People wrote to say they enjoyed the Facebook debate about UOJ, especially since the Stormtroopers sounded so addled, repetitive, and confused.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/252399584853848/
Jay Webber and Rolf the Rationalist Preus are like the tape machines in federal museums. Press the button and the message repeats itself. They have been doing this, without any improvement, for decades.
There is a chance to hear the same people enthuse on LutherQuest (sic).
One student of the Bible observed that the UOJ team never worked from Scripture and never showed any Biblical knowledge. The UOJists repeated their Walther-style thetical statements, which were supposed to leave everyone in awe, standing on their own authority. You know - like the Pope's.
In contrast, the Justification by Faith writers leveled short, significant volleys at the Stormtroopers, whose only message is "God declared everyone in the world forgiven."
Why are they called Stormtroopers on Ichabod? The UOJ Stormtroopers are always firing at targets and missing. |
- Deprive them of food.
- Drive them from town.
- Bait them with dogs.
- Pelt them with manure. Luther, Large Catechism, Introduction.
And yet, Buchholz said to me that WELS does not teach that everyone is already saved. He must have forgotten his paper, which Jay Webber considers a work of great genius. |
I heard a rumor that he was UOJ, but I no longer hear that. To find UOJ in the past, start with the heretic Huber or the rationalistic Halle Pietists. |