L P has left a new comment on your post "UOJ from the Calvinistic Babtists":
Dear Pr. GJ.
Would you think UOJ is the cause of antinomianism and why false teaching is not taken seriously in our churches?
I seem to think so.
LPC
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GJ - Definitely. Since UOJ declares that the entire world has been absolved of sin, pronounced innoncent - without the Word, without the Means of Grace, without faith, there is no Law.
In fact, one of the most enthusiastic Church Growthers in WELS also told his congregation that the Law was obsolete, taking the exact same position of Antinomianism condemned by the Book of Concord (and the Scriptures).
For as Luther writes against the law-stormers [Antinomians]: Everything that reproves sin is and belongs to the Law, whose peculiar office it is to reprove sin and to lead to the knowledge of sins, Rom. 3:20,7:7; and as unbelief is the root and well-spring of all reprehensible sins [all sins that must be censured and reproved], the Law reproves unbelief also.
Antinomians espouse and live lawlessness, but they have plenty of man-made law for everyone. The visible church must grow, etc. Instrumental music is an adiaphoron, a matter of indifference, but the congregation cannot use the organ and must have a Pentecostal Praise Band.
The Antinomians take the Gospel exhortation of Jesus in Matthew - Go, therefore and teach all nations - and turn it into man-made law - "Manufacture disciples!"
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L P has left a new comment on your post "UOJ and Antinomianism":
"Manufacture disciples!"
Absolutely Pastor!
I have knowledge of this "manufacturing" process being in charismania for some years, and to continue the metaphor...most of these disciples have factory defects and must be recalled!
LPC
