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| Did this event ever happen? These brave souls were going to foist Walther, Hoenecke, and Koren - each hero as a "Luther Unawares." I copied this graphic and the fervid news of the next Emmaus flop, but...nothing came of this. |
Stealth UOJ is the normal mode of this fervid false doctrine, its energy derived from the flames of perdition. Did Jesus say that wolves would arrive in lupine costumes? No, they wear their ovine fleece, appearing meek, gentle, and eager to help. When asked about what they really teach, they use flattery and change the subject. But when pinned down, the fangs and claws come out.
Typical examples of Stealth UOJ can be found in the duplicity of Mark Zarling and Frosty Bivens. Justification in the Bible always means:
- Justification by Faith.
- Justification of the individual.
- God's declaration of forgiveness to an individual who believes in Christ (Romans 4:24 - Rolf Preus).
So these deceivers take a Biblical term used for individual forgiveness (Justification) and apply the language of Luther - and others - their precious dogma of Universal Absolution without Faith. Their UOJ is:
- The Chief Article of Christianity (never was, in fact).
- The Master and Prince (only of fools who teach it).
- The doctrine that judges all other doctrines of the Bible (but in reality is refuted by every verse of the Bible).
But - some of you are objecting - what about Christ dying for the sins of the world? Is that not universal? Are you not embracing Calvinism? No, the first Lutheran UOJist was a "former" Calvinist at Wittenberg, Samuel Huber, who was exposed for his false teaching and expelled from the faculty.
The Bible clearly teaches throughout that Christ died for the sins of the world, so there are many synonyms for the Atonement -
- redemption,
- ransom,
- expiation,
- propitiation, and
- reconciliation.
The Gospel - throughout the Bible - is not that the entire world is forgiven without faith - but that Christ paid for the sins of the world. The UOJists want to have people imagine that their message of billions of pagans forgiven and saved without faith will somehow convert people to the same absurd notion. The only laity I know who fall for UOJ are those who have been thoroughly and savagely brainwashed by the WELS-ELS-LMCS dogma bullies. That is why the UOJ Stormtroopers cloak their demonic dogma with the flimsy and tattered remains of the Reformation they despise so fiercely. The UOJists grab the words of Luther and abuse their meaning, just as they snatch terms from the Scriptures to turn them inside out.
In short, the UOJists turn the universal act of Atonement into universal absolution and salvation. Let us pause and read carefully the words of CFW Walther and David Valleskey...
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| Valleskey is either hopelessly stupid or devilishly clever, turning Justification by Faith into "universal justification." Look at the results. The leadership of WELS is Fuller Seminary trained. The clergy lawsuits and arrests are countless. And they love, love, love Church Growth to this day. |
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| Cascione and others are happy to quote Edward Preuss, who left Concordia St. Louis and joined the Church of Rome, becoming a major Catholic leader in America. The march to Rome continues from the same school, the same UOJ dogma, which joyfully undermines Creation. |
UOJ Unawares
Clergy and laity will use UOJ terms without knowing what they really mean, thanks to the efforts of the stealth army of false teachers.
Objective Justification is not a Biblical term and its meaning is anti-Scriptural. World absolution and salvation are concepts dear to the apostates. All the mainline denominations and virtually all modern theologians teach that concept, using various terms for it.
Subjective Justification is not faith and not justification. Look at Walther's idiotical claim: SJ is a decision to accept universal- absolution-without-faith. He did not use the double-justification terms from the Knapp translation at first, but he did like the labels, which became standard in the Olde Synodical Conference.
The true UOJists want this confusion and promote it, so people mistakenly use OJ for the Atonement (wrong!) and imagine SJ to be faith in Christ (wrong twice over, because it means faith in Walther and JP Meyer).
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| UOJists like to say that Hitler, Stalin, and Mao are guilt-free saints. |
The UOJists correctly state that Justification is a declaration, and it is. Lutherans have called Justification "forensic justification" - like unto a judge declaring someone not guilty. Ah yes, but God has never "declared the entire world forgiven and saved." Forensic Justification is God declaring the individual forgiven if he believes.
Romans 4:24 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.
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| Sparky Brenner uses the term Justification of the World - OJ. |
The Augustana Synod was concerned that the expression
“justification of the world” denied the necessity of justification by faith. In fact, Schmidt declared that the real issue in conflict
was justification. Schmidt’s essay on justification presented at the very first convention of the
Synodical Conference, however, had clearly taught a justification of the world. p. 150
Note Sparky Brenner's almost effortless slide into UOJ on the same page -
The final free conference met in Goodhue
County, Minnesota, June 27-July 4, 1883. The subject for discussion was the doctrine of
absolution. One side historically taught universal or objective justification (justification of the
world), contending that the pronouncement of forgiveness won by Christ and declared by God to
the world leads people to believe in their Savior. The other side was not willing to speak of
justification apart from faith (subjective or personal justification). p. 150
Sparky aligns SJ with faith - but Pope JP Meyer called SJ a decision for OJ, not faith. "Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive."
