God Watches Over the US of A

This election was a war, and the war will continue a few days more. Trump already won the election before Election Day. He prepared for it from the day he was inaugurated as President.

Election fraud came from software - no surprise. A computer can cheat faster than humans and artfully change figures. I knew about this before the 2016 election, and a few know the story. Clinton was allowed to think she was winning until late in the evening. Then the experts began to say, "There are no Hillary votes left in Florida and the Panhandle is voting now. I watched with glee, knowing what happened, and kept writing my friends. "Get down from there! We have won already." The Young Turks were cursing their own people - "____ the Party! _____ Hillary. Next time will be different."

I wanted to enjoy a re-run this year, but the Young Turks were not rattled. They were calm and confident all night. The media and the celebrity experts were all in on the fix. Software and fake ballots would push Biden over the top. 

With no evidence, everyone began "calling it for Biden." All the smirking attacks came back to me. 

• "Will Trump leave quietly?" 
• "We will send in the military to remove him by force."
• "Removal from office is not enough!"

The boasts skipped several important statements, like, "I think we can win." or "It will be a struggle." or "We have a weak candidate." or "Evidence suggests the Bidens are a crime family specializing in treason."

I rely on Free Republic, Pygmy Poacher, and Citizen Free Press.

Free Republic has many well researched articles. I read it more for the responses to articles than for the publications listed. 

Pygmy Poacher is from Brett Meyer - one of our scholars - and full of quick insights and great memes. I always learn something there, and I am a daily communicant.

Citizen Free Press is a page of links to conservative articles. I like looking it over for trends in the news.

That meeting must have been perfect. Even the Catholics hate this pope.

Quick Overview - The Great Walther and the Great Barth/Kirschbaum

The first LCMS broadcast: Walther's view of the seal of the confessional.

 Tell everyone, organize a mob, kidnap the bishop, and steal everything for Mother Missouri.

He had the ideal marriage - he let his future mother-in-law go to jail for his kidnapping of his niece and nephew, then left her behind while he sailed off fast to America.

Walther was not a Biblical theologian and he was weak on the Biblical languages. He got the Synodical Conference used to his dogmatic statements which were accompanied by Scripture citations.

Clownish imitation of this wily method came from the Objective Justification faction. Their favorite two citations are Romans 4 - all about Justification by Faith - and 1 Timothy 3:16 - a confession of faith. Their escape path is to use the Atonement, also translated as reconciliation, as synonymous with Justification.

The OJ fanatics have had their Romans 4 and 1 Timothy 3:16 removed from their little quiver of bent arrows. Now they accuse the faithful of not equating Justification and the Atonement.

The Great Barth/Kirschbaum

Barth was completely unequipped to be an academic theologian. A Marxist, he suddenly found himself with a young, beautiful Marxist girl willing to do his work, and I mean all his work, for free. They published a mountain of Calvinist/Marxist nonsense, until she got sick and died. Barth hardly did anything after that.

Barth's wiley method was similar to Calvin's and Walther's. He wrote the large print stuff in their Dogmatics. She did the scholarly work. Some people wrote material as background for him, and Barth simply copied it into his Dogmatics, without giving credit. Their writing was a cover to introduce a Marxist philosophy in the guise of Christian theology.

"Karl, no footsie until the photo-op is done. OK?"

Worse Than a Crooked Election

Is this taught anywhere now in Lutherdom?

Where are your methods now, your wiles of the devil? Gasoline, that study for youth? The disastrous Tiefel hymnal, your Calvinistic arguments to sell people on joining? Your precious DMin in Church Growth?

Ephesians 6:11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles (Greek - methods, literally) of the devil.

I remember when one CLC (sic) patriarch sneered with wrath, defending the other Tiefel's "methods." He especially stressed "methods," as if I had violated all Ten Commandments at once. That may be why I have a special fondness for Ephesians 6:10-17.

1. Fresh popcorn handed out to the so-called worshipers going into church. Oh, they are just seekers.
2. Warmed-over Calvinist bar music played by a hopelessly bad pit band.
3. The pastor preaching from his iPad because he cannot remember the nonsense he copied from another master of methods. Walking around with the iPad is especially effective.
4. That curious see-saw effect: the higher Fuller goes up, the lower Luther and the Scriptures descend.

The Internet may have a virus or two, but it is Covid free. How much genuine Biblical study is broadcast free and without a secret code each week?

How much time is spent researching and writing an original sermon each week - and made available for all to see? If the full-time pastor gets $50,000 a year in salary, benefits, and housing, is each sermon worth $1,000? 

I continue to wait for the Church Growth stars to apologize to their synods for taking them on a disastrous tour de farce. Everything had to go their way, because all their methods would grow the synod. Don't tell me they just wanted to promote their Calvinistic hypocrisy!

Their salaries grew, because they were experts. Their bellies grew, because they daily fed them sumptuously. Their wardrobes grew lavishly, because a professional church growther has to live the part he plays.

50 Years of Grace - Without the Means of Grace!