Easter 2019
1 Cor. 15:17 —“If Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.”Romans 4:25 —
“Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.”C.F.W. Walther stated in 1880, Der Lutheraner, July 1, 1880:
“If the sun had (not) stood still at Joshua's prayer (Joshua 10:12-14) …, so also is the whole Bible not true.”
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| Dr. Ralph Bohlmann, Dr. Samuel Nafzger, Pres. Matthew Harrison |
In November 1972, Dr. Ralph Bohlmann († 2016), Executive Secretary of the Commission on Theology and Church Relations, explicitly denied the natural history taught in Joshua 10:12-14 by denying that the Biblical terms "sunrise" and "sunset" refer to actual events that everyone on Earth witnesses… daily.
He did this in his Study Edition of A Statement of Scriptural and Confessional Principles, pp. 22, 26, and 33. In each instance he referenced the “1959 Statement on Scripture”. This “Statement on Scripture” had been adopted at the 1959 LC-MS Convention here. Ah, but this statement was first adopted at the 1958 Synodical Conference convention in Lakewood Ohio, August 5-8. This “Statement on Scripture” may be viewed here, p 17-22. In 1959 there was no true Easter sunrise or "Sunrise Service" in the Synodical Conference or the LC-MS – the Biblical term "sunrise" was now said to be only used “symbolically, metaphorically, metonymically” or “in the common language of man”. The passages of Joshua 10:12-14 were utterly ignored. — This story gets much worse than just a denial by the LC-MS and the Synodical Conference of the natural history of Joshua 10:12-14. The story will continue in the next Part 2…
[2010-04-21: text in red above subsequently added after initial post.]
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