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| Valleskey brought Fuller Enthusiasm to Mordor and became its president as a Fuller alumnus, a fact which he both denied and affirmed. How much did WELS prosper under his regurgitated Barthian rationalism? |
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| Pope Herman the Waltherist loves to sell Church Growth and Roman Catholic books, refuting his claims of being Biblical or faithful to the Book of Concord. |
From the Bethany Scholars:
Dr. Walter A. Maier clearly
came down against the Historical-Critical hermeneutic. How big
was the Historical Critical Method in Missouri and in other Lutheran
seminaries at the time? What about now? Do you think this is the
underlying rejection of the 6 day creation?
Maier: (Paragraph
divisions added)
“Most of the
scholars who use the historical-critical method base their
analysis of the Biblical text on certain rationalistic,
anti-scriptural presuppositions, and supernaturalism, for
example.
“They flatly
reject the possibility of divine intervention and miraculous
action in human affairs.
“They also operate
with various arbitrary, unwarranted assumptions, such as the
unreasonable bias that many Biblical accounts, which purport
to, do not really present factual history. As a result, their
interpretations often subvert the obvious meaning of clear
Scriptural passages, and the theological views they express
often do not conform to the Word of God. [Then Dr. Maier gave
some examples:]
“(1) When the New
Testament evangelists composed their Gospels, they simply took
over traditional short stories about Jesus which had been
circulating in Palestinian Christian communities and worked
these into running Gospel accounts. Practically all references
to time and place … are of the evangelists’ invention and do
not supply authentic information about the life of Jesus.
“(2) The miracles
reported in the Gospels did not actually occur. …
“(3) Many of the
sayings attributed to Jesus were never spoken by Him at all …
“(4) The Gospels
contain many legends and myths, pure fabrications, which were
given their form “in the interest of the cultus” and for
purposes of edification. Mythological and legendary material,
which is the product of “pious fancy” and “active Christian
imagination,” is seen in the following accounts: the narrative
of Jesus’ baptism, the narrative of Christ’s temptation in the
wilderness, the transfiguration narrative, the narrative of
the Last Supper, the passion narrative, and the resurrection
narrative.
“Liberal
theologians regard it as one of the functions of form critical
investigation to help the twentieth-century reader to
de-mythologize the New Testament Scriptures and thus get down
to “what really happened” at the time of Christ and early
Christianity. Additional incredible and, indeed, blasphemous
views arising from the modern, scholarly use of
historical-critical methodology could be cited.
– Walter A. Maier. Affirm.
June, 1971. Cited in Lindsell. The Battle For the Bible
pp. 86-87.
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GJ
GJ
HCM completely dominated the ALC/LCA and invaded the LCMS. The Seminex crisis was caused by HCM and backed by Jungkuntz, also a big fan of UOJ from his WELS days. As one WELS pastor told me, Northwestern College (WELS) alumni meetings often sported many Seminex bumper stickers in the parking lot. Many students thought Jungkuntz was IT! - and he promoted HCM stealthily, letting the OT man at NWC, Gerke, take the hits and get pushed out first.
The HCM never left the LCMS because it was associated with the best and brightest, like Neuhaus. When Seminex formed and a little sect around it, "only the worst liars left." Many stayed to convert the LCMS - and they did.
Fibby, son of Ludwig Fuerbringer, built up the St. Louis campus into a majority HCM campus, with some exceptions - Robert Preus. A few like Bohlmann pretended to be conservative.
Now HCM spreads even faster among all Evangelicals and Lutherans through the vast number of Fuller alumni, DMins and PhDs in every denomination. Karl Barth and his mistress Charlotte Kirschbaum are the most influential theologians of this apostate age - sorry to say. Karl and Charlotte loved to play with the "yes" and "no" of everything. They are the official theologians of Fuller, since the key Fuller Seminary leaders went to Switzerland to study with Barth.
All one needs to depart from the Scriptures is to say with Barth, "The Bible is not the Word of God, but contains the Word of God."
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| So clever! |
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| Quoting Barth is so popular - but why? |
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| "Oh Charlotte, I love it when you speak Hegelian! This time slower so I can write it down, Ja?" |
Rationalism and the HCM are Calvinist vices. The ultimate cause is letting human reason judge the Word. Luther and his best associates used their genius to declare (exegesis) the meaning of the Scriptures.
The Age of Gimmicks and Methods - brought on by Fuller Seminary and its lackeys - has encouraged Lutherans and Evangelicals to abandon their trust in the efficacy of the Word. More fallout from this includes the hyper-grace groups that are really Antinomian - there is no Law. For them, the Law is obsolete because everyone is forgiven and saved, another version of UOJ.
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| Jungkuntz' WELS-bred UOJ led to his sponsorship of the Metropolitan Community Church to train their gay activists as ministers. How can Otten and Harrison support UOJ and claim to be traditional marriage advocates? |
