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The Waltherian Four - LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic) - would like to know why they are despised and disappearing fast. They threw themselves at Fuller Seminary and slinked away, poorer and more ridiculous than ever.
I. Justification by Faith
The Waltherian Four like to evade their false doctrine, but they studiously denounce Justification by Faith, the Chief Article of the Christian Faith. Paul Kuske (retired, WELS) seems to be the only one who teaches Justification by Faith... Alone. The Fetid Four take great delight in repeating their mistakes by sheltering themselves in the gross errors of Walther and Pieper. Gausewitz does not count because - by golly - the titular head of LCMS-WELS-ELS was correct as president of the Synodical Conference...but soon dead.
II. Corrupting the Scriptures
They privately created their own Greek New Testament, the foundation provided for the Revised Version in English. I have one, betcha your pastor does not.
The turn of the century hailed the newest disaster - The Revised Version, So Bad It Was Not Reprinted at All, No Never! Pyramids full of the unwanted RV could not be sold. Lenski was perhaps the only one who took the RV seriously. But lo, the RSV was on the horizon and led the way in the 1950s for denying the Virgin Birth of Mary in Isaiah 7. The so-called translations that followed the RSV and earlier RV gave the money-makers financial incentives to sell paraphrases which were always changing. The NEW KJV is a sly example, always changing due to their lust for the copyright.
III.The Book of Concord
Everyone should know the Book of Concord and use it as a commentary on the Bible. Unfortunately, the main use is creating layer upon layer of gassy dogmatics. Why not spend a lifetime of arguing the Second Use of the Law or perhaps the Third Use of the Law? So much fun. So vapid!
The opening about Justification by Faith proves how corrupt and worthless the Book of Concord is, given its leadership.
