| Steve Schmidt (Sschmidt) Advanced Member Username: Sschmidt Post Number: 666 Registered: 3-2017 |
Jackson's error is supported in his mind by two things: 1. The terms are not used verbatim in scripture. 2. The ELCA and its predecessor bodies had no history of using them. Even Sasse, trained as a church historian and often a weak theologian outside of his field, objected to Missouri's doctrine. |
The OJ and SJ terms and concepts are never used at all the in Scriptures, Luther, Melanchthon, Chemnitz, the Book of Concord, Gerhard, or any decent theologian.
I enjoy being lectured by people who cannot get a job in higher education. The less they know, the more they swat - ineffectively - at sound doctrine.
The SS Schmidt is so hilariously wrong that Mrs. Ichabod asked me to answer him a bit. ELCA's components began in Pietism, as WELS and Missouri did. Tis natural for Pietism to degenerate into rationalism, because of its roots in Calvin's creative and erroneous dogmas.
I will step on tender toes again - with glee - to mention the first OJist came from Calvinism and taught at Wittenberg. He did until he began raving like the LQ denizens and found himself defeated in the discussions and tossed out like a broken beer stein. But they say, "According to Walther..."
ELCA has taken the next step beyond Universalism. I doubt whether theology has any meaning for them. They exist to be Left-wing activists, but that is what OJists are too. LQ is just preparing the way. Missouri and WELS will have fewer but better Lutherans, they think.
Reading comprehension is tested many times in school. The Miller Analogies Test is also used. The OJists cannot make a case for their precious dogma because they cannot understand the plain meaning of words and pratfall when they try to be clever, which is funny at first, sad later.
They Are Still Avoiding the Scriptural Passages, Proving My Contention: The Path Is Overgrown from Their Neglect and Choked with Their Weeds
No one has dealt with Abraham in Genesis 15:6 and his dominance in the New Testament, Galatians, and Romans 4.
These guardians of the sainthood of Walther, Pieper, and JP Meyer are frightened of the Word. They cropdust by zigzagging all over their shallow, repetitive, and illogical arguments.
So let us look at the red cape they are waving - The Smalcald Articles. This is where reading comprehension is handy, even if the Biblical languages have been neglected. Some have had decades to make up the deficit but would rather root for their home teams.
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The Smalcald Articles
THE SECOND PART
Part II, Article I: The first and chief article.
The Formula of Concord, Solid Declaration
III. The Righteousness of Faith
1] The third controversy which has arisen among some theologians of the Augsburg Confession is concerning the righteousness of Christ or of faith, which God imputes by grace, through faith, to poor sinners for righteousness.
6] This article concerning justification by faith (as the Apology says) is the chief article in the entire Christian doctrine, without which no poor conscience can have any firm consolation, or can truly know the riches of the grace of Christ, as Dr. Luther also has written: If this only article remains pure on the battlefield, the Christian Church also remains pure, and in goodly harmony and without any sects; but if it does not remain pure, it is not possible that any error or fanatical spirit can be resisted. (Tom. 5, Jena, p. 159.)
67] Concerning what is needful furthermore for the proper explanation of this profound and chief article of justification before God, upon which depends the salvation of our souls, we direct, and for the sake of brevity herewith refer, every one to Dr. Luther's beautiful and glorious exposition of the Epistle of St. Paul to the Galatians.
This poor Schmidt fellow cannot see that the Smalcald Articles section he misquotes with glee is part of the discussion about Justification by Faith? Luther did a backflip and no one noticed until the precious and charismatic teaching of Stephan and Walther shined upon the Midwest?
And what about Luther's Galatians? I do not think any other book is commended by the Formula of Concord authors for additional study of that topic, the Chief Article, Justification by Faith. Did I miss the reference to the precious and holy works of Walther? Did my eyes miss the footnote?
OJists completely block out Luther so they can preach Walther back into heaven. No one has ascended so high so many times via hot air than CFW Himself. There must be a subscription even more demanding than a Quia for Walther. They have adopted intersectionality from the Left, because they are the Left wing of Midwestern Lutherans, pirates who have stolen the vessel from the greats of the past, from the Bible itself.
Missouri, WELS, and the ELS began falling apart when they kicked aside Luther in favor of Objective Justification, Calvinism, and Church Growth.
Sasse was not a good theologian because he was critical of OJ? So what does that make Luther? We all saw that for the 500th. The disgust and revulsion felt for the Reformer was palpable, visible in the trinkets sold by CPH, where the great warrior for OJ idiocy is paid a fortune.
Many have seen the Walter Maier family and Pastor Vernon Harley treated as badly. Are the LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic) sects gaining in any way?
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