tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15967712.post2507587138519469853..comments2024-02-27T00:11:57.219+11:00Comments on Extra Nos: BM on Wedland's 1951 paper.LPChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11352627830833515548noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15967712.post-21594520839132711632010-12-25T20:01:48.180+11:002010-12-25T20:01:48.180+11:00BM,
Thank you for your thoughts - I was just thin...BM,<br /><br />Thank you for your thoughts - I was just thinking the other day of sending a Christmas blessing to fellow ichabodians. <br /><br />Brett, may the peace of Christmas be with you and the whole family this season and through the coming year.<br /><br />God be with you bro. My prayers are also with you and your loved ones.<br /><br />LitoLPChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11352627830833515548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15967712.post-9101342121641477822010-12-25T15:25:10.705+11:002010-12-25T15:25:10.705+11:00Lito, may you and your family have a blessed Chris...Lito, may you and your family have a blessed Christmas! My prayers are with you and yours.<br /><br />In Christ,<br />BrettBrett Meyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15916121605136512091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15967712.post-1092010764425454282010-12-17T17:14:00.047+11:002010-12-17T17:14:00.047+11:00BM,
"Holy Father, your sins are forgiven.&qu...BM,<br /><br /><i>"Holy Father, your sins are forgiven." </i><br /><br />The Synods can also, add,(with tears of joy and admiration in their eyes) "In fact, Holy Father, your sins have already been forgiven even before you became the Anti-Christ. It is all good. All is ok".<br /><br />I imagine in my usual skeptical self, Pr Hannah ( maybe he is now Fr. Hannah) since there are LC-MS ministers love that title - Father) drooling with admiration at Benedict's gesture of greeting the LC-MS.<br /><br />John 5:44<br /><br />It is mad and crazy world we live in. .<br /><br />LPCLPChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11352627830833515548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15967712.post-31056683108670429672010-12-17T16:29:14.088+11:002010-12-17T16:29:14.088+11:00How about this (W)ELS quote:
"Long ago God a...How about this (W)ELS quote:<br /><br /><i>"Long ago God already forgave every man his sin, believer and unbeliever alike. Nothing more remains to be done by the sinner himself before the anger of God is appeased. <b>Therefore, a Christian can go to any man on earth and say to him, “Your sins are forgiven.”</b></i><br /><br />The Absolution in the Theology and Practice of the Reformation<br />(W)ELS - Pastor Edwin Lehmann<br /><br />http://www.wlsessays.net/files/LehmannReformation.pdf<br /><br />Right now I'm picturing the Lutheran Synods telling the Antichrist, the Roman Catholic Pope - "Holy Father, your sins are forgiven." <br /><br />Wait, I'm being told that the LCMS already greeted the Antichrist in the name of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.<br /><br /><i>"I am grateful to be greeted by the Pope through my bishop. Most members of the LCMS are likewise proud to be acknowledged and recognized by the world’s most widely recognized Christian leader. With two billion Christians in the world, it would be easy for any Pope not to know that there is a Missouri Synod. After all, we are less than three million. There are more than a billion Roman Catholics. There are seventy million Lutherans, divided into more than a hundred separate bodies. It is something of an achievement for any non-American to know anything at all about the Missouri Synod. I wonder what Benedict does know about us.<br /><br />Does he know, for instance, that we still have a few who insist that our 16th century Confessions attributed the pejorative “Anti-Christ” to all popes for all times. If Benedict does know that, then he is to be admired for obeying the Bible’s command, “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.”</i><br /><br />http://www.lutheranforum.org/articles/john-hannah/Please_Greet_Missouri/<br /><br />Oh, in these last few days of a mad old world the judgement has begun in the Lutheran Synods.Brett Meyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15916121605136512091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15967712.post-59633811658320765532010-12-17T09:36:04.135+11:002010-12-17T09:36:04.135+11:00Hi BM,
You mentioned Maier's paper. Why is it...Hi BM,<br /><br />You mentioned Maier's paper. Why is it that when we talk to people about the inaccuracy of UOJ with Scripture and speak to them also of the Maier paper, they never bother struggling nor checking his work?<br /><br />I only had one pastor in my experience of late that bothered looking at it. It was only Pr. Simms (see his comments in previous posts) though I disagreed with his criticism of Maier's interpretation of some Biblical passages. Maier's interpretations are spot on and thoroughly careful and most responsible (IMHO).<br /><br />I find this lack-of-checking-the-sources-attitude of UOJers pathetic.<br /><br /><br />How I wish the body of Prof. August Weenaas' papers are available, for I also found his criticisms most reasonable! The same is true for th position of the LCA (as far as it is quoted) in the Wedland paper. When I was reading it, I wondered how could one find fault in this...<i>Reconciliation and personal justification are thrown together (by Missouri), so that nothing is left of an individual justification by faith. According to Missouri’s new teaching the whole world is justified, in fact, already when Christ completed his work of redemption. A different justification, which takes place when man comes to faith is not present according to this teaching. Thus the central teaching of Scripture and of the Lutheran church is destroyed.</i><br /><br />The above is not a misrepresentation of UOJ Missouri, the documents are in front of us, we can all check the sources, Missouri does teach the above! I.e, reconciliation and personal justification are thrown together, the verdict is true, Missouri destroys JBFA according to the Ohio Synod.<br /><br />May God's peace be yours too Brett. Specially in this advent season. Thank you for your research.<br /><br />LPCLPChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11352627830833515548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15967712.post-68605252763092973282010-12-17T02:23:49.327+11:002010-12-17T02:23:49.327+11:00It is interesting that one has to skim through the...<i>It is interesting that one has to skim through the works of UOJ defenders to mine the quotes of anti-UOJers.</i><br /><br />This is very true. Maier's paper was the only one I could think of that was defending Scripture.<br /><br />A good example of your quote above is the paper written by H.A. Preus where he quotes Prof. August Weenaas. Preus was attacking Scripture and Prof. Weenaas was defending Justification by Faith Alone. It was first given to me by Pr. Rolf Preus who wrote the intro to the paper at the site below. He meant it as a clarifying paper so that I would agree with H.A. Preus and the group on Luther Qwest. I admitted that I fully agreed with Prof. Weenaas. That didn't go over very well. <br /><br />http://www.christforus.org/Papers/Content/HermanAmbergPreusonJustificationofWorld.htm<br /><br />If it helps Lito, I don't feel sorry for you. Christ has blessed you with your reliance on His Word alone. By His grace you are faithful to the true Gospel as you carry your cross. I rejoice with you!! Christ's continued blessings!Brett Meyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15916121605136512091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15967712.post-47069959751142913802010-12-16T22:09:35.431+11:002010-12-16T22:09:35.431+11:00Thank you. Let me know.
LPCThank you. Let me know.<br /><br />LPCLPChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11352627830833515548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15967712.post-37856252663813589062010-12-16T18:01:18.572+11:002010-12-16T18:01:18.572+11:00I am going to post about the Stoeckhardt quotation...I am going to post about the Stoeckhardt quotation, a little farther on. It is so absurd that it could be a case study in circular reasoning.Ichabod the Glory Has Departedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03119183283328283096noreply@blogger.com