Funniest or Saddest Lutheran Posts - Part III: Dead Last Lutherans (Steadfast) - An International Fraternity of Confessional Apostates

Anyone who posts on the Steadfast Lutheran political site - set up to promote Matt the Fatt - is admitting to doctrinal illiteracy and confessional apostasy. But this group is "international."

Are women in fraternities? The editors did not take Latin. Some women are there to teach the beta males, so it is really a sorority.

The Preus clan has its own private publishing outfit, and this is their own website, which they share with those who submit to the dogmatic verities of Bishop Martin Stephan, STD.

The posts are 100% Objective Justification and 0% Lutheran, so "confessional" must mean for them - "I admit it. I am a moron who never studied, never opened a Bible, never read Luther."

When Steadfast covered up for the LCMS and the sex offender,
by erasing all the posts about his crimes, did anyone quit writing for them?

 The case was consigned to the Know Nuffin file. No one knows nuffin about it.
Ken Remember is the archivist.

CPH clearance items below!
Did McCain ever work for Walter Drake?
Concordia Publishing House now has a Walter Drake ambiance.

 But the CPH gimmicks are great. Thanks for distracting us from the Reformation's 500th Anniversary, Paul and Matt.

Dead Last Lutherans Mangle the Augsburg Confession IV in a Few Words

 Without a twinge of conscience, the Dead Last Lutherans moonwalk from the
actual Augsburg Confession to the dogma of Halle Pietists.
Did Luther, Melanchthon, or the Concord editors call UOJ the Chief Article, the Master and Prince? Do your homework, Dr. Edmon.

"We cannot justify ourselves for we are sinners.  Our works are insufficient to pay for our sins for they lack the perfection necessary for atonement.  Blessedly, Christ died on the cross for our sins, living that perfect life that was necessary for our salvation.  By this act of objective justification, we are able by faith to receive the forgiveness of sins that Christ won on the cross.  This subjective justification is not subjective because of our feelings or our opinions but is subjective in the classical sense, being delivered to a specific person.  This complete work of Justification, you being declared righteous before God, is Christ’s work alone. All of this comes by faith alone (Romans 3-4).

UOJ is the Chief Article - Says Edmon, Zarling, and Bivens

The Doctrine of Justification is the pillar on which the Church stands or falls.  This is the beating heart of the Augsburg Confession, the whole Book of Concord, and in fact all Christian doctrine.  The entire Augsburg Confession leads up and flows from this article. Without this article, all other theology is useless as we are still in our sin and under God’s wrath.  But with this article, all other theology becomes useful and profitable to study. One simply cannot understate the importance of this article, both for the Reformation but also for all of Christianity. It is what makes us Christian and children of God because it is what Christ accomplished for you to make you His brothers and sisters."

Regurgitating the Walther-Stephan Halle Dogma

Paul Edmon

Romans 3 teaches Justification by Faith, not UOJ.
No wonder so many laity are dead-in-the-wool Halle sheep: their false teachers betray them and call it The Chief Article.

Take the quiz, Paul Edmon!

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GJ - I am not sure why LutherQuest (sic) writes about a conservative Lutheran reallignment when they are already alligned with ELCA. The Dead Last Lutherans discussion mob is nothing more than navel-gazing Walther fans.

How far we have progressed. During the Reformation era, when an education was very expensive and rare, they expected Martin Luther and Martin Chemnitz to earn doctorates in theology to have credibility in teaching.

But the LCMS-ELS-WELS place their greatest trust in a kidnapper, riot organizer, thief, and adultery enabler - whose education was limited to a bachelor's degree: CFW Walther.

1. Walther redefined Justification to make it fit his Halle-trained bishop and his own allegiance to Pietism.
2. Walther conned the Missouri Synod into calling F. Pieper, who simply repeated the Halle rationalism of Walther, with copious helpings of Latin.
3. Walther set in motion a philosophy that he was the ultimate judge of all doctrine, the Book of Concord, the blessings of human slavery, and other oddities. He is the Great Prophet who interprets everything today, which is the chief source of the Synodical Conference woes and its allignment with ELCA, another creation of Pietism. 
4. These impoverished Midwestern sects have little Biblical grasp because they still depend on the thetical statements favored by Walther, hiding his ineptitude in Biblical exegesis. Valleskey (WELS) used the same tap-dancing skills to walz his dull students into Church Growth veneration.

