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| Let's just forget about the Means of Grace and teach Enthusiasm. That would make it so much easier to study at the Great Cloaca, Fuller Seminary. |
The post on ecclesiastic liars only indicates the vast monument to deceit exemplified by
- Universal Objective Justification
- The Justification of the Word
- Objective Justification
- World Absolution
- General Justification
They are the five common names given to the concept that God has declared the entire unbelieving world "righteous" and "saved." Some of the more timid liars quail at "saved" and certainly shy away from "unbelieving," but that is what they teach with their bed-fellows, the blind leading the blind while picking their pockets.
How does UOJ deceive? Let me count the ways. UOJ is:
- Taught by St. Paul in Romans, never mind Romans 4:24 or 5:1.
- Embraced by Luther, in spite of the Reformation being known for Justification by Faith, a phrase they avoid using.
- Not the same as the Atonement but conveniently associated with the Atonement to fool the hoi polloi.
- Ancient, though found only in the Calvinist Huber and in Pietism, which was soft on correct doctrine and Calvinistish.
- Explained as OJ and SJ by the Calvinist Woods in translating the Halle Pietist Knapp.
- Known for absolving the world at the cross, or maybe at the empty tomb, maybe even by the angels at the birth of Christ. Please nail down the Moment of World Absolution for us.
- Proof of Lutheran Orthodoxy, though found in a similar form among the Calvinists and the Adventists. The Adventists use the same language - are they orthodox Lutherans?
- Everyone is born justified (Edward Preuss, quoted with approval by Bob Preus, Jack Cascione, and Paul McCain), so why do we baptize infants...or anyone?
- Everyone is a guilt-free saint, especially unbelievers, even if residing in Hell for eternity.
- According to that great WELS theologian, JP Meyer, everyone is forgiven back to Adam and Eve, so why do we need the Word and Sacraments? Or Evangelism? Or Mission?
- So much is said about the differences between the Lutheran sects, but they all agree about UOJ, and they agree with ELCA.
- When the Lutheran leaders say "Justification," they mean Universalism. Karl Barth and his mistress Charlotte Kirschbaum are smiling guilt-free saints in Hell - they taught that too.
- Zarling, Bivens, and others claim their UOJ is the Chief Article when the Book of Concord specifically names Justification by Faith as that Chief Article.
