Daniel - The Dense - Preus Unravels the Walther Myth and the Swindle of the Synodical Conference - Unawares, As Always

 Walther was the new Pope, the Anti-Luther.

 The ELS-WELS-LCMS celebrated Luther's 500th by having a conference about their local heroes: Walther, Hoenecke, and Koren.

I do not have time to expose all the knee-slapping honkers in the Daniel Preus essay, found here. CFW Walther was another Luther - without knowing it.

In the Synodical Conference, 90% of the clergy believe only 10% of the Walther mythology, and only 10% believe 90% of the fables.

Walther was Bishop Martin Stephan's pimp and enforcer, never standing in the way of the founder's young female groupies, always enforcing the law imposed by the bishop. Yes, Walther signed the document making Stephan their bishop for life, much as Heiser gathered clergy around him who would who also give him his heart's desire, a fish hat and stick.

To Fall for the Walther Mythology...

1. We must forget Walther's Pietistic and rationalistic circle moving to Stephan's cult once their first cell group leader died. 
2. We must ignore that Stephan was often seen in the company of young women in the wee hours of the night, breaking the law about having conventicle meetings away from his Pietistic congregation.
3. We must deny that Walther happily kidnapped his niece and nephew, boarded a ship with them - 
4. And even knew Stephan abandoned his wife and family to take his mistress to America with him - on the same ship, with her cabin nearby. Walther's brother was on that adulterous ship - and CFW did not know? Please.

Daniel the Dense was once the curator of the LCMS Hysterical Society, a parachurch organization that has fits when Walther is considered less than divine. Paul McCain was too. It seems the organization was a halfway house for unemployable synod ex-bosses. Both men should know better, but they repeat the old bromides learned at Ft. Wayne, which lacked a library at that time. No, it must have, because a few books on the Reformation would have taught them the folly of applying Calvinistic and Pietistic dogma to the Reformation.

So Much For Walther the "Founder." Now - the "Theologian."

Preus uses the term "justification" no less than 28 times! - but Justification by Faith - not even once. Preus is not even related to John Sparky Brenner, but they have the same deceptive streak in the history of doctrine. Anyone can trace the history of doctrine - believer or not - if the individual is honest about it. But they are both dishonest in the same way, and they are not even related (so far). Give the Preus clan enough time and they will marry into all the families of the Synodical Conference. They even have their own publishing firm to produce books about...The Preus Family.

 Preus uses "objective justification" four times, but the word "objective" another eight times, in relation to his special pleading for objective justification. In his dimly lit den of dogma, Preus imagines -

The whole world has been justified and declared righteous in the eyes of God by virtue of Christ’s death and resurrection. p. 20

As I have written many times before, the Absolution of the World - without Faith - is the strange merger of the Atonement and Justification by Faith, accomplished by the Calvinistic and rationalistic elements in Lutheran Pietism.

Walther was trained in this Easter Absolution of the World by a syphilitic cell group guru - Martin Stephan - who studied at Halle University but never graduated from any university. Stephan only had his call by virtue of being a Bohemian Pietist. The congregation had some special privileges, which he abused steadfastly until he was finally tried, convicted, and allowed to escape with his cult, the Walther circle, and some minor children.

Daniel also quotes Walther's absurd sermon, Halle rationalistic Pietism, false exegesis of 1 Timothy 3:16.

Just as Christ’s condemnation was the condemnation of all mankind, Christ’s death the death of all mankind, Christ’s payment the payment for all mankind, even so Christ’s life is now the life of all mankind, His acquittal the acquittal of all mankind, His justification the justification of all mankind, His absolution the absolution of all mankind. p. 18

1 Timothy 3:16 does not teach that God "justified the entire world" when Jesus rose from the dead. Has anyone read Chemnitz on this?

Walther is Luther? or Rambach?

Walther is Huber Unaware - not Luther at all.

Rydecki on 1 Timothy 3:16

Intrepids on 1 Timothy 3:16; Jay Webber sides with Rambach.


Daniel's essay is another example of Walther's impoverished thetical style -
A. Proclaim the dogma.
B. List some Scripture to prove the dogma.

David Valleskey - another fan of Universal Absolution without Faith - defended Church Growth the same way, with paper thesis statements so contrary to Scripture that I called it "Figs from Thistles."

Fate is capricious, unless we believe that God is at work in history, even in our puny lives. Daniel Preus is listed with his brother Rolf as editors of Justification and Rome, by their father. And yet the book refutes their passionate promotion of Pietistic World Absolution.

Daniel and Rolf like to mention their authorities. I will quote the book.

 "No fair quoting Luther, Melanchthon, and the Concordists from the Book of Concord." Does anyone read today? 

John Sparky Brenner Exposes His Bias in Jars of Clay - Not a History But a Cover-Up

 Why do WELS clergy and laity ignore this example of JP Meyer's Scriptural wisdom while embracing his anti-Christian dogma of UOJ?

For all the bluster about WELS being Scriptural, in contrast to LCMS dogmatic statements, both sects are the same. They owned the German language and had all the sources at their disposal, but both synods fostered and promoted the anti-Christian cancer of Universal Objective Justification. Meanwhile, they fussed over trivia and staged great debates about adiaphora, avoiding the Chief Article - Justification by Faith.

Note - here is Pastor Vernon Harley's Justification by Faith essay. My wife and I met him and his wife before he died.

John Sparky Brenner is not an analytical historian like Thucydides but a tall tale teller like Herodotus. Here is a good example from his PR book, Jars of Clay.

