The LCMS, ELS, and WELS agree about the "Chief Article of the Christian Faith."
Pushed into a corner, hard to do with jello or mercury, they admit that justification without faith is their foundational dogma.
Some people think their Rosetta Stone is Chemnitz, Hunnius, Gerhard, or Calov explaining justification by faith in light of Luther and Melanchthon's leadership in Biblical exposition.
The actual Rosetta Stone for UOJ is the statement by Wayne Mueller, below, which Brett Meyer unearthed from the Holy of Holies, the WELS Essay Files.
The statement offers the lamest possible excuse for substituting UOJ as the chief article of the faith. The confessions excuse it - nay, they demand the invention of new dogmas.
Once that layer of deception is penetrated, everything makes sense. History does not matter. The Book of Concord is boring, meaningless, and irrelevant. Biblical exposition means making up some reason why UOJ is found in every verse of the Bible, even though UOJ advocates confess (if I can say that) there is no UOJ in the Bible, no UOJ in the Book of Concord.
Jay Webber and Company can find UOJ in the Book of Concord, but they can also excuse working with Floyd Stolzenburg - knowing the facts.
I keep telling people - "When the bills are paid for all the lawsuits in the SynConference, for knowingly helping sex offenders in church vocations, your Holy Mother Synod will be gone, knocked into the dustbin."
So meditate night and day on the Mueller quotation below. It explains it all.
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