The Key to Understanding LutherQueasy, Steadfast Pietists, And Other Toxic Waste Sites

The question often arises, "Why are the LCMS gurus on the Net so far away from the Scriptures and the Book of Concord?"

The Lutheran seminaries teach the Roman Catholic view of the Church and priesthood. That is also why the LCMS pastors decided to join The Real Thing after a few years. If one believes the malarky taught at the seminaries, one might as well join the biggest and best version rather than a Midwest imitation.

Some emphasize Eastern Orthodoxy instead, but Rome and Eastern Orthodoxy are sister churches, even if Rome looks at EO as "defective." One Ft. Wayne graduate told me Easter Orthodoxy was "just another polity," - in other words, no different in doctrine.

So they have such an exalted view of Holy Mother Church and the priesthood that doctrine is an adiaphoron, a matter of indifference.

Clearly, no one is teaching the efficacy of the Word, or the LutherQuashers would not be so upset that someone is working outside of their franchise.

• First, one must be certified by false teachers who know as much about Justification by Faith as a donkey does about nuclear physics. 
• Secondly, one must have a franchise from the synod. Note how well this works for WELS, the micro-sects, and the mini-micro sects.
• The micro-minis want the synodical properties and grieve for decades of someone was unable or unwilling to grab some property for them.

The seminary graduates are devoted to their titles and privileges, not to their study of the Scriptures. Their hopes and dreams, goals and schemes are based upon synodical politics, so many of them play Judas goat with "friends" to enhance their reputation as synod guys.

In the LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic), everyone is born forgiven,
except for those who deny this great insight from Halle and Calvin. Those Justification by Faith cads are never forgiven, always shunned and hated.

Irony Abounds Where JBFA Is Banned - “Confessing the Faith with the Augsburg Confessors” (Sermon on Psalm 119:46, by Pr. Charles Henrickson) | Steadfast Lutherans

“Confessing the Faith with the Augsburg Confessors” (Sermon on Psalm 119:46, by Pr. Charles Henrickson) | Steadfast Lutherans: "“Confessing the Faith with the Augsburg Confessors” (Sermon on Psalm 119:46, by Pr. Charles Henrickson)
Posted on June 24, 2017 by Pastor Charles Henrickson

“Confessing the Faith with the Augsburg Confessors” (Psalm 119:46)"



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GJ - Readers may remember that Steadfast Lutherans banned any links to Ichabod, banned any posts from me, and also banned posts from those Lutherans who agreed with Justification by Faith as taught in the Scriptures, the Augsburg Confession, the Book of Concord, and Justification and Rome.

The faithful have not gone away, in spite of the shunning, but the Synodical Conference is slipping back down into the ooze from which it came - Pietism, Rationalism, Episcopal sex abuse, VD, and false doctrine.

Dreadful Dance with Synodical Conference Trivia. What is the objective/subjective justification controversy all about? | Steadfast Lutherans - Annnd - A Total Lack of Interest

 Waltherians later adopted the SJ/OJ distinction from
the Calvinist translator's explanation of the Halle Pietist, Knapp.
That is a mongrel's DNA - not what Webber claims.

Darth Buchholz and his subservient
disciple, Oh! Jay Webber, are a tag-team,
fakes, just like pro wrestling.

What is the objective/subjective justification controversy all about? | Steadfast Lutherans:


Webber intoned:
"The intended points of a properly-explained objective/subjective justification teaching have always been a part of Lutheran doctrine."



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GJ -

 A careful reading of this blather shows Walther
taught against Justification by Faith
and required making a decision for his Halle-born
universal absolution without faith.
Walther was weak in the Biblical languages, like Webber.

