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| According to Paul McCain, the Nativity should be scorned, because the room was rented and only a stable at that. |
UOJ Enthusiasts create confusion deliberately with the way they treat the Atonement. They let people imagine that Universal Objective Justification (Objective Justification, or General Justification) is the same at the Atonement.
False Impression of UOJ:
UOJ is the same as the Atonement, propitiation, expiation, redemption.
Therefore, justification by faith is not a contradiction in the eyes of the innocent.
Correct Interpretation of UOJ:
UOJ is the merger of justification and the Atonement, so it means that every single soul is forgiven and saved, before birth, from the beginning of time.
For UOJ, faith is trust in the dogma of UOJ, not faith in Christ. Those who deny UOJ dogma are condemned, attacked, shunned, silenced, and given a public beat-down.
Thus every New Testament or Book of Concord reference to the Atonement becomes a UOJ proof-text for them. When they cannot wedge UOJ into the Biblical wording, they simply change it - some really means all, and if St. Paul is short an all, they add it. All have sinned and all are justified. Ta - dah!
Error Loves Ambiguities
When someone questions UOJ innocently, that individual is allowed to think that UOJ is exactly the same as redemption, atonement, expiation.
When another person knows all about UOJ, and can refute it, the Enthusiasts scream,
"He is teaching a limited Atonement.
He is a Calvinist. Shun the evil-doer!
Shun those who will not shun him!"
Ban the Anti-Biblical OJ/SJ Terms
There is no OJ in the Bible or the Confessions, no SJ in the Bible and the Confessions, no OJ or SJ in the post-Concord era of Lutheran Orthodoxy.
