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| Has anyone read Luther's Galatians Commentary? The Book of Concord commends this work twice, but never mentions anything by Knapp, Stephan, or Buchholz. |
Joel Dusek:
For the record, I don’t know Greg Jackson, don’t follow him, and don’t read his blog. Also, this is the only subject I have found where I disagree with Mr. Pierce, and much enjoy his writings on this site.
But we can see that Joel reads Pierce, with great appreciation, even while identifying him as a false teacher.
Dusek's nonsensical and irrelevant comment reflects the constant guilt by association fallacy worked upon the malleable minds of WELS laity and pastors.
WELS leaders constantly wig out whenever someone has a pertinent question about their criminal activities, their unethical behavior, or their false doctrine. The purpose is to divide and conquer, to intimidate, to silence - and it works well.
Dusek is proof. So are the misnamed Intrepid Lutherans, who are little more than a Ladies Aid group now, meeting to knit and discuss trivia in a non-offensive way. The WELS DPs (Drunk Presidents, as one laymen called them) insisted that everyone quit the list of IL, so they did. Mark Schroeder did not want his little lobbying group out of control, so they thanked him for his crab-walking compromises into Church and Change euphoria by becoming synodical zombies.
Luther warned George Major and others against staying in the same stall with false teachers. The effect is obvious. "I want to disagree with you, mildly, while you trash the Chief Article of the Christian Faith, so you will continue to like me and post my tepid objections to your crypto-atheism."
Note well that nobody objects to Buchholz on the Net, even though he declared ex cathedra that every single person on earth is already saved. Period. End of story.
No matter what flavor of UOJ one pretends to like or discuss, all UOJ degenerates into atheism, which is why Pierce is so in love with the dogma of Knapp and Stephan. Knapp denied the Biblical basis for the Trinity and Stephan denied his marital vows.
The librarians of doctrine will hasten to gasp, "But Universalism and Atheism are not the same. We have you there. Our dog notes will prove it."
But lo, the old-fashioned Universalists have merged with the Unitarians to become obnoxious, condemning, Atheists (aka Humanists, aka Ethical Society, aka Bill Nye the Science Guy.)
Universalists used to be quite conservative about social norms, and their hymns were often the same as ours. And Unitarians used to emphasize God but not the Trinity. But both groups devolved into the radical faction it is today - very high income, very high educational level, very hostile to traditional Christianity.
LCMS and WELS are just a step behind, wagged by the big tail of ELCA and Thrivent.
Those who support or tolerate UOJ are also behind working with ELCA, the United Nations, and Planned Parenthood. Their dogma allows it, approves it, and promotes it.
I am not writing about theory but the actual practice of WELS and Missouri.
