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A three-member
panel will now be assembled to hear the case Doctor Waldo Werning continues
to file in Dispute Resolution against me, Rev. Jack Cascione.
Both Werning and Cascione have the option of removing three of nine
names they received in the mail, from the panel.
How does
claiming that God died in Christ on Good Friday become a matter of Dispute
Resolution in the Missouri Synod? The
answer is: by pointing out that there are heretics in the LCMS who reject
this doctrine and naming the heretics in public.
While some LCMS
Pastors will be proclaiming this coming Holy Week 2004 that God died in
Christ on Good Friday, a corrupt administration in the Synodical Head
Quarters supports efforts to stop this teaching in the Lutheran
Church-Missouri Synod.
President
Gerald Kieschnick is supposed to be the chief doctrinal officer in the LCMS,
but he will not answer letters addressed to him asking about who died on the
Cross.
Reclaim News
will pay $100.00 to any LCMS approved
Mission
, in behalf of the person who can get President Gerald Kieschnick to answer
the following question:
“Did the
entire, whole, complete God die in Christ on Good Friday?”
Kieschnick’s
email address is Gerald.Kieschnick@lcms.org
Kieschnick can
also be reached by mail at:
1333 S. Kirkwood Road
,
St. Louis
,
MO
63122-7295
To receive the
100 dollars, Kieschnick’s answer must be a direct “yes” or “no”
from President Kieschnick himself. Kieschnick
had no trouble telling the entire Synod that he agreed with Atlantic
District President, David Benke, praying with Moslems in Yankee Stadium
before Dr. Wallace Schulz, and then the three-member panel, heard the case.
Werning claims
that the entire, whole, complete God did not die in Christ on Good Friday.
He also claims that Christians experience God in a three-fold manner;
God has three manners of being; God has three levels of reality; three ways
of revealing Himself; and three forms of speaking to us.
I published that Werning teaches false doctrine on all of these
issues, in his book “Health and Healing for the LCMS.”
Werning claims that he speaks the truth about God and I am breaking
the Eighth Commandment.
If I’m not
telling the truth about Christ, then I’m breaking a lot more than the
Eighth Commandment. The readers are invited to read Dr. Edward Koehler’s
explanation of this doctrine below, and decide for themselves.
The following
question and answer is from the 1943 LCMS Catechism and the explanation
about the two natures of Christ is from pages 141-142 of Koehler’s
“Annotated Catechism.”
128 Question:
What two natures, then, are united in Christ?
Answer: The
divine and the human natures are united in Christ, both natures together
forming one undivided and indivisible person (personal union).
1. As body and
soul are united so as to make one human being, so the divine and the human
nature are in Christ so closely and intimately united as to make one
undivided and indivisible person, one Christ. From Isaiah 9:6 we learn that
the promised Messiah is to be born as a human child, yet at the same time He
is called "the mighty God, the everlasting Father ".
In Matt.
16:13
Jesus calls Himself the "Son of Man", and in v.16 He accepts as
true Peter's answer that He is "the Son of the living God".
So He is man and God in one person, the God-man. (Read the Athanasian
Creed).
2. The divine
nature was not changed into a human nature, and the human nature was not
changed into the divine nature, but though intimately united, each nature is
distinct and complete in itself. If
either nature had been changed into the other, the text “In Him dwelleth
all the fullness of the God head bodily” (Col. 2:9) would not be true.
As the soul dwells in the body, so "the fullness of the
Godhead" dwelled in this particular human nature of Jesus.
3. The divine
nature existed from eternity as the Second Person of the Godhead, but in the
fullness of time the Son of God was born of a woman (Gal. 4:4-5), the Word
was made flesh (John 1:14), assumed, took on, a human nature.
This happened at the conception of Christ (Luke
1:35
), and since then the two natures have never separated, not even when Jesus
died on the cross.
4. Thus we have
here a great mystery, which human reason cannot fathom, that in Jesus God
was manifest in the flesh (1 Tim 3:16).
Because the fullness of the Godhead had made this human nature its
dwelling place (Col. 2:9), the disciples beheld in Jesus, when He performed
miracles (John
2:11
), and on the mount of transfiguration (Matt. 17:2) "the glory as of
the only-begotten of the Father" (John
1:14
). This union of the two natures
in one person is called the Personal Union.
Because of this personal union of the two natures each nature
participates in the attributes and works of the other nature.
Thus the divine nature is, of itself, omnipotent, omnipresent,
omniscient, etc., but when it took on the human nature, this nature also
became omnipotent (Matt. 28:18), omnipresent (Matt. 28:20), omniscient (John
21:17
). Again, the human nature has a
body, has blood, can be crucified and killed, but as this particular human
nature belonged to the Son of God, we speak of God's body and blood (314;
Acts 20:28), and that the Son of God was killed and crucified (Acts 3:15) in
His human nature. When Christ performed miracles, the divine nature acted
through the human nature. And in the work of redemption both natures
cooperated. Therefore Christ is
our Savior not only in the human or only in the divine nature, but in both
natures. This is called the Communication of Attributes.
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