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Monday, February 19, 2024
The Tree Was Slowly Killed by Cutting the Root -
Just Like LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC(sic).
The Concordia University System schools appear to be following this "trend":
- Concordia University-Wisconsin has their "Diversity and Belonging."
- Concordia University-Ann Arbor has their Office of Multicultural Engagement."
- Concordia University-Irvine holds a "Unity Week" with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Coach, "Ms. Mo".
- Concordia University-Chicago has a course (EDU-6300 - Perspectives in Research and Literature Across all Grade Ranges) that includes using literature and research across all grades as "a basis for the promotion of diversity, equity and culturally responsive instruction."
- Concordia University-Nebraska has their "Acts 2 Commission" (a renamed Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity).
I posted long ago about the previous tenant of this house, now dubbed Ichabode III. He decided to cut the major root when pruning a small tree in the backyard. I slowly cleaned up the back and found that one small tree was wobbly. My neighbor across the fence said, "Do you know what happened? The guy before you cut the root. I told him that would kill it, but he did not listen."
I told my father-in-law about the same disaster, when he cut the roots sticking out of the ground. He finally told me it died and had to be removed.
Children were not allowed to climb on my wobbly tree. The tree remained for years before falling over from a gentle push. Some roots survived but even the branches were dead and brittle.
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| Some entities will be able to use facilities, repurposed, soon enough. |
Now - much too late - the crybabies are saying something must be done to keep their LCMS-WELS-ELS colleges alive. Nota bene - two new gymnasia are being completed - one for the ELS and one for WELS, about 35 miles away from each other.
The nation's colleges probably all imagined that online education would lift them up and give them more options for overpricing student tuition, board (?), books, and amenities. Everyone jumped on UOP's wagon and all were keen on educating a receding population. HotChalk (online services) and one LCMS are in the courts figuring out who wins.
ELCA colleges were tanking a few decades ago. Now it is time for LCMS-ELS-WELS to face the executioners. Church magazines went kaput too, even with Thrivent subsidies. The synods had their fun with the Campus Growth Movement, and it is failing.
The root cause is simple - faith in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, born of the Virgin Mary, Teacher, miracle worker, Who healed the blind and deaf, raised the dead, and suffered torture and death to atone for the sins of the world, rising from the dead, ascending to Heaven, and governing His Church on the right hand of God.
ELCA is DOA, so let's ask about the Big Four above - LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC(sic). They collectively followed ELCA into the Slough of Despond, gathering their demographics, stunned with fear and alarm, gobbling the business trash - "robbing the Egyptians" - at Fuller Seminary.
The Big Four do not teach faith in Jesus Christ. Without faith in Jesus Christ, nothing good happens. The supposedly conservative managers (not leaders, no guts) are crying like the disciples in a storm, the wind howling, the sky black, the waves crashing and swamping the boat.
They have made matters worse by creating their own Tower of Babel, a rainbow coalition of Scriptures. Some pastors who hate the NIV will use the ESV, which is like getting a better Edsel. The members and the youth may pick up on "Living" and "Amplified" Bibles, which are no better than badly written commentaries. The gay National Council of Unbelieving Churches have licensed the RSV, ESV, NRSV, etc. Everyone knows, anything goes.
Those who trust in Jesus Christ will be rewarded with many blessings. Lacking faith, they cannot even imagine the efficacy of the Word (an upcoming book). That is why Calvinists and Pietists succumb to the Unitarian-Universalist Creed.
Friday, February 16, 2024
Another Reason for the Conjoined Universities Going Broke - From LutherQuest
| Rick Strickert (Carlvehse) Senior Member Username: Carlvehse Post Number: 10981 Registered: 10-2003 |
"Plus they have gone full bore dei and crt and total wokeness. Go woke go broke." Here are just a few examples of how woke CUW and CUAA have become:
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Wednesday, June 28, 2023
California and New York State Were Once Considered the Best Places for Public Education and Low Costs. Thank You - Rick Strickert and LQ
Rick Strickert (Carlvehse) Senior Member Username: Carlvehse Post Number: 10714 Registered: 10-2003 |
California heads toward hell in a handbasket Excerpted from The Daily Signal June 13, 2023, article, "State Senator Tells Parents to Flee His Own State Amid Bill That Would Take Kids Away From Non-’Affirming’ Parents": Excerpted from AB 957: Don't hold your breath waiting for imprecatory prayers in California Lutheran church worship services. |
Friday, May 26, 2023
Seminex Won - Get Over It - The Proof Is Everywhere in the LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC, LutherQuest, Christian News, and the ALPB Ovaltines
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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.
