John has left a new comment on your post "Un-Emerging Theology Book Given to Confirmands in ...":
WELS Church Lady says: "...our friends at CPH allowed for the word objective justification. No place in the body of the book is this term mentioned. Needless to say it is not found in the Concordia Triglotta."
Isn't Scripture the norm?
Aren't there many things that the Book of Concord does not address, specifically?
Does the Book of Concord specifically address abortion?
I am not commenting here on any subject other than what the norm is.
John
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GJ - Scripture is the ruling norm, while the Confessions are the ruled norm.
Lutherans are the only ones with a coherent, harmonious confession of faith, but the BoC is neglected by all the synods today.
Father Neuhaus called himself a confessional Lutheran, right up to the point where he became a Roman Catholic priest. He was an ELCA pastor when he called himself confessional. I wrote to him, "You are really just less liberal, not confessional." He conceded that point.
John is flirting with the logical fallacy called the "argument from silence." There is no OJ content in the BoC. What people claim for that is always another passage about the Atonement of Christ.
The argument from silence has been used for Preus' Justification and Rome, where UOJ is clearly repudiated. I would love to see the original manuscript, before Dan and Rolf Preus got their UOJ hands on it. Nevertheless, the doctrine of justification by faith alone comes through clearly.
There is only one justification, justification by faith, as Preus wrote.
UOJ Stormtroopers are avoiding two key issues:
- George Knapp invented double-justification, which is a testament to the Calvinistic basis of Pietism.
- Robert Preus repudiated his earlier stance in favor of UOJ.
There may be UOJ fans who tell the truth, but I have not found one yet.
