Brett Meyer (Brett_meyer) Member Username: Brett_meyer Post Number: 112 Registered: 1-2008 |
Mr. Mueller, "The law tells the unbeliever that God is angry with him. The gospel tells him that God is at peace with him. The law tells him that he is a damned sinner. The gospel tells him that God, for Christ's sake, forgives him all his sins." Rationalism. You worship a god that is not in Scripture. You worship the god of Universal Objective Justification. | ||
     George Mueller (Mueller) Senior Member Username: Mueller Post Number: 1064 Registered: 11-2012 |
Here is the object of justifying faith according to the Augsburg Confession: "they are received into favor and that their sins are forgiven on account of Christ, who by his death made satisfaction for our sins." You reject this confession and call it rationalism. You accuse me of worshipping a false god because I confess the Augsburg Confession. | ||
| Rev. David R. Boisclair (Drboisclair) Intermediate Member Username: Drboisclair Post Number: 364 Registered: 1-2002 |
Uh, Brett, you misrepresented what I had stated in a previous post. You posted above: 'Rev. Boisclair stated in this discussion that Christ's righteousness was imputed to the whole world for the forgiveness of their sins. Boisclair at 9:31pm, “affirms that sinners are justified by the imputation of the alien righteousness of Christ.' This was the actual paragraph I posted on Friday, November 08, 2013 - 9:31 pm: 'Sola fide is a exclusive particle that affirms that sinners are justified by the imputation of the alien righteousness of Christ. Franz makes an excellent point that one doesn't always notice when one studies these chapters of Romans.' I DID NOT post that Christ's righteousness was IMPUTED to the whole world. As DP Jon Buchholz indicates in his masterful essay on Justification of the past year a theologian should avoid using the word "impute" when he is speaking of universal objective Justification. I commend to all the reading of this essay that sets out the biblical teaching on Justification. Brett, Calvinism is spelled with a "i" in the second syllable, not an "a", and it should also be capitalized. Your pastor Greg Jackson, who is so keen on correcting his opponents' grammar should give his own congregation a course in English! |
The rationalistic adherents of universal absolution brag about grace while showing none at all. The reason is clear - they have no Gospel, so fruits of the Spirit cannot grow in their parched and flinty hearts. They do not even love one another. McCain and Otten adore UOJ, but despise one another, even though they conspired to elect Al Barry while denying it to everyone - even in print. Rolf Preus and others promote UOJ, but Rolf exists alone in the Synod of Rolfian Enthusiasm - SORE.
I agree with Boisclair that everyone should read Buchholz for the latest regurgitation of Stephan-Walther-JPMeyer UOJ. In defense of their mentor, George C. Knapp (Halle University), the Pietist was closer to the Gospel than they. One can take the Calvinistic translation by Woods and choose to understand it in the Lutheran sense, but the wording ultimately fails to be faithful to the Word of God - the only test that matters.
In contrast, Buchholz exhibits the combined weaknesses of:
- Listening to Jay Webber.
- Intellectual indolence.
- Lack of study.
- Unearned arrogance brought on by the accident of birth.
- Keeping bad company - Jeff Gunn, Mark Schroeder, and the Den of Thieves (WELS Coven of Predators).
Only those conditioned by the contradictory nonsense of Walther and Scaer can find comfort and peace in the ravings of Buchholz. He is worse than an Enthusiast, because most Enthusiasts know their hive and defend it. Buchholz asks, "How am I an Enthusiast?" while separating the work of the Holy Spirit from the Means of Grace.
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| Who scurried up to Northern Wisconsin to nail down UOJ for the Ski and Glende Anything Goes District of WELS? Only Buchholz was shameless enough to exchange hugs and hosannas with that horde of peculators and pussilanimous polecats. |
Our little congregation is doing a lot to undo the damage of SpenerQuest, to return Lutherans to the Sermons of Luther (published on Ichabod) and other Lutheran resources, including the seldom-studied Book of Concord.
I am thankful for those who faithfully confess the truths of the Word of God. One pastor expressed shock that Brett would put up with the abuse handed out on SpenerQuest. Brett and others see that his comments bring out the falsehoods of UOJ.
