Redeemer Lutheran Church continues to wait to meet with Dr. Waldo Werning
and hear him explain his "new teaching" about the Trinity and why he
is filing charges against Pastor Jack Cascione for breaking the Eight
Commandment.
Werning filed charges against Cascione with the Michigan District Office on
June 26th of 2001 because Cascione published his objections to Werning's false
doctrine about the Trinity published on pages 33-34 of Werning's book
"Healing and Health for the LCMS."
In his most recent letter of October 24th to Cascione and members of
Redeemer Lutheran Church, Werning writes to Cascione, "You are not the
church, and God has not appointed you to be the judge of me or anyone else in
the church."
Werning is correct. The Voters' Assemblies of each congregation are the
final judges of doctrine in the church. The Synod is not a "church"
nor is Pastor Cascione the final judge of doctrine in the church.
Under its current operation, any false teacher on the LCMS clergy roster
can write and distribute to the laity any damning heresy he chooses. If a
pastor objects or attempts to protect his congregation from lies about God,
the pastor is then accused of breaking the Eighth Commandment. The Michigan
District President's letter tells the two parties to meet and discuss the
issues as if the Gospel, correct doctrine, and the existence of God are not
his concern, regardless of what Werning writes.
Numerous LCMS officials support Werning's position. South Wisconsin
District Circuit 22 Counselor Rev. Ronald P. Krug writes, "I have found
him [Werning] to be solidly on the foundation of Lutheran exegesis of the
Scriptures."
South Wisconsin District Vice President Borgman writes, "To reiterate:
it was clear to me that you [Dr. Werning] believe, teach and confess the
Orthodox position concerning the Holy Trinity as the Church confesses it in
Scripture, the Ecumenical Creeds, and the Lutheran Confessions."
South Wisconsin District President, Dr. Ron Meyer writes: "In contrast
to the inaccurate and hurtful statement and suggestion made concerning Dr.
Waldo Werning's theology, it is my duty and privilege, herby, to affirm the
clearly stated, Lutheran position of Dr. Werning on the doctrine of the Holy
Trinity . . ."
"Jesus First" gave a positive review of Werning's book and
campaigned for the election of Dr. Kieschnick before the 2001 Convention.
Reverend Charles Mueller Jr., a member of the Board of Directors of
"Jesus First," has published his defense of Werning's doctrine of
the Trinity.
All of these men on the LCMS clergy roster are blind guides; they have lied
to the church about Werning's doctrine of the Trinity; and have joined him in
his heresy. If anyone actually believes what Werning writes about the Trinity
on pages 33-34, they will lose their salvation according to the warning of the
Athanasian Creed.
The Athanasian Creed warns: "Whosoever will be saved, before all
things it is necessary that he hold the catholic [i.e., universal, Christian]
faith. Which faith except everyone do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt
he shall perish everlastingly."
In defiance of the Athanasian Creed, Werning teaches on pages 33 and 34
that in the Triune God there are: "three forms of address 'You shall!,'
'You may!,' 'You can!'" Man experiences, "God in a three-fold
manner." There are "three manners of being (God above us, God among
us, God in us)" and that "God revealed Himself in three ways."
While the Athanasian Creed teaches the only three in God is "the three
divine persons in one divine being."
Pieper writes, Vol. I page 383, "a. The names Father, Son, and Holy
Ghost can denote only three self-subsisting persons. No one who hears these
names of God will think of three modes of appearance or three activities of
the same."
Luther writes that anyone who claims to experience God, let alone in three
experiences, is speaking for the devil. "Therefore we ought and must
constantly maintain this point, that God does not wish to deal with us
otherwise than through the spoken Word and the Sacrament. It is the devil
himself whatsoever is extolled as Spirit without the Word and Sacraments.
Concordia Triglotta, Smalcald Articles, Part III Art. VIII, Page 497."
In his landmark sermon, "The Sheep Judge Their Shepherd," Walther
explains that the final determination of doctrinal truth lies in the hands of
the lay people because it is ultimately their souls that hang in the balance
of truth and error. Walther writes: "In God's Kingdom we are all equal.
Holy Baptism takes the purple from the king, and the rags from the beggar, and
clothes them both in the robes of Christ's righteousness. In divine matters it
does not depend upon learning, or holiness, or cleverness, or prudence. It
often happens, rather, that the most learned are the most perverse. Human
wisdom is foolishness to God. Human righteousness is to Him sin. If a learned
man would enter heaven, he must climb down from the heights of his human
wisdom and become a child. For God reveals His mysteries only to the babes who
humbly acknowledge their natural blindness and darkness. Therefore in divine
matters no one is excluded from the judicial office. All Christ's sheep are
judges, both learned and layman, man and wife, bachelor and spinster, young
and old, for it concerns each one's soul, his own life, his own
salvation."
We are waiting for Doctor Werning to bring with him all the LCMS clergy he
can possibly find who will support his blasphemy. The lay people must be
subject to lies about God from Werning and "Jesus First" because the
truth is not in them. The lay people must be subject to these lies because the
LCMS President and Council of Presidents have no intention of protecting these
lay people from Werning's and "Jesus First's" lies about God. Why
should they? Most of them support "Jesus First" but not the correct
teaching on the Trinity that saves souls.
We are waiting for Werning to come the halls of Redeemer Lutheran Church
and defend his soul-killing devil's-speak. Let the laymen judge, because these
LCMS clergy have failed miserably to confess the truth about God.