on his own.

2.      The message soars above the rest, so the symbol of this Gospel is the eagle.

3.      Readers cannot escape the feeling that they are eye-witnesses and ear-witnesses to Jesus, as recorded by the Apostle. This is not to disparage the other Gospels in any way, but they are more formal, while this one is more personal.

 The subject of my dissertation said to one pastor, "Put your fleece on the ground like Gideon."

Pastor,

When I first found your blog, I confess I really wondered about it-- "who is this guy??", but there were too many things that made sense in it.  So, I'd bump into it every couple of months, and I was so shocked by yours posts confronting former Synodical Conference churches.  But, again and again, I read and read, it all harmonized with scripture...and Luther, who I relate to on a personal level.  

 As I read Thy Strong Word, I find things in the book lined up with my conclusions.  There was a reason for that-- Scripture.  That's what brings the Church together.  Disunity occurs when man with his powers of reason, attempt to "improve" on it.  This is what Calvin tried to do; now what a mess!

Once I got over my shock that you dared to question the Synodical Churches, I was able to get down to the matter at hand and fully appreciate your blog.  Some of your "woodcuts" are just priceless.  They make me laugh.  I like Gideon's banner too!

SDG,

Gideon

And there are those who sell their hollow wisdom, fleecing the audience.

Acolite John Beat the Deadline and Issued an Apology of Sorts - And a Retraction

AcolyteJohn (Acolyte) New member Username: Acolyte Post Number: 10 Registered: 7-2018

Posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2018 - 7:44 am:       Apparently Mr. Jackson assumed that when I referred to him as nuts, I was making a judgement about his personal mental health, in fact, I was using that terms to describe his confusion and false teaching about obj/subj justification. But I was wrong to describe him as such and my remark was inappropriate. I apologize. I do not think Mr. Jackson is nuts, per se, just his teaching on the issue of justification I find to be false, wrong and has caused him to label many others as false teachers. Sorry for any confusion. So, I withdraw the remark and apologize for it and will follow Cardinal Cascione's directive going forward.

GJ - Anyone is welcome to debate Biblical doctrine with me. However, conclusions require warrants (evidence) - not just the repetition of arguments from others.

If someone wants to write up a careful exegesis of Romans 4, I will be glad to address that.

Yes, there is a large group of "experts" supporting UOJ, but there are hundreds more advocating the Immaculate Conception of Mary and her Assumption.

When dabblers like Jay Webber simply quote something and claim,"That proves OJ in Luther!" - a lot more research is required. Verbosity is not research.

We should follow Luther's example and forget the great and wise from the recent past, starting over with a unified approach to the Scriptures.

The sign of mature research is entertaining opposing views at the same time and sorting out the facts.

Books Are Being Shipped - The Sermons and the Gems

Below - Norma A. Boeckler, artist. Virginia Roberts, editor.
Above - Janie Sullivan, Christina Jackson, Gregory Jackson.
Out of space at the gallery - Terry and Lori Howell; a Lutheran pastor.


Eight people were the key to getting 9 volumes of Luther, 27 titles in all, out in public at the lowest possible price.

Someone Doubts 27 titles, But Observe

1. The Lenker set of Luther's Sermons, illustrated in color by Norma A. Boeckler, 8 volumes, plus the Gems.
2. Black and white, Economy Edition - The Lenker set of Luther's Sermons, illustrated by Norma A. Boeckler, 8 volumes, plus the Gems. Complete set, shipping and taxes, $70.
3. Kindle Ebooks - The Lenker set of Luther's Sermons, illustrated in color by Norma A. Boeckler, 8 volumes, plus the Gems. Most titles are 99 cents.

 John N. Lenker, Hamma Divinity School graduate, translated and organized other translators to create the eight-volume set.

But Wait - There's More

If all goes well, God willing, there will be one master PDF with all nine volumes included, each volume paginated separately. That will allow for quick, easy searching. Copy and pasting sections would probably go better in Kindle, but this is a 3,000 page library of Luther.

