Classic Walther Quote on Ludicrous Quest - Luther Seldom Mentioned, Never Understood

 Rick Strickert (Carlvehse)
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Stephan's lawyers covered up for Stephan's adultery, just as Walther did. Stephan left his dying wife at home with the dying children he infected, and booked his mistress on the same ship, conveniently near his cabin. 

The Ludicrous quote begineth here:

Walther's sermon, "Zweite Predigt am heiligen Ostertage," is found in the book, Lutherische Brosamen: Predigten und Reden, seit 1847 theils in Pamphletform, theils in Zeitschriften bereits erschienen, in einem Sammelband aufs Neue dargeboten (Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther
M.C. Barthel, 1876, p. 138ff).

Here is the particular passage, located on page 143:
quote:
Wenn ich mich mit meinen Sünden Gott nahe, was wird Gott thun? Wird er nur sie auch wohl vergeben? Nein, so darsst du nun, wer du auch bist, nicht zweiselnd sagen: denn Gott hat sie dir schon vergeben, vergeben schon vor 1800 Iahren, als er in Christo durch seine Auserweckung sogleich alle absolvirte, sür die Christus in den bitteren Tod gegangen war: nur eins ist noch übrig, was von deiner Seite geschehen muß, daß du das dir Geschenkte auch habest, und dieses Eine ist — der Glaube.

Und dies sührt mich denn zum zweiten Theile meiner heutigen Osterbotschast, in welchem ich euch nun zum andern noch zu zeigen habe, daß daher ein jeder Mensch, welcher selig werden will, die vor 1800 Iahren bereits thatsächlich verkündigte allgemeine Absolution nun als eine auch ihm gesprochene durch den Glauben annehmen müsse.
An English translation of the sermon appears in Rev. Joel Baseley's 2008 book, From Our Master's Table: Sermons and Addresses Already Appearing Since 1847 Partly in Pamphlet Form and Partly in Periodicals, Now Offered in a Single Volume of Dr. C.F.W. Walther. The translated excerpt is found on page 73:
quote:

As a result of Christ's having been raised from the dead, it is impossible for a person to think: "When I approach God with my sins what will God do? I wonder if he will forgive me for them?" No. No matter who you are, you may now say without hesitation: Since God has already forgiven them 1800 years ago, as he absolved everyone for whom Christ entered into bitter death, alike, in Christ by his resurrection, only one thing is still necessary to be done on your part so that you also will have what is being given you, and that one thing is - faith.

And this, then, leads me to the second part of today's Easter proclamation, in which I must show you now secondly, that every person who, therefore wants to be saved must now receive the universal absolution actually proclaimed already 1800 years ago through faith as also spoken by him.

Here endeth the Ludicrous quote.

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GJ - They "prove" their OJ by repeating the same quote I have used numerous times, but there is no Scriptural, Luther, or Book of Concord warrant for this claim. The false doctrine rests on the wrong (Rambach Pietist) explanation of 1 Timothy 3:16. Chemnitz did not explain 1 Timothy 3:16 that way, but ELS Stormtrooper Jay Webber argued Ramach the Pietist against Chemnitz the Book of Concord editor.

 Rambach was a Pietist of the Pietists, at Halle. Notice - universal justification/absolution without the Means of Grace.

 How often have I used this to show Walther's rebellion against Justification by Faith?

 OJ Stormtroopers Jay Webber and DP Buchholz repeat the same bromides as Rambach and Walther.