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Universal Objective Justification is facing hard times, because advocates for this bizarre opinion have found their defenses crumbling. I was thinking about the many ways they run themselves off the cliff.
- First of all, no Scripture passage says that God has declared the entire world forgiven and saved. Quite the contrary is true, especially about the LCMS favorite passage, Romans 4:25. The entire verse reveals that we are justified by faith, just as Abraham was. The transition to Romans 5:1-2 reinforces justification by faith.
- Luther, Melanchthon, Chemnitz, Chytraeus, Andrae, Gerhard, and Calov all taught justification by faith with utmost clarity. In fact, Luther anticipated the opinions of Huber (below) before the heretic appeared on the scene, after the Book of Concord.
- UOJ Enthusiasts have conceded that justification--in the New Testament and in the Book of Concord-- always means justification by faith.
- UOJ cheerleaders have no answer for the Huber conflict, when P. Leyser, an editor of the Book of Concord, repudiated the oddball concept that the entire world was forgiven. The Huber position is exactly what WELS, Missouri, and ELCA embrace today.
- Hardt showed that Walther's justification concept never changed, and Walther fan Suelflow pointed out that C. F. W. got it from Bishop Stephan, who studied at Halle University.
- The double-justification scheme, adored by UOJ, came from the Woods translation of Georg Christian Knapp, a professor at Halle University. Walther later approved that language, which is found in the writings of his chosen disciples, Pieper and Stoeckhardt.
- The 19th century European Protestants assumed UOJ, because that century in Europe was dominated by Pietism and Unionism.
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| David Scaer has been teaching this bilge to innocent seminarians for decades. |
rlschultz has left a new comment on your post "Dog Vader: UOJ Enforcer. The Crumbling Defenses of...":
"Luther anticipated the opinions of Huber (below) before the heretic appeared on the scene, after the Book of Concord."
Luther thanked God for his adversaries. He certainly made sport of those who tried to take him on. His discernment was razor sharp. He could have sold out for a bowl of porridge, like so many after him. Yet, so many today avoid him like the plague.
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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Dog Vader: UOJ Enforcer. The Crumbling Defenses of...":
Justification is the forgiveness of sins and salvation.
Interesting how the Lutheran Synods have separated forgiveness from Salvation. They've separated the benefits of Christ's righteousness (forgiveness of sins and salvation) from Christ's atonement. They've separated Christ's righteousness from the Holy Spirit's faith so that faith is now taught to be a withered and empty "beggars" hand which does nothing but receive what was already declared by God to be true. How blasphemous! By faith, Christ's righteousness, graciously worked by the Holy Ghost through the Means of Grace, we die to sin and the Law, are raised again to live under God's grace, are completely renewed in spirit and have the forgiveness of sins and are saved instantaneously and not as a blasphemous process which the UOJists teach.
Halle was also the armchair of Tholuck who was the admired and cherished professor of Hoenecke and both Peipers:
Here is a portion of an interview with Tholuck:
THOLUCK - I suppose my American brethren would consider me orthodox in general, except for my Universalism.
INTERVIEWER - They would, most certainly. But with them that one point would be a serious matter. With this sentiment you could not hold a standing in our orthodox churches. Now, where did you find this doctrine - in the Bible, or in your philosophy?
THOLUCK - In both.
http://books.google.com/books?id=W3QpAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA123&dq=herald+of+truth+tholuck#PPA123,M1
This isn’t to show guilt by association. It does provide a reason behind why the Universalism in UOJ was attractive to Hoenecke and the Peipers. Evergreen Lutheran High School (WELS) defended UOJ by using August Pieper’s quote in the third volume of the Quartalschrift , "But whoever molests the doctrine of justification stabs the gospel in the heart ...even if he ever so much emphasizes justification by faith."
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GJ - By this time, from what I read, UOJ was assumed by Protestant theology, which quickly moved into total rationalism. Tholuck and Schleiermacher were Halle professors who were the transition between the old era and the new. Modern theology follows Barth, Tholuck, and Schleiermacher in using the words without the meaning.
August Pieper's peculiar hyperbole reminds me of a statement from Schmauck - the farther these Lutherans are from the actual doctrine, the more they claim to be the real Lutherans.
