Is WELS Starting To Admit Its Errors about Objective Faithless Justification?

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I am not going to copy and paste. This linked mini-website features Paul Kuske criticizing the Objective Justification of WELS-ELS-LCMS.

A Layman's Response to Phil Hale's Review - The Path to Understanding Justification

 

Phil Hale's idols are Calvin and the Pietist theologian at Halle University - Knapp. Has Hale stormed the same way about Fuller Seminary? I missed that post, perhaps because he banished me from the free list. Here is the Hale Storm.

Pastor Greg,

The Calvinist News editor wrote an angry speech, proof read by the Ft. Wayne miscreants denouncing Justification By Faith. What else is new...right?

He denounced you in his diatribe, but NOT ONCE, did he mention Martin Luther's many writings and quotes on faith alone (JBF). Many scripture passages were also overlooked. 

I suppose it's all your fault your waking up Lutheranism up as it slowly circles the drain.

Good job!

In Christ,

I knew Robert Preus and attended some of his classes. I still have his Justification and Rome. I  used to have essays before that book where he was slowly moving toward Justification by Faith.

The Olde Synodical Conference still bows to the Justification Without Faith of their syphilitic founder - Bishop Martin Stephan, Halle alumnus - and bows to CFW Walther, who ignored his bishop's pursuit of young women and the obvious source of their STD.

 

"Consider It a Badge of Honor and Blessing To Be Kicked Out or Off of Christian News." - Former Reader of the Esteemed Journal

Cub editor of the Calvinist News, cleverly disguised as Christian News, Phil Hale sells the Apostate Beck Bible the same way he sells out Justification by Faith.



Seldom do such great experts come together at the same time. Cascione interviewed the least capable person to praise his book, a legendary hot air merchant.

Stars - Papal Hall of Fame

 

The Solution Is Clear for Everyone - Start with the Divine Nature of the Scriptures

  

Worse Than Silence about the Efficacy of the Word - Repudiated Through Rationalism and Marketing

A number of our members have said, "I never heard of the efficacy of the Word until I read about it from your blog."

I can understand that, because I went to the library of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, and found almost nothing among all the "Biblical scholars." Kittel's famous volumes - on all the terms in the New Testament - were very thin on the entire word group. 

The Greek word for energy is actually "energy,"  ἐνέργεια, but the genius scholars of today even have trouble with "virgin" παρθένος in Matthew and Luke. Nobody saw the Parthenon, even in photos? (The temple honors the virgin goddess Athena, but who needs Greek when we have Tik-tok and video games? Parthenos in Greek is virgin.)

Efficacy is one of those perfect words, conveying the Holy Spirit at work in the Word and never apart from the Word.   

The entire Bible teaches that this Book alone is the established revelation of God, written by men through the power (energy) of the Holy Spirit. 

If this power, clarity, and harmony is set aside, the Bible is little more than a quaint book of wisdom, a cultural icon.

That has set "Biblical scholars" free to explore their creativity, since nothing is real except their latest suffocatingly dull publication. Yale Divinity School's own Professor of Weirdness must have 100 publications in its CV.

The Evil Four Plus One 

Scorn the Bible

The National Council of Churches' RSV, NRSV, ESV, repudiates the Bible - not to mention

The NIV!

"That they were from many denominations—including Anglican, Assemblies of God, Baptist, Brethren, Christian Reformed, Church of Christ, Evangelical Free, Lutheran, Mennonite, Methodist, Nazarene, Presbyterian, Wesleyan and other churches—helped to safeguard the translation from sectarian bias." 1984 Preface, no really, Lutherans - no bias!

Plus One is the Beck-Otten Bible, sold dishonestly in every issue of the Christian News. The Beck-Otten has all the flaws and lies of the Evil Four.

Nota Bene - The Christian New$ - known for promoting Objective Faithle$$ Ju$tification - has canceled my free copies of the overpriced CN  issues online. Sob! I was just telling a member about the "husband of one wife" featured in the tabloid, a pastor on his third wife. But that is the criterion in New Haven (not to be confused with Yale University's campus). Anyone who graduated from a Missouri seminary is righteous for life.

How do people read this gibberish without laughing out loud? This was published in LutherQuest. One reader asked, "Have they found Luther yet. They are on a quest, after all."

 Calvin? Knapp? Hale? That is how they pick editors in New Haven, stuck on Calvinism and Objective Faithless Justification.

Let the Walther inbreds crow about their infallible, inerrant Bibles, arguing only about which bad Bible they love the most. Each one of the Evil Four Plus One drops verses, words, even the resurrection of Jesus Christ in Mark 16. The ending may be separated, or dropped in a footnote, or vanished - the message is the same: "We do not believe in the Empty Grave. Seminex has won. ELCA - give us a smooch of victory."

