Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Bivens - UOJ Jedi Knight, Fuller Alumnus":
UOJ obliterates the Key to Retain Sin given to the entire priesthood of believers. If the emisseries of the Pope, Kilcrease and McCain, didn't provide their rational explanations for the American Lutheran's they'd have no excuse at all for believing and teaching such blasphemy.
The Lutheran Confessions made this statement regarding the current condition of the Lutheran Synods and their similarities to the Roman Catholic church, "6] Let any one of the adversaries come forth and tell us when remission of sins takes place. O good God, what darkness there is! They doubt whether it is in attrition or in contrition that remission of sins occurs. And if it occurs on account of contrition, what need is there of absolution, what does the power of the keys effect, if sins have been already remitted?…" http://www.bookofconcord.org/defense_10_repentance.php
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GJ - The UOJ forces are getting an acute case of flop-sweat, because their shallow arguments are refuted by:
- The clear meaning of the Scriptures.
- The writings of Luther.
- The Book of Concord - Luther, Melanchthon, Chytraeus, Chemnitz, Andreae
- The post-Concord theologians, heirs of Luther, Melanchthon, Chytraeus, Andreae, and Chemnitz.
- The historical background of double justification from the Calvinistic Pietism of Halle University.
- The simple fact of UOJ not being accepted or taught synod-wide in the Olde Synodical Conference - the old German Missouri catechism, the Gausewitz Catechism, and the current LCMS KJV catechism.
- Robert Preus' Justification and Rome, where Huber's UOJ is repudiated.
