Reading in context makes all the difference between pixelating a phrase like "raised for our justification" and understanding the Word of God. |
Centuries later, a weakened and stumbling papacy insisted on papal infallibility, and Vatican I affirmed what Pope Pius IX wanted.
As I have shown many times before, WELS and LCMS have a history of teaching Justification by Faithand notUOJ - Justification without Faith.
Now that they are committed to clergy infallibility, the "conservative" Lutheran synods have to keep piling on more essays about their precious UOJ, even though they refuted themselves by citing Romans 4 - and even by citing anything from the Bible.
WELS has about 60 or so essays on their Satanic dogma of UOJ. The Emmaus Hootenanny will add more.
WELS Professor John "Sparky" Brenner will present at Emmaus. His nickname should be "Spineless."
- When I asked Brenner about Valleskey's essay - that drooled over Church Growth and lied about Evangelicals "downplaying the Means of Grace - Spineless said, "Write a letter." I asked whether the faculty had any responsibility for their Wisconsin Lutheran Quarterly. Frau Brenner scowled at me during the conversation, like, "How dare you question an infallible professor at Mordor!"
- By the way, when I published an essay in Christian News, taking apart Valleskey's Figs From Thistles essay, the Bethany Seminary faculty jumped all over Little Ichabod, as if he wrote it. I never heard from those weasels at all. [By the way - Valleksey admitted to David Koenig, CLC, that he did attend Fuller Seminary, as Bivens did, but Valleskey lied about it when I asked him directly.]
- When two students went to speak to Spineless about the abuses of GA, the secretive hazing ritual at Mordor, the Dean defended GA, saying, "It has good benefits too."
- After one prospective student was sexually assaulted by a student when visiting the Mordor campus, he complained about it to Brenner. The response was "You are too thin-skinned."
- Anyone who complains to Brenner will find himself pushed out of the seminary program, as were all three students mentioned above - and yes, I know about these incidents from them.
- Spineless needed remedial work before he was accepted into the doctoral program at UW. WELS has such a superior educational program that no one recognizes it.
- C. F. W. Walther, by the Rev. Dr. Fifth VP Daniel Preus. Honorary DD from his dad's seminary.
- A. Hoenecke, by the Rev. Dr. Prof. John "Spineless" Brenner
- U. V. Koren, by the Rev. Prof. Markos DeGarmeaux
2016 Emmaus Topic & Speakers
December 26, 2015
Dr. Lawrence Rast serves as the sixteenth president of Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne and is a professor of American Christianity and American Lutheranism. Dr. Rast joined the Department of Historical Theology in the fall of 1996 after serving as pastor of Ascension Lutheran Church, Madison, Tennessee (1992-96).
The following speakers will give the lecture and reactions.
2016 Emmaus Conference Speakers:
- Lecturer: The Rev. Dr. Lawrence Rast (LC-MS)
- Reactor: The Rev. Pres. Paul Wendland (WELS)
- Reactor: The Rev. Prof. Erling Teigen (ELS)