The Entire Bible Is About Christ

By: Rev. Jack Cascione
Reverend Don Matzat and Atlantic District President David Benke have adopted
Dr. Waldo Werning's false doctrine about the Trinity.  It is the sliced and
diced view of God; God in three parts, instead of one God.

Matzat and Benke believe that the Moslems can correctly confess the correct
view about God in the First Article of the Apostles' Creed, even though the
Moslems don't agree with the Second and Third articles of the Apostles'
Creed.

The First article states, "I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of
heaven and earth."

Matzat is not telling the truth about God.  When people don't believe in the
Second and Third Articles of the Apostles' Creed, they can't believe in the
First Article.

Those without the Son, don't have the Father.  All theology is Christology.
Luther writes as follows:"All of Scripture, as already said, is pure Christ,
God's and Mary's Son. Everything is focused on this Son, so that we might
know Him distinctively and in that way see the Father and the Holy Spirit
eternally as one God. To him who has the Son Scripture is an open book; and
the stronger his faith in Christ becomes, the more brightly will the light
of Scripture shine for him." LW 15:339

Mazat writes: "It is contrary to teach that those who do not believe the
Gospel do not believe in the true God of the First Article."

Layman Jim Heap replies: "This is the influence of Waldo [Werning]! To
separate the Creed in distinct areas or through chronological means is
modality!

The One True God is in the entire Creed, not just parts according to one's
belief or 'personal recognition of God in time.'

Not only does Matzat indulge in modality, he treads the line of denying
Christ's objective justification through His work on the Cross!"

The Moslems reject the deity of Christ.  Yet, Matzat and Benke find agreemen
t with the Moslems in the First Article and President Kieschnick, who claims
to have a burning desire to save the lost, supports Benke's right to pray in
public with Moslems.

The Jews and the Moslems have rejected Christ. Luther warns that rejecting
just one word of the Bible denies the entire Bible and the entire God.

"Why does Christ say [Luke 10:16], 'every word'? Because if you fail to
believe even one word, you no longer are living in the Word of God. For the
whole Christ is in every word and wholly in each individual word. When He is
denied, therefore, in one word, He is totally denied, for He is in every
Word." LW25:238

Wallace Schulz was fired from the LLL because he did not agree Benke should
pray in public with Moslems.  President Kieschnick sent a letter to the
entire Synod stating he supported Benke.

In 2004 the Synod may break up because its President no longer publicly
supports the correct definition of the Trinity as confessed in the
Athanasian Creed.

Immediately after Kieschnick's speech, the Michigan District Convention
voted not to include the phrase, "as confessed in the Athanasian Creed" in a
resolution that began, "To Clearly Confess in the Public Square the True
God. . . ."

By claiming to correctly confess God in the First Article, without agreement
with the Second and Third Articles, is to reject God.  It is the theological
equivalent of being "Pro-Choice."  The baby is dead and God is rejected.

July 29 , 2003