WELS church lady has left a new comment on your post "WELS Church Lady Unloads on UOJ":
Thanks Brett. My bad! I failed to read the Kretzmann project in its entirety. I read the sections under "Justification" and "Election." These two sections appeared to have clean language in terms of Justification. I decided to read the Kretzmann section under Romans.(it is several pages long) I found some STUFF that was not worded under the Justification and Elections headings.
"In this way Christ earned righteousness for all man; the OBJECTIVE JUSTIFICATION concerns the whole world: every person without exception belongs to the number of those for whom the benefit of Christ's work has been obtained. Of the fact that this OBJECTIVE JUSTIFICATION actually becomes the property of the individual person by faith."
This reminds me of pastors who preach an excellent sermon about faith. These same pastors backflip when writing an essay or teaching a Bible Class about faith. In the Lutheran Confessions, there is NO exegesis to anything close to OJ/UJ dialogue. The quotes that I provided are found in the Romans 5 section of the Kretzmann Project.
In Christ,
from WELS church lady
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GJ - Why didn't Lutherans stand up and laugh this OJ nonsense out of the Synodical Conference?
- Walther and Pieper slowly established it, with their minions enforcing it with great zeal.
- The Prussian style of leadership made questioning an authority a grave sin, so error only had to make it to the top to spread it outwards.
- The Synodical Conference was weak on Biblical exegesis but enchanted with theses floating in the air without Biblical support.
- The Synodical Conference was extremely weak in teaching the efficacy of the Word and remains captivated by Enthusiasm.
- Calvin was a boogey-man, but Calvism shrouded in Pietism was untouchable, because Spener and Halle were sacred topics beyond criticism. Thus unionism, Enthusiasm, and doctrinal indifference came back full in force to dominate the unwary.
