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| Walther elevated himself to be pope over all doctrine, just as Stephan wrote up his own call to be bishop-for-life. |
The LutherQuislings cannot put together a good lesson on Genesis 15:6 and Romans 4, so they quote various theologians world without end, amen.
The selection of Walther quotes intrigued me. The first quotation on the Chief Article sounded quite good. Thesis One and Two were good, except for the habit of simply stating something without Scriptural support.
By the third one, Walther was promoting pure Pietistic bunco. The entire world was justified when Jesus rose from the dead.
"What was the resurrection of Christ? It was an act of God in which Christ was pronounced righteous. Christ entered into death laden not with his own, but with the sin and unrighteousness of the whole world. For the sake of these sins He was sentenced and consigned to death. When the Father raised Him again He declared that the debt in discharged, He is righteous. As therefore Christ was condemned not for His own sake, but for the sake of mankind whose sins He bore; so was He not justified for His own sake by the resurrection. Mankind however was justified (sic), for whose sake He died and rose again.
GJ - This is a triple-twist of the Word, from 1 Timothy 3:16 and Romans 4. The Spirit/Word declares Christ is righteous to us. Jesus did not need to be absolved because His very resurrection is evidence of being guilt-free. Second twist - somehow the world is justified when nothing of the kind is revealed in 1 Timothy 3:16 or anywhere else. Did Walther and his flunkies avoid Scriptural exegesis to becloud their dogma? Certainly the Ft. Wayne fanatics do. Of course, this must be blended into Romans 4:25 without Romans 4:24, with Romans 4 in context. Note Justification by Faith from Romans 4 to Romans 5:1-2. Also note the lack of Walther's ludicrous verities about world justification/absolution.
"The apparently contradictory statements of Scripture, that the world is absolved, and that the guilt rests upon unbelievers as long as they do not repent, must be solved in this wise: We must distinguish two ways in which God views mankind.
What is contradictory? Who is contradictory? Walther!
That was Walther's ambition, to be the American Luther by attaching himself to Luther and then arguing against the Scriptures.
This happened before, when Spener "wrote" the introduction to Arndt's book by introducing Pietism, the opposite of tradition Lutheran doctrine.
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