1 Timothy 4 4 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
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| Almost 100 years ago, Charlotte Kirschbaum and Karl Barth invented the Church Dogmatics that later influenced Fuller Seminary away from any concept of inerrancy, let alone the Chief Article. Nobody knew Charlotte and Karl were adulterers! OK, we knew 45 years ago (at least) from the former president of the Barth society, Frank Fiorenza, now at Harvard. Communists both? - that book has been out for years, see below. But thanks be to God, there is no Church Growth in WELS, as Wayne Mueller solemnly declared. And Missouri only uses a carefully filtered, curated ideas, not one a danger to Holy Mother Synod. |
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| The author is head of the Barth Shrine at Princeton. I met him and his first wife at Yale. |
GJ - Departing from the faith is the most important aspect of our current crisis. The most blatant falsehoods are sold for a profit by the church printing publishing houses (NIV, ESV, etc) and Barth-Kirschbaum's Church Dogmatics, conceived in sin and dedicated to Marxism.
Apostasy can only come from those who were formerly believers. They are far more destructive than outright atheists, because they burrow and corrupt from within, using the language of Christianity but changing its meaning. Thus Barth and Kirschbaum (Du bist zo schoene, mein schnutzi putzi) have the Bible containing the Word of God but not actually the Word of God.
Veering from God's will that men and women marry, the early Medieval Church extolled non-marriage as a requirement for pastors and for the separated women whose groom could only be Jesus. This rebellion against Creation made it easier to corrupt the Gospel and build power for the Bachelor-in-Chief. Now the WELS college makes sure they keep their government loan money by not opposing the rainbow coalition and gender switches.
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2 Timothy 4 4 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
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GJ - Anyone who raises the slightest concern about the worsening crisis will be thanked by losing friends, getting the stink-eye, and being extended the Left Foot of Fellowship. The denominational Threat and Slander Machine will simultaneously cry, "They are ruining us" and "They are slandering us!" Church leaders are very religious - they say, "God have mercy on you, because we won't."
In Lutherdom, the incompetence and shallowness push everyone further into the darkness. Matt the Fatt could not get through a seminary PhD program, the easiest and least challenging. Mirthless Mark Schroeder is the victim of an inbred system where the graduates of his abuse seminary in Mordor become the professors of the next generation, preserving the cultic GA rites and alcoholic abuse and mattress room. Pope John the Malefactor has a very special education - not even a bachelor's degree when hired as a seminary New Testament professor. Only then did he finish a degree, because his students were more advanced than he was.
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| Matt the Fatt - Mirthless Mark - Pope John the Malefactor. They rejoice in their rejection of the Chief Article, Justification by Faith. |
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2 Thessalonians 2 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away [apostasy] first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. [GJ The papacy treats the pope as infallible, godlike in power and perfection. The Jesuit pope represents the worst of two evil, corrupt, and shockingly debased institutions.]
5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
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GJ - Our generation's denial is proof we are in this final stage, which can last a long time.
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| The Jesuit pope gave an abortion activist an award. How different is he from the LCMS-WELS-ELS popes who work with the abortion promoting Thrivent and their warped sister ELCA? |