Pastor John P. Meyer served as president of the WELS seminary,1937-1957. His teaching career spanned many decades. He began at Northwestern College in Watertown in 1902. His dogmatics notes were still be used in the 1980s, proving his post-humus influence.

JP Meyer is known for his commentary on II Corinthians, Ministers of Christ. Brenner wrote:
The commentary is a masterpiece offering, among other things, practical advice on Christian stewardship and insight into the precious doctrine of objective justification. Jars, p. 184.

He also wrote Studies in the Augsburg Confession. Really? His three Kokomo Statements are idiotic and contradict the Augsburg Confess - not to mention the entire Bible, Augustine, Luther, and the Book of Concord.

 Three of the four Kokomo Statements are from this book and remain unchanged, even though edited by Armin Panning, former seminary president and New Testament Greek professor!

Where were all the Biblical scholars? the studious laity? the parochial teachers?

WELS plays a game of GA double-talk. They pretend to back away from the Kokomo UOJ Statements but they seethe and hurl anathemas at anyone teaching Justification by Faith. I question whether John Sparky Brenner can even say those three words - Justification by Faith - and explain them from the Scriptures and the Book of Concord.

If UOJ is a precious doctrine, then Justification by Faith must be darkness and corruption. Imagine how distorted the brains of the Mordor students must be upon graduation and ordination in WELS!

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From

http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2017/05/more-silliness-this-year-at-emmaus.html

 Supper at Emmaus - by M. Caravaggio
Luke 24:30 - 30 When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. 31 Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight.

Brenner - "Hoenecke, who was a Wisconsin Synod spokesman at a few of the free conferences, explained that doctrine must be drawn from those passages that teach that doctrine. We draw the doctrine of election from those passages that teach the doctrine of election, not from passages that teach justification by faith. Koehler summarizes Hoenecke’s comments from the free conference in Milwaukee in 1903." Emmaus paper.

GJ - Zounds. Hoenecke had no sense of the unified witness of the Scriptures, but chose to follow the thetical approach of Walther. That is - the thesis is solemnly pronounced first, then Scriptures are cited or mismatched to the dogmatic statement.

The Tenth Annual Emmaus Conference

December 20, 2016

The 10th Annual Emmaus Conference is Friday, April 28th, 2017, with a banquet the evening prior on Thursday, April 27th. The topic for the 2017 Emmaus Conference will be: “The Unsuspecting American Luthers”. The backgrounds, challenges, and impact of several Lutheran theologians in the 20^th Century will be explored and discussed.

• C. F. W. Walther, by the Rev. Dr. Fifth VP Daniel Preus
• A. Hoenecke, by the Rev. Dr. Prof. Spineless John Brenner
• U. V. Koren, by the Rev. Prof. Markos DeGarmeaux

From Dan the Dense on Walther - "Walther believed in objective justification (John 1:29; Romans 5:18; 2 Corinthians 5:15 & 19). His 14th thesis reads: “In the tenth place, the Word of God is not rightly divided when faith is required as a condition of justification and salvation, as if a person were righteous in the sight of God and saved, not only by faith, but also on account of his faith, for the sake of his faith, and in view of his faith.”13

GJ - Daniel, have you read Justification and Rome? How about Romans 4? Romans 5:1-2? The Gospel of John?

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Wherever two or three LCMS leaders are gathered together, CFW Walther worship begins. This Emmaus debacle was held in late April, but the papers are not posted yet. In this day of instant publishing, the papers could have been linked on the website. I recall Mirthless Mark Schroeder did not want his shared, years ago, not that he said anything worth publishing. Here is the non-archive archive.

The May 8th Christian News must be the archive, because they posted some promotional bits and photos about the event...afterwards. Oh dear, I missed the conference altogether. David Becker found the event disappointing, albeit without being there. Compared to WELS Luther Days, where Jay Webber spoke to one (1) person - and Natalie Pratt disappeared with the money - Emmaus 2017 was probably a smash hit.

We all know that Preus descendants are the Agent Orange of Justification by Faith. Whenever they suspect that Luther's doctrine is being taught somewhere, they spray their toxic dogma from Halle Rationalists all over, until nothing is left living: no faith, no Gospel, no fruits of the Gospel.

Does anyone wonder why the ELS is almost gone and WELS is corrupt beyond measure? To those who are kicked out of WELS, I always say, "Good for you. They did you a great favor." Alcoholism and adultery are not problems among WELS clergy and teachers - they are resume enhancers, if someone has the right friends and the wrong doctrine.

The strength of the LCMS is its mix of Pentecostal, ELCA wannabees, Walther worshipers, and Lutherans. The Missouri Synod is such a rainbow coalition that the bureaucrats do not have the power or urge to crack down on the Chief Article of the Christian Faith. Anyway, they have Otten to do their work for them. And Logorrhea - and their Fuller/Rome seminaries.

 You were born forgiven kids,
now don't ask any probing questions about this.

How bad is WELS? At Mordor Seminary in Mequon, Wendland is the salesman-in-charge of the New NIV. Valleskey was the previous president, based on years of gushing about Church Growth and studying at Fuller with his pal Bivens (also on the faculty). When I was there in 1987, I did not hear Church Growth promoted in the classroom. But once everyone was "finished," they were also required to attend the post MDiv training, which was all Church Growth. Besides that, when I accepted the call to Shepherd of Peace in Columbus, Ohio, the congregation had me attend Paul Kelm's Church Growth "evangelism seminar," which lasted a week. That event was stocked with such CG kahunas as Valleskey, Hartman, Kelm, Larry Olson, and such like.