Saturday, February 22, 2014

Summary Statements about UOJ and Its Sordid History




  1. "It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled." - Mark Twain
  2. Universal Objective Justification was never taught by a respectable Lutheran, during the Reformation or after.
  3. Samuel Huber, a "former" Calvinist, tried to impose his teaching of  righteousness without faith, but Leyser - an editor of the Book of Concord - and Hunnius utterly refuted him. Huber was deposed as a Lutheran teacher for advocating what dominates the SynCons today - and the "Steadfast" website.
  4. Influenced by Calvinism and Unionism - Pietism at Halle University became the modern incubator of UOJ.
  5. The single greatest source of UOJ was Pietism, through Halle University, which sent over so many leaders of American Lutheranism.
  6. TLH hymn-writer Rambach (#298) advocated righteousness without faith. His interpretation of 1 Timothy 3:16 is used deliberately by UOJ to teach the Easter absolution of the world. He was a Halle Pietist.
  7. Georg Christian Knapp's lectures were published in German and English, before Stephan landed his sex cult in New Orleans and Walther helped make him bishop-for-life. Knapp taught at Halle University, and Bishop Martin Stephan studied at Halle.
  8. Knapp's lectures, still in print today, were influential in Europe and even more so in America, where all the mainline schools used his lectures in English.
  9. The English translation made Leonard Woods, a Calvinist, famous. Woods coined - or at least franchised - the double-justification formula used so lovingly today.  Woods graduated from Andover Seminary and served as president of Bowdoin College.
  10. Walther learned his UOJ from Martin Stephan, an event that "saved his life." Walther never departed from the Easter absolution of the entire world - without faith - of Halle and Stephan.
  11. Stephan never graduated from a university and was not qualified to be a pastor.
  12. Walther's training consisted of a rationalistic bachelor's degree and subordinating himself to two different abusive Pietistic sect leaders - Kuehn first, who died, and then Stephan.
  13. Walther, his brother, Fuerbringer, the lawyers, and the leading clergy were all aware of Stephan's rampant adultery and unethical behavior. Would any of you Walther worshipers today be allowed to walk alone in the woods at 2 AM with a young woman? Would you take a mission call to another country, leave your dying wife and children, and take your mistresses along?
  14. Walther and his snuck-in parrot, Pieper, gradually imposed UOJ on the LCMS. The Brief Statement of 1932 marked the beginning of the end. That opened the door to Unionism, the Biblical doubters, Pentecostalism, Church Growth, and Paul McCain. 
  15. The Synodical Conference has been and continues to be double-focused. Many believe and teach Luther's justification by faith, without persecution. At the same time, certain assassins wig-out against the Biblical doctrine and make sure the person is ousted.
  16. The LCMS still markets a justification by faith Small Catechism, the KJV catechism Over 2 million sold!
  17. WELS used the Gausewitz (as others did) which also taught justification by faith. The cult replaced it with an "expanded and improved" one and then with the Kuske UOJ version. Papenfuss (best name in WELS) knew nothing about UOJ until he attended Mequon. That says a lot, don't it?
  18. Robert Preus changed his position on UOJ, moving decidedly against it. Earlier he used quotations on both sides of the issue. His last book clearly repudiated UOJ. His sons remain clueless.