The Cardinal (Cascione) is right about this:
"Adding terms to justification can be just as dangerous a removing terms."
Adding terms like:
- Objective?
- General?
- Subjective?
- Universal?
One layman battling OJ in the LCMS wondered about UOJ, which is more common in WELS. All four terms listed above are additions to the Bible and to the Book of Concord.
Proponents have become more extreme in the last decades. "I am saved, just like you" was the theme of a WELS evangelism program during the Wayne Mueller years. I don't own a pair of beer goggles that make Univeralistic statements like that go from "Bow!" to "Wow!"
Most UOJ Stormtroopers admit there is no UOJ in the Book of Concord. UOJ is also Missing in Action in Robert Preus' last book, Justification and Rome. In fact, he said the only justification was justification by faith.
