All About the Savior

"Built on the Rock the Church doth Stand"
by Nicolai F.S. Grundtvig, 1783-1872
Translated by Carl Doving, 1867-1937

Tune - Kirken den er et" is linked here

1. Built on the Rock the Church doth stand,
Even when steeples are falling;
Crumbled have spires in every land,
Bells still are chiming and calling,
Calling the young and old to rest,
But above all the soul distrest,
Longing for rest everlasting.

2. Surely in temples made with hands,
God, the Most High, is not dwelling;
High above earth His temple stands,
All earthly temples excelling.
Yet He whom heavens cannot contain
Chose to abide on earth with men,
Built in our bodies His temple.

3. We are God's house of living stones,
Builded for His habitation;
He through baptismal grace us owns
Heirs of His wondrous salvation.
Were we but two His name to tell,
Yet He would deign with us to dwell,
With all His grace and His favor.

4. Now we may gather with our King
E'en in the lowliest dwelling;
Praises to Him we there may bring,
His wondrous mercy forthtelling.
Jesus His grace to us accords;
Spirit and life are all His words;
His truth doth hallow the temple.

5. Still we our earthly temples rear
That we may herald His praises;
They are the homes where He draws near
And little children embraces.
Beautiful things in them are said;
God there with us His covenant made,
Making us heirs of His kingdom.

6. Here stands the font before our eyes
Telling how God did receive us;
The altar recalls Christ's sacrifice
And what His table doth give us;
Here sounds the Word that doth proclaim
Christ yesterday, today, the same,
Yea, and for aye our Redeemer.

7. Grant then, O God, where'er men roam,
That, when the church-bells are ringing,
Many in saving faith may come
Where Christ His message is bringing:
"I know Mine own, Mine own know Me;
Ye, not the world, My face shall see.
My peace I leave with you." Amen.

Hymn #467
The Lutheran Hymnal
Text: Eph. 2: 19-22
Author: Nicolai F.S. Grundtvig, 1837
Translated by: Carl Doving, 1909, alt.

All About the Savior

Where do we find the key revelation in the entire Bible - a summary, a portrait, an anchor, or simply - bedrock? The famous Jesus v. Peter is brushed aside, as if the climax has Jesus building on the first Pope, for "On this Rock I will build My Church."

Matthew 16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter (a rock), and upon this Rock (bedrock) I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

The Church of Rome gets this verse completely twisted, and today no seminarian or pastor will stop and study this in Greek, no matter which denomination, because so few take the time to clarify this tiny little verse in the original. 

I am willing to bet that all the denominations openly or furtively align themselves with the papacy, even if only through the Almy catalogue. LCMS and WELS pastors used to adorn themselves with grim, black Calvinist robes - adorned with colorful stoles in the latter days. More each year are going full papacy with the best of costumes and smoke pots.

His Eminence, Bishop Jim Heiser (fish hat) gave Ichabod readers a sample of the high church, Rome-centric pastors from Ft. Wayne and the Other One. Wayners resist saying "St. Louis" because of their imaginary superior status. Sadly, these photos are no longer being published, since they lack gravitas and sanctimony.

Bedrock

Modernists cannot abide the thought of Jesus being divine, so they are very cozy with the Church of Rome, where the Savior is downplayed to emphasize the holiness of the Pope and His underlings (Let him that readeth understand, Matthew 24:15).  Note that the papal wannabees go along with gazillion holy days, prayers, and honors for every dead person except the Savior, the only one who rose from death.

The modernists make the Word of God devoid of anything except their own material desires. ELCA - in one small corner of their world - Explores Lutheran Values - with an emphasis on abortion. They glory in their shame. And yet, from the anxious bleating of the sheep who happen to be wolves, the Faithless Walther Four - LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic) follow ELCA and even get ahead of the apostasy.

The Singular in the Trinity

The Savior Jesus is the keystone, so believers know that the Bible begins and ends with the Son of God, from  the Creating Word in Genesis 1 and John 1 to the ending of Revelation.

Everyone should be furious that colleges, seminaries, and denominational drones are intent on replacing the Gospel of Jesus Christ with second-rate sales gimmicks, still being borrowed from Peter Drucker and the gang at Fuller Seminary and other bandit hide-outs.

Even worse, they have kidnapped the Bible business to keep it in harmony with the frauds from the Church of Rome, Tischendorf, the American Bible Society, and the even worse United Bible Society.

The Faithless Walther Four - LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic) are eager to make money from selling bad, expensive, conflicted Bibles. All their changes are against the divinity of Christ and faith in Him.

I ran across a so-called Lutheran blog, now deceased, that complained about the Walther Four denying the use of the New KJV. The so-called best of the alternatives (like gourmet vomit) happily engages in changing the main text and also in providing apostate readings in the footnotes.

Scholars are divided. Isaiah 7:14. It was either the Virgin Birth or not.

Scholars are divided. Mark 1:1. He was the Son of God or not.

The establishment of alternatives argues that the New Testament is not reliable - and Scriptural doctrine is whimsical.  

