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From the Apology, Justification:
“5] All Scripture ought to be distributed into these two principal topics, the Law and the promises. For in some places it presents the Law, and in others the promise concerning Christ, namely, either when [in the Old Testament] it promises that Christ will come, and offers, for His sake, the remission of sins, justification, and life eternal, or when, in the Gospel [in the New Testament], Christ Himself, since He has appeared, promises the remission of sins, justification, and life eternal.”
Note that “justification” is sandwiched between “the remission of sins” and “life eternal.” UOJ proponents are quick to deny charges of “universalism,” but then how does one explain “life eternal” in this context, not once, but twice? If this is “subjective justification,” then where is “objective justification”?
Apology, Justification:
“67] But God cannot be treated with, God cannot be apprehended, except through the Word. Accordingly, justification occurs through the Word, just as Paul says, Rom. 1:16: The Gospel is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth. Likewise Rom. 10:17: Faith cometh by hearing. And proof can be derived even from this that faith justifies, because, if justification occurs only through the Word, and the Word is apprehended only by faith, it follows that faith justifies.”
Am I to believe that this section is merely speaking of “subjective justification”? Because I’m pretty sure that those unbelievers out there who are “objectively justified” are rejecting or oblivious to the Word, through which “justification occurs only,” and which “is apprehended only by faith.” Again, if this is “subjective justification,” then where is “objective justification”?
Don’t any Lutherans even read the Apology anymore?
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GJ - In WELS, where they have declared war against justification by faith; the Wauwatosa rejection of the creeds has fueled their doctrinal indifference. That is why Tiefel and Company could adopt the feminist Creeds and pretend they were forced to do it. All the WELS pastors went along with and bought Christian Worship.
The Universalists were honest in their Universalism. UOJ is universalistic and denies it.
The path of deterioration does not vary. The Pietists put love above sound doctrine. Georg Knapp produced the lectures that led to a Calvinist, Woods, describing the system as two justifications: Objective Justification and Subjective Justification.
Knapp denied that the orthodox definition of the Trinity was Biblical. In the next generation at Halle University, Tholuck embraced Universalism. Scheiermacher, at Halle, became pivotal for modern theology, offering an elaboration of faith without belief - writing voluminously about Christianity without believing a word of it.
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