Walmart - "Ignore the Guy in the Produce and Frozen Vegetables - He Will Hurt Our Candies, Prepared Meals, And Pharmacy!"

 

"Cat food aisle!" - "No! Candy aisle." - "Your prescriptions are ready!"

I discussed the pharm computer's arrogance with the pharm tech. Do you know who the scariest person in all the science fiction movies? "HAL - the malignant computer who spoke in a sullen, menacing voice. The pharm computer was upset that I had a second phone number, so it kicked me off the net in the privacy of my home."

So we discussed my lack of prescriptions, except for the eye drops. Ruth was happy about my blood results (yay again!), bp, and loss of weight. I often get into friendly discussions at  Walmart. I don't hesitate to compare their fat-salt-sugar prepared menus with God's Creation foods, healing, and much lower costs. In early 2022, I had diabetic blood sugar results, and that scared me into studying and almost memorizing Fuhrman and Greger.

The answer is not a diet. The food pyramid is upside down. Everyone should enjoy some treats, though they are easily delighted by far too much candy, ice cream, sugared liquids, pizza, desserts, and fast-foods. That eating style provides two-thirds of "normal eating" and the cause of heart, blood, bp, and weight problems. Arkansas lives from biscuits, gravy, and sweet tea.

I slowly removed myself from the graph below, turning it upside-down and emphasizing first with leafy greens-beans-vegetables-fruit-nuts.

1. Leafy greens - kale, collards, spinach.
2. Beans as the source of protein, fiber, and many extras.
3. Vegetables which get more delicious with use - peas, broccoli, 
4. Fruits four times a day - apples, bananas, orange, pineapples, and many more.
5. Walnuts and other nuts for lowering bad cholesterol.

So in my cart today I picked up apples, bananas, blueberries, kale, spinach, peas, broccoli, mushrooms, and sausages.

• Breakfast - bananas, maybe an apple
• Lunch - Creation Super-Stew
• Supper - Apples, bananas, and other fresh fruits.

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The Waltherian Four - LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic) - Celebrate the Reformation By Studying the Gay, Apostate, ELCA of the Future

Seminex was gayer than lavender hose, led in part by WELS-LCMS-AELC-ALC Richard Jungkuntz - chairman of the Seminex board, which partnered with the new homosexual seminary. Deppe had been arrested in St. Louis and yet later joined the LSTC faculty, where he was the chosen one to do reviews of homosexual books. This only gives a hint of the rottenness in LCMS 50 years ago. Far from anything noble or decent, the Great Walther and his circle knew their bishop Martin Stephan was a syphilitic young-woman-seducer. Stephan left his wife and sick children but took his mistress and only healthy child to New Orleans, where the Walther circle signed him up as their beloved bishop. The lies continued and the Stephan-Walther obsession with Objective Justification became the Chief Article of the Christian Faith - just ask Frosty Bivens (WELS) and other dimwits.

No one among the Waltherian Four Sects is allowed to teach Justification by Faith, a demand proven by the equally Universalist ELCA, surely a Morganatic Marriage, or Marriage of the Left Hand.

ELDONA started with a bishop too, and he was also convicted.

Daily Luther Sermon Quote - Trinity 22 - "For, as St. Bernhard says, ingratitude is an evil damnable and pernicious enough to quench all the springs of grace and blessing known to God and men; it is like a poison-laden, burning, destructive wind. Human nature will not tolerate it."

 

Melanchthon - "Remember me from last year's Reformation?"

13. The world permits the very devil to saddle and ride it as he pleases. It seems to be characteristic of every phase of life that one will not yield to another — will not submit to any demand. Everyone is disposed to force his arrogant authority. The presumption is that supreme honor and final success depend upon an unyielding, unforgiving disposition, and that to seek to retain our possessions by peaceable means will prove our ruin.

Even the two remaining cows in the stall must be brought into requisition, and war waged to the last stick, until when the mutineer comes and we have neither cow nor stall, nor house nor stick, we are obliged to cease.