Seminex Won - Get Over It - The Proof Is Everywhere in the LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC, LutherQuest, Christian News, and the ALPB Ovaltines

 

"For radiant health." More Ovatine!

The LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC, LutherQuest, Christian News, and the ALPB Ovaltines

As their Father Below would say, in an ironic twist - "That they may be one, all mine."

Some of us remember Seminex, 1974 - when the established LCMS professors at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, and most of the students started their own synod. They vowed they would win - and they did.

Look at the virtues of Seminex then and see how they are today.

• Seminex used the same formula as the ELCA - rejecting the Chief Article of Christianity, Justification by Faith and embracing Objective Faithless Justification. Everyone is forgiven and saved. 
• Seminex included a gay professor who had been arrested in a St. Louis park. Deppe and the Seminex profs joined the LSTC. Seminex became the official seminary of the Metropolitan Community Church, and former WELS professor Jungkuntz was chairman of the Seminex board. He was also a rabid promoter of Objective Faithless Justification.
• Jack Preus, LCMS, was good at driving Seminex advocates wild about the objective truths of the Bible. Jonah was a key point. Now all the groups vary between Romanism, Fuller boosterism, and outright denial of the Scriptures. Given their disgust with the Traditional, Apostolic New Testament text, the various groups love every "translation" except the KJV, every version of the Tischendorf-Westcott-Hort amalgamation but not the 5,000 traditional witnesses of the New Testament.
• Seminex had no trouble with their men wanting to be women and teaching the Scriptures, and their women wanting to be pastors and bishops. Many Seminex veterans became key leaders in the LCA/ALC, and they worked as one, a miniature version of the Jesuits. If three Seminexers were at a local LCA conference, they sat together! 
• When Seminex itself was broke, the professors moved north to mooch off the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, always voting as a block. Thus Seminex and their AELC mini-synod became an essential part of the ELCA merger, having a greater voice in the discussions than their total membership allowed. 

Can Matt the Fatt Be Fixed in Time for His Re-Enthronement?

I enjoy seeing colorful costumes, but once a year is enough - on Halloween. Some children eat way too much candy.

The same Matt Harrison who put the fake Luther's Large Catechism on hold is now vilifying those who question its merit. His recent tirade suggests Matt is condemning Matt and using his staff to pile on. "A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways." James 1:8

Attacking people in vague but menacing terms is common in the Synodical Conference hierarchy. Every target of venom is supposedly causing the ruin of the sect, even though the leaders have done a dandy job of wasting money, indulging their appetites, and destroying congregations by playing politics with the pastor.

His Holiness, the Synod President, is in an awkward place. He did not complete graduate work, not even from the notorious diploma mill called Concordia Seminary St. Louis, where a PhD has worth only in the LCMS. He was mostly a fund-raiser for his non-profit corporation, which he shut down once he was SP.

This new Large Catechism is a fake because it is only 15% Luther's Catechism. That should remind potential buyers of the so-called CPH Small Catechism, weighed down by 400 pages! of fluff, including sly efforts to promote Objective (Faithless) Justification.

CPH also created the windy dogmatics volumes, easily a match for the Braaten-Jenson fiasco, which ELCA disavowed while selling it. That may have been the model for Luther's Large Catechism.

Ye victims of Harrison's twisting in the wind, get a Large Catechism which is 100% Luther - or just open up the Book of Concord. Luther is the best Biblical teacher of all time.

And remember - this Synod President was a nobody who visited Herman Otten and sang a flattering ballad dedicated to Herman Otten. However, when Otten was close to dying, Matt the Fatt sang a vitriolic song in public, calling the kingmaker "a liar" and "crazy."

Battle of the Tabloids - Christian Snooze versus ALPB Ovaltine Discussion Group

Do you like the larger font? I am using Arial medium because I find smaller fonts a trial for my overworked eyes.

I was looking for some news in Christian News aka Calvinist News aka Christian Snooze. Hale only gets excited when attacking me, and he has pushed the Shun Button and activated the Stink Eye for good. How else to explain "buying" 10 copies of Catholic, Lutheran, Protestant and not paying for them?

His tabloid is so boring that I could not remember if I had read the last one when it came out. Yep, same old sleeping pill approach.

Possibly worse is the Ovaltine Gazette - a daily exercise in torturing people with prosaic posturing about trivia. They call it the American Lutheran Publicity Bureau Discussion Group and Newsletter. Even Rolf Preus behaves! Their newsletter tip-toed through the San Fran Bishop problem - visibly moved when Archbishop Liz Eaton squeezed out some tears about a pastor being fired on a day sacred to Roman Catholics. Imagine!

Charles Austin, the ELCA journalist and pastor, tries to stir up the Ovaltine crowd, but he is too predictable.

The Ovaltines look at everything as sociologists, as if not yet weaned from their Fuller Seminary training. There is a statistical reason for everything, which turns into an excuse for their memberships to be melting down faster than a July frost.