Naturally, this PDF file will be full color. I will stow the Word version in various secure, undisclosed locations, for another generation to use.


Rogue Edition of The Gems Mined from Luther's Sermons

When people want The Gems, they will get the full color edition, which is only $10. However, to promote the Sermons and the full color Gems, I had a black and white edition published for $2.40.

CPAs understand why. If a congregation wants to generate interest in Luther and give people an introduction to Luther, they can get 10 Gems for $24 in black and white. Otherwise, that number would cost $100.

"Why So Many Links?" Someone Forgot To Ask
One of my graduate students taught me Search Engine Optimization. When people click on links, the URL rises on the search engine results.

Also, reviews do the same for book titles. Even if someone checks in at that book's page and says, "This is a good book to read," that will count.

Minnesota Mainline Churches in Rapid Decline, Even Though They Teach UOJ

 We need more greeters - and more Church Growth programs!

Minnesota’s mainline Christian denominations face unprecedented declines, altering communities and traditions celebrated for generations.

La Salle, Minn. -- For 100 years, Lutherans in this farming community on the Minnesota prairie have come to one church to share life’s milestones.

They have been baptized, confirmed and married at La Salle Lutheran. Their grandparents, parents and siblings lie in the church cemetery next door.

But the old friends who gathered here early one recent Sunday never imagined that they would one day be marking the death of their own church.

About the seriesThis is the first in an occasional series about Christianity at a crossroads — a time of unprecedented decline in church membership and a changing future for the faith.

When La Salle Lutheran locks its doors in August, it will become the latest casualty among fragile Minnesota churches either closing, merging or praying for a miracle. Steep drops in church attendance, aging congregations, and cultural shifts away from organized religion have left most of Minnesota’s mainline Christian denominations facing unprecedented declines.

“Sunday used to be set aside for church: that’s what families did,” said Donna Schultz, 74, a church member since grade school at La Salle, in southwest Minnesota. “Now our children have moved away. The grandkids have volleyball, dance on weekends. People are busy with other things.

“I’m really going to miss this,” she added quietly, gesturing to her friends in the lobby. “We’re like family.”

The rising toll is evident in rural, urban and suburban churches across the state.

St. Paul’s On the Hill Episcopal Church on prestigious Summit Avenue was recently sold to a developer after more than a century of religious service. Bethany Lutheran Church in the Longfellow neighborhood of Minneapolis held its “holy closure” ceremony last fall. St. Michael Catholic Church in West St. Paul celebrated its last mass 18 months ago.

Mainline Protestant churches have been hit the hardest. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) in Minnesota has lost almost 200,000 members since 2000 and about 150 churches. A third of the remaining 1,050 churches have fewer than 50 members. The United Methodist Church, the second largest Protestant denomination in Minnesota, has shuttered 65 churches since 2000.

Catholic membership statewide has held steady, but the number of churches fell from 720 in 2000 to 639 last year, according to official Catholic directories. The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, which closed 21 churches in 2010 and merged several dozen others, is again looking at ways to consolidate church staffing and programs.

Mulch, Water, Rain, Rain, Rain, But I Pruned the Crepe Myrtle First

The first bloom in 2018.

The Mother of All Crepe Myrtles was in full bloom not too long ago, and the compound blossoms were bigger than ever before. Seeing the petals fall off on the ground, I knew that seeds would be forming soon.

It took me four days to clip all the seedy flower heads off the bush. The glorious blossoms became part of the mulch below. But I had a plan.

The easy part was pruning. John 15 - the fruitful branches are cleansed to make them even more fruitful. I look over my neighbor's efforts to see how I am doing in comparison. Theirs are still colorful but about 50% in seeds. Mine have just a hint of flowers now but 100% budded. Soon mine will burst into bloom again, in radiant color - while they others become 100% seed.

The second most senior Crepe Myrtles are red/white picotee plants, and they formed flowers and seeds. I pruned those for that other beneficial effect of trimming. When roses and Crepe Myrtles are pruned, the branches and roots are energized to grow. Newcomers to gardening ask about fertilizers; veterans prune.