RETRIBUTION FOLLOWS INGRATITUDE.

Oh, had we but grace enough to reflect on how it would be with us did God require us, as he has a perfect right to do, to pay our whole indebtedness, none being forgiven! grace enough to think whether we would not this very moment be in the abyss of hell! But so must it finally be with those who disregard the question and continually heap to themselves the wrath of God, being at the same time unwilling for him to deal otherwise with them than he did with the servant he forgave. But against that servant was finally passed the irrevocable sentence which, without mercy, delivered him to the tormentor till he should pay the debt, something he could never do.

14. Nor is there any wrong or injustice in this ruling. For, as St. Bernhard says, ingratitude is an evil damnable and pernicious enough to quench all the springs of grace and blessing known to God and men; it is like a poison-laden, burning, destructive wind. Human nature will not tolerate it.

Nor can God permit you, upon whom he has bestowed all grace and goodness, all spiritual and temporal blessing, to go on continually in wickedness, defiantly abusing his benevolence and dishonoring him; you thus recklessly bring upon yourself his wrath. For God cannot bless you if you are ungrateful, if you reject his goodness and give it no place in your heart.

In such case the fountain of grace and mercy that continually springs for all who sincerely desire it, must be quenched for you. You cannot enjoy it. It would afford you an abundant and unceasing supply of water did you not yourself dry it up by the deadly wind of your ingratitude; by shamefully forgetting the ineffable goodness God bestows upon you; and by failing to honor the blood of Christ the Lord, wherewith he purchased us and reconciled us to God — failing to honor it enough to forgive your neighbor, for Christ’s sake, a single wrong word.

15. What heavy burden is there for the individual who, in submission and gratitude to his God, and in honor to Christ, would conduct himself something like a Christian? It will cost him no great effort nor trouble. It will not break any bones nor injure him in property or honor. Even were it to affect him to some trifling extent, to incur for him some slight injustice, he should remember what God has given him, and will still give, of his grace and goodness.

Yes, why complain even were you, in some measure, to endanger body and life? What did not the Son of God incur for you? It was not pleasure for him to take upon himself the wrath of God, to bear the curse for you. It cost him bloody sweat and unspeakable anguish of heart, as well as the sacrifice of his body, the shedding of his blood, when he bore for you the wrath and curse of God, which would have rested upon you forever. Yet he did it cheerfully and with fervent love. Should you not, then, be ashamed in your own heart, and humiliated before all creatures, to be so slow and dull, so stock-and-stone-hardened, about enduring and forgiving an occasional unkind word — something to be suffered in token of honor and gratitude to him? What more noble than, for the sake of Christ, to incur danger, to suffer injury, to aid the poor and needy? in particular to further the Word of God and to support the ministry, the pulpit and the schools?

16. It would be no marvel had Germany long ago sunk to ruin, or had it been razed to its very foundations by Turks and Tartars, because of its diabolical forgetfulness, its damnable rejection, of God’s unspeakable grace. Indeed, it is a wonder the earth continues to support us and the sun still gives us light. Because of our ingratitude, well might the heavens become dark and the earth be perverted — as the Scriptures teach (Psalm 106) — and suffer the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah, no longer yielding a leaf nor a blade of grass, but completely turned from its course — well might it be so did not God, for the sake of the few godly Christians known and acknowledged of him, forbear and still delay.

EXAMPLES OF INGRATITUDE FOR THE GOSPEL.

17. Wherever we turn our eyes we see, in all conditions of life, a deluge of terrible examples of ingratitude for the precious Gospel.

Thrivent and the Faithless Five - "Nothing to eat, driven out, baited with dogs, and pelted with dung." The Faithless Five - ELCA-LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic).

Protestia Double-Downs - Andy Stanley's Mark Jeske Cult - Ski, Tim Glende, & Other Dupes, Just in Time for Reformation

Andy and Ski - their combined Biblical IQ is always lower than room temperature.