Webber intoned:
"The intended points of a properly-explained objective/subjective justification teaching have always been a part of Lutheran doctrine."

Webber deceives readers when he claims OJ/SJ to have been always taught among Lutherans. Following the entire Bible - Luther and the Book of Concord confessed Justification by Faith Alone. Chemnitz and Gerhard too. P. Leyser crushed the Webber wannabee Huber who tried to teach universal absolution at Wittenberg.

No, universal absolution without faith (OJ/SJ) came from Pietism, which was heavily influenced by Calvinism.

No one has a patent on OJ/SJ, but the earliest combination found is from the Calvinist Leonard Wood explained the opaque language of Knapp, the very famous - still in print - Halle theologian.

 The explanation is from Woods, a Calvinist superstar,
This book became a leading text among Protestants for the next 90 years. The German Missouri Synod would have used the original.

No one can defend OJ/SJ with the historical facts, so WELS-LCMS-ELS-ELCA leaders pursue their common agenda to unite their radical apostasy.

OJ/SJ - that fits so well with the apostasy of Church Growth.

Steadfast Bullies - All Bullies Are Cowards

The Steadfast Lutherans - in their solemn clergy roles, below.
The Steadfast Lutherans as they appear on their blog, above.

The Matt Harrison re-election team started the Steadfast (sic) Lutherans (sic) to provide impromptu and alleged volunteer support for Matt the Fat.

Darwin Schauer's infamy is preserved on this blog,
but erased from the Harrison-serving Steadfast Lutherans blog.

When some of the authors let themselves of their cage and expressed their dismay at the LCMS promoting a known sex offender into the pseudo-clergy ranks, Matt reminded them of their lowly stations in life. They caved and removed all the data about Darwin Schauer and the LCMS DP who empowered him.

The editor-in-chief of the Harrison Lobby comes from the parish where Darwin had sex with another minor. He told me about Harrison ordering the cover-up, adding an unhappy face  :(.

Why protect and stand up for children from one's home parish when a career is on the line?

Steadfast Founder Tim Rossow called all those who support
justification by faith "morons.

Steadfast and UOJ
Some may recall that Steadfast did not allow a discussion of justification by faith on their precious posts.

They even made it a point not to link this blog at any time. Most realize that not one of them has a PhD in theology or any publications to speak of, so that protecting their little sandbox is very special for them. Why let people know that most believing Christians teach justification by faith? Why let on that the Chief Article is justification by faith, not universal absolution without faith?

Behind every raging bully is a quivering, pants-wetting coward. They gather their brother bullies into micro-mob or they play hit-and-run, post-and-erase.

I told Herman Otten that Werning changed sides and was defending Bohlmann,
but Otten did not believe me.

Paradoxical Effect
Bullying works in many human endeavors, but has a paradoxical effect in the Christian Faith. The more hysterical the bullying, the more people wake up to the reason behind the loutish behavior of the bullies.

When I challenged "conservative" Waldo Werning about his allegiance to Fuller Seminary and proved he was lying (by quoting my Day-Timer notes), he went into a rage - behind my back of course. One ELS pastor said, laughing, "What did you do to Werning? He is bad-mouthing you like crazy."

Likewise, I drove the CLC's (sic) David Koenig to the brink by telling the truth about Valleskey and Fuller Seminary. He got Valleskey to admit going there, since they were Church Growth brethren of the same mould. When I published the confirmation and my source, Valleskey wigged out on Koenig. An audio tape would have been so amusing. "How dare you tell the truth to Jackson?"

And - that made Koenig angry with me. "The truth makes enemies," as Walther said when covering up the truth about his many crimes.

The truth does make enemies, but only the truth matters on Judgment Day. I wonder what so many "Lutheran" clergy will say when presenting themselves. James wrote,

3 My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment.

Steadfast Lutherans annual feast.

UOJists Are Getting Boiling Mad, But Cannot Make a Case for Universal Forgiveness without Faith

"I believe in the Chief Article of Christianity."
One of these statues is a bit different.

