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Gregory L. Jackson has left a new comment on your post "Extra Nos: Hunnius proves Steadfast Waltherians ar...":
The grammatical arguments for UOJ fall flat because "there is no there there."
But we do not need Greek grammar textbooks to show that UOJ is completely bogus.
Romans 4:24 and Romans 4 and Romans 5:1-2 all refute UOJ.
That proves someone can "study" Greek, as they call it in the SynConference, and be utterly and foolishly wrong, when the goal is to inject dogma foreign to the Word of God.
That alone should make people LOL when the Brief Confession of 1932 is mentioned in hushed tones, because that piece of politicking said Romans 4:25 taught the absolution of the entire world.
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Simpleman Jones has left a new comment on your post "Grammar Is Good But the Plain Word of God in Any L...":
Sure, context helps tell us that there is no such thing as an objective justification, but Lutheran pastors are so used to seeing the clash of human reason and theology that objective justification is seen as just another one of those clashes.
But seeing how the Greek actually dictates against UOJ in the very "proof passages" themselves for objective justification......it's eye opening.
I've looked over each "proof passage" and am astonished at what is overlooked. (But then again, I am simpleminded and may be missing something myself.)
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GJ - Well played, Simpleman. Luther argued that we must take away the weapons of the false teachers and defeat the opponents with their favorite tools. If that is not done, the toxic arguments remain.
Luther disparaged philosophy as the guarantor of good theology, but he could debate the papists with their own philosophical terms until who laid the rails (to quote Music Man).
WELS argues UOJ with grammar (not too well, but too often) and so must be defeated the same way.
Each passage has to be examined on its own merit and in the context of the Bible as one unified message of truth, the Book of the Holy Spirit.
