ICHABOD, THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED - The antidote trusts the efficacious Word in the Means of Grace. John 16:8. Isaiah 55:8ff. Romans 10.
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"Either SOLA SCRIPTURA or POPERY or SO-CALLED EASTERN ORTHODOXY! No other alternatives are possible for the Christian Faith!"
Readers are bound to ask, "What happened to Justification by Faith? The Chief Article of the Christian Faith? Robert Preus taught that in his last book."
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| ELCA, LCMS, and ELDONA agree - "We want to be papal, even popish." |
One WELS teacher said, "Foreign students are walking bags of money." Various students from other countries pay for room, board, and books with cash from mom and dad. These students are a great asset to the school, but the schools have taken that for granted, part of the slippage that has become an avalanche of cost and disastrous budgets.
Synod schools are not based on quality but DNA. Only some of the Seminex "heroes" left, eager to join the nascent ELCA. The rest of Seminex burrowed into the woodwork and took over, step by step. The Preus brothers, Jack and Robert, claimed the orthodox won. Yay! But nobody had the spine to deal with the layers of ELCA wannabees - and no one did.
One little example - easily multiplied - was the CPH NIV Commentary. The editor of Psalms denied the many examples of Christ in the Psalms. I recall Herman Otten posting that fact, especially since Luther wrote a commentary on the Psalms which was just the opposite. How does one get around Psalm 2, or Psalm 22? I have had Old Testament gasp at how literal Psalm 22 is. One student said, "That is a verbatim description of the crucifixion!"
Was anything done about this? No. I met that Psalms NIV-CPH editor at a little gathering of LCMS pastors about that time. He retired. Nobody fussed about him. Otten, oddly enough, always defended anyone who graduated from the St. Louis or Ft. Wayne seminaries, even when some of them bolted for the Elysian fields of ELCA. Herman said to me, "The Seminex professors at LSTC were not the problem!"
Another example was his support and promotion of an ex-LCMS pastor on the man's third marriage. I said to Herman, "That's three now, and you are putting him on the front page of CN." He tried to remember, so I said. "The first wife left him because he chose the other as the mother of his child. You told me they broke up too, so this is either a third wife or that pastor re-married #1 or #2." He conceded that fact, but it made no difference.
The Otten-Preus amalgamation worried most about Objective Faithless Justification. The current raging pipsqueak Christian News editor - just kidding, it's worse - can only carry on the task of sanctifying anyone who graduated from one or the other seminary. Jack and Robert Preus are given a pass because they touched the nerve of the LCMS laity, who were far more conservative than the pastors as a whole. Even then, the pastors on Otten's side staged a huge dinner in the early days, to show their support of Otten and the good old days.
The ELCA wannabees realized they could purify LCMS by burials over time, and that worked. Who is left of the ones who fought apostasy? CPH became very ELCA-ish, worse than ever before. The seminaries were so Romanized that Robert Preus wrote Justification and Rome, repudiating OJ with many great citations from the post-Book of Concord theologians. Preus saw it coming, but even the two sons, as editors, did not see or accept Justification by Faith. One cannot win a war going to battle with cardboard swords and newsprint shields.
Back to the Schools of Higher Education
LutherQuest and the ALPB Online Forum Ovaltines are trying to float the colleges a little longer. Matt the Fatt's regime has closed Selma, the NYC college, and the Chinese campus. The HotChalk school - Portland - is teetering with a huge lawsuit. The great brains who thought they could make a fortune from the HotChalk learning platform were dumber than any salesman might hope to meet.
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| Matt (without a beard) never stops reaching out to the Left. |
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| This poor little girl model lost her teeth to cavities and her health to sugared milk. |
The Ovaltines are elderly and retired ministers, plus one former LCMS District President who invited himself to a pan-religious worship fest, so he could participate. They are having a heap of fun going over the Seminex split - 50 years ago - and a new book about it. Click here to facilitate an afternoon snooze, after reading their blame-shame-game.
ELCA was repudiating the Scriptures - in their prehistoric synods - 100 years ago. They smoothly moved into Universalism, using the same dogmas as CFW Walther and other dolts - coming from the rationalism and Pietism of Europe. In short, ELCA dinosaurs came from Halle University's Pietism decaying into Universalism. LCMS-WELS-ELS dogma dinosaurs came from Bishop Martin Stephan, STD at Halle University - and his loyal bootlicker - CFW Walther. Walther attached himself to Stephan because his Pietist conventicle had lost their guru. Stephan wrote a letter to Walther and Walther said it saved his life (because he was killing himself with Pietistic extremism over his guilt). Stephan's forgiveness without faith became the be-all and end-all of Walther's American cult.
