Ichabod - Weekend Numbers

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Let's Go Full Quia on the Synod Presidents

 Synod Presidents - Matt the Fatt, LCMS; Mirthless Mark Schroeder, WELS;
Pope John the Malefactor, ELS; - all UOJ fanatics.

Michael Eichstadt is the current president of the
Church of the Lutheran Confession (sic).
They boldly stand with ELCA and the mainline Protestants,
against Justification by Faith.

 The CLC (sic) was working with Horst Gutsche just before
the man for all synods died. Gutsche was ELCiC - the Canadian flavor of ELCA - when he died. Horst served a WELS congregation too. He was buried with LCMS honors.

All of the above sects (minus ELCA, of course) swear a quia subscription to the Book of Concord, which means they consider Book of Concord exposition to be in complete (not partial) agreement with the Scriptures.

That quia subscription means all of them (minus ELCA) should teach Justification by Faith, following Luther, Melanchthon, Chemnitz, and the Formula of Concord editors. But instead, they agree with ELCA against the Scriptures and the Book of Concord.

Therefore, all the sects listed above (minus ELCA) should do the following in obedience to Luther's introduction to the Large Catechsim -

The ELS, WELS, LCMS, CLC (sic) leaders should be:

• Given nothing to eat,
• Driven out,
• Baited with dogs, and
• Pelted with manure.

And shall we frivolously despise such power, profit, strength, and fruit-we, especially, who claim to be pastors and preachers? If so, we should not only have nothing given us to eat, but be driven out, being baited with dogs, and pelted with dung, because we not only need all this every day as we need our daily bread, but must also daily use it against the daily and unabated attacks and lurking of the devil, the master of a thousand arts.
Book of Concord, Large Catechism, Introduction, #13.

 And yet, the lazy paunches of the LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic)imagine and teach that the Chief Article is Justification without Faith, UOJ!.

The UOJ Two-Step: Setting Up Faith as Some Kind of Mistake

 Justification by GRACE! through faith.
Why is UOJ allergic to the Biblical phrase Justification by Faith?

People will notice that when they talking about Justification by Faith, a Synodical Conference pastor (or ELCA clergy) will say, in the style of correction - "Justification by GRACE! through faith."

The clergy response is their way of replacing Justification by Faith with UOJ, making Justification by Faith seem to be false doctrine. No, they do not have the courage to be direct, but that is their intention.

Justification by Faith is the correct Biblical language because Paul contrasted faith with any form of work by man. That is the point of Romans 1-3, which serve as an introduction to Abraham as an example of Justification by Faith.

When the furtive UOJ salesman says Justification by GRACE!, he is creation an opposition between grace and faith, implying that the entire world is already forgiven and saved. They just need to be told - which is their version of faith, not faith at all. When Walther, JP Meyer, and the rest of the false teachers  claim that individual must now agree with this universal absolution, they are attacking the Scriptures and leading their fawning disciples to do the same.

Note that UOJ fanatics demand that people make a decision for world absolution, a twisted form of decision theology, but they cast shade on Justification by Faith.

To make matters clear, be assured that when ELCA and all the mainlines speak of grace, they mean God is so good that He has declared the entire world forgiven. Denying that - to them - means denying grace. Oh dear.

 Karl Rahner, aspainted by Letizia Mancino Cremer,
constructed the Roman Catholic version of UOJ -
the Anonymous Christian.

As I wrote before, Karl Rahner's concept of the Anonymous Christian is another version of Universalism. Third World pagans are really better Christians than Protestant/Catholic America, even if they do not know the Name of Christ. They are already Christians without the Name, so they only need to be told. That is why mainline missions are a combination of medical work and Marxist revolution.

American Lutheran leaders are so pathetic that they now fulfill the prophesy of Krauth, above, a paraphrase of St. Augustine. They will pounce on Justification by Faith and exclude anyone who agrees with St. Paul - but gladly work with ELCA and ELCA's rainbow clergy.