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| David Rutschow, DP of the District of Evil, awaits his turn at the microphone. In the foreground is Jeff Schone, who turned on the closet light and found a clean, white shirt. Yay! |
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| One pastor thinks that Rutschow's only qualification to be DP was his Church and Change advocacy. |
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I was trying to parse the WELS concept of church history, as revealed at the 2013 convention.
Several leaders, including Mark Schroeder, claimed that WELS has always taught the Word of God, ever since the beginning.
Since the Wisconsin Synod itself was founded as a unionistic sect, with Reformed and Lutheran communion, Reformed and Lutheran confirmation, I wondered about Schroeder's grasp of the perspicuity of Scripture. In fact, when one Wisconsin leader received a call to St. Paul in New Ulm, he said, "I thought we settled that issue (being a union church)." The Reformed packed up and formed their own congregation, a block away, and eventually became United Church of Christ. The CLC (sic) obtained the original building and went right back to Lutheran-Reformed unionism, with Paul Tiefel (cousin of James) leading the way.
Gausewitz clearly taught justification by faith in his catechism, which was used throughout the Synodical Conference. But Gausewitz was replaced with Kuske, whose catechism clearly teaches UOJ. During which era was WELS teaching the Word of God, since one opposes the other?
I have no greater authority than DP Jon-Boy Buchholz, who excommunicated :Paul Rydecki as a "false teacher" for teaching justification by faith, then kicked out the congregation for the same reason. UOJ is definitely the opposite of JBFA.
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| One of these quotations is wrong, plain old anti-Christian universal salvation. |
A lesbian atheist was a key advisor for the original NIV, whose "dynamic equivalence" fantasy has become the norma normans for WELS and Missouri. Eugene Nida, the man who invented dynamic equivalence was an apostate, so the modern paraphrases are ideal for apostate sects and their reprobate leaders.
Precise translations - oh, the horror! Although the Wisconsin Sect approved all translations to let the NNIV in the back door, no pun intended, the leaders certainly reject the KJV and anything related to the KJV.
As 29A observed, by approving "all translations," (wink) WELS has adopted the Mormon view of the Word, which I heard taught by Mormon missionaries at my home.
Mormons, "There are 100 ways to understand each verse of the Bible."
GJ - "True. Ninety-nine wrong ways, and one right way."
The Mormons plunged onward. What I needed was a book to tie down the meaning. You see, his partner nailed a piece of wood down with one nail, but it still moved around. A second nail kept it in place. Wallah! I needed the Book of Mormon, which never contradicted the Bible. I had fun with that claim too.
If people want to claim that God cannot speak clearly through the Word, then they must have a higher authority. Like the Mormons, like the Church of Rome, WELS claims that ability rests in its scrofulous leaders.
Paul Prange made a great show in his condescending Sunday School teachers voice, talking about the shape of letters that people could not dispute unless they took Greek. Clearly the Church and Changers were vastly more educated to discern which translations were good ones.
Although WELS has reversed positions many times, like all cults, WELS is always right, like all cults. They were right in promoting the KJV against modern translations years ago and are right about adopting the NNIV against the KJV.
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| You dare offend the great and terrible Oz? |