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| Dead Last Lutherans will not allow anyone to post about Justification by Faith: it gets their didies in a knot. |
Example 1:
One person read the posts on WELS' secret hazing rites, which begin at the prep schools and continue to seminary at Mordor in Mequon. Response? - jaw dropping. No one knows about GA, now called HB, because squealers are punished and complainers are never forgiven for hating GA/HB and all it stands for.
Example 2:
A conservative LCMS pastor had no idea about UOJ. He was near retirement, a friend of Otten. When he heard the details from a layman, he was appalled and thought UOJ was nonsense. However, once the UOJ palace guards were alerted, someone re-educated the pastor. If anything, he ended up confused. He became quite hostile toward anyone who doubted UOJ.
The Destructive Dogma of UOJ
Consider this, readers - I was a student at Mordor, second semester, and took Panning's class on Romans. I knew some details about the Kokomo Statements, but somehow we got through Romans 6 without ever discussing it. Therefore, no feathers were ruffled, no little boats rocked. Mequon, so ossified and mummified, did not want doctrinal discussions.
For some time I thought Objective Justification was simply another name for the Atonement. Wrong!
By the way - OJ, UOJ, General Justification, and the Justification of the World are all the same bucket of Dreck. The salesmen rest their dogma on God declaring the entire world forgiven and saved, without the Means of Grace, without faith. Of course, they are not so clear and simple in their wording. Note these two things:
- The declaration by God is justification language.
- The forgiveness language is from Justification by Faith but ripped from its original place in the Scriptures. The UOJ salesmen hate to say the dreaded words - Justification by Faith. They make people feel bad about faith.
The Attack on Faith
As Brett Meyer pointed out many times, the LCMS like to repeat the Waltherian version of faith as cold, dead fingers clinging to forgiveness.
Walther's version of faith is agreeing, making a decision, that the entire world has already been forgiven. Agreeing to false doctrine is not faith, but stupidity and error.
There are constant, ominous warnings that "You are making faith a work." One version is "Your faith is in faith. You are not a Christian, you are a Faithian." Luther called himself a Sola-fide-ist, so that would make him a Faithian too.
My wife Christina summed it up, saying, "Faith is not a work, believe it or not." That is worth remembering - catechism with humor.
Faith comes from God, the Holy Spirit at work in the Gospel Word, so impugning faith is dishonest, heretical, and ignorant. And yet, that is the reigning dogma of the LCMS, WELS, and Little Sect on the Prairie.
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| Edward Preuss became a Roman Catholic lay leader, a very important editor. The UOJ salesmen love E.P., who left teaching at Concordia, St. Louis - for the Church of Rome. |
The Attack on the Atonement
The UOJ salesmen would like everyone to think they are overflowing with grace and experts on the Atonement. But that is not so. They abuse and distort the Atonement.
The Old Testament Gospel shows how wrong they are. Let us simply read it here.
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Isaiah 52 13 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
14 As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.
53 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
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The Old Testament Gospel, central to converting Jews to Christianity, is not "God's declaration of the entire world of unbelievers being forgiven and saved" (Walther, Pieper, Sig Becker, Bivens, Jon-Boy Buchholz, Webber, Valleskey). It is the Atonement. Missing above is any kind of Universalism, universal forgiveness, universal absolution. No one is born forgiven, as Edward Preuss claimed.
How can someone be forgiven unless they believe the Gospel? Romans 10 connects to this Isaiah passage. How can they believe unless the Gospel (above passage) is preached to them?
Consider for a moment how many Lutheran pastors and professors do not comprehend Romans 10, Romans 3 - 5, and Romans 1.
The Atonement is the act of God the Father and God the Son, taught to us by God the Holy Spirit. The efficacious Word of the Gospel creates faith in our hearts (unless it evolves, as St. Louis professors might claim). And this same Gospel Word nurtures our faith and keeps it alive and energetic.
UOJ Stormtroopers seize every Atonement passage and try to brand it UOJ. Not so, never works. Therefore, they have kicked the true Atonement teaching to the curb to merge it with Justification by Faith.
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| Notice how this Fuller alumnus dishonestly moves from the Atonement to universal forgiveness without faith. |
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| Decision Theology - from C.F.W. Walther. He used the Halle Pietism formula - the entire world was declared forgiven when Christ rose from the dead. Walther did not know the Biblical languages and replaced Biblical exposition with his theses. |