Do Christians Have to Believe Jesus Was Miraculously Born a Virgin? Andy Stanley Suggests ‘No’

You’ll recall Stanley previously made waves for encouraging Christians to “unhitch” themselves from portions of Old Testament Scripture, denied the Genesis account, saying God only said it to ‘accommodate to our capacity,’ repeatedly told his congregants, ‘I’m not arguing that the bible is correct,’ told them it doesn’t matter if the bible is true, so long as it’s ‘mostly reliable,’ that they shouldn’t follow Jesus through the Old Testament but only through the gospels, and told his church the ‘foundation of our faith is not the whole bible.’

He also lamented that the ‘entire bible’ has become the church’s ‘authority,’ claimed the bible is not equally inspired or equally important, and even argued that demanding potential converts believe the bible is true and without error is an unnecessary obstacle to them coming to Christ. He also argued that Jesus’ birth and the events surrounding the nativity don’t really matter, thus casting doubt upon his supernatural birth by saying “If somebody can predict their own death and then their own resurrection, I’m not all that concerned about how they got into the world” and “Christianity doesn’t hinge on the truth or even the stories around the Birth of Jesus.”‘

All that doesn’t include the mountain of pro-LGBTQ rhetoric seen in these endnotes.

Take Off Pounds Sensibly is the new theme for Harrison's last term. No Thrivent-lubricated synod leader or professor is capable of teaching Luther's doctrine, and they cannot stop yakking about the gay prelude to ELCA called Seminex.

And then we said, "Inflate the CPH prices because no one is reading the leftovers from ELCA."

Matt the Fatt (LCMS) hosted Scott Barefoot (WELS) so "Who's ELCA now?"

Scott Barefoot (WELS) Martin and Katie Luther (faux-ELCA).

Arkansas Has Diamonds Plus Millions of Tons of Lithium

 

Researchers say Arkansas may have 19M tons of lithium critical for battery power

Researchers said in a recent article that Arkansas may have 19 million tons of lithium, which is used in rechargeable batteries for important products like phones and electric cars.

The researchers said in their article released last month in the journal Science Advances they had “calculated that there are 5.1 to 19 million tons of lithium in Smackover Formation brines in southern Arkansas,” making up “35 to 136% of the current US lithium resource estimate.”

Daily Luther Sermon Quote - Trinity 22 Epistle - "The world permits the very devil to saddle and ride it as he pleases. It seems to be characteristic of every phase of life that one will not yield to another — will not submit to any demand. Everyone is disposed to force his arrogant authority."

 

SERMONS OF MARTIN LUTHER -
TWENTY SECOND SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY 

INGRATITUDE DENOUNCED BY THE HEATHEN.

7. The heathen everywhere, despite their ignorance of God and his grace, condemned to the utmost the evil of ingratitude. They regarded it the mother of evils, than which was none more malevolent and shameful.

Among many examples in this respect is one left us by a people in Arabia called Nabathians, who had an excellent form of government. So strict were they in regard to this evil that anyone found guilty of ingratitude to his fellows was looked upon as a murderer and punished with death.

8. No sin is more abominable to human nature, and of none is human nature less tolerant. It is easier to forgive and to forget the act of an enemy who commits a bodily injury, or even murders one’s parents, than it is to forget the sin of him who repays simple kindness and fidelity with ingratitude and faithlessness; who for love and friendship returns hatred. In the sentiment of the Latin proverb, to be so rewarded is like rearing a serpent in one’s bosom. God likewise regards this sin with extreme enmity and punishes it. The Scriptures say: “Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.” Proverbs 17:13.

