The UOJ Agenda - Secretive and Dishonest. Destructive Dogma. "Faith Is Not a Work, Believe It or Not!" - Christina Jackson

 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:

1. The declaration by God is justification language.
2. 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.

 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.

Notice how this Fuller alumnus dishonestly moves from the Atonement to universal forgiveness without faith.

 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.

Universal Objective Justification Replaces the Atonement While Pretending To Be All Grace, All Forgiving

The key distinguishing argument of Universal Objective Justification is their claim that "UOJ is not the Atonement." Robert Preus stated that clearly when he was promoting the UOJ of Bishop Stephan and CFW Walther.

No less a genius than Frosty Bivens - plagiarizing Mark Zarling (both of WELS) - announced that UOJ is the Chief Article of the Christian religion, the master and prince, the judge of all other doctrines. And UOJ is all that - for ignorant bullies who find the dogma a convenient axe, a trusty stealth weapon, a deadly instrument.

Robert and Jack Preus used UOJ to keep W. Maier II from becoming president of Concordia Seminary in Ft. Wayne.

UOJ is a clever ploy to take people away from the Gospel itself. The Bible clearly uses the Atonement, Christ's death on the cross for the sins of the world, as another word for the Gospel.

The Gospel chapter of the Old Testament is Isaiah 53, which is devoted to the suffering of Christ to pay for the sins of the world.

Teaching the Gospel means teaching the Atonement, which is universally true - Christ died for all people, paid for all sins. Preaching the Gospel plants faith in the hearts of those who have never heard this before. The baby being baptized hears the Gospel and believes, because the Spirit works through the Word.

The lapsed adult hears the Gospel and it rekindles his faith, because the indwelling Spirit gladly hears the message of grace and hungers for more.

  UOJ Stormtroopers live on the dark side of the moon.

The Universal Nature of the Atonement Means All These Things
The universal nature of the Atonement is kidnapped by the UOJists and left for dead after they have received their ransom money - all the foundation and Thrivent money, plus synod funds, thank you. They do not teach the Atonement - a moment of clarity and honesty before the rationalistic fog of Pietism rolls in.

But this is what the universal nature of the Atonement means:

• No sin is too great for this forgiveness, but it is only received in faith. Thus the sin against the Holy Spirit is unfaith. John 16:8ff. UOJists teach blasphemy against God - which is why they become so arrogant, cruel, hardened, and blind.
• Nothing makes us qualified for this forgiveness. We do not have to repent enough, cleanse ourselves enough, suffer enough, pay enough. Believers are freely and fully forgiven, and this constant state of grace heals and motivates us for fruits of the Spirit.
• Not even the smallest sin can be paid for by man, and to think that way is a potentially fatal error that leads to even more mistakes.
• Christ did not only die for minor and easy to conquer sins, which we never do conquer, but also for great and terrible sins. There is nothing more astounding on this earth than to see the transformation of someone who seemed so lost and hopeless before, enjoying this great forgiveness and knowing the power of Gospel Word accomplished what man's wisdom and aids could not.
• We are forever wanting to pay for our sins with tears, sorrow, money, and good works. When we checked out of a motel with our family, I tried to pay the bill. "There is no bill for your room." I argued otherwise and wanted to pay. "I know I did not pay for this room." The clerk said, "The amount has been removed. Let me see. Oh - someone paid for you...Gladys." I turned around and my mother was smiling. That is a little example of the grace of God through Christ, which energizes good works. When someone wants to atone for their sins, the Word says, "No, that was already paid by the Lamb of God."

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