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| The Flight of Dresden sex cult is told in terms that remind us of another escape and return. Walther and Stephan left as criminals and repeated the same crimes in America. |
Walther's supposed great insight was that faith had nothing to do with election. The UOJ Hive is great at separating forgiveness from faith and grace from the Means of Grace.
My argument is not repeat words words fought over in the past, but to ask, "How can we separate the Gospel from election?"
Walther's efforts to remove faith from forgiveness and election are an ideal foundation for the Calvinism he pretended to critique.
Where did he get this view? His college education (and that's all he had) stopped at graduation. It was purely rationalistic from the state system. In other words, Calvinism and Pietism brought rationalism into the state church and that state church ordained Walther, who served one (1) parish a short time before vamoosing to America with the kidnapped children, Stephan, Stephan's mistress, and the rest of the cult.
Walther's respite from pure rationalism was Pietism, not exactly a remedy. Walther had no grounding in Lutheran doctrine. Stephan, noted for his Pietistic leadership, not a remedy for rationalism - perhaps an improvement, to stretch the point.
KJV Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who
are the called according to his purpose. 29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be
conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom
he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he
justified, them he also glorified.
KJV Galatians 3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith,
preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
When forgiveness, salvation, grace, the Means of Grace, and faith are associated together--as they are in the Word and the Confessions--Walther's illusions fall apart.