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| Walther, following his mentor Bishop Martin Stephan, jettisoned Justification by Faith and replaced the Chief Article with the universal absolution of all people - without faith. |
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| Fuller trained David Valleskey became the WELS seminary president, publishing this twaddle, possibly even worse than the Walther quotation above. |
Nothing should bother the laity more than the Chief Article of Christianity - Justification by Faith - being rejected and replaced by the universal absolution of the entire world - often portrayed as Universal (Faithless) Justification. ELCA loves the stealthy Universalism of the Four Waltherian sects - that is why they are all shrinking rapidly.
The Four Waltherian Sects heralded their contempt for Justification by Faith by abusing Romans 4 and cutting a sentence in half to make their sorry case for Universal Absolution. They have used their "raised by
KJV Romans 4:20 He [Abraham] staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. [Justification by Faith]
23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;
24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
What did Pieper, Ed Preuss, the Brief Statement, and Rolf Preus do with this passage? - The Walther mob cried out - and still howls - "delivered for our offences, and raised for our justification" - twisting the Chief Article into their fallacious and damning false dogma. The crypto-Universalists use the same lobotomized tactics to make Romans 5 into another citadel of Justification without Faith.
The Four Waltherian Sects have repudiated the King James Version and replaced it with the NIV, the even worse New NIV, the shocking ESV, the Beck disaster, and the National Council of Gay-Marxist Churches' RSV/NRSV.
WELS is trying to conjure up some new missions and a deluxe gym combo with the ELS. Nothing they are doing with correct their toxic dogma until they return to original source, the Scriptures, and their much abused confessions in the Book of Concord.
I admired one WELS Seminary student for his use of the Book of Concord, Triglotta style. Every day in Mudslide's class, he pulled out his Triglotta and propped it up so he could fall asleep.
Notice that the Church Growth UOJists never tire of calling me names, but they never get around to addressing Romans 4. If they are such brilliant Biblical scholars, they should have a conference on Romans 4 in Greek and prove to everyone that they are not as lazy as they appear.
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| Edward Preuss became a Roman Catholic scholar, but not before he published his delirious, preposterous booklet on Justification. Cascione and McCain thought they had upended me when they quoted this notorious, shameful passage. I graciously and politely repeated this quotation as often as I could. |
