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| Cascione's favorite essay contradicts his claims below, but no one ever said Cascione knew theology. |
www.Lutherquest.org (sic)
March 21,
2013
God’s Declaration of
Righteousness Not Necessarily Received
God’s declaration of
universal righteousness in Christ did not result in everyone receiving Christ’s
righteousness. Christ forgave the world at the cross, but at the time He
announced it only the Centurion and one thief are known to have believed
it. [GJ - Did they believe in Christ or in Stephan-Walther's world absolution?]
The cross is the conflict
between original righteousness versus original sin. God has totally, completely,
and without reservation declared the world righteous and forgiven in Christ, yet
all men continue to be born in total and complete rejection and hated of God’s
grace. [GJ - Jack, please. You just contradicted your favorite quotation above from your favorite essay, that proves Bob Preus was a UOJist.]
"God said, 'Let
there be light, and there was light.'" What God declares happens, and it
happens immediately. Whatever demon or disease Jesus cast out or healed
happened right now. However, God has chosen to limit His saving power through
the three Means of Grace. Where God acts mediately His grace can be
resisted.
God has opened the door to
our prison cell and man refuses to come out. God has put the medicine of
salvation in our mouth and man spits it out. God has paid the full redemption
for all souls and man tears up the check. [GJ - Thus far, the reading from Jack 4:20-22.]
God is reconciled to man but
man is not reconciled to God. God’s reconciliation with the world in Christ did
not change man’s heart to love God because His declaration of righteousness is
not a reception of righteousness. [GJ - Jack has just contradicted his solemn words, posted reverently in red, above.]
By way of illustration the
slaves were freed through the emancipation proclamation but it had no effect
unless people were told and the law was enforced. However, it takes more than
the Law to change a human heart. Telling your enemy you love him doesn’t make
him love you. [GJ - Someone just saw Lincoln.]
The doctrines of Objective
and Subjective Justification (sic) are reduced to static, philosophic, and inert
concepts without the bridge that connects them, the three Means of Grace.
Calvin’s rejection of the three Means of Grace left him with no power to change
the human heart, hence he taught that some are born to be saved and others are
born to be damned. [GJ - Notice how the Means of Grace are tacked on to the end of the UOJ dogma. Static, philosophic, and inert - good descriptions of UOJ.]
The reception of Christ’s
righteousness only takes place through the three Means of Grace: namely through
the Gospel (including Absolution), Baptism, and the Lord’s Supper.
“But as many as received him,
to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that
believe on his name:” (John 1:12) It is only through the Means
of Grace that man is justified and receives Christ’s righteousness, forgiveness
of sins, faith, the Holy Spirit, salvation, and eternal life. [GJ - Say it. F-f-f-f-faith. Grace is distributed by the Holy Spirit only through the Means of Grace. Grace is received through faith.]
Any theological formulation
that credits change, cooperation, or self-improvement to human effort twists
justification into synergism. The entire world has been declared righteous in
Christ, yet all mankind remains damned and lost in sin until Christ’s
righteousness is received by faith. God only imputes His righteousness through
faith in Christ. [GJ - You are right. Walther's formulation is synergism. World absolution plus "you gotta believe" world absolution. J. P. Meyer is the same. Make a decision for UOJ, Ministers of Christ.]
The only cause of salvation
is in God and the cause of damnation is in man. Hence, there is no human answer
to the question why some change and believe in Christ and others do
not. Confusion over the Doctrine
of Election has led to numerous errors about the Gospel. Some claim that people
in hell are still forgiven, however, no one has forgiveness without the Means of
Grace. There are no Means of Grace in hell. Others claim man has the power to
accept God’s righteousness in Christ; however, God’s righteousness is only given
in the Means of Grace. And still others falsely claim some are predestined to
hell while others are predestined to heaven because they deny the reality of
God’s power through the Means of Grace. [GJ - Note Jack using the philosophical, Aristotelian term "cause."]
We must hold to the doctrines
of Objective and Subjective Justification (sic). Rejection of Objective Justification
rejects the declaration of universal
grace proclaimed when Christ died for the sins of the world, and rejection of
Subjective Justification results in universalism. [GJ - Some citations would be beneficial when mixing this strange brew of Enthusiasm.]
God declared the world
righteous in Christ but only those with faith in Christ will be saved.
Everything depends on the transmission of God’s grace to the sinner through the
three and only the three Means of Grace. [GJ - Jack's foundational ignorance of the Bible and Lutheran doctrine is revealed in this short passage. Justification in the Bible only means justification by faith. This OJ/SJ split is imaginary, delusional, and Satanic.]
The KJV correctly
states: “Righteousness shall go before
him; and shall set us in
the way of his steps.” (Psa
85:13) [GJ - Please text the Reformers and tell them they got Christian doctrine and Biblical exposition all wrong, only to be rescued by the insights of Samuel Huber, Rambach, Knapp, and the syphilitic founder of the LCMS - Martin Stephan.]
Luther explains this verse
“But the other is God’s righteousness, which is before every work. Just
as original sin is there before our every evil work, so original righteousness
would have been there before our every good
work.” (AE 11:174) Everything depends on our receiving original righteousness
in Christ through the three Means of Grace. [GJ - Yes, the atonement is before justification by faith, because the treasure lies in one heap until it is distributed by the Holy Spirit through the Means of Grace.]
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