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People ask, like Norm did in the past, "What's the big deal over UOJ?" Others try to water it down and make it seem like the scriptural doctrine of Atonement. UOJ, however, leads to immorality and apostasy today just as it did in the case of the immorality of Bishop Stephan Martin and the apostasy of Professor Eduard Preuss in the 19th Century. Dr. Jackson is doing us the favor of documenting some of the damage done by UOJ, and restricts himself to public persons and material, and then only when those persons didn't get clean away with it. What could he reveal if he reported on the hidden mechanizations of the synod that works to ostracize and exile against any student or pastor or critic who is just a bit too moral for the WELS UOJers to tolerate? So that's part I of refuting UOJ, but Part II has barely begun. Rest assured that Dr. Jackson's new release won't be the last word on refuting UOJ, or that you've seen all the historical and doctrinal evidence against UOJ.
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Robert Preus was kind enough to emphatically disclose that Universal Objective Justification is not synonymous with the Atonement.
"Objective justification which is God’s verdict of acquittal over the whole world is not identical with the atonement, it is not another way of expressing the fact that Christ has redeemed the world. Rather it is based upon the substitutionary work of Christ, or better, it is a part of the atonement itself. It is God’s response to all that Christ died to save us, God’s verdict that Christ’s work is finished, that He has been indeed reconciled, propitiated; His anger has been stilled and He is at peace with the world, and therefore He has declared the entire world in Christ to be righteous."
http://www.reclaimingwalther.org/articles/jmc00225.htm
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