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| Pastor Jay Webber (ELS) and WELS District President Jon-Boy Buchholz appeared together at the Emmaus Conference to repeat their synods' Objective Justification nonsense. |
ELS - We Believe, Teach and Confess
"By His perfect life and His innocent sufferings and death Jesus has redeemed the entire world. God thereby reconciled the world to Himself, and by the resurrection of His Son declared it to be righteous in Christ. This declaration of universal righteousness is often termed “objective justification.” One has this justification as a personal possession and is personally declared by God to be righteous in Christ when he or she is brought to faith in Him as Savior. This is often called “subjective justification”. If the objective fact of Christ’s atonement is not personally received by faith, then it has no saving benefit for the individual. We reject as unscriptural any teaching that people can be saved apart from faith in Jesus Christ. See 1 John 2:2, 2 Cor. 5:19, John 1:29, 2 Pet. 2:1, John 3:16-18, 2 Cor. 5:19, Rom. 4:25, 1:17 and 5:1-2."
Romans
Romans 4:25 does not teach OJ, because the complete sentence teaches Justification by Faith -
"KJV Romans 4:23-25 - 23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; 24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; 25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification."
Romans 1:17 emphasizes faith in Jesus Christ. That does not mean believing they are already forgiven and righteous.
KJV Romans 1:17 - "17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith."
KJV Romans 5:1-2 - "5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God."
2 Corinthians
2 Corinthians 5:19 - "19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
Like many of their bogus proofs from CFW Walther - the thief, riot manager, and kidnapper - 1 Corinthians 5:19 does not equate the Atonement with Justification by Faith.
Rambach, Webber, and 1 Timothy 3:16
Another one of the ELS favorite false proofs (from Jay Webber hisself) is KJV 1 Timothy 3:16, blatantly trying to equate the Atonement with Justification by Faith..
"16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory."
Webber jumped into a discussion with his quote from the Pietist Rambach, where the following absurdity comes from - "the world was absolved of all sin the moment Jesus rose from the dead." Webber argued the Pietist notion against Martin Chemnitz, Luther's student and Book of Concord editor.
John 3:16-18
"KJV John 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God."
This destroys the ELS argument completely, because God loving the world is His nature, but those who do not believe are already condemned. Just as they confuse the Atonement with Justification, so these Pietists merge God's love with Universalism.
I remain baffled that the ELS leaders proclaim their errors on their website. Even stranger is the ELS, WELS, and LCMS rejoicing in their mutual false doctrine, with the same doctrinal discernment as the Universalist ELCA.
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| The Little Three - ELS, WELS, and LCMS - have dumped Walter A. Maier, a Harvard PhD in the Old Testament - in favor of ELCA Pietism. Everyone knows - Anything Goes. |
