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Jack Cascione quoted this with approval, as Robert Preus once did, to prove to everyone that Preus taught UOJ.
My point was clear - Preus once taught UOJ but rejected the dogma in Justification and Rome. |
Two things are clear:
- The LCMS, WELS, and ELS will continue to make justification without faith their central dogma.
- They will tell any lie to disguise what they really believe, teach, and confess.
The Appleton plagiarists are terribly offended that I teach non-Lutherans in graduate school - actually at two different graduate schools. I have taught world religion over 60 times - to Mormons, Catholics, and "an ordained pagan Egyptian priestess."
The so-called Lutherans could have hired me to teach in their institutions of higher education. I am more qualified than most of their faculties. That is the beauty of the parochial system - someone with the right family connections can be hired to teach at a college or seminary, without any credentials. The current ELS pope, John Moldstad, was hired to teach New Testament without having a bachelor's degree. Larry Olson calls himself "Dr." by virtue of a drive-by D.Min. from Fuller Seminary. Jay Webber was "rector" of the Marvin Schwan UOJ Gospel Lighthouse. Roger Kovaciny, who claimed to be a founder of Church Growth in WELS, served on the faculty, as the Floyd Stolzenburg Professor of Church Growth.
Not one of these men is qualified to teach as an adjunct professor anywhere else but their little parochial schools.
Tim Glende argued that he was infallible by virtue of his EIGHT STRAIGHT YEARS OF EDUCATION, when he was in the process of excommunicating
Rick Techlin. Did I mention - TIM STUDIED GREEK!
The solution to the Appleton offense would be to hire me to teach at Martin Luther College, Bethany College, The Sausage Factory, or The Little Schoolhouse on the Prairie. Why didn't they? John Brenner had to take a year of remedial education before he could be admitted to the UW graduate program -
after he was hired to teach at Mequon. Brug has a doctorate in Hebrew, so they gave him the yellowed lecture notes of J. P. Meyer and made him dogmatics professor too. That would never happen at an accredited school, where people have to be formally trained in the discipline they teach.
Apart from studying at Fuller Seminary, Bivens and Valleskey had no other education beyond their seminary program. The same could be said for many of the pivotal positions in the WELS and ELS. The most unifying educational factor in the WELS, ELS, and LCMS is study at Fuller Seminary. That is also the best way to get promoted.
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Infallible synod popes - Harrison, Schroeder, Moldstad.
Justification by faith offends them. |
Lutheran Doctrine Professor, Synodical Conference
My role is to teach the non-Lutherans of the Synodical Conference, a much bigger challenge than teaching Lutheran doctrine at online universities, where the students respect the professors. They thank me for posting Gerhardt hymns, for quoting Luther, for emphasizing the efficacy of the Word.
Lutherans need to admit to themselves that SP Harrison, SP Schroeder, and SP Moldstad are
not Lutheran. All three men reject justification by faith, no matter what they protest to cover their tracks. They have no concept of the efficacy of the Word, so they do not trust God's Word to accomplish His will - contrary to Isaiah 55 and many other passages.
Harrison, Schroeder, and Moldstad are unable to teach the Means of Grace, although they may toy with the words from time to time. So does the real Pope in Rome. Roman Catholics teach the Means of Grace, but read the fine print. The three Synod Popes are just bad imitations of Holy Father Antichrist. They are the little Antichrists of Scripture, aiding and abetting, small potatoes.
Discipline for Harrison, Schroeder, and Moldstad does not mean condemning impenitent sinners and false teachers, but condemning and expelling those who question their infallibility.
What did Harrison do when it was proven that LCMS District Presidents put a known sex offender into the pastoral office and kept him there to rape again? Harrison silenced his robotic followers - and they fell into stupefied silence, content to let more sex offenders have their way in the ministerial office. Will Harrson back the lawsuit of the Pennsylvania victim of child abuse? The man has an eye-witness who saw it happen, but that witness is a famous professor. Missouri's policy is to destroy evidence, as the lawsuit points out.
Will Missouri, WELS, and the ELS give back their Marvin Schwan indulgence commissions, since they know the truth about his "Scriptural divorce"? No, their hands are stretched out for more.
