AC V has left a new comment on your post "Gunslinger Shoots Himself in the Foot...Again":
P.T. McCain: "We never want to give anyone even the remotest impression that they should put faith in their faith, or trust in their trust."
Yet that is EXACTLY what "Objective Justification" does. Here's how:
If I have the EXACT SAME justification as the unbeliever, the only difference being that I have faith, then how can I be sure that my justification is going to work? Don't I have to put FAITH IN MY FAITH, TRUST IN MY TRUST?
Let's review: According to the Confessions the definition of justification is (and remember, folks, this is supposed to apply to UNBELIEVERS, too, according to UOJ):
“Accordingly, the word justify here means to declare righteous and free from sins, and to absolve one from eternal punishment for the sake of Christ's righteousness, which is imputed by God to faith, Phil. 3:9. For this use and understanding of this word is common in the Holy Scriptures of the Old and the New Testament” (SD III:17).
Too bad "faith" shows up in there....
...As it does time and time again in the Scriptures and the Confessions when talking about the doctrine of justification. You just shouldn't have a definition of justification - if you are a Lutheran - without the word "by faith" coming out in the same breath.
