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A 21st Century Formula of Concord: RESURRECTION AND JUDGMENT:
"Jesus knew that He was the Messiah promised in the Old Testament and that He would rise again from the dead to save all men from their sins.49"
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Cascione:
His entire view was from the perspective that the blood of Jesus Christ does not forgive people who do not believe in Him. This is like the ability to fly in the story of “Peter Pan” depending on belief in Tinkerbelle. In other words, our own faith causes our own atonement. Hence, the Sovereignty of God would necessarily be more significant than an atonement that we are able to bring on ourselves.
It was interesting hearing him interpret John 3:16 as a proof for his position against me, namely that God loves and Christ died only for the “whosoever.” Therefore, God has never loved the whole world. This also means that Christ was not born to be the Savior of the “whole world.”
The Reformed Baptist minister said he loved reading Luther. I responded, “But you have never understood him on the doctrine of justification.” He replied that he agreed with Luther on imputed righteousness, which in his terms is only imputed to believers.
Otten and Cascione have no grasp of Biblical, Lutheran doctrine. Notice that a non-Lutheran blogger was quick to say Amen! to Otten.
Macgranor: "Otten rules. He should be president of the L.C.M.S."
Once again, the two UOJ stylists have confused the atonement with justification by faith.
Luther always praises the atonement and describes how Christ has graciously taken all our sins upon Him. However, he never confuses that with the imputation of righteousness.
It is sad that the Walther legacy of Pietistic confusion continues into the next generation. Nevertheless, the UOJ Stormtroopers do not get along at all. They are always biting and devouring each other.
The three SynCon presidents could easily merge their sects, since their leaders all meet at Fuller Seminary/Trinity Divinity alumni meetings anyway. The leaders agree about UOJ, but they are always pronouncing anathemas on each other.