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| Short version - make up whatever you want, because the Confessions approve! |
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The
charge of being anti-Christian and specifically the charge of being an
Antichrist made to those who act contrary to Christ while declaring they do it
by his authority is very serious. I agree with Pastor Jackson that the title of
Antichrist not only applies to the anti-Christian Pope but also to those in the
Lutheran Synods who declare the false gospel of Universal Objective
Justification, UOJ (aka: Objective Justification or General Justification).
There cannot be a more heinous crime in the church than to pervert the central
and chief article of Christian faith – the doctrine by which a person, if
faithfully believed, instantaneously receives Christ’s righteousness for the
forgiveness of all sin (which is justification), is adopted as God’s child and
is saved eternally. This same doctrine if believed and confessed contrary to
Scripture separates a person from Christ and thereby remains under God’s wrath
and condemnation over sin, and does not obtain Christ as Mediator through faith
alone. All doctrine, churches, denominations and people stand or fall by their
confession of this chief and central Christian doctrine. Uncorrected errors in
doctrine and practice are a fruit of confessing trust in the false gospel of
UOJ. Defense of false doctrine and practice is an absence of the Holy Spirit in
those who reject His faith, worked solely through the Means of Grace, which
clings to Christ alone for the forgiveness of sins and salvation. Apathy
concerning the outward expressions of false doctrine and practice is a
significant trait of laity who, having been fed putrid doctrines taught by false
teachers, are exchanging their Baptismal faith in Christ for the false comfort
of group think, Synod worship and the theology of glory. Fortunately, the
defense of false doctrine and practice by the equally false teachers in the
Lutheran Synods comes at a price. They are incorrigibly contradictory in their
speech concerning the Word of God. It is the Holy Spirit alone who works
faithfulness and clarity of thought and speech in faithful Christians. Having
rejected the Holy Spirit’s faith, UOJists lack the guidance of the Holy Spirit
and instead become puppets for their father below and are unable to remain
consistent and faithful to Scripture and the Christian Lutheran Confessions.
Below I quote from the Confessions that the forgiveness of sins is only declared
and imputed to those with faith in Christ alone. The (W)ELS quotes show the
depth of Scriptural depravity that the Lutheran Synods have traveled in their
journey into apostasy.
“10]
These treasures are offered us by the Holy Ghost in the promise of the holy
Gospel; and faith alone is the only means by which we lay hold upon, accept, and
apply, and appropriate them to ourselves. 11] This faith is a gift of God, by
which we truly learn to know Christ, our Redeemer, in the Word of the Gospel,
and trust in Him, that for the sake of His obedience alone we have the
forgiveness of sins by grace, are regarded as godly and righteous by God the
father, and are eternally saved. 12] Therefore it is considered and understood
to be the same thing when Paul says that we are justified by faith, Rom. 3, 28,
or that faith is counted to us for righteousness, Rom. 4, 5, and when he says
that we are made righteous by the obedience of One, Rom. 5, 19, or that by the
righteousness of One justification of faith came to all men, Rom. 5, 18. 13] For
faith justifies, not for this cause and reason that it is so good a work and so
fair a virtue, but because it lays hold of and accepts the merit of Christ in
the promise of the holy Gospel; for this must be applied and appropriated to us
by faith, if we are to be justified thereby. 14] Therefore the righteousness
which is imputed to faith or to the believer out of pure grace is the obedience,
suffering, and resurrection of Christ, since He has made satisfaction for us to
the Law, and paid for [expiated] our sins. 15] For since Christ is not man
alone, but God and man in one undivided person, He was as little subject to the
Law, because He is the Lord of the Law, as He had to suffer and die as far as
His person is concerned. For this reason, then, His obedience, not only in
suffering and dying, but also in this, that He in our stead was voluntarily made
under the Law, and fulfilled it by this obedience, is imputed to us for
righteousness, so that, on account of this complete obedience, which He rendered
His heavenly Father for
us, by
doing and suffering, in living and dying, God forgives our sins, regards us as
godly and righteous, and eternally saves us. 16] This righteousness is offered
us by the Holy Ghost through the Gospel and in the Sacraments,<b> and is
applied, appropriated, and received through faith</b>, whence believers
have reconciliation with God, forgiveness of sins, the grace of God sonship, and
heirship of eternal life. 17] 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. Prov. 17, 15: He that justifieth
the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to
the Lord. Is. 5, 23: Woe unto them which justify the wicked for reward, and take
away the righteousness of the righteous from him! Rom. 8, 33: Who shall lay
anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth, that is,
absolves from sins and acquits.”
http://www.bookofconcord.org/sd-righteousness.php
AAC
That We Obtain The Remission of Sins By Faith Alone In Christ, "80] The
wrath of God cannot be appeased if we set against it our own works, because
Christ has been set forth as a Propitiator, so that, for his sake, the
Father may become reconciled to us. But Christ is not apprehended as a
Mediator except by faith. Therefore, by faith alone we obtain remission
of sins when we comfort our hearts with confidence in the mercy promised for
Christ's sake."
