Daily trips to the oncology radiation building have a way of filling the weeks, with 10 sessions, one each day, week-ends off. The latest move to honor the Wuhan Flu is to ban spouses from entering the building, so we are left outside like Lazarus, even with a mask on and washed hands.
I bought anew the Stephan tell-all, In Pursuit of Religious Freedom, used, at a discount. The Alibris post said it had writing in the front. Indeed! The author wrote his thanks to one helper and signed his name. That is called a gift edition of a book, and more valuable, but I am interested in the content, not laying up treasures on earth.
I urged someone to do what I had not - visit Bishop Hill in Illinois. There he purchased Wheat Flour Messiah: Eric Jansson of Bishop Hill.
You may wonder what the connection is. Jansson was a Pietist lay leader. He established a commune near my hometown, where he taught that his mind was 100% righteous but his body was not. He was another Pietistic adulterous leader, like Bishop Martin Stephan. He also left his wife behind when he came to America.
Pietism is the enemy of Biblical, Lutheran doctrine, and Walther is a prime example of that flaw.
This is a topic difficult to unravel, but the labor is worthwhile.
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| Walther was not the founder of the LCMS, but the usurper, using anti-Biblical methods to kidnap his niece, nephew, and bishop, to steal the bishop's land, and to rob Stephan of his gold, personal possessions, and books. He knew all along that Stephan was an adulterer, biding his time to exploit the bigger scandal. |