LCMS Pastor Steve Flo decided to pick a fight with me about justification. I have been writing about the issue for the last 15 years and knew about it since 1987 when Christian News had many articles about Kokomo and Universal Objective Justification.

Otten picked up on the Flo link, so I went to Flo's Facebook page and spent some time arguing for justification by faith. No one can harmonize the doctrine of Paul and Luther with the dogma of Halle University. Flo did not even try. He simply repeated the UOJ talking points and cute classroom quips learned in school.

Justification by faith is Biblical and well known among all scholars of all nations. UOJ is rationalistic and anti-Christian, largely hid from the members of Missouri, WELS, the Little Sect on the Prairie, and the almost-dead Church of the Lutheran Confession (sic).

Although Missouri leaders follow the false doctrine of Stephan-Walther-Pieper, a large swath of Missouri pastors disdain UOJ and teach justification by faith. Robert Preus clearly taught UOJ in his earlier career, when Church Growth was blossoming at Ft. Wayne - with his approval. But Preus' last book, Justification and Rome, repudiated UOJ in the clearest possible terms, not only in his quotations of orthodox Lutherans, but also in his own words.

Walther was not a Biblical scholar. I recently read that he did not know the Biblical languages well. He only had a bachelor's degree from Leipzig, where most of the faculty were rationalistic and considered believers to be mystics or Pietists. Walther's father was a rationalist, too. Walther followed his brother's lead and lined up with one dictatorial Pietist, Candidate Kuehn, and then another, Pastor Martin Stephan, after Kuehn died. When Stephan was tried for immorality with young women and put under house arrest, with police officers stationed in his house, the Pietist leader decided to decamp to America. The young clergy helped organize the mass migration and the older clergy stayed home.

Missouri likes to skip over the years between landing in New Orleans and forming the synod years later. Walther did not want a history written and almost nothing was done to cross him until Zion on the Mississippi was published, a doctoral dissertation of considerable detail and frankness.

Missouri was very much a blend of Pietism and Lutheran Orthodoxy, much like the Augustana Synod and the other groups that came over. Each one struggled with its Lutheran identity and became more Lutheran and less Pietistic and Unionistic. However, Pietism is a cancer that eats away at the Confessional and Biblical nature of Luther, the Book of Concord, and the post-Concord greats like Gerhard.

In contrast, Luther and Melanchthon were primarily Biblical scholars who taught by explaining the Scriptures directly, not by stating a thesis and citing a Biblical passage - for example in Missouri today, everyone on earth is forgiven without and before faith, Rom 4:25 - raised for our justification! That malapropism is found in the 1932 Brief Confession of the LCMS, now engraved in marble in the ossified hearts of Missouri Synod Walther fans.

Walther fans do not deal with the historical context of CFW's errors and his covering for Stephan's blatant adultery. Walther had no problem following a leader who took his mistress on the ship with him and parked her in the next cabin, near his eldest son! And the Great Walther signed Stephan's call to be bishop-for-life in New Orleans. So much to hide from the laity.

Walther's Pietism is denied. His poor education in rationalism and Pietism is overlooked. Instead, they make Walther the Rosetta Stone of theology, explaining all points and translating every possible obscure reference for us. Needless to say, the most frantic UOJ fan has a discussion blog called Reclaiming Walther. A newer, stinkier version is called Steadfast Lutherans, where posts on justification by faith are removed and this little blog cannot even be mentioned.

The bloated senior editor of Steadfast refers to those supporting justification by faith as "morons." So Luther and the Concordists are morons? How mature. And his junior editor covered up for the notorious sex offender Darwin Schauer when Matt Harrison demanded the threads be erased. Call it company culture. They covered up for Martin Stephan's obvious crimes - he installed a young mistress in his parsonage in Dresden, and re-installed her when Mrs. Stephan kicked her out. The Missouri founders did not see Stephan's syphilis or notice that he was always walking in the woods with young women in the middle of the night. The young women, including Walther's niece, were hanging around Stephan in St. Louis. The neighbors got very suspicious, and soon they were in Perryville, Missouri.