9. Thus we have the teaching of nature and of reason regarding the sin of men’s ingratitude toward one another. How much greater the evil, how much more shameful and accursed, when manifested toward God who, in his infinite and ineffable goodness, conferred upon us while yet enemies to him and deserving of the fires of hell — conferred upon us, I say, not ten dollars, not a hundred thousand dollars even, but redemption from divine wrath and eternal death, and abundantly comforted us, granting us safety, a good conscience, peace and salvation! These are inexpressible blessings, incomprehensible in this life. And they will continue to occupy our minds in yonder eternal life. How much more awful the sin of ingratitude for these blessings, as exemplified in the servant mentioned in the Gospel passage for today, to whom was forgiven the debt of ten thousand talents and who yet would not forgive the debt of his fellow-servant who owed him a hundred pence!

10. Is it not incredible that there are to be found on earth individuals wicked enough to manifest for the highest and eternal blessings such unspeakable ingratitude? But alas, we have the evidence of our own eyes.

We know them in their very dwelling-places. We see how the world abounds with them. Not only are the ingrates to be found among deliberate rejecters of the acknowledged truth of the Gospel, concerning God’s grace, an assured conscience and the promise of eternal life, terrible as such malice of the devil is, but they are present also in our midst, accepting the Gospel and boasting of it. Such shameful ingratitude prevails among the masses it would not be strange were God to send upon them the thunders and lightnings of his wrath, yes, all the Turks and the devils of hell.

There is a generally prevalent ingratitude like that of the wicked servant who readily forgot the straits he experienced when, being called to account for what he could not pay, the wrathful sentence was pronounced against him that he and all he possessed must be sold, and he be indefinitely imprisoned. Nor have we less readily forgotten how we were tortured under the Papacy; how we were overwhelmed, drowned as in a flood, with numberless strange doctrines, when our anxious consciences longed for salvation. Now that we are, through the grace of God, liberated from these distresses, our gratitude is of a character to increasingly heap to ourselves the wrath of God. So have others before us done, and consequently have endured terrible chastisement.

11. Only calculate the enormity of our wickedness when, God having infinitely blessed us in forgiving all our sins and making us lords over heaven and earth, we so little respect him as to be unmindful of his blessings; to be unwilling for the sake of them sincerely to forgive our neighbor a single slighting word, not to mention rendering him service. We conduct ourselves as if God might be expected to connive at our ingratitude and permit us to continue in it, at the same time conferring upon us as godly and obedient children, success and happiness. More than this, we think we have the privilege and power to live and do as we please.

Indeed, the more learning and power we have and the more exalted our rank, the greater knaves we are; perpetrating every wicked deed, stirring up strife, discord, war and murder for the sake of executing our own arbitrary designs, where the question is the surrender of a penny in recognition of the hundreds of thousands of dollars daily received from God notwithstanding our ingratitude.

12. Two mighty lords clash with each other like powerful battering rams, and for what? Perhaps for undisputed possession of a city or two, a matter they must be ashamed of did they but call to mind what they have received from God. They would be constrained to exclaim: “What are we doing that we injure one another — we who are all baptized in one name, the name of Christ, and pledged to one Lord?” But no, it will not do for them to consider this matter; not even to think of it. They must turn their eyes away from it, and put it far from their hearts. Wholly forgetting God’s benefits, they must wage war against each other, involving nations, and subjecting people to the Turk. And all for sake of the insignificant farthing each refused to yield to the other.

13. The world permits the very devil to saddle and ride it as he pleases. It seems to be characteristic of every phase of life that one will not yield to another — will not submit to any demand. Everyone is disposed to force his arrogant authority. The presumption is that supreme honor and final success depend upon an unyielding, unforgiving disposition, and that to seek to retain our possessions by peaceable means will prove our ruin.

Even the two remaining cows in the stall must be brought into requisition, and war waged to the last stick, until when the mutineer comes and we have neither cow nor stall, nor house nor stick, we are obliged to cease.

Not Seminex Again?! On Reformation and All Saints Day?!Did Not the Portable, Shrunken LSTC Already Cover This Topic!?

