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Quotes from those who promote the false gospel of UOJ.
Pastor Rolf Preus, “God has, for Christ’s sake, absolved the entire world of sinners” And also, “Forgiveness and justification in God’s sight is NOT granted because of the work of faith created by the Holy Spirit. Rather, the Holy Spirit creates faith by means of the granting of the forgiveness of sins and justification, that is, by means of the proclamation of the gospel.”
Dick Rockenbach, “I might use the term Objective Reconciliation as Mueller does. Whether you use the Term OJ or OR the net is the same. The Cross can never be undone, It is indeed finished. Every human for all times has been forgiven.”
Dennis Boettcher, “With the whole human race, Jesus dying on the cross declared the whole human race pardoned from their sin.” “Christ said "It is finished." The work of justification is done. The sins of the whole world (John 1:29) have been taken away.”
A. Shuetze, "The Gospel is the Good News that every sin is forgiven, every transgression blotted out.”
Dr. Becker, "We are not pressing the word beyond what it can bear if we say that, when Paul says that God justifies the ungodly, he is asserting that God declares the unbeliever just.”
M. Zarling states, "On the basis of this brief overview of passages, what then is the Scriptural truth called universal justification? Simply this: In Christ, God has forgiven the sins of all men. By reason of Christ's perfect life of obedience and perfect sacrifice for all sins, Cod declares the world, believer and unbeliever alike, totally innocent.
Rev. Guillaume Williams, “People go to hell b/s they don't believe the objective truth of Christ's saving work not b/s they haven't been saved by Christ.”
David Jay Webber, “The terminology of "Objective Justification" might be new - dating from the 19th century - but the concept behind the terminology has always been a part of the Gospel as confessed in the Lutheran Church”
H.A. Preus, “On the other hand, this, that God forgives sin, signifies only the action of God that he proclaims to the sinner that his sin is taken away by the death of Christ and that he therefore gives him forgiveness so that he is to believe it, but without regard to whether he has already believed it or not, so that this act of forgiving sin by God cannot only happen without faith being there but first must occur without faith being there since faith cannot be worked otherwise, or know what it is to believe."
Those who promote the new gospel of UOJ have, with their doctrine, given the righteousness of Christ to the whole world. Those in the world who are servants to sin and death. Unbelievers who are not of the body of Christ, are at enmity with God and decaying with the stench of death caused by sin.
Scripture declares that if those who are servants of sin have inherited Christ’s righteousness then faith is no longer required and the true Gospel Promise is mute.
Romans 4:14, “For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:”
Scripture teaches that those who are under grace through faith worked by the Holy Ghost are the children of the Promise, receiving through faith the adoption and are the children of God. Thus it is only through faith that we are given and receive Christ’s righteousness.
Romans 7:4, “Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.”
Galations 3:22, "But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe."
Galations 3:24-27, "Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ."
Romans 8:17, “And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.”
Apology to the Augsburg Confession, Justification: 86] But since we receive remission of sins and the Holy Ghost by faith alone, faith alone justifies, because those reconciled are accounted righteous and children of God, not on account of their own purity, but through mercy for Christ's sake, provided only they by faith apprehend this mercy.”
And here too: “The wrath of God cannot be appeased if we set against it our own works, because Christ has been set forth as a Propitiator, so that for His sake, the Father may become reconciled to us. But Christ is not apprehended as a Mediator except by faith. Therefore, by faith alone we obtain remission of sins, when we comfort our hearts with confidence in the mercy promised for 81] Christ's sake.”
Brett Meyer