In short, the LCMS-WELS-ELS began by denying and repudiating the Scriptures, especially the Chief Article of the Christian Religion, Justification by Faith.
Robert Preus was the only synodical conference guy who repented at the end, in his book Justification and Rome. Just to show how dense the graduates of Concordia Seminary, Ft. Wayne are, two of his many sons - Rolf and Daniel - edited the book and did not understand its clear meaning and implications.
LCMS-ELS-WELS upholding the truth is the cackling sound of their Father Below, who knows the facts and watches over his apostate flock, urging them onward to Fuller, Trinity Divinity, and their precious little discussion groups.
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| All of you know the Chief Article of the Christian Religion, as confessed by Luther, Melanchthon, and Chemnitz. This graphic will be repeated until Bivens and Valleskey agree and ask forgiveness. |
LutherQuislings - When You Care Enough To Send the Very Best - And Lie
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| We are one in the Thrivent We are one in their dough. We are won the Thrivent We have claws in their dough. And we praise that all unity has jolly been restored. And they'll know we are OJ by our love, by our love. And they'll know we are OJ by our love. |
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| Feline OJ. |
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| These chaps - from the same class - helped to jump-start Church Growth in WELS. Ever since. they have multiplied like fleas in a neglected dog kennel. |
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| Installation of Andrew Preus, Trinity, New Haven, Missouri, 2021. Sam Nafzger is on the far left, back row. Walter Otten is almost on the far right, back row. Andrew is flanked by his brother and his father Rolf, front row. Herman Otten died in 2019, closely tied with the Robert Preus clan but not with the Jack Preus side. |
The Scriptures, Luther, and the Book of Concord teach Justification by Faith, the Chief Article of Christianity, but the LCMS and Sam Nafzger do not.
As Nafzger (Harvard PhD) must know, CFW Walther learned Objective (Faithless) Justification from his Pietistic Bishop, Martin Stephan. Walther never deviated from that dogma, lovingly repeated and quoted by the ELS below -
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| Walther's "make a decision for world absolution" was taken from his syphilitic bishop via Halle University Pietism, a misinterpretation of 1 Timothy 3:16. |
Running through the writings of the sixteenth-century Lutheran confessors is a constant theme: God declares sinners right with Him by His grace alone (sola gratia) through faith alone (sola fide), p. 395.
This is clever double-talk, because LCMS, WELS, ELS, and CLC (sic) are delighted by their OJ agreement. They use ambiguity to cloak their agenda. The OJists love the Walther approach, so they soften the stupidity so the sheep may be slaughtered and scattered.
As WELSians like to say, "The Nafzger quotation ca-a-a-a-a-an be taken the right way."
It only takes a page turn to see Wiley E. Nafzger spring the trap -
After years of struggling with this problem, Luther finally was led to see through his study of Holy Scripture that God's justification of sinners is not a process but rather His declaration that the sins of the world have been forgiven on account of Jesus' substitutionary death on the cross, p. 396.
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| Nafzger is perfect ELCA, perfect Rambach, perfect Halle Pietism, perfect Stephan - but not Scriptural, not Book of Concord. |
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| Rolf Preus used to declare "raised for our justification" by itself until I repeated Romans 4:24 with 4:25...many times. He seems to have stopped mentioning Justification and Rome too. |
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I was trying to figure out which is the worst Lutheran discussion site. I realized how bad they were in their own unique, boring, cowardly ways.
ALPBODB
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| ELCA Pastor Steve Tibbets had 10,000 posts published on ALPBODB before his arrest. |
The American Lutheran Publicity Bureau Online Discussion Board has to be the worst in its own special way, starting with its name, long enough to be a government agency. If they do not want to discuss something significant, they bury it in a sudden burst of posts about nothing in particular. Avoidance is their true nature. When a member of the group, with 10,000 posts, was arrested and jailed, no one thought to mention it. However, I have seen them reach 30 pages about nothing in particular. No matter what the topic, they drift off in many directions at once. Rolf Preus loves to argue with people and keeps the boredom at peak levels.
LutherQuest
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| Do not look now, but Dr. Robert Preus quoted this in Justification and Rome, and his sons failed to comprehend this repudiation of Objective (Faithless) Justification. |
LutherQuest, still looking for Luther and not finding him, also hosts Rolf Preus. He protects the family name and self-publishing business. The Preus inter-synodical team members are the only clan with their own private publishing company, perhaps merely to keep all their cousins' names straight. One or two LQ members actually post interesting, factual, referenced material. However, several anonymous sources yak endlessly. If they keep practicing their self-involvement, they could move up to ALPB Online Discussion Board debates, perfect for inducing deep sleep and mild nightmares.
