UOJ Clashes with Justification by Faith. The Word of God Rejects UOJ, Teaches Justification by Faith

Universal Objective Justification, which also goes by the names of Objective Justification and General Justification, consists of one solitary dogma - universal absolution.

There are some slight but trivial variations in UOJ. Some date this unrecorded declaration at the death of Christ. Others at the moment of His resurrection. The Pietists--like Rambach and Walther and Jay Webber--favor Easter.

This universal absolutions is taught by Karl Barth (Fuller's theologian), the Universalists, all the mainline denominations, and the Seventh Day Adventists.

"...must accept by faith the general absolution..."
That is not justification by faith.

The corollary to universal absolution is simple - you must believe in this universal absolution. Walther stated this with great clarity and the SynConference Lutherans have aped it ever since. Therefore, Walther's justification by faith is NOT faith in Christ or in His atonement, but faith in Walther's delusions of universal forgiveness.

Implicit is Pope Walther's "Anathema sit!" If someone denies his Enthusiasm, let him be damned to Hell. As a Pietist, he was very astute at shunning other Pietists, calling them "Pietist" and "false teacher," irony too subtle for the men who followed one cell group guru after another.

Evidence of False Doctrine in Waltherians
There are many lapses in the teaching of the Waltherians, including silence about:

1. The efficacy of the Word.
2. The Means of Grace - except when twisted in the service of UOJ.
3. The Holy Spirit working only through the Word.
4. Justification by faith only found in Luther, Melanchthon, Chemnitz, the Book of Concord, and the next generation of theologians.
5. Samuel Huber, their first UOJ champion.

Symptoms of UOJ Enthusiasm
False doctrine leads to obvious symptoms, just as cancer and gangrene give themselves away with symptoms. Some symptoms are:

1. Enrollment in Fuller Seminary, Trinity Divinity, and Willow Creek programs. Synodical funding.
2. Pentecostalism.
3. Receptionism.
4. Joyfully working with ELCA in Church Growth projects.
5. Subordination to Thrivent funding of any denomination, any religion.
6. Promotion of false teachers and known sex offenders.
7. Discipline reserved for those who question Holy Mother Synod about anything.
8. Laziness and plagiarism in preaching.
9. Non-visitation of members and prospects.
10. Mark Schroeder, Pope John the Malefactor, Matt Harrison.

I expect little to happen in the right direction, but the truth is coming out. The pastors are too wedded to Mama Synod, and the congregations are loyal to their buildings.

---

Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel has left a new comment on your post "UOJ Clashes with Justification by Faith. The Word ...":

Ichabod -

As popular and photogenic, (at the time), as Walther was, he apparently [incorrectly] thought that human souls actually want to be saved from their unconverted state. He says that everyone "who wants to be saved........" That desire, however, can only be implanted by the Holy Spirit. When a human soul comes into contact with the Word of God and [by God's grace, through the Spirit's working] recognizes his fallen, corrupted and hopeless condition, - only then will he have a [genuine] desire to be saved. Apparently, Walther was of the same misconception as modern day universal objective justification enthusiasts that people can capriciously (on their own) muster the wherewithal to believe in Christ.

Again, looking at this Walther quote, I see nothing Biblical. No mention of repentance. Somehow in UOJ fanatical thinking, is the false notion that a general absolution replaces repentance and personal belief [faith] - a grace bestowed by our loving God:

The Grace of Repentance

http://www.thechristianmessage.org/2012/07/grace-of-repentance.html

Nathan M. Bickel

www.thechristianmessage.org

www.moralmatters.org 

Lutherans Today Would Rather Teach Themselves and Their Sect Than Luther's Biblical Doctrine

How many catch the irony of Lutherans officially rejecting Luther's doctrine?

The first responses are - "What does Holy Mother Synod say?" and "Aren't we loyal to Holy Mother Synod most of all?"

The apostates repeat the arguments of the living and the dead, the same ones who delivered vast sums of synod money to Fuller Seminary, Trinity in Deerfield, and Willow Creek Community Church. As long as everyone is ignorant of the facts and resistant to studying the issues, the fraud can continue indefinitely.

The functionaries appoint their political friends to carry out the agenda. It only takes a few votes on a few boards to control everything.

C. F. W. Walther was a college graduate only - nothing more. But the SynConference pretends that the Great Kidnapper is Equal to the Apostles (Constantine's favorite title) and the Exegete of Luther. The Concordists would have laughed at someone so poorly educated as the ultimate authority on everything.

Walther took over Stephan's Pietistic sex cult and appointed his own successors, worried that someone  might write an actual history of the Missouri Synod's founding. There is no record of Walther knowing that Bishop Stephan, STD, kept a whole series of young mistresses, until he "suddenly" found out his boss was adulterous. Walther later blamed the adultery on Mrs. Stephan.

Left unsaid are the obvious symptoms of syphilis in Stephan, his sick wife, and his dying children. Leaving his wife in Dresden and coming across the ocean with his main mistress, Stephan shocked Walther and associates with his adultery? Ha.

Zion on the Mississippi details the role of Walther as a fox, a mob organizer, an unscrupulous power-grabber.

Walther and his minions gradually established a replacement for justification by faith. They were not 100% successful. In teaching Luther they had to reprint Luther. The Missouri Synod produced a magnificent Luther set in German. Like many of their early productions, the set could double as a bunker in case of war.

The German catechism of the Missouri Synod taught justification by faith, not UOJ. Another catechism still being sold by Missouri, their KJV catechism, is also silent about UOJ. Likewise, the original Gausewitz, a catechism for the entire Synodical Conference, taught justification by faith until he was long gone and WELS "fixed" it in 1956.

Claiming to be Lutheran while supplanting Luther is bound to cause problems. All the American Lutheran groups had the same difficulty. Pietism sponsored missions, and Halle was the mother ship for Pietism, the training ground for American Lutheran leaders - from Muhlenberg to Stephan to Hoenecke.

Augustana (Swedish Lutherans) struggled with unionism and Pietism, realizing that their original passions were causing them nothing but trouble in America. The same could be said for the Muhlenberg tradition, which was gradually united by an interest in the Confessions, just as Pietism tore it apart in the first place. But that confessional interest did not last long. The displaced liberals regained the upper hand and made rationalistic Pietism the theme of the ULCA, then the LCA, and finally ELCA.

WELS began as a union sect, Reformed and Lutheran, fell in with the Waltherians, and amalgamated their Pietism with a dash of orthodoxy. Unfortunately, the Walther-trained Pietists were bound to lead the sect in the wrong direction.

The Protest'ant crisis of WELS revealed that they learned their lessons from the Great Kidnapper himself. The WELS leaders said to the Protest'ants - "Shut up and listen while we tell you off." They kicked out everyone who said something was wrong. They got rid of their seminary president, so no one was safe from the gremlins, from that time on. They became easily frightened by anyone with brains, because conformity to the sect became the ruling norm.

The encroachment of UOJ has been gradual ever since. Watchdogs with no academic credibility make sure that no one teaches justification by faith with impunity.