LPC has left a new comment on your post "WELS - Allergic Reaction to the Book of Concord.Br...":
UOJ can not be found in Scripture in the first place so how can it be found in the Book of Concord?
If one can not use Scripture to establish something, it is now pointless to even point at the BoC.
In UOJ, one can not go to Scripture to see it there, nor go to the BoC and find it there. Ergo, where does one appeal to? Answer: To one's own imagination.
LPC
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GJ - Lito and readers, I have read far too many UOJ essays. They all admit that justification in the Bible and in the Book of Concord means justification by faith. There is also no UOJ in Robert Preus' last book.
The UOJ rebuttal is fascinating, showing how blinded and hardened they are:
1. Justification by faith is Subjective Justification, so they find their Objective Justification elsewhere, such as in the climax of Romans 4, a chapter on the faith of Abraham and his justification by faith. That so-called proof of OJ, in Romans 4:24-25, shows that we are also justified by faith, if we believe that God raised Jesus from the dead. I will quote the verses, because the Enthusiasts actually cite Romans 4:25 as OJ when the passage refutes their false doctrine.
KJV Romans 4:22 And therefore it was imputed [counted or reckoned] to him for righteousness. 23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; 24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; 25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
2. Justification by faith is consistently taught throughout the Book of Concord because the Concordists were not aware of the issues that would arise later. Nevertheless, the UOJ fanatics find OJ in every single Atonement passage, merging justification and atonement as identical terms. Thus they begin with Walther's propposition and make the Biblical passages and Book of Concord fit their Pietistic theory from Professor Knapp, Halle University.
3. Not knowing their terms any better than they comprehend the Bible and Confessions, they call justification by faith synergism. Synergism is defined as stating:
A. God has done this.
B. Now you must complete the transaction by believing.
UOJ teaches, starting with Walther:
A. God has already declared the whole world free of sin, saved.
B. Now you must believe that this is true for you also.
J. P. Meyer said - "Make a decision..." in his Ministers of Christ. As Pastor Harley wrote so many years ago, UOJ is synergism.
4. Limited in their knowledge about Calvin and Calvinism, they call justification by faith Calvinism. Their hero, Sig Becker, admitted in one of his essays that OJ is exactly what Calvinists teach.
Naturally, this Calvinism embedded in the Lutheran Church came from somewhere. The Calvinism of UOJ is from Pietism, from Halle University, from George Christian Knapp.
