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| Calov is no longer being cited as a UOJ Stormtrooper. I found this quotation in Robert Preus'Justification and Rome. |
Mulch turning into compost, feeding the soil - that is quite a story.
The wooden fragments begin to change as soon as they rest on the surface of the lawn or garden.
Mold and bacteria attack. The mulch absorbs nitrogen to help its own decay. Soil creatures, emboldened by the darkness and moisture above, rise up to devour the mulch and blend it into soil.
God wrote the software that runs our physical world. All things were created through Him. Nothing was created apart from Him - the Logos - the Creating Word - Jesus.
The Wormhaven Gardening Book shows that by understanding Creation we can garden cheaply and easily, letting God's governance produce the best flowers and food.
These reactions in nature simply have to happen because of divine design. The wood has to rot on top of soil, absorbing nitrogen, giving it back as it finishes its transformation. The mold, bacteria, and soil creatures are compelled to do their duty, to take their turn, to work without complaint so we can enjoy their labor.
Spiritual Rules
God's Creation includes spiritual matters. Just as rain and snow necessarily have an effect in God's plan, so does His Word.
The bankrupt view of the Scriptures makes every confession a matter of opinion. It depends on how people feel about it - purely subjective.
Willow Creek Community Church patented this approach and bragged about it. LCMS and WELS sent their dimmest dimwits there for training - and it worked. Nature abhors a vacuum, so their empty heads were quickly filled with user-friendliness, marketing concepts, and demographics. Instead of studying the Word, they studied graphs, charts, and zip codes.
If God determines the length of day by the earth's rotation, He also determines how we are forgiven, no matters what Uncle Fritz wrote in a conference essay.
If the rules of Creation cannot be set aside - except for miracles - then one cannot take the plain Word and make it say something else about forgiveness.
The Holy Spirit clearly teaches the efficacy of the Word in the Means of Grace. And yet the toadies of Walther want us to think that the Reformation established justification without faith as the Gospel. Just as Walther had to be the abusive bishop's toady, so the Walther toadies have to surround themselves with equally subservient toadies.
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| Glende and Ski stopped at the Crab Pot while attending the Mark Driscoll conference. Mark is the potty-mouthed preacher who brags about the "corpses" left by his abusive cult. |
Setting aside faith in Christ as irrelevant for justification and salvation, these wolves will promote anything that fills their bellies. They know a lot more about salivation than salvation.
Lutheran leaders have lost their nerve when it comes to teaching the Faith. That can be clearly seen by the 99.9% teaching justification without faith and viewing the fruit of their false doctrine.
If you do not believe what I say about their dogma, then look at the results.
Matthew 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
No one is allowed to get to this point in the discussion, because the wolves begin to howl for blood.
No one in WELS wanted to review Valleskey's horrible We Believe, Therefore We Speak. That is pretty ironic, since he began with his rave in favor of UOJ.
I chose the theme Figs From Thistles, publishing it in Steve Spencer's Orthodox Lutheran Forum and in Christian News. The results were volcanic, as the WELS and LCMS Church Growth freaks engaged in a joint assault on the truth.
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| Theological illiterates like Jay Webber and Jon-Boy Buchholz imagine that Ambrose teaches UOJ. |