Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Desperately Twisting Romans 4:25: The Brief Confes...":
Pastor Webber touched on a critical point a recent comment. Those who confess the false gospel of Universal Justification believe that if a man is declared justified, forgiven of all sin and righteous by faith alone then it is synergism which is condemned as a grace-alone rejecting work of man. To confess UOJ is to condemn the Holy Spirit's faith worked through the means of grace. UOJ is as anti-Christian as any false doctrine can be. Scripture teaches that faith is solely the work of God in those He has called, by grace, through the means of grace (Hebrew. 12:2). To condemn this eternal truth is to reject Christ and the Holy Spirit. I can imagine Rydecki choked on his Juicy Fruit when reading that comment. The Intrepids have their work cut out for themselves, trying to convert the majority of ELS and WELS clergy (new and old) to the Christian faith while this false gospel is being fed to the laity. The Intrepids have yet to realize just how knotted and frayed their (W)ELS rope is. The Lord's will be done.
Christ's blessings to my brother down under.
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Dear Bro. Brett,
Each time Rev. Webber comments the more UOJ becomes evident that it is a false gospel.
They seem to be digging their own grave each time they speak.
It is also evident that they misunderstand the faith produced by the HS in the Means of Grace.
God bless bro.
LPC
The Olde Synodical Conference calls itself confessional Lutheran but it is really Halle University Orthodox, a blend of Pietism and rationalism with a veneer of Lutheran doctrine and practice.
An analytical chemist from Dow explained that the way to discern actual composition was to get the substance excited (with radiation, x-rays, Oprah reruns) and see how it responded. They have charts to show how tin, lead, and dead cockroaches respond to the various stimuli.
When the Syn Conference leaders get excited, from confrontations with the Word or the Confessions, they emit Halle University Orthodoxy. They cite their HUO forefathers, like Walther and Pieper, while ignoring Luther, as if he never existed.
WELS reaffirms so-called "Objective Justification"
From the October 2011 Forward in Christ (p.9; author: Forrest Bivens, a professor at Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary):
"Someone told me our sins were forgiven two thousand years ago at the cross. I think Jesus made forgiveness possible two thousand years ago, but we're not actually forgiven until we are converted and have faith."...
..."We begin where we should - with a focus on pertinent Bible passages. We're told in 2 Corinthians 5:18,19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, 'not counting men's sins against them.' The forgiveness of the world's sins is a universal reality to be announced and believed individually. In Romans 4:25 we are informed that Christ 'was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.' The resurrection of Christ two thousand years ago demonstrated that grand truth that our justification, or pardon, was already a reality. Romans 3:23,24 and 5:18,19 affirm that all (emphasis in original) are sinners and all are justified. Through Adam all are condemned, and through Christ all are justified. The astonishing reality is that God has forgiven the sins of the whole world, whether people believe it or not. He did more than 'make forgiveness possible.'"
The author then goes on to describe so-called "Subjective Justification."
The Book of Concord - that collection of confessions of faith which all authentic Lutherans swear to uphold - tells us what the essentials of Justification are: "in and to which belong and are necessary only the grace of God, the merit of Christ, and faith, which receives this in the promise of the Gospel, whereby the righteousness of Christ is imputed to us, whence we receive and have forgiveness of sins, reconciliation with God, sonship, and heirship of eternal life." (Solid Declaration of the Formula of Concord, III:25).
There is only one Justification and it is by faith alone.
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