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| Do you remember Calvin from the last post?The LCMS would make him so proud today. |
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| On the other hand, Calvin is so appealing to rationalists in the ELCA, LCMS, WELS, ELS, and the Calcified Legalistic Cult. |
Missouri's CTCR has published a giant bolus of compost on its long-suffering pastors and members, in honor of the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation. Slide (WELS) wrote a brilliant article on Lutheran disasters on the Reformation anniversary years.
Copied below - skills learned from Paul McCain - are the key slides from an endless "study" to be foisted upon the grieving, scattered, and confused members of the Synodical Conference (RIP).
Slide 41
•All the world is redeemed, forgiven
and reconciled because of Christ’s death and resurrection.
–2 Cor. 5:18–19 and Rom. 5:19
•God’s wrath is stilled; Satan (all
evil) is defeated.
–1 Thess. 1:10 and Col. 2:14–15
•In Christ, righteousness and
forgiveness are won and sinners are reckoned as righteousness.
–Heb. 10:12
Slide 42
•So objective [general] justification is forgiveness Christ won for all
(2 Cor. 5:19–21).
–His work is an objective reality —
salvation and forgiveness for the world is accomplished, independent of any
other human action or merit.
•And subjective [individual] justification is this same forgiveness as it is
received through faith by individuals (Gal. 2:16; Titus 3:3–7).
–The individual “subject” is
justified, born again.
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| The Calvinist Woods explained the words of Halle Pietist Knapp with these two terms, Objective Justification and Subjective Justification. These terms got translated back into German and Walther liked them very much. The key term is the world absolved of all sin without the Word, without the Means of Grace, without faith - just like Calvin's Unlimited Grace. |
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| The rationalistic piffle of Missouri's great and wise has no relationship to the Scriptures, Luther, or the Book of Concord. |
Like Karl Barth and ELCA, Missouri merges the Atonement with Justification by Faith, which is why John Sparky Brenner uses the term Justification of the World - God has declared the entire world free of sin.
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| JP Meyer taught this abomination for years, and WELS cheerfully republished his book, which was the source of three of the Kokomo Statements. |
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| This is a fine explanation of UOJ from Edward Preuss, who became a major figure in the Church of Rome after publishing his abomination on The Justification of the Sinner. Yes, the book title sounds nice, so lovely, but the words mean God has absolved all atheists, pagans, and cannibals of their sin for all time, even before birth. |
Some things not mentioned or given adequate treatment by the LCMS:
- The efficacy of the Word
- The Means of Grace
- Luther's Justification by Faith
- The Augsburg Confession and the Apology
- Martin Chemnitz on Justification by Faith
- Andreae on Justification by Faith
- Chemnitz on Justification by Faith
- Gerhard, Calov, and Quenstedt on Justification by Faith
- Walter's copying of Bishop Martin Stephan's dogma
- Walther's insistence on election without grace to prop up his Easter Absolution (OJ) debacle
- Eerie parallels with Walther and Calvin.
