Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Basics of Universal Objective Justification -
A Staggering Failure with Objective and Subjective Justification

 OJ is universal absolution without faith.
SJ is accepting that universal absolution without faith.

The language of doctrine has to be examined closely, since there is often a wide gap between claims and the ideas promoted. A lack of reading comprehension compounds the problem, so an ignorant and illiterate ministerium is easily led away by Judas goats.

All ye who enter here, abandon:

  1. Synodical Conference history;
  2. The authority of various individuals;
  3. Attempts to let any book undermine the Book.
  4. Answering personal attacks, since the Church does not rise or fall on whether you actually stole Halloween candy from children 45 years ago.


The history of doctrine is good to pursue, asking how we got into such a mess. However, starting with the history of doctrine will never end with clarity, because so much can be discussed without an edifying result.

Shortcomings in doctrine must answer to the Scriptures.

Universal Objective Justification falls into two parts, even before the adoption of Objective and Subjective Justification by misled Lutherans.

 Notice how the Calvinist translator's words parallel Walther's. Woods was not as frantic as later UOJers, who reveal what mission creep can do in the hands of false teachers: guilt-free saints in Hell (WELS).


Objective Justification
OJ does not bear any Scriptural scrutiny, but that scrutiny is required, no?  The  OJ dogma rests on a declaration, a statement from God that every single person in the world has been -

  1. Declared righteous or innocent
  2. Declared forgiven
  3. Declared saved.

Those three points go together, but usually one or the other is emphasized. The OJists have taken the judicial decree to say it has nothing to do with faith and extends to the entire world. The Atonement is left strangely abandoned, because they correctly state that OJ is not the Atonement.

OJ "seats of doctrine" or proof texts are the moment of Christ's death and also the moment of His resurrection. Their conflicting times of Universal Absolution do not bother them.

  1. "It is finished" is converted by them into "God has declared the unbelieving world righteous, forgiven, saved."
  2. Justified by the Spirit is converted by them into - "God has justified the entire world." 1 Timothy 3:16

 WELS loves this, which is why Buchholz and Webber go around as toxic Team OJ. Is not imputation is connected to faith in Genesis 15 and Romans 4?

Questions for OJ

  1. How can "It is finished" be stretched into a universal forgiveness of the world? Jesus' last Word is just what the words convey, the Lamb's sacrifice completed. The Atonement passages show that Jesus paid for the sins of the world, so one cannot take all of those explanations or any of them and fashion a divine pronouncement of universal absolution.
  2. How can "justified in the Spirit" be expanded into another meaning and another time of universal forgiveness without faith? This statement within a poem/hymn/creed teaches that God declared Jesus (not the entire world) innocent, since death suggests sinfulness. 1 Timothy 3:16 is about the Savior, not world salvation. 
  3. OJers grab the synonyms for the Atonement and exclaim, "The whole world is forgiven!" yet they deny a connection between the Atonement and their OJ. Let them learn that one cannot straddle two rowboats on the lake successfully.
 The Concordists said we should study Luther's Galatians on this topic, but the Quia Marias do not swear to reading anything.


Subjective Justification
"Rightly divide the Word of Truth" does not mean to cut Justification in half. Where in the Bible is one half and the other half? Or one side and the other side? And where is it a coin with an OJ side and that under-mentioned SJ side?

All this talk is intended to fool people into thinking that SJ is faith in Christ when it is not, and the OJ is the Atonement, when that is denied (and rightly so). Let me stop there - those two assumptions have cloaked and protected UOJ for decades. When those special terms are dropped, and Biblical language used, UOJ sinks faster than the S.S. Concordia.

 The sinking of the S.S. Concordia woke some up to the disaster called "our synod."


Subjective Justification is not faith in Christ, not even making a decision for Christ, but making a decision for world absolution, according to Walther himself.

While the Bible constantly teaches faith in Christ, the Enthusiasts hardly ever write about their SJ. Even when they do, they return quickly to their OJ "diamond" (Zarling), lest their gem crumble from lack of attention.

Abandoning Justification by Faith is only possible after rejecting the efficacy of the Word in the Means of Grace.


Biblical Language
A study of Biblical language will show no affinity between UOJ and the Christian Faith. The Gospel of John easily defeats these UOJ imposters, and so does St. Paul. Otherwise, we must assume that the Bible teaches Justification by Faith in the plainest possible words and UOJ in the secret code of the elite.

Walther was no genius. He was half-educated and had no grasp of the Biblical languages. One can easily see that his sermons are dogmatic assertions divorced from the Scriptures. In contrast, Luther's Biblical sermons are declarations of faith suitable for the Book of Concord - the Large Catechism.

Pastors must return to Biblical, expository sermons and be judged by the Word itself and not by whether they agree with David Scaer and David Valleskey.

Please show us the passage, O former President of Mordor, O fan of Church Growth, O alumnus of Fuller Seminary.