Christian News, aka Calvinist News, has a unique place in yellow journalism. Herman and Grace Otten played both sides of many debates, eager to keep everyone buying the tabloid. Some realize the utter hypocrisy of LCMS politics, starting with Jack Preus (Rolf's uncle). CN was perfect for running for synod president but became hemlock each time the CN lover was elected to that office -
I was threatened by WELS for writing hundreds of CN articles, but WELS liked to send their own articles and get them published in CN. The CLC had the same policy, Menton screaming at me for publishing in CN, but sending bunches there - written by himself. CLC pastors did the same without the shouting. The former CLC president is now a regular writer for Hale's CN, a great example of highly polished hypocrisy. The CLC is one big, miserable, inbred family. Their college game is (seriously, folks) - "How am I related to you?" Not "Am I" but "How am I?"
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| Pastor Hair-Gel has a blog, but no one reads it. His Facebook rants were so bad, he erased them seconds later (but I copied them even faster). |
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This horrible waste of repeat-after-me dogmatics includes Rolf Preus and some of his relatives too. I scanned the list of authors and found an endless number of Objective (Faithless) Justification fans listed. When one of the baby Preus kids published a series of blurbs about faithless Justification, the mob indulged in the normal combination of personal attacks and resistance to Justification and Rome, written by Robert Preus and edited - but no longer quoted - by Rolf and Dan Preus. Blacklisting one's father must be a lowpoint in the Preus family inter-synodical accomplishments.
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| The only requirements for publishing in CN are 1) Promoting Fuller Seminary nonsense and Objective (Faithless) Justification. |
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| The WELS Church Growth sorority has been quietly retiring for years. Their goals of total apostasy and servile blasphemy have been met - Management by Objectives - guided by their Father Below. |
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| Jay Webber passed along the ELS nickname for Mordor - The Sausage Factory - where identical pork sausage is ground out annually. |
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| Imagine the future! |
The essay on blasphemy will continue - and expand.
The LCMS 1932 Brief Statement, which repudiates the Chief Article of Christianity, deserves a lengthy and detailed response.
They (LCMS, WELS, ELS, CLC (sic), and UUA have been rubbing your faces in the 1932 B.S. for almost a century, so the Statement deserves a careful examination. I will add to it, posting the latest addition by itself, also adding those additions to the expanding essay.
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| Cascione said he told Robert Preus to write this. Jack ignores Justification and Rome, which is too deep for the Objective (Faithless) Justification mob, and that book is also Dr. Preus' final work. Rolf Preus does not mention Justification and Rome either, nor does Daniel. |
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| Anders Nelson did his trans dance at Luther Seminary's chapel, his/her friends laughing and clapping. ELCA ordained him and gave him/her a call. |
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| The giant Central Lutheran Church - Twin Cities -was the scene of the famous 2009 vote. Six ELCA bishops resigned and started a mini-synod. |
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| Anita Hill, center, was part of the Mark Hanson (below) move away from the Scriptures. |
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| ELCA Bishop Mark Hanson, promoted to Presiding Bishop from the notorious Minnesota district - "Brett, I never knew it was going to go so far." |
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| Rev. Dr. Bishop Megan often smirks for photos. |
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| This is the orans position, which ELDONA copies in its clumsy manner. |
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| I wondered where Heiser and crew got their high church costumes + masks. Megan started a trend. |
"The first openly transgender Evangelical Lutheran bishop filed a lawsuit against the church Wednesday alleging he was pushed from his post after enduring a year of discrimination and harassment.
The Rev. Megan Rohrer claims the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America forced him to resign in June — a year after he was elected to his post– after letting him take the fall for alleged racist behavior
In his lawsuit, Rohrer alleges he only resigned from the San Francisco-based post because the high-ranking members of the church created a “hostile work environment” from his first day on the job in May 2021.
He claims he was deliberately misgendered, ridiculed for featuring drag queens at his ordination and harassed for being transgender."
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| This is Central Lutheran Church, where ELCA gathered in 2009 and voted to self-destruct. |
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| Liz Eaton became Presiding Bishop in 2013, defeating Mark Hanson, behind her. |
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| Four bishops and three are women. No I am not counting. |
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| This was an ELCA transgender ordination. |
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| Former ALC President David Preus, cousin to Jack and Robert Preus, had a very strange funeral here not long ago. Former LCA/ALC leaders agreed that they acted stupidly in forming ELCA in 1987. |