Friday, September 3, 2021
Never Read Luther, Quest Continues Its Endless Pursuit of Dogmatic Error
Steve Ames (Sames) Senior Member Username: Sames Post Number: 1819 Registered: 11-2004 |
Dick Rockenbach: “it seems to me the LCMS was in merger mode with both the WELS and ALC and when the ALC began to ordain Women WELS immediately withdrew merger efforts with the LCMS.” Mr. Rockenbach, it is hurtful and offensive to suggest that the WELS would ever have considered merger with the ALC or tolerated the LCMS merging with the ALC. The short-hand explanation that the WELS broke church fellowship with the LCMS over fellowship leaves out the more troubling aspect of the LCMS practice of fellowship. That is for the LCMS what constitutes agreement on doctrine for the establishment of church fellowship. A WELS paper given in 1954 identified the false doctrine of the ALC as: • Rejection of the teaching of Objective Justification • Man cooperates in his conversion • The doctrine of Election as solely God from eternity knowing who would come to faith -- in view of faith • Inerrancy of the Bible as an open question • Rejection of papacy as the Anti-Christ “The Inadequacy of the Common Confession as a Settlement of Past Differences” -- By Ernst H. Wendland -- August 8-10, 1954 http://essays.wisluthsem.org:8080/bitstream/handle /123456789/670/WendlandDifferences.pdf?sequence=1& isAllowed=y |
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Monday, February 24, 2020
Lutheran Layman Responds to LutherQuest
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
LutherQuest (sic) Bares Its Fangs.
How WAM II Was Beaten Like a Rented Mule for Teaching Justification by Faith
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| Exactly where in the Bible is this Dreck taught? |
Daniel Iwinski (Polishlutheran) Junior Member Username: Polishlutheran Post Number: 44 Registered: 12-2005 |
I know lots can and has been written about this subject, especially here on LutherQuest. I know Greg Jackson denies universal objective justification. I am assuming he believes Jesus died for the whole world and the world's sins have been atoned for. Is his take simply the "in view of faith" doctrine? Does he believe faith is still a gift of God created and worked in an individual? Thanks in advance for any insight. |
GJ - "In view of faith" is not a Biblical doctrine. It is a slogan used in a cowardly way to attack Justification by Faith, the Chief Article, which term they largely ignore, except when using it to confuse people with OJ, SJ, UOJ, General Justification, and Justification of the World. Pieper, Mueller, and David Scaer combine the three terms to confuse the issue and snarl for their own little hobby horse, Objective Justification.
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Someone on LQ directed the probie to Robert Preus' pratfall.
Dr. Greg Jackson has repeatedly stated on Luther Quest that Dr. Robert Preus was not in agreement with Objective Justification. [GJ - False - I repeatedly stated Preus was for OJ before he was against OJ - in Justification and Rome.]
I served as the PR Flack for Fort Wayne from 1978-1981. “Missouri In Perspective” the ELIM paper, criticized the LC-MS position on Objective Justification. As editor for the Concordia Theological Seminary - Fort Wayne “News Letters” I asked Dr. Preus to respond in the Spring 1981 Issue. [GJ - Note Jack's preening. Preus obeyed him!] The following is his reply, plus other relative excerpts.
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| McCain also pitched for this absurd statement. |
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Friday, December 14, 2018
LutherQuest Question - Answered!
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Dick Rockenbach (Drock) Senior Member Username: Drock Post Number: 2378 Registered: 11-2004 |
is there a good resource that has a timeline for the changing early Catholic Church to the RC doctrine of Mary? |
| Steven Thomas Karp (Steven_karp) Junior Member Username: Steven_karp Post Number: 31 Registered: 5-2015 |
Without going into a lot of reference works, try the chapter 6 "Doctrines Concerning the Virgin Mary" in Gregory Jackson's Catholic Lutheran Protestant, pages 193-229, and on pages 225 is a handy comparison chart, showing "Doctrine," "Church Action," and :Accepted By." |
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| Free, public domain - at this link. Someone could easily look up all the references to Mary by downloading the PDF and using control-f "Mary" and "virgin" for a secondary search. |

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