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A. Berean has left a new comment on your post "The Epitome of the Formula of Concord - On the Rig...":
It seems that if anyone ever mentions faith in the article of justification they are labeled as Synergists because its something that we have to do.
Yea...only if you take your eyes off of all the passages in Scripture which says that it is the Holy Ghost alone (divine monergism) who creates and preserves justifying faith in the heart through His Means of Grace...even laymen are able to see that...
Are they just afraid of the crux theologorum? Don't they have enough humility that when it comes to the crux they can't just say, "We don't know because Scripture does not answer that?"
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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "A. Berean Explores the UOJ Horror of Faith":
The root of the problem is that UOJists lack the very thing that they despise as a synergistic work and that just happens to be what the Holy Spirit uses to enlighten and reveal the Scriptures and what they truly mean.
They saw off the very branch the Holy Spirit uses to attach Christians to the Tree of Life.
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Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel has left a new comment on your post "A. Berean Explores the UOJ Horror of Faith":
A Berean -
Excellent observation! And, I'll maintain that the universal objective justification enthusiasts really don't possess a genuine theology of the cross! How can they when their flaccid theory rejects God the Holy Spirit leading the way to create faith in the heart of the human soul? As much as they would pay lip service to "justification by faith" and make occasional reference to the Spirit; they, instead are all wrapped up in their evangelistic "solution" to the world by encouraging their mesmorized congregational members to tell all their neighbors that Jesus forgives them; period! These UOJ con artists will always stop short. That's their very nature. They fail to preach and teach the whole counsel of God. They ride the Atonement of Christ, as if it was the last hobby horse on earth for them to ride!
Nathan M. Bickel
www.thechristianmessage.org
www.moralmatters.org
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Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel has left a new comment on your post "A. Berean Explores the UOJ Horror of Faith":
Brett Meyer -
I'll say it since, (I think) you were too polite:
The universal objective justification die hards, lop off [as you say] the very essence which they so desperately lack and need to experience, themselves! [No wonder they are so stiff and ingrown!]
Not only do they "saw off" [your apt description] faith; they actually do faith dirty and molest it to such an extent that they must even make the Holy Spirit blush by their undermining activity!
Giving the Holy Spirit His due and preaching faith, is, as to them almost as feared as a stake, mirror and cross to a Vampire.
Nathan M. Bickel
www.thechristianmessage.org
www.moralmatters.org