Crepe Myrtles are similar to roses. Many side shoots or suckers can be trimmed away to encourage more plant and root growth. That also serves to shape the plant. I enjoy doing some trimming and weeding each day. When it has rained hard, I enjoy skipping the chores for a day or two.

Too Much Rain - Like an Overabundance of Grace
We have enjoyed five inches of rain in two days, with more on the way. The rain barrels and buckets are full and overflowing.

That reminds me of growing up in Moline, with liturgical Lutheran services everywhere. Everyone took for granted - pipe organs, choirs, classic hymns, the Biblical liturgy and creeds, and Scriptural sermons. No one was around to tell us how horrible those practices were.

There is a simple yet beautiful description of the Word and Sacraments - they are the Means (or Instruments) of Grace. Does anyone seek forgiveness and peace? They only need to rely on those Means, the only ones used by God.

Another description is also significant. Teaching and preaching are the Invisible Word; the Sacraments are the Visible Word. God has bound His Spirit to His Word, whether invisible or visible. That is why the Enthusiasts get so bungled up in their thinking. Some imagine that grace is tied to feelings. If someone feels forgiven, he is forgiven. But what happens when that feeling is gone? It is far better to base forgiveness on something eternal and changless - the Word of God.

The Enthusiasts imagine the Means of Grace hamper and limit God. But they are the ones always filling the world with books, essays, posts, and texts, saying "The Word of God is not effective, but our word is." They criticize the Means of Grace and anyone who relies on them.

Curiously, the ones who love to read the works of Enthusiasm also speak and write as Enthusiasts. They are so lost in their hall of mirrors that they assign grace to the entire world. "Everyone is forgiven and saved, end of story" - they claim.

All the cannibals here and abroad are forgiven and saved? Yes, they think so.

The polytheists can have a group of gods they favor, all pagan, some very scary. Those people are forgiven and saved too? Yes, they love to assert that, without anyone asking.

All the modern theologians agree with this, so it must be true. If one reads Barth/Kirschbaum closely, in Dogmatics, II, 2, he finds the "restoration of the world" since Jesus is the Elect One. The LCMS is lucky, because their theologians - trained in Walther/Stephan - can easily see the magic of Barth/Kirschbaum, the burdens of the Means of Grace.

Therefore, since the Means of Grace are taken for granted, spoken against, and abused in so many ways, especially by the "conservative" Lutherans - the cheap substitutes they are offer provide no grace, no truth, no efficacy at all.

Gideon Drops a Line Since SpenerQuest Is Offering Free Rent for My Little Blog at Their Skunk Patch. They Need To Study the Scriptures and Luther

A few posts make the UOJ Stormtroopers stampede like Brownies encountering a spider.

Pastor,

I read the recent posts on UOJ, and I always wonder, why?  Why do they try too hard to make this UOJ/OJ/SJ harmonize with Scripture and Lutheranism in general.

I used to believe that it was to somehow protect the work of Christ and fend off Arminianism.  But, why bother since we already have Universal Atonement?  Doesn't make sense.

I honestly believe that most folks, especially lay people pay lip service to UOJ/OJ/SJ without knowing what it really means, but to those who vigorously defend it--  I say they do so out of cowardice and unbelief.  As you said yourself that you endorse "...the efficacy of the Word, the Means of Grace, and Justification by Faith."  These all fit together.

This is where unbelief plays a role.  If one has no faith in the Efficacy of the Word (and consequently The Means of Grace), then one would certainly be tempted to "sell their argument" or "sell the Gospel."  How sweet would UOJ be if one were to peddle that to sell the Gospel.  "You've won $1,000,000!  You're justified! You're good!"  They just don't ever talk about their fine print SJ.  That's just legalese to them.

UOJ is an easy sell because there's no law to preach, just decide to believe and sanctify.  This way they can kinda have it both ways.  But all they really do is cheapen grace.  Small law, small god, easy sell.

