The Calvinist Schutzstaffel

Recently a post written by my friend Chad Bird was featured on the popular evangelical blog The Gospel Coalition. It is a beautiful summary of our Lord working through humble means to bring life and salvation in the most unlikely of circumstances. Here we see our Lord offering his flesh and blood, the very elixir of immortality, to the lambs for whom he died, despite the fact that they were Nazi war criminals.

http://birdchadlouis.wordpress.com/2013/08/27/from-hitlers-wolves-to-christs-lambs-how-lutheran-pastor-henry-gerecke-brought-the-gospel-to-hitlers-highest-ranking-disciples-before-their-executions/

Enter right on cue the Calvinist Schutzstaffel! This elite force of storm-troopers, the five-point SS, exists to squash out the uniquely Lutheran purity and comfort of the genuinely "evangelical" faith wherever it may be found. They refuse to let the scandal of the incarnation go too far, protecting the delicate honor of the Sovereign Cosmic Führer.

In the comment section of the Gospel Coalition blog, CSS "Dave" goes off on all cylinders, beginning with a quote from Chad Bird's article:


"But the truth is that people are not condemned because they murder, or steal, or lie. They are condemned because they reject Jesus as the one who has already endured hell for them on the cross and earned a place for them in heaven."

No-one for whom Jesus endured hell on the cross and for whom Jesus earned a place in heaven will reject him - John 6:44 John 6:37 John 6:39.

"But the truth is that people are not condemned because they murder, or steal, or lie."

This statement is completely untrue. We stand condemned already if we do not believe in Christ BECAUSE we are sinners, and being a sinner is sufficient to condemn us.

All sin is punished by God. Either Christ atoned for our sin on the cross, or we will pay for it ourselves. If we are in the former category, then we will repent and believe.

Christ did not die for everyone one in general and no-one in particular. He laid down his life for his sheep.

Christ did not die to potentially make salvation possible, but to secure salvation for those he came to save, and he utterly succeeded in this mission.

Also, the bread and wine of the Lord's table is NOT the body and blood of Jesus.

This article manages to seriously mangle some really important truths.


The tragedy of the situation is that I used to be a "Dave". It is only by God's grace that I was led, in my case, back to Wittenberg, where Christ's body was broken and blood shed for sinners, even the naughty ones, and placed upon the lips that believe and confess in repentant faith.