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| Trailing Arbutus is an exquisite woodland flower that boasts sweet-scented, pastel pink beauty blooms along running stems of shiny evergreen leaves, creating the ultimate groundcover for woodland gardens. (Epigaea repens) More about weeds here. |
Definitions
Creation Gardeners - let us consider the nature and attributes of weeds. They are not simply plants growing in the wrong place. In one famous example, a man tried many times to get rid of a pesky vine. A weed! you say? By that definition, yes. But he was working on a trailing arbutus, a relatively rare and hard to grow flower, prized for the difficulty in raising it.
Some attributes of weeds are:
- Aggressive growth, especially when ignored
- Resource hogging - sun and water
- Toxic and irritating - often simply by brushing against them.
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| Giant Hogweed grows so well, so fast. Too bad it is toxic and its seeds worthless. |
But the most important one is this -
Every undesirable weed can be mistaken for a valuable plant.
Sometimes the grower does not know until it flowers and bears fruit. Then the horrible truth reveals itself late in the season - he has nurtured a noxious weed, which is well established and multiplying fast.
Universal Objective Justification Is the Weed-Twin of Justification by Faith
UOJ is based on the false premise that God has proclaimed - the entire unbelieving world absolved of sin and saved - without the Gospel Word, without faith, grace without the Means of Grace.
Notice the weedy deception of UOJ.
- Justification is a Biblical and a Book of Concord word, but it always means Justification by Faith.
- Objective Justification suggests the Atonement, because the Atonement is objectively true whether anyone believes it or not - but OJ is not the Atonement, as the gurus hasten to affirm.
- Subjective Justification seems to be Justification by Faith, assuming OJ is the Atonement, but SJ is not JBFA. SJ is making a decision for the universal forgiveness of sin, without the Word, without the Holy Spirit, without faith.
If the UOJ Stormtroopers were honest, they would say that SJ is not Justification by Faith. But in pursuing their crooked mission, they avoid discussing SJ because the SJ concept is even harder to define and defend than OJ is. That is why WELS has about 60 essays about OJ in their precious Essay File, their Holy of Holies, but they barely touch upon SJ.
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| Here is WELS' Subjective Justification. Will the individual make a decision for OJ? |
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| John Sparky Brenner calls this the "Justification of the World," but he cannot say the words Justification by Faith. |
The WELS-CLC sic-ELS-ELCA-LCMS Leaders Want This Confusion and Ignorance To Continue
Long ago, when discussion how OJ/SJ came from the Halle University Pietists, some people asked, "What happened to SJ in the mainlines?"
The mainlines simply dropped SJ and maintained, because of God's grace, everyone in the world is already forgiven and saved. This poor man's Universalism is widely distributed among mainline Protestant leaders, modern theologians, and the Roman Catholic leaders.
The Olde Synodical Conference is now in the process of dropping their SJ completely, because sufficient amounts of OJ simply kill faith.
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| Bad dogma, bad grammar. |
The Bitter Fruits of UOJ
Someone can take the history of any original Lutheran group and see great examples of scholarship, writing, faithfulness, sacrifice, and overwhelming blessings.
Now that UOJ has a complete grip on all the Lutheran groups, the following characteristics are dominant:
- Holy Mother Sect lies all the time and hides its crimes.
- The leaders enjoyed almost free education but now impose horrible burdens on their future teachers and ministers.
- The leaders and publishers hate Luther as much as they despise his Biblical doctrine.
- The clergy and teachers have the moral standards of Medieval monasteries and convents.
- The groups feign opposition to the others but they all work together to siphon off funds for the leaders to spend on themselves and their hobby projects.
- They are prolificbut sterile. No one really wants their empty theories and self-indulgence, so people drift away - empty churches, empty seminaries, empty colleges.
