On The Silence Of "Respectable" Conservative

ON THE SILENCE OF “RESPECTABLE” CONSERVATIVES
Why Did Pastor Otten File Charges of False Doctrine vs. Dr. Matthew Becker?

“You should have let some more respectable conservatives file charges of false doctrine vs. Matthew Becker for promoting evolution and woman pastors. You are too controversial” CN has been told.
The long record shows that very few of the “respectable” conservatives, the organized conservatives, have ever filed formal charges of false doctrine.
During the 1950’s after many hours of discussion with liberal students at Concordia Seminary during the course of several years, students Kurt Marquart and Herman Otten took the lead in submitting a document to Concordia Seminary St. Louis President Alfred Fuerbringer charging several students with false doctrine. The liberal students were reflecting what they had been taught by liberal professors. The document is in Concordia Seminary, St. Louis vs. Otten Case Book of Documentation arranged by Kurt Marquart.” While there were older conservative students at the seminary, such as Ralph Bohlmann, who became President of the seminary and the LCMS, and his roommate Larry Burgdorf, who became head of the Schwann Foundation, none of them actually filed formal charges of false doctrine. Marquart and Otten would have willingly stepped aside to let older students take the lead in the battle vs. the destructive Biblical higher criticism, denial of the historicity of Genesis and support of evolution being promoted at the seminary. Most conservatives wanted to make certain they would be certified by the seminary and remained silent. Times haven’t changed when it comes to filing charges of false doctrine.
Through the years very few of the conservatives in the LCMS, even those praised as the great heroes of the faith, ever filed charges of false doctrine.
No evolutionist and supporter of the ordination of women on the LCMS clergy roster has ever been removed. Hundreds of hours have been spent in discussion, all sorts of meetings have been held, numerous fine resolutions have been adopted by the LCMS opposing evolution and the ordination of women, yet year after year the names of the evolutionists and supporters of the ordination of women remain on the LCMS clergy roster. During the first 100 years of the LCMS there were no supporters of evolution or women pastors on the LCMS clergy roster. Yet when evolutionists on the LCMS clergy roster began surfacing some 50 years ago none have been removed from the LCMS despite all the conservatives elected to key positions in the LCMS. Once elected president of the LCMS, far too often the new president argues that since he is president “of all the people” there must be room for the theological position of “all the people.”
Now we shall see if under the new LCMS Praesidium evolutionists and supporters of the ordination of women are finally removed from the LCMS.
CN waited for more than 8 months after A Daystar Reader edited by Matthew Becker appeared before filing charges of false doctrine vs. Becker. CN knows of no organized conservatives who even complained about the false doctrine in A Daystar Reader mentioned a good number of times in CN. CN invited the various organized conservative groups in the LCMS, the pro-Loehe anti-Walther Romanizers in the LCMS, and others to file charges. None did. Therefore the CN editor as the pastor of an LCMS congregation did.