They love their own. Floyd Luther Stolzenburg's co-pastor, Edward Engelbrecht (broken angel), seems to post all day, every day. Someone should write a book about the WELS District President Robert Mueller, the District VP Paul Kuske, and the Circuit Pastors embracing a man tossed out of the LCMS for adultery. How did Stolzenburg become the Michigan District's Church Growth expert - with cheers from WELS/ELS Roger Kovaciny and other cads too numerous to mention?

The Ovaltine crowd is just like the typical Lutheran synod, wherever it rests in their rainbow of love.

When one of their own, an ELCA pastor, was arrested and put in the hoosegow, they said nothing, even though he had 10,000 posts. 

 Steven Tibbetts, ELCA pastor, ALPB Discussion Forum leader with 10,000 posts, member - STS (high church, smells and bells).

This liturgical clown is laughing at everyone.

Fighting a War Lost Long Ago - Calvinist News, Marquart, and the WELS-Seminex-LCMS Stormtroopers

The latest Calvinist News, hot out of New Haven, MO, features some essays from Rev. Kurt Marquart. Seminex formed from the apostates Jungkuntz and Gehrke (WELS) and their equivalents in the LCMS. 

Jungkuntz adored Objective Justification and daringly advocated for turning their turncoat seminary into the official divinity school for the gay Metropolitan Community Churches. He was a lot hipper than people imagined, and WELS still leads the way.

Let us not forget that Jungkuntz and Gehrke were PhDs and professors at the dinky drab Northwestern College. No WELS leader questioned OJ - they loved it and promoted it.

We can skip over the last 50 years and just, "WELS, LCMS, ELS, and the micro-mini sects are one with ELCA. Some go for Calvinist Church Growth (without the growth), others are hotter than Georgia asphalt for Rome, incense, cool robes, angel poses, and other indications of an ill-spent youth."

That explains the broken utility pole, the smashed face and car, and the free trip to the Ukraine. "When you loathe enough to send the very worst."

 

Skimmed Two Issues of Calvinist News - Still Awake

His Sanctimoniousness Roger Kovaciny no longer works, but takes time to stay in the game. 

Some people are gone but not forgotten. Others - like WELS/ELS Pastor Roger Kovaciny - are forgotten but not gone. He loves to teach the things he does not know, so we forget the things he does, like how to explain an automotive collision with a utility pole. Or why combine Valium with liquor? Or why support an unrepentant ex-pastor and help him snag a new gig and a new wife?

When someone thinks or hopes CN cannot get worse - the Biblical expert with the fake doctorate and three wives - pops up.

The canning of Professor Schulz at Concordia, Mequon, is still being tossed around. What do these three pastors have in common? You must name two things or you might be given the Left Foot of Fellowship:

1. John Sparky Brenner
2. Jack Kilcrease
3. Professor Schulz at  CUW.

First hint -

John Brenner, SJ

Jack Kilcrease, SJ

Professor Schulz, SJ!

All three earned a PhD at Marquette University, founded by the Jesuits - and those Jesuits never let go of their sinister power and influence.

I have never heard anyone say, "Oh! He has a doctorate from Marquette!" That has never come up. Like St. Louis University, another Jesuit gem, the school has little academic clout.

Some of you did not know that both schools were Jesuit. Or, you never heard about these schools. But here is the third unifying factor.

All three men teach Objective Justification. And Kilcrease teaches that dollop of Calvinism at the ELCA based online seminary that ordains women. ELS Pastor Jay Webber doubtless took his OJ STM from Kilcrease at the online school, but I am just guessing.

Meanwhile, OJ Extraordinaire Phil Hale gets free books every time I write one, but he never even mentions it. However, he ordered 10 copies of Catholic, Lutheran, Protestant at my non-profit price.

 Catholic, Lutheran, Protestant. The cover and illustrations are from Norma A. Boeckler

Beck Betrayed the Bible - And Christian News Promoted It

 

 The Beck Bible, aka AAT, An American Translation

Beck. The Holy Bible (An American Translation, AAT). Holman. 1976. Beck - “The two oldest manuscripts [Vaticanus, Sinaiticus] lack Mark 16:9-20…but end at verse 8.”

I am finishing the new KJV book, so I looked at Beck on the ending of Mark. The only two sources that cut Mark 16:9-20 are the Vatican's forgery, which was known by Erasmus, who would not use Vaticanus. And the other source - the miraculously appearing Sinaiticus.

Tischendorf, a typical antiques huckster, labeled both as the world oldest Bibles, though neither one had any "children" to speak of - and neither one has a legitimate history.

Concordia Publishing House actually printed a Gospel of Mark commentary (two volumes) based on Vaticanus!

 Voelz is the new Tischendorf, though he should know better.