 

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1. Matt the Fatt has lost weight again! He styles himself a Dr. because some LCMS school gave him one of those print-your-own degrees.
2. Mark Braun is no better. John Johnson, past Concordia St. Louis Seminary president, confessed to me that their Concordia "PhDs" were worthless outside of their sect, so Johnson earned a PhD from the Jesuit St. Louis University. Braun's equivalent of a DMin is somewhat better than another WELS genius who could not spell or write decent sentences for an insta-Dr diploma, entitling him to a "doctorate" from who-knows-where.
3. Obenberger probably knows more than the other two put together.

The hilarious EXILED! clown act lasted a few hours. Most of the brave professors marched with their gullible students. They stole the books from their own library (brave souls) and rented some space so Jungkuntz could also sponsor a gay seminary there with Seminex.

I was in the office of the Lutheran School of Chicago Seminary president - with Christina along - when that official pointed out they could not keep three seminaries going at once. A chunk of Seminex (including the gay LCMS professor) joined LSTC and became a solid block of radicals who ordered everyone around while collapsing the budget. Wartburg Seminary (ALC then ELCA) hobbled along and now has some big-time loot. LSTC has a floor at a Roman Catholic gathering place for lost causes. McCormick Presbyterian Seminary - of reaper fame - also slunk away. U. of Chicago bought the hideous and dark LSTC-McCormick combined monstrosity.

“Only an inebriated mole would claim that the [Lutheran Church] Missouri Synod is not in theological ferment.” — John Warwick Montgomery, in 1966. He was way too educated for the Four Waltherian Sects. His book on Lutheran decline nudged me into realizing how bad the Lutheran Church in America was. A missionary I knew reinforced that conclusion. Unfortunately, JW Montgomery stuck to Objective Faithless Justification.

Preuss is related to the official, private-printing-press-Preus extended family.

Ed Preuss, as we call him, published a ridiculously bad book on Justification without Faith. The Four Waltherian Cults - and ELCA - teach the same bilge.

Daily Luther Sermon Quote - Trinity 22 - Epistle Lesson - "But the Christian heart is such as inspired Paul’s words; here its characteristics are shown. He rejoices in the Gospel with his inmost soul. He thanks God that others have come into its fellowship. His confidence is firm regarding certain beginners in the faith, and he is so interested in their salvation he rejoices in it as much as in his own, seeming unable to thank God sufficiently for it."

 

SERMONS OF MARTIN LUTHER -
TWENTY SECOND SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY 

Epistle

PHILIPPIANS 1:3-11. 3 I thank my God upon all my remembrance of you, 4 always in every supplication of mine on behalf of you all making my supplication with joy, 5 for your fellowship in furtherance of the gospel from the first day until now; 6 being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ: 7 even as it is right for me to be thus minded on behalf of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers with me of grace. For God is my witness, how I long after you in all the tender mercies of Christ Jesus. 9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment; so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and void of offense unto the day of Christ; 11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

PAUL’S THANKS AND PRAYERS FOR CHURCHES.

1. First, the apostle Paul thanks God, as his custom is in the beginning of his epistles, for the grace whereby the Philippians came into the fellowship of the Gospel and were made partakers of it. Secondly, his desire and prayer to God is for their increase in the knowledge of the Gospel, and their more abundant fruits. His intent in extolling the Gospel is to admonish them to remain steadfast in their faith, continuing as they have begun and as they now stand. Apparently this is a simple passage, especially to learned and apt students of the Scriptures. They may not think it holds any great truth to be discovered. Yet we must explain this and like discourses for the benefit of some who do not fully understand it, and who desire to learn.

2. These words give us an exact delineation of the Christian heart that sincerely believes in the holy Gospel. Such hearts are rare in the world. It is especially difficult to find one so beautiful as we observe here unless it be among the beloved apostles or those who approached them in Christlikeness.

For in the matter of faith we today are entirely too indolent and indifferent.

