Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Serious Laughter from Paul McCain. Plagiarist Ratt...":
Can't count the number of times the UOJists claim that only Objective Justification can provide comfort that their sins are forgiven.
Exactly where is the comfort in this teaching?
Per UOJ, God the Father forgave the whole unbelieving world their sins and declared them righteous in Christ when He paid for them on the cross. YET, in an attempt to avoid Universalism, some people still go to Hell for eternity. Why do they go to Hell if Christ forgave them all of their sins so completely that God the Father declared them righteous even while they reject Christ, living under the Law and alive to sin in their old flesh. What sin did Christ not die for? Better question - who isn't guilty of every sin? James 2:10 "for whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all."
Unbelief isn't the sin which Christ didn't pay for (and which according to UOJ God didn't forgive at the Atonement) per Romans 11:23 "And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again."
So which sin did Christ not pay for and therefore did God not forgive?
And how did Christ declare the world - per UOJ - guiltless, justified: forgiven of all sin, and righteous when there is still a sin He didn't die for and the Father didn't forgive?
Hunnius made this same point in his excellent thesis against the Lutheran Synod's chief doctrine of UOJ - How does someone find comfort in the work of Christ when they have the exact same standing in God's eyes while they stood condemned and Hell bound as they do Heaven bound - having accepted that they were already forgiven, justified and righteous?
And what gives with that righteousness of Christ that God's perfectly divine verdict pronounced on them in their unbelief when they are still bound for eternity in Hell because they don't believe it. Some righteousness if those given it still go to Hell.
That's a perverse comfort that the faithless UOJ Lutherans, Seventh Day Adventists and New Age Religion have.
The true Gospel is that Christ died and paid for the sins of the whole world. All righteousness resides in Him and, contrary to the recent Steadfast tirade against the Holy Spirit's faith, is never apart from Him. Therefore by faith in Christ, worked graciously by the Holy Spirit solely through the Means Of Grace: Word and Sacrament, a man receives Christ, His righteousness, the forgiveness of all sins (even the sin of unbelief which he was born with) which Christ paid for, is Justified and saved - instantaneously.
Where's the comfort - in the fact that through faith (trust) in Christ all my sins are forgiven and I am saved. How do I know that my sins are forgiven - the Holy Spirit's faith, Christ's righteousness assures me that I believe in Christ and I trust God's Living Word that I am forgiven and saved. 2 Cor. 13:5 - only the reprobates ask themselves if they have faith in Christ and cannot answer by the Holy Spirit's faith in the affirmative. That's why the Steadfast apostates must by their new gospel make the declaration of righteousness outside of and without the Holy Spirit's faith.
There's no comfort in UOJ. The only comfort is in Christ's Gospel of One Justification solely by Faith in Christ Alone.
