UOJ - The Only Fruits Are Anger and Deception

The theology textbook of a rationalistic Pietist
and its English translation by a Calvinist
produced the "Orthodox Lutheran" dogma of UOJ?

UOJ Enthusiasts are always angry, as the recent discussion on "Steadfast Lutheran" shows. They are always trying to play a bad hand, and they know it, so they pound the table - often, loudly.

Leading with a weak argument is not convincing. Here are some samples of their gambits:
1. You have slandered me by arguing justification by faith, which I reject.
2. I really teach justification by faith, although I only talk about justification without faith.
3. You write as if I teach justification without faith, so let me go on and on about justification without faith.
4. Let me dazzle everyone by ignoring the Book of Concord while citing my hand-picked quotations out of context. They really do prove justification without faith, even if you refuse to concede that.

I have noticed their studied indifference to Romans 4, which was once the most cited passage in the Scriptures. The canonical Brief Statement of 1932 cited Romans 4:25 as proof of the entire world justified without faith. Jesus was "raised for our justification." There is the Stephan-Walther-Rambach Easter absolution. No doubt about it.

But something terrible happened in the last few years. People began reading the entire fourth chapter in context, where UOJ is completely repudiated. Therefore, all UOJ arguments from Scripture contradict Romans 4.

And if Romans 4 is a correct statement of justification by faith, then the Brief Statement of 1932 is a monument to the stupidity, false doctrine, and deception of Stephan's sex cult - which now funds Planned Parenthood abortion mills, through Thrivent.

Our UOJ salespeople are carefully trained.

Romans Chapter 4

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Viewing the Standard King James Version (Pure Cambridge). Click to switch to 1611 King James Version of Romans Chapter 4

¹ What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?

² For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.

³ For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.

⁴ Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.

⁵ But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

⁶ Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,

⁷ Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.

⁸ Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

⁹ Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.

¹⁰ How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

¹¹ And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:

¹² And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.

¹³ For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

¹⁴ For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:

¹⁵ Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

¹⁶ Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,

¹⁷ (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

¹⁸ Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.

¹⁹ And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb:

²⁰ He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;

²¹ And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

²² And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

²³ Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;

²⁴ But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;

²⁵ Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

The entire matter of justification concerns - how is someone justified? Imputing means - counting, reckoning.

Someone is counted forgiven through faith, as Romans 4:24 states in the clearest possible language.

Worst of all, for the UOJ Hive, Romans 4 is summarized by the opening of Romans 5.

Romans Chapter 5

¹ Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

² By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

We only have access to God's grace through faith, so all the claims about righteousness without faith are bogus.

Worst of all for the UOJ Stormtroopers, their abuse of "takes away the sin of the world" and reconciliation only proves their belief in Biblical contradictions.

They are like the stuffed shirts who fall on their faces in public, getting up angry because everyone is laughing. People do not laugh so much because of the fall but because of the red-faced reaction by the fallen stuffed shirt.

These magicians want us to look at the left hand only while the right hand is abandoning Romans 4, which they once embraced and cited with abandon.

There are many more examples of their false doctrine, deception, anger, and ferocious ignorance. The UOJists do not know the Scriptures, Lutheran doctrine, or comparative dogmatics. They do excel in table-pounding. They are steadfast in making noise to cover up their short-comings in theology.

Everyone - please ignore Luther's Galatians Commentary,
which refutes UOJ and all other Law religions.
Thank you for your cooperation.