The
following are self indicting statements from (W)ELS District President Jon
Buchholz given and approved at the 2005 WELS Convention. Note how they declare
a doctrine contrary to the Christian Confessions and are immediately contradict
what was previously stated.
Buchholz,
“In each example, the mark of heresy is to go as far as Scripture goes—and then
to go one step further”. P.7
"God
has forgiven the whole world. God has forgiven everyone his sins." This
statement is absolutely true! This is the heart of the gospel, and it must be
preached and taught as the foundation of our faith. <b>But here’s where
the caveat comes in: In Scripture, the word "forgive" is used almost
exclusively in a personal, not a universal sense. The Bible doesn’t make the
statement, "God has forgiven the world</b>." p.
7
"God
has forgiven all sins, but the unbeliever rejects God’s forgiveness." Again,
this statement is true—and Luther employed similar terminology to press the
point of Christ’s completed work of salvation.16 <b>But we must also
recognize that Scripture doesn’t speak this way</b>."
p.8
"God
has declared the entire world righteous." This statement is true, as we
understand it to mean that God has rendered a verdict of "not-guilty" toward the
entire world. It is also true—and must be taught—that the righteousness of
Christ now stands in place of the world’s sin; this is the whole point of what
Jesus did for us at Calvary. <b>However, once again we’re wresting a
term out of its usual context. In Scripture the term "righteous" usually
refers to believers</b>. " p. 9
http://www.wlsessays.net/files/BuchholzJustification.pdf
And in
his June 2012 Emmanuel Church newsletter he makes this statement, “Our
unity centers in our connection to Jesus Christ, our one Savior. We are united
by complete agreement in our teaching. We are united in God’s Word and in
complete agreement with everything it says. We hold unswervingly to God’s
teaching in the Holy Bible as the only reliable, unchanging source of truth. We
do not wish to depart one iota from what God
says.”
(W)ELS
quotes promoting UOJ in Mark Zarling’s paper, Stand in Awe of Justification.
(former WELS MLC president)
“the
glorious Gospel: In Jesus, God has declared the entire world righteous and
forgiven, irregardless of whether or not the world believes it. Such is the
jewel described by objective, universal, or general justification.” Page
2
Quoting
Permit Stoeckhardt, “If God has already in Christ justified all men and forgiven
their sins, then I also in Christ have a gracious God and the forgiveness of all
my sins.” Page 5 “Irregardless of man's faith, God declares the world just.”
Page 6
“Our
salvation is an accomplished fact. It is done. It is finished. The resurrection
is the proof that God has declared the sinners justified!” Page
6
“Faith
does nothing more than receive the forgiveness which is offered in the Gospel.
It is not a condition we fulfill nor is it a cause of forgiveness. We are
already forgiven.” Page 7
“Simply
present Law and Gospel. Warn sinners that unbelief damns, and rejection of
Christ will bring eternal torment. Then comfort them with the glorious objective
reality that all sins are already forgiven in Christ.” Page
7
http://www.wlsessays.net/files/ZarlingJustification.pdf
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From Pastor Nathan Bickel:
Dr. Jackson,
Count it God's blessing that you were never asked or called to teach higher education in Lutheran synodical schools. [Else if it had turned out for you, as such, Lutheran UOJ (universal objective justification) inbreeding may have taken its toll upon you, also]
The good Lord apparently had other plans for you, - that being, teaching heathen and non-Lutherans. Despised in Lutheran circles as you must be, should be no shame [for you]. Rather, it is the mark of the suffering Christ. Did He not say:
"Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets." - Luke 6:26
Dr. Jackson - be content with the prophetic ministry the Lord has apparently laid upon your Arkansas backwoods [often rejected] lap......
Nathan M. Bickel - pastor emeritus
www.thechrisitanmessage.org
www.moralmatters.org
