"As to the doctrine in general, Lenski repudiates and ridicules the teaching that on Easter morning God forgave, really forgave, all the world all its sins, really and truly justified the world. He protests against making objective reconciliation, general justification, mean that God on Easter morning did actually pronounce the world, all individuals making up the world, really innocent of all sin and guilt." Theodore Engelder, Objective Justification, Concordia Theological Monthly, 1933, Ft. Wayne: Concordia Seminary Press, n.d. p. 508. 2 Corinthians 5:18-20.
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Seems to me all the people who lived before Christ's resurrection lost out. I have asked pastors this numerous times how this objective whatever you want to call it works with the father of our faith Abraham. Just last week I had an exchange with the Intrepids...nada. I had one pastor (not last week) tell me that if I don't ask the right question, I won't get the right answer. Huh?
BOC: But when it is said that faith justifies, some perhaps understand it of the beginning, namely, that faith is the beginning of justification or preparation for justification, so that not faith itself is that through which we are accepted by God,
http://www.bookofconcord.org/defense_4_justification.php
I know what you are saying, Brett. In fact I already know the answer...it is a way of getting them to see. :)
Engelder does what all believers should do. He identifies what he rejects. His statement makes it easy to choose whether his opinion or Lenski's Biblical scholarship is correct. Most of the clergy today play paddy-cake with the terms and pretend to be in both camps at once. They want to sneak UOJ in on little cat's feet.
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