But, it's not about the sale.  It's about the Efficacy of the Word.  There is no sale.

If they believed in the Efficacy of the Word and the Means of Grace, they wouldn't have to resort to UOJ or hedging their bets.  They could simply trust that God will do what he says he'll do (Isaiah 55:10-11), and if their institutions aren't included in his plan for history...so be it because that's what faith does.  "O God, this looks really bad.  I think I'll die for sure, but I trust in you."  c.f. Daniel 3 - The Fiery Furnace.

SDG,

Gideon

***

GJ - I appreciate their efforts in sending people to this blog and waking Lutherans up to their foul errors. Every day I have a lecture hall with thousands of readers. Our free worship services have "21,486 TOTAL VIEWS."

I have not seen anything serious from them, even though I took the time - which I enjoyed - going over Romans 4 and 5 in Greek and English. Since they make their beds in those verses and fall asleep dreaming of Halle and the earlier, halcyon days with Huber, they must be irritable, lacking in sleep, or suffering from withdrawal of various substances.

The Unified Truth of the Scriptures - Another Refutation of UOJ

KJV Acts 13:38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:

39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

NIV Acts 13:38 “Therefore, my friends, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. 

39 Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain under the law of Moses.

13:38 γνωστον ουν εστω υμιν ανδρες αδελφοι οτι δια τουτου υμιν αφεσις αμαρτιων καταγγελλεται

39 και απο παντων ων ουκ ηδυνηθητε εν τω νομω μωσεως δικαιωθηναι εν τουτω πας ο πιστευων δικαιουται.

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Rolf Really Needs To Study His Father's Book, But He Should Start with the Large Catechism

 I realize this is irrelevant for those on SpenerQuest.

Pastor Rolf David Preus (Rolf) Senior Member Username: Rolf Post Number: 9819 Registered: 5-2001

Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - 10:22 am:       I should also point out that Jackson has falsely stated numerous times that my father abandoned the doctrine of objective justification before he died. He appeals to his book, Justification and Rome, in which he set forth the historic Lutheran doctrine of justification using the terms that the Lutheran dogmaticians used. Jackson imagines that since the 17th century dogmaticians didn't articulate objective justification by using the same language as the 19th and 20th century theologians of the Synodical Conference, this must mean that the 17th century theologians taught a different doctrine than we who use the terms objective justification and subjective justification teach. He interprets my father setting forth the 17th century theologians' teaching in their own language as my father abandoning his life-long teaching of objective justification. What Jackson demonstrates is not that the 17th century Lutherans taught differently than the 19th and 20th century theologians of the Synodical Conference, but rather the rigidity of his own thinking. To understand theology, we must know how to express the same truth with different words. When Jackson accuses my father of changing his doctrine on this critical topic he bears false witness against him.

 Rolf Preus agreed with Chapter Five of Thy Strong Word, when I sent it to him. Shortly after, he said he had the entire book (when nobody did) and it was full of false doctrine. He was the one who asked for the chapter, and I sent it to him by email. Later he wanted the whole book. Ha!

Let me briefly rehearse Robert Preus on Justification. Robert posted a bizarre and foolish little essay endorsing Objective Justification, which Ft. Wayne bullies Cascione and McCain have cited to prove that Robert Preus taught OJ.

Here is my post from 2011 on Preus' change in position.

Jack Cascione boasted here about his significant role at Ft. Wayne and his expertise in OJ. This post includes the Preus essay.

ELDONA, which is 95% Ft. Waynian, switched from OJ to Justification and Rome.

Another Preus on the warpath is posted here.

John Sparky Brenner on Election without Faith, which is another way of arguing Justification without Faith.

Robert Preus' Shift from Objective Justification
Rolf has a way of amusing people about his doctrinal blindness. The essay which he, Cascione, and McCain adore is pure OJ rubbish - laughable in every possible way. I wrote a critique of it, but I have lost the blog link for now.

