Many laity and some pastors are awake to the massive error of the ELCA-WELS-LCMS-ELS-CLC (sic).
The tactic used by false teachers before was to ignore the issue and keep promoting and expanding Objective Justification, their precious and only dogma. The other issues are adiaphora to them, but OJ is their crack pipe. They live for their next session.
Jack Cascione's Hive seems immune to exegesis - or perhaps they actually understood the book. I kept it simple for Jack B. Simple, and the Word worked upon his flinty heart and blinded eyes.
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| He questioned OJ! Attack! |
The Path To Understanding Justification is exegesis. That is how I named the folder, to remind myself:
- Stick to the Scriptural basis.
- Avoid quoting men in favor of declaring the truths of the Word.
Team Simple - an array of relatives, sects, and wouldbegoods - attacked in battle array. Most of the review was reliant on sarcasm, personal attacks, and record-setting doctrinal stupidity. However, Cascione did reveal his talking points, which are so much like the wisdom of Karl Barth and Charlotte Kirschbaum. Their method was to start with a Biblical concept and turn it upside-down, leaving everyone enchanted by their creativity and avoidance of faith, the Christian Faith, and the clear teaching of the Bible.
But exegesis is not a skill practiced at the Lutheran seminaries today. The Greek word simply means "declaring." Just as Jesus declared the true nature of the Father (John 1:18)
18 No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
18 θεον ουδεις εωρακεν πωποτε ο μονογενης υιος ο ων εις τον κολπον του πατρος εκεινος εξηγησατο
The underlined word is the verb form of exegesis. My Greek students will notice the emphatic - εκεινος - That One - has declared Him.Concordia, Ft. Wayne has existed to ordain men who were not fully prepared for pastoral work, lacking years of training in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and German. Walther only had Latin, typical for his era, and very little in Biblical languages. He was a Biblical dunce, as most people realize, and tried to make his followers follow in his errors, the blind leading the blind.
To make up for this lack of exegetical training, Ft. Wayne graduates stand out as illiterate bullies - Cascione, Kincaid Smith, Jay Webber, Paul McCain, Jim Heiser and most of his ELDONA sycophants. Notice the DNA?
Webber and Smith helped Heiser and DeJaynes (Lutheran Confessional Synod) get into fellowship - solemnly announced - with WELS/ELS. They even prayed together. But Heiser never heard of OJ, he declared on video, even though he learned it at Ft. Wayne, took on fellowship with OJ sects WELS/ELS, and fellowshipped away with the Rolf Preus Sect.
So these people are enraged by Biblical exegesis, which they cannot practice. They could, in English, with some extra help from commentaries. But the real work comes from studying the actual text, having a reading knowledge, and sticking to that.
The Bible is inerrant? They ignore that for a clown named Walther. Their favorite translations are Calvinist - NIV and ESV.
A quia subscription to the Book of Concord? I will give them three seconds to find the Chief Article named. Honk. They lose.
Luther - ans? They despise Luther, hate his Biblical doctrine, and know almost nothing about his works.
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| Not apt to teach. Not apt to teach. Not apt to teach. |
