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"The norm that is normed is the Lutheran Confessions, not tradition. We subscribe unconditionally to the Lutheran Confessions because they are taken from and agree with the Holy Scriptures. Subscription to tradition is only insofar as it supports the teaching of the Bible. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't." Rolf Preus, LutherQuest
Please leave Norm out of this.
The LutherQuestions berate Justification by Faith whenever they have a chance. The Chief Article is described clearly in the Scriptures and the Book of Concord, but the Waltherians rave against the clear words and meaning of the Word of God. Their fallacies rest on the dogma and STDs of Halle University, the birth of modern "scientific" Biblical criticism.
A little history would remove the fallacies of the Great Walther. Halle U. went from pure Pietism to pure atheism in one generation. Fortress Press (now ELCA distress) glorified the Halle change from Biblical to rationalistic.
Martin Stephan, who studied at Halle, was a leader of Pietism and a carrier of syphilis. Walther knew that and used the disease to end the reign of Bishop-for-Life Stephan.