Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel has left a new comment on your post "Luther Takes Away John 1:29 - Behold the Lamb of G...":
Ichabod -
You aptly describe the universal objective justification assertion as:
".....To make a decision for UOJ." [Your spot on assessment]
Based upon this, Billy Graham would be proud of many Lutherans who have swallowed this gullible spiritual pill which ends up perverting the Gospel of Christ!
Mind you; those of you who are UOJ enthusiasts and who may be reading this:
Your universal objective justification is on the same par as Billy Graham's decision theology. Only with yours; you use a different strain of leaven. But, eventually, the results are still the same.
Cheap Grace is a Worthless Substitute for a Faith That Saves
http://www.thechristianmessage.org/2012/06/cheap-grace-is-worthless-substitute-for.html
Nathan M. Bickel
www.thechristianmessage.org
www.moralmatters.org
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GJ - Graham would not be proud because UOJ is a peculiar mix that denies the basic Christian message of justification by faith. By claiming that the entire world is saved, justified, forgiven, UOJ establishes Universalism and then modifies it by saying, "But you have to make a decision." Walther stated this dogma in an Easter sermon that the ELS adores and reprints. J. P. Meyer repeated it even more bluntly.
WELS pastors now like to say, "I was saved 2000 years ago." They are also saying, in their dogma, that Judas Iscariot, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Jeffrey Dahmer were also saved.
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| Will he accept or will he decline? This is making a decision for UOJ - and WELS endorses this amalgamation. |
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| Imputation is the key word in justification by faith. Here it is mangled and perverted into non-imputation by unfaith. Graham be not proud - Walther be proud. |
The only true righteousness is the righteousness of faith:
KJV Romans 3:22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them
that believe: for there is no difference: 23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; 24 Being
justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25 Whom God hath set forth to
be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are
past, through the forbearance of God; 26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be
just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. 27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what
law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. 28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without
the deeds of the law.
The only way to turn this into righteousness without faith is to start with the dogma of Halle Pietism and wedge perfectly clear statements into UOJ categories from Georg Christian Knapp.
