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UOJists condemn those who, by the grace and mercy of God the Faither, Son and Holy Ghost, cling alone to Justification by Faith, rebuking Justification before and without faith in Christ.
UOJists declare the whole unbelieving world righteous by God's divine verdict before and without Word and Sacrament working faith in Christ's atonement. This includes the Antichrist.
Christ declares in Proverbs 17:15, "He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD."
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| Martin Chemnitz wrote against the Calvinists and the Roman Catholics. At the peak of his career he was the senior editor of the Book of Concord, the senior writer of the Formula of Concord. Like Tyndale, he studied under Luther and Melanchthon. |
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2011
Sodomites Refute Objective Justification...
...at least the false teaching of justification.
We know from Scripture that the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because there were no righteous people living there. See Genesis 18 &19. He spared Lot, his wife and two daughters. Even their righteousness was questionable when you read the account post flight.
From WELS confession of faith:
"IV. JUSTIFICATION BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH
1. We believe that God has justified all sinners, that is, he has declared them righteous for the sake of Christ. This is the central message of Scripture upon which the very existence of the church depends. It is a message relevant to people of all times and places, of all races and social levels, for "the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men" (Romans 5:18). All need forgiveness of sins before God, and Scripture proclaims that all have been justified, for "the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men" (Romans 5:18)."
According to the WELS all men have been declared righteous before God.
But Moses writes by divine inspriration thus:
From the KJV; Genesis 18 - 19:
"23And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?24Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?...32And he said, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake. 33And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place...24Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;25And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground...27And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD: 28And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace."
Emphasis are mine.
We know from Scripture that the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because there were no righteous people living there. See Genesis 18 &19. He spared Lot, his wife and two daughters. Even their righteousness was questionable when you read the account post flight.
From WELS confession of faith:
"IV. JUSTIFICATION BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH
1. We believe that God has justified all sinners, that is, he has declared them righteous for the sake of Christ. This is the central message of Scripture upon which the very existence of the church depends. It is a message relevant to people of all times and places, of all races and social levels, for "the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men" (Romans 5:18). All need forgiveness of sins before God, and Scripture proclaims that all have been justified, for "the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men" (Romans 5:18)."
According to the WELS all men have been declared righteous before God.
But Moses writes by divine inspriration thus:
From the KJV; Genesis 18 - 19:
"23And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?24Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?...32And he said, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake. 33And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place...24Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;25And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground...27And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD: 28And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace."
Emphasis are mine.