Jesuit training pays off, and the Walther Four have at least 8 Jesuit PhDs.

Justification by Faith - How Many Are the Ways To Attack the Gospel?

 

These are just a few of the ways to attack the Gospel

1. A dedicated Lutheran layman asks the district pope about the official truths of the LCMS. The district pope says - "Your unkind accusations betray the fact that you are NOT a Christian. I have answered you with direct quotes from the Holy Bible which you persistently dismiss, again showing you are NOT a Christian but are rather a person who mocks and rejects God's Holy Word! The entire world is forgiven IN CHRIST, since God does NOT IMPUTE THEIR TRESPASSES unto them (in Christ)."

2. The Faithless Walther Four embraces the latest NIV Bible and ridicules the KJV.  NIV Romans 3:22b - "There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus."

NIV Romans 3:22a This righteousness is given through faith in[h] Jesus Christ to all who believe. (The NIV footnote h should be "by faith of Jesus..." - which is too deep for the Faithless Four Waltherians. They seem to teach Justification by Faith in verse 22a,  but invent Objective Justification in verse 24 - "all are justified"  by adding "all". 

3. The St. Louis seminary professor converted himself into a Roman Catholic, and yet the Faithless Four glory in the ridiculousness of Edward Preuss' Objective Justification reveries.

Can any literate person read this garbage without laughing?

4. Can we count the endless WELS essays on Objective Faithless Justification? "

"There are currently over 4400 essays, 60 audio essays, and 14 videos online."

The WELS Faithless Essay Files on Objective Justification currently number more than 770 items.

Listen Up! - Ye Faithless Walther Four - LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic). Jesus, Paul, And All Scriptures Condemn You!

 

The papal tiara, modeled by Pope John 23, was replaced by the humble bishop's mitre. 

"For God is a great enemy to high titles and human wisdom, hence he allows them at times to be handled roughly, and puts them to shame in their speculations, that the truth of the proverb may appear: The learned are the most perverted." Luther's Sermons, Trinity 8.

The Pope, denominations, and all Lutheran sects decree from Vatican Hill - "God's Word is whatever we conjure up."

The Three-Year Lectionary came from Vatican II, which was only an embellishment and continuance of Vatican I, 1868-70, when the Pope and his minions were declared infallible. Today, the Pope's lectionary is used by ELCA, LCMS, WELS, and the micro-sects.

Some will shout or say, "The three-year lectionary is from the Scriptures! Are you opposed to the Word of God?!"

My answer is "Not at all. But you cannot tolerate the King James, the only one using the Traditional New Testament text. Therefore, every reading in the Antichrist's lectionary erases and corrupts verses as their toy, their game, their racket." 

They corrupt the resurrection of Jesus in Mark 16:9-20, which is scuppered by adding a break after Mark 16:8 or verses 9-20 dropped into a footnote to portray weakness. The  sacred Otten-Beck Bible does the same.

Part Two - Barth, Bultmann, Pieper, Tillich, Braaten-Jenson - ad nauseum - And the Antichrist Lutheran Synods

Most people have not read from the list of dogmaticians above, a blessing. Someone should edit a Dummies book describing them all in one slender, folksy volume. They are the font and the Spindletop of all the moderns. Braaten-Jenson even published a book called Mary the Mother of God.

The dogmaticians pile up their ideas and footnotes, dancing around with various notions they want to promote, destroy, or ignore. No matter what people guess, the goal is a big fat set of books that impress and make money. 

Lost in this carnival is the efficacy of the Word of God and faith in Jesus Christ. The theologians, clownish Biblical scholars, and seminary professors are united by their common apostasy. They might have begun as believers, but they can only succeed as skeptics who mock the Scriptures and encourage the mockery.

The Walther Four managers (they are not leaders) fulminate when anyone dares to teach clearly the Bible and Justification by Faith. They are the mini-popes, Antichrists in the plural, who rage against the Gospel while disparaging the Gospel.

KJV 1 John 2:18 - Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.

The Vatican Audience Hall features a statue of Christ that looks like a demon.

The Vatican Audience Hall looks like the inside of a serpent - how revealing!

Has Anyone Else Noticed That the Faithless Walther Four - LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic) - Are So Much Like ELCA?

 

Moldstad (ELS) has gone to his reward. Schroeder (WELS) is near retirement. Liz Eaton (ELCA) just got over six months - leave of absence - and Harrison (LCMS) has kept up with Eaton's impressive weight gain. Together they have destroyed more churches than the Chicago Fire.

"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans." The leaders have chased after the fool's gold of Church Growth and Irrevocable Annuities. The faster the congregations fold, the greater the use of that equity for the greedy, overfed executives.

If they would humble themselves before the King James Version and Luther's Works, they would not be drinking toasts to each other in Pasadena, or consuming vast quantities of deluxe restaurant food everywhere else. 

"Let not your hides be chapped."

How exactly are LCMS, WELS, and the ELS different from ELCA? 

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Thomas Jefferson