At one point I had a Robert Preus typescript essay where he quoted OJ arguments and also the critiques which I copied from his last book, Justification and Rome.

I carefully read Justification and Rome and copied the citations from Quenstedt and Calov and Preus! which destroy OJ.  In his last work, which was probably much better before his sons mangled it, Robert was 99% Justification by Faith and 1% OJ.

 Bishop Heiser and the Pope of All Synods worked closely together - until they no longer did.

Rolf is constantly stirred up because I wonder about him being bedfellows with a self-appointed OJ/JBF bishop and the self-appointed dogma-shifting bishop for being bedfellows with Rolf.

Disagreeing with Rolf is not the same as slander, which he would know if he comprehended the Book of Concord. Nor do I consider his careful, nuanced mistakes as slander against me.

My only goal is to get Lutherans to study Biblical doctrine from the ruling norm (not from Stephan's pimp) - and from the ruled norm, the Book of Concord. (PS - It is not slander if it is true - Walther backed a promiscuous, syphilitic, abusive man as bishop. Recent history tells me that is one way to become a bishop.)

Readers can judge for themselves whether Justification by Faith or Objective Justification without Faith is Biblical. I would write less about OJ if the Stormtroopers did not obsess about it, offer absurd syllogisms to support it, and invent personal attacks to support their grace-filled ministries.

"SpenerQuest is pacified once again, Cardinal.
Now we will work on the rest of Lutherdom."

The Essaence of Calvinism - Supplanting Luther - Controls Theology Today

John Calvin passed himself as Lutheran for a time,
like the Synodical Conference Lutherans of today -
who gladly work with ELCA.
Future book - Calvin Ruined the Protestant Faith.

Here are some brief points about Calvin and Calvinism, which explain so much of what is happening today.

1. Calvin was an Enthusiast, like Zwingli before him - separating the Holy Spirit from the Word. Zwingli was fairly stupid and mocking, but Calvin was more sophisticated in his mockery.
2. Calvin apperded to agree with the Lutheran Reformation, signing the Augsburg Confession, but clearly deviated from it and proposed his own views.
3. Calvin argued that a sermon, a baptism, or Holy Communion would be ineffective if the Holy Spirit did not drop by. 
4. Likewise, he made his Double Predestination a completed transaction, so there is no connection between the sermon, faith, and salvation, contrary to Romans 10.
5. Calvinism is overly fond of philosophical disputes, which drove the Lutherans into countering Calvin with their own ornate and opaque arguments. That led to Pietism.
6. The precious categories of Objective Justification and Subjective Justification were canonized in the very popular lectures of Knapp, a Pietist. But the explanation comes from a Calvinist translator. No problem! Walther liked the labels and the Synodical Conference adopted these labels, where they are official dogma today.
7. Mrs. Matt the Fatt explained to me that "there is Objective Justification and Subjective Justification."
8. Just as Calvin sought to replace Luther, so his disciples seek to replace Luther's doctrine with their Calvinistic categories, chiefly Objective Justification, the favorite of Jay Webber, Rolf Preus, Mark Zarling, David Valleskey, Herman Otten, John Moldstad, Frosty Bivens, and other illiterates.
9. Just as Calvin's Double Predestination is central to his teaching, so is OJ central to the Synodical Conference dogma. Because SJ is simply another statement about OJ, the great and wise have little to say about SJ.
10. Cults spring from Calvinism the way mold grows from damp and dark environs. 
11. Modern theology is inherently Calvinistic in its rationalism and hatred of Luther's Biblical teaching, Justification by Faith being central to Luther and the Book of Concord.
12. Modern theology likes to play with words and concepts, starting with Biblical words but having flights of fancy, inevitably ending in a dramatic display of atheistic dogmatism, i. e. Barth's theology as promoted in all the best schools and Fuller Seminary.

 "Stick with me Charlotte," he whispered, and ve vill rule da vorld!"

