GJ - The article on election in the Formula of Concord should be studied and re-read by everyone.
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Note that there is additional significance to the Book of Concord addressing the doctrine of Election.
Those who defend and promote the false gospel of Universal Objective Justification know that the teaching is not taught in the BOC. When challenged on this they will invariably state that the BOC was only intent on addressing the Roman Catholic Church's false gospel of Work Righteousness by teaching Subjective Justification and as such never addresses Objective Justification. This is a baseless lie since the doctrine of Election was not under contention but included in the BOC in order to make a clear confession. If the authors of the BOC clarified their confession on the unchallenged doctrine of Election why didn't they clearly and fully document their confession of UOJ? UOJ is even more offensive to the RCC since it declares not only those with faith forgiven but the whole unbelieving world forgiven and righteous -regardless of works.
UOJ isn't in the BOC because it isn't taught in Scripture and in fact contradicts and perverts Christ's pure Word.
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GJ - Because the Book of Concord is not taught adequately, few realize the genius level of the theologians around Luther. God certainly provided two or more generations of faithful, orthodox, prolific Gospel leaders.
- Luther and Melanchthon were two of the greatest theologians of all time.
- Both men trained Martin Chemnitz, senior editor of the Book of Concord.
- Chytraeus wrote works that were kept in print over 100 years.
- Polycarp Leyser also served as an editor of the Lutheran Symbols (as they are sometimes called).
- Chemnitz worked with J. Gerhard, co-authoring a giant work.
- Gerhard produced some of the finest works of Christian theology, now available in English through Repristination Press.
This is significant because the men from the Book of Concord generation slapped down the ridiculous UOJ of Samuel Huber and kicked his Enthusiastic rear off the faculty at Wittenberg.
Leyser, who wrote the biography of Chemnitz, was one of those men. Huber taught that every single person was justified, forgiven, saved.
