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Friday, March 16, 2012
No One Can Champion One Justification And Affirm Another Justification
False teachers grab onto one scrap of Scripture and create a new sect out of it. This Galatians text has been used to promote Antinomianism - the Law is obsolete.
Now that UOJ has received many body blows, the UOJ advocates are covering themselves with a new-found love for justification by faith.
In any language, no one can be declared innocent (the meaning of forensic justification) and be declared innocent a second time. Nor does it even make sense that justification can be universally true (the heart of UOJ) and yet need another declaration to be really true.
The UOJ claim destroys the meaning of justification by faith, evidenced by the Stormtroopers' neglect of the Means of Grace and the efficacy of the Word. They are like the kid who loves chocolate and chewing gum, so he puts both in his mouth at once. The result is neither one. The gum and chocolate dissolve together into an unpleasant mess. (I did scientific research on this, long ago.)
The Stormtroopers neglect the efficacy of the Word and the Means of Grace because they must. If they considered the Biblical concepts with any seriousness, they would have to concede defeat.
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