3. But the Christian heart is such as inspired Paul’s words; here its characteristics are shown. He rejoices in the Gospel with his inmost soul. He thanks God that others have come into its fellowship. His confidence is firm regarding certain beginners in the faith, and he is so interested in their salvation he rejoices in it as much as in his own, seeming unable to thank God sufficiently for it. He unceasingly prays that he may live to see many come with him into such fellowship and be preserved therein until the day of the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall perfect and complete all the defects of this earthly life. He prays these beginners may go forth faultlessly in faith and hope until that joyful day.

Thus the godly apostle expresses himself, pouring out the depths of his heart — a heart filled with the real fruits of the Spirit and of faith. It burns with love and joy whenever he sees the Gospel recognized, accepted and honored, and the Church flourishing. Paul can conceive for the converts no loftier desire — can offer no greater petition for them than to implore God they may increase and persevere in the Gospel faith. Such is the inestimable value he places upon possessing and holding fast God’s Word. And Christ in Luke 11:28 pronounces blessed those who keep the Word of God.

I. THE DUTY OF GRATITUDE.

5. Now, the first thing in which Paul is here an example to us is his gratitude. It behooves the Christian who recognizes the grace and goodness of God expressed in the Gospel, first of all to manifest his thankfulness therefor; toward God — his highest duty — and toward men.

As Christians who have abandoned the false services and sacrifices that in our past heathenish blindness we zealously practiced, let us remember our obligation henceforth to be the more fervent in offering true service and right sacrifices to God. We can render him no better — in fact, none other — service, or outward work, than the thank-offering, as the Scriptures term it. That is, receiving and honoring the grace of God and the preaching and hearing of his Word, and furthering their operation, not only in word, but sincerely in our hearts and with all our physical and spiritual powers.

This is the truest gratitude.

6. God calls that a “pure offering” which is rendered to him “among the gentiles” (Malachi 1:11), where his name is not preached and praised from avariciousness, not from pride and presumption in the priesthood and in the holiness of human works. These motives actuated the boasting Jews, who, as God charges in this reference, presumptuously thought to receive honor from him for every trivial service like closing a door or opening a window. But the offering of the gentiles is joyfully rendered from a sincere, willing heart. This kind of thanksgiving and sacrifices are acceptable to God, for he says in Psalm 110:3, “Thy people shall be willing”; and in 2 Corinthians 9:7, “God loveth a cheerful giver.” The knowledge of the Gospel should inspire us with gratitude of this order. Let us not be found unthankful, and forgetful of God’s infinite goodness.

What Do the Big Five Apostates - ELCA-LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic) - Know That Habbakuk Did Not Know?

 

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Martin Luther’s Text

“The just shall live by faith” (Habakkuk 2:4; Romans 1:17; Galatians 3:11; Hebrews 10:38).

According to a letter written by Martin Luther’s youngest son, Dr. Paul Luther, and preserved in the Library of Rudolstadt, Martin Luther (1483-1546) related to his family the story of his conversion. He acknowledged with great joy that it was while he was visiting in Rome that he came to the knowledge of the truth of the gospel.

It happened this way. As multitudes have done, Luther, then a young Saxon monk, lashed by a tormenting conscience and heavily burdened with a load of sin, was ascending the Sancta Scala, or “holy stairs” (twenty-eight broad marble stairs claimed to be the very steps Jesus walked on when sentenced by Pilate in Jerusalem) on his hands and knees, repeating his prayers on each step in hopes of receiving the promised indulgence of the church. In his zeal he had come to make the ascent, hoping thus to be rid of his burden and obtain the favor of God, when suddenly the words of the prophet Habakkuk came forcibly and incessantly to his mind and heart, “The just shall live by faith.”

At once he ceased his crawling, and standing up, descended the “holy stairs.” When he returned home to Germany, he took this Scripture as the chief foundation of all his doctrine. This string of monosyllables that sums up the way of salvation became Martin Luther’s text. He made this great verse, found four times in the Scriptures, with its doctrine of justification by faith, the watchword of the Reformation. 