First, Remove the Walther-LCMS Mythology

 The LCMS celebrated the 200th anniversary of Walther's birth with various efforts suggesting his infallibility, omnipotence, and omniscience. Compare that lengthy and solemn celebration and consider Missouri mocking Luther with gimmicks like the Reformation dog collar, a few years later.

Various points are good to remember when people act as if Walther is the final word on theological issue:

1. Walther only earned a bachelor's degree at a rationalistic university, Leipzig, and he was certified by the state church's rationalistic supervisors. His clergy father was also a rationalist. Did Walther have two stories - one for those who gave him a call and another for his cell group?
2. Walther's additional training consisted of his submission to one abusive, Pietistic guru and then a second abusive Pietistic cult leader - Martin Stephan.
3. Walther served as the enforcer in the clergy group that followed Stephan, yet Stephan's adultery with young women was never an object of concern until it suited Walther and his pals. Then they organized a riot that threatened, robbed, and kidnapped Stephan.
4. Stephan, like Jim Heiser, made himself a bishop and had his clergy followers - including Walther - sign the document.
5. Walther and his clergy friends were schocked, schocked that Stephan was an adulterer, even though their bishop left his wife and kids in Europe and took his mistress Louise Guenther on the same ship with him to America.
6. Walther and his brother kidnapped their niece and nephew from their father's parsonage. Their excuse was pathetic - the kids wanted to go to America. According to Zion on the Mississippi, other minors went along, and the Stephanites rejoiced. The police sought Walther, to arrest him, but he let his future mother-in-law go to jail instead while he sailed to America.
7. Stealing Bishop Martin Stephan's land, money, books, and personal possessions benefited the cult enormously; few of us remember those measures being part of the disciplinary measures used against a sinner.
8. Walther feigned great humility but went on to be in charge of everything.
9. How did such an expert in theology choose Baier to be the norm of Lutheran theology? - Walther as editor, naturally. Baier was far removed from the Reformation and the Book of Concord era.
10. When we start with Walther, Baier, and their loyalists, how soon do we get to Luther, Melanchthon, and Chemnitz? Never.

Polemics Are Good When the Other Side Has Some Ammunition

Surely the Jack Pack knows more than an editor of the Book of Concord!

A few illiterates object to my polemics, where I endorse the efficacy of the Word, the Means of Grace, and Justification by Faith. They cry like Brownies caught in a thunderstorm, never thinking they have a life-long hatred for Justification by Faith, while they cling to the opposite - Objective Justification. They are at war against Biblical doctrine.

They try to be polemicists (based on the Greek word for war), but they have no ammunition. For example, a good polemicist knows the other side and carefully portrays that as a position to oppose. The UOJ Salesmen do not even start, perhaps because their Spidey sense tells them they are not arguing with me, but with the Book of Concord, the Lutheran Reformation, and the Scriptures.

Notice how seldom they make a case from the Scriptures. More like never. They repeat single verses as if that one verse clinches their case. The strangest is Romans 4:25, omitting the verse before. LCMS Pastor Steve Flo is so opposed to Romans 4:24 that he rephrased it as "If we believed we are already forgiven..." Rolf has given up on exclamations of "Raised for our justification!" because I have shown repeatedly how Romans 4 is a short, perfect essay on Justification by Faith, with Abraham as the star.

Now Rolf is on a new toot - Election without Faith, which John Sparky Brenner correctly identified as an OJ strategy. Brenner is still a false teacher advocating OJ and refusing to say Justification by Faith. However, he is an exception to the norm - OJ advocates shamelessly lying.

 So WELS-ELCA-LCMS-ELS-CLC, so goofy.

What comes through so clearly is the UOJ hated for faith and their love of rationalism. Rather than starting with the Scriptures, they begin with "If this is true, then..." Like statistics, anyone can do anything with such arguments.

The latest Rolf effort, Election without Faith, is his lame attempt to push OJ forward while hiding the agenda.

 What was Rolf Preus gaining from palling around with a
self-appointed bishop? Why was Jim Heiser against OJ and yet seeking fellowship with Mr. OJ?
"Guilty feet have got no rhythm."