Post-Mortem for Universal Objective Justification

 Walther was a Pietist, a BA in rationalism, trained by a Pietist who studied at Halle but never graduated.

I was thinking about the favorite - or only - dogma of the Synodical Conference: Universal Objective Justification.

There are many ways to test doctrine, whether it is sound (healthy in Greek) or toxic (either a cancer or gangrene).

Let's do a post-mortem for UOJ and see why it is dead:

1. The First Gospel teaches that the Savior will crush the head of Satan, the serpent, not that God will declare the entire world forgiven and saved.
2. Abraham believed the Messianic Promises of God would stem from his yet-to-be-conceived son, and it was counted as righteousness - not that God would absolve the unbelieving world.
3. Paul's argument in Romans 4 rests upon Abraham justified by faith, not the OJ claimed in Romans 4:5 and 4:25. Counting or imputing or reckoning - that Greek verb is used for Abraham in Genesis 15:6, the Greek Septuagint. Co-inky-dink?
4. Paul's transition to what we call Romans 5 condenses Romans 4 (Justification by Faith) and states that Spirit-taught doctrine even more clearly in Romans 5:1-2. The Spirit teaches the Atonement in additional verses of Romans 5, not OJ (after teaching JBFA to perfection).
5. Paul's response to the Galatians about adding law requirements to the Gospel is a Justification by Faith epistle. Abraham is the example.
6. Abraham is an example of faith in Hebrews 11.
7. Abraham's faith is also cited in James.
8. In Luke 16, Lazarus is taken to Father Abraham, because faith does matter: believing in Christ = forgiveness of sin.
9. The Reformation has always been known as being centered on the authority of the inerrant Word and Justification by Faith.
10. Jaroslav Pelikan, Luther's Works editor, Yale Professor, defined the Reformation as Justification by Faith.
11. Carl Braaten, notorious LCA neo-theologian, still defines the Reformation as Justification by Faith. But the extreme radicals dismiss JBFA!
12. The Book of Concord editors define the Chief Article of Christianity as Justification by Faith, in harmony with Luther and Melanchthon. But what did they know? Are they wiser than Walther, Valleskey, Scaer, Wayne Mueller, Pope John the Malefactor, Herman Otten, Jay Webber and Jon-boy Buchholz?