 The precious message of the grace of God reached the heart of Martin Luther upon the “holy stairs,” and the burden of unforgiven sin was rolled away. Luther became a new creature in Christ Jesus, and henceforth he rejoiced in preaching in no uncertain words that blessed and soul-emancipating truth of “Justification by Faith” to the joy and blessing of thousands. Boldly he declared publicly,

“I, Doctor Martin Luther, unworthy evangelist of our Lord Jesus Christ, confess this article of faith: THAT FAITH ALONE JUSTIFIES BEFORE GOD, WITHOUT WORKS.”

Dear reader, the precious truth of justification by faith reached and saved Martin Luther. Has it reached you? Luther said, “This text was to me the true gate of Paradise!” It can be the same for you. “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast” (Ephesians 2:8,9).

The truth stated simply is that man, being a sinner, is justified by the shed blood of Christ through faith alone—believing in His finished, atoning work on the cross for sin—without the addition of good works, keeping the Ten
Commandments, or ordinances such as baptism, confirmation, or communion.

“But to him that worketh not, but believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness” (Romans 4:5).

“Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ” (Galatians 2:16).

God declares that Christ’s work is sufficient alone to salvation and that faith alone confers the blessing of complete salvation to the believing sinner now and for eternity. “That [God] might be just, and the Justifier of him which believeth in Jesus” (Romans 3:26).

KJV

Habbakuk 2:4 - Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

Romans 1:17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

Galatians 3:11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

Hebrews 10:38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

"I cannot believe it (Universal Forgiveness without Faith, UOJ) unless I know it is already true."

An ELS pastor repeats this claim, which is really an argument without any proof. A thesis has not value unless it is supported by Biblical evidence, so the claim is unpersuasive and malignant on its own. But people think repeating it will make it true.

 This is the dogma, or rather, the catma of Jon-Boy Buchholz. So many genius types support UOJ. Join the mob.
The only sin in WELS-ELS is Justification by Faith.

That is exactly how the modern LCMS slid UOJ into the mainstream in 1932. The thesis - 

Scripture teaches that God has already declared the whole world to be righteous in Christ, Rom. 5:19; 2 Cor. 5:18-21; Rom. 4:25...

The statement is a direct attack on the Book of Concord, Scriptures, Luther, and Missouri's own stance. However, it is a nod to Walther and Pieper and their disciples. Romans 4 teaches Justification without Faith? Why do people refrain from screaming with laughter? The whole argument fails there, as it does with Romans 5:19 and 2 Corinthians 5. But now Matt the Fatt, Mrs. Matt the Fatt, the Dogmatanic, and the Enormous Not Small Catechism bray the same  OJ/SJ nonsense.

Citing a passage does not make the thesis true. Anyone familiar with the various sects or Romanism will recognize that this is their tactic too. The rapture is promoted the same way. David Valleskey, an ardent UOJist, promoted his true love - Church Growth -  with similar theses and false information.

So UOJ is in the Book of Concord? You blokes are not looking hard enough.

 Mark Zarling called UOJ a diamond and the Chief Article.
Frosty Bivens said, "Me too!" WELS rewarded their blasphemies.

Supplanting Instead of Attacking the Truth
"I cannot believe it (Universal Forgiveness without Faith, UOJ) unless I know it is already true."

This is like mercury's attachment to silver and gold, handy in mining, deadly in doctrine.

The Atonement is true, even objectively true - without our effort, thoughts, or merits. The Gospel is truth and this truth proclaimed by believers has the Spirit's power to convert hearts hardened against it. Putting forgiveness before faith and without faith is the clever ruse of the UOJists.

John 3:18 King James Version 

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.

They think that forgiveness and salvation without the Means of Grace makes grace more full of grace. That fact should make them pause when they realize their "confessional Lutheranism" is the stance of ELCA and all the mainline denominations.