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| Does this say we were already pronounced forgiven, even before we were born, as Cascione and McCain claimed, quoting Preus quoting Edward Preuss? Hardly! |
Of Justification
17. Holy Scripture sums up all its teachings regarding the love of God to the world of sinners, regarding the salvation wrought by Christ, and regarding faith in Christ as the only way to obtain salvation, in the article of justification. 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; that therefore not for the sake of their good works, but without the works of the Law, by grace, for Christ’s sake, He justifies, that is, accounts as righteous, all those who believe, accept, and rely on, the fact that for Christ’s sake their sins are forgiven. Thus the Holy Ghost testifies through St. Paul: “There is no difference; for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,” Rom. 3:23, 24. And again: “Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the Law,” Rom. 3:28.
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| These words are never mentioned by the UOJ Stormtroopers, and the fanatics are absolutely allergic to the phrase Justification by Faith. Herman Otten and His UOJ Stormtroopers Are the Radical Liberal Universalists. |
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| Notice - he is reading Christian News,with a big feature on Valleskey and Church Growth. |
Pietism has no use for the Creeds of Christendom and considers the cell group and their faction as the One True Church. That was the belief of Walther and his buddies following Martin Stephan. They alone had the Gospel, and when they left Europe, the Gospel left with them. One person from the group disagreed, and he lost his financial subsidy until he retracted. That sounds just like the LCMS-WELS-ELS today.
Pietism degenerates quickly into rationalism, and rationalism into Universalism. Missouri already took a quasi-Universalistic stance in the name of Objective Justification in 1932. Although the 1932 Brief Statement was just a political move, the UOJ fanatics seized on it (selectively) as their canon law, their most excellent way to beat people to death.
Although Otten likes to denounce the liberals, he is The Heresiarch, cleverly adopting a pious stance while removing the Biblical foundations of the efficacious Word and Sacraments. Honoring Stephan's pimp and enforcer - CFW Walther - Otten dishonors the Scriptures and the Book of Concord, St. Paul, Augustine, Luther, Melanchthon, and Chemnitz.
"But that cannot be right!" loyal readers cry out. "CFW Walther judges everyone and everything."
If anyone disagrees with Walther, who learned UOJ from the promiscuous Bishop Stephan, that person is a blasted liar, heretic, and secret buyer of Girl Scout cookies (WELS only).
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| Walther repudiated faith and never recovered from his training in rationalism and Pietism. But we do not need to be bound to his ignorance. Faith comes from God, and Jesus teaches us to believe in Him and His righteousness, the righteousness of faith. |
