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Daryl Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Worldview Everlasting - Universal Objective Justif...":
Someone seriously needs to make sure that Luther gets the UOJ memos. From his sermon on the fourth Sunday after Trinity, "Some passages convey the spirit and teaching, how we are to appear in God's presence, with nothing but our faith; as the passage: 'Being justified freely by his grace.'" (Sermons of Martin Luther Vol. 4 p. 104, JN Lenker, tr., Baker Book House, 1988.)
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GJ - This problem reminds me of the abortion industry nestled in the bosom of American medicine. A vast enterprise exists to destroy unborn life, and this runs contrary to human reason, natural law, and most religions. The ancient Hippocratic Oath stated:
I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody if asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy. In purity and holiness I will guard my life and my art.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath
Everyone pretends this is not going on, this demonic destruction of life.
So the Lutheran synods, from ECLA down to the micro-minis, teach against justification by faith while calling themselves the true Lutherans, each one better than all the others.
Like the aborting doctors, cheering social workers, and enabling lawmakers, they turn what they should be doing upside-down and charge everyone a heavy price for it.
What is the single greatest doctrinal achievement of Mark Schroeder during his years as Synod President?
He got rid of a pastor who was teaching and discussing justification, with the blessing of the District President, Jon Buchholz, who promised to continue the talks with the congregation and conference.
In effect, WELS spends millions of dollars to do one thing - get rid of justification by faith, Luther's doctrine from the Bible, the centerpiece of Lutheran orthodoxy during Book of Concord era.
And this is not just the action of a rogue DP and his smiling SP boss. No - the failing college in New Ulm is dedicated to the Pietistic rationalism of Georg Knapp, Rambach, and Bishop Martin Stephan, STD.
The shrinking Sausage Factory in Mequon is so dedicated to UOJ that they mark clear justification by faith passages as MISLEADING! so their country bumpkin students do not get the idea that anyone ever taught justification by faith.
Mequon graduates are devoted to squashing justification by faith when such notions are murmured in the sacred confines of ministerial gatherings or seminars on how to beat a DUI conviction.
Is this diabolic contrast any different from the promotion of abortion in America? Please identify any differences in the violence of exclusion, shunning, shaming, and censure. The pro-abortion forces may be a little more flexible in allowing a few idiosyncratic dissenters to continue to exist.
The UOJ Storm-Brownies are merciless, humorless, and soulless.
