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Some like to use the passive - I was taught - which is devilishly clever. To question that is to attack the speaker and the mysterious teacher or teachers who taught that way. Authoritarian sects love this approach, but eventually, all the cleverness ends up burying the denomination. You are watching them implode, like China, empires built on rubble.
Some like to say that their little corner of Christendom is not political, but the clergy of the smaller sects are more political than those in the larger denominations.
The errors of the past cannot be addressed in the Lutheran groups today, because that will offend the entire family tree or political network. In some cases, the two overlap completely. At the CLC college, the game is "How are we related." I would consult with a genetic specialist if the family tree is getting too vertical.
They cannot question the NIV because a few diabolical types got that version accepted, promoted, and sold in their synod. They jettisoned inerrancy and Justification by Faith when the NIV burst through the unguarded entrance. But perhaps, that was the point. How do they keep out the demonstrably superior - and faithful - King James Version, or any of its modern edits? - keep it from being mentioned. That way, an accurate and faithful Bible is never discussed and the apostates win by default. As the nursing journal suggested (Yale Medical School), give alternatives - Would you like your treatment before or after lunch? Would you rather have the ESV or NIV?
They cannot criticize the Church Growth Movement, because everyone would have to admit how much time and money has been spent paying homage to the West - Fuller Seminary in Pasadena - and Midwest - Willow Creek in Chicago. All the WELSians who claimed they never went to Fuller - Bivens, Valleskey, Olson, etc. - they went to Fuller. Lying is a way of saying, "Nobody can touch this topic."
Objective Justification has won in the apostate synods, from ELCA on down, because the Bible says, "All are justified." There it is in black and white. Romans 3. Every synod, every parish using the NIV is teaching Universalism.
Romans 3 - 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. [GJ - The Greek text does not say all are justified, but most of the clergy do not know enough Greek to say yes or no.]
The clergy clergy can say to the layman,
"Do you know more than our distinguished faculty?" (Probably)
"Do you dare to criticize Professor Featherwhistle?" (The Left Foot of Fellowship is being extended.)
"Do you read Ichabod? You do, I know you do?"