The Steadfast Lutherans were silenced (almost) and decimated by WELS, but Mark and Avoid Jeske's Change or Die! Conference is just fine with Mark the Mortician Schroeder. WELS has forged new bonds with ELCA that will never be broken. Dost thou not see how Pietism has triumphed in the LCMS, WELS, and ELS? They agree in doctrine with ELCA - Walther's dream - the entire world is forgiven without faith. They rejoice in their teaching to sin more that grace may abound.

But now - let's focus on the truth of the Scriptures. These may be familiar. I only do this to get people back into Luther and the Confessions, to see which Lutherans are faithful to the Word of God.

Ft. Wayne quip - "You are not a Christian. You are a Faithian."
What does Luther say?

Jay Webber and Steve Flo -
can you read this plain English from your seminary president?

Steadfast Pietists - repent.

Imputation means counted.
Please read Romans 4:24, then 4:25.

Imputed, counted, reckoned - all from the same Greek word.
Can the UOJ fanatics sit down and read the Greek New Testament?
I think not.

UOJists in WELS never noticed DP Werner reliving Stephan
or Valleskey promoting Church Growth with equal ardor.

Walther has the last word, as always, quoted by the Little Sect on the Prairie,
Jay Webber's tiny group.
Walther was definitely a Halle Pietist and - via Seminex -
 a founder of ELCA.

The Editor Who Erased the Sex Scandal Now Complains about LCMS Apostasy

Joshua could have stood up to Matt the Fat,
but he caved, erased the Darwin Schauer thread, and got a promotion.
The bossman at No-Fast Lutherans calls JBFA teachers "morons."

No caption needed.

No-Fast Lutherans.

Me? Stand firm?

Rev. Dr. Matthew Becker, LCMS Clergyman. Exonerated.

January 22nd, 2015Post by Pastor Joshua Scheer

It came out during the North Dakota District Convention that the case against Rev. Dr. Matthew Becker, an LCMS clergyman who teaches at Valparaiso University has ended with the result that he was exonerated of any charge of false teaching.

President Harrison informed the District Convention of the results.  He and his administration have been working hard on the Becker case for some time (since taking office).  The CTCR has also been working on the dissents that Dr. Becker filed (dissenting to the Synod’s stance on women’s ordination and evolution).  In the end, the process has failed to discipline one of the most flagrant dissenters to official LCMS doctrine.

A committee formed by the Dispute Resolution Process has now exonerated him.  The District President of the Northwest District (where Dr. Becker holds membership) has refused to take action against him.  President Harrison has gone on record as speaking against this and expressing his own frustration that he has run out of options as Synod President to discipline him.  The Synod’s legal documents and opinions forbid the Synod President from dealing with an individual member (CCM ruling after Newtown made sure of that).

The chief remaining action is to of course report it to the 2016 Convention of the LCMS and ask for the Convention to take action.

As for me, the Becker case has been a sort of litmus test on how the LCMS can handle things with regards to false doctrine.  This is sad, but shows how utterly broken the Synod is to handle even the most open and shut cases.  Why has FiveTwo not been taken up the Dispute Resolution Process – this is why.

The Synod in Convention can choose to do nothing.  The Synod will then become an umbrella overarching various theologies, one true, many false (which it apparently already is).  This of course does not glorify God or hallow His Name.

The Synod in Convention needs to realize that the mechanism which it has to deal with these issues is utterly broken.

Pray for those involved.  Dr. Becker, evolution and women’s ordination has won in LCMS Inc.’s court.  Lord have mercy.

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.   – James 3:1

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.  – 2 Peter 2:1-3

Never read the Formula of Concord's
The Righteousness of Faith,
Article #3.

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GJ

The sniveling, whining crybabies of Steadfast have been so far up the Purple Palace that they could see the soles of Paul McCain's Gucci loafers.

Harrison started the Steadfast blogsters to be his Janissaries, but they are more like the palace eunuchs of the Muslim glory days in the Ottoman Empire, lolling about, physically decayed, morally corrupt, easily angered by threats to their honor and income.