A few observations are enough to send the noisy LutherQueasies into fits of rage. They illustrate the shallow ignorance of Lutheran leaders today.
The essential beginning is the Word of God. The Objective Justification extremists hijacked Romans 4 to impose their dogma on the Missouri Synod, using the non-Scriptural Brief Statement of 1932. For some reason that was elevated above the Book of Concord and the Bible.
If anyone wants to discuss Justification in the LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic), the Brief Statement is not only the starting point - but also the template for the entire canon. Every atonement passage is kidnapped for Objective Justification. Anything following the absurd OJ obsession is nonsense.
Sorry boys, but I read and listened to modern theology for years, and OJ is modern, rationalistic, mainline, apostate theology. As one LCA leader snarled on a Word and Witness tape, "They have no grace." What does that mean? He was denouncing all the Evangelical ministers because they taught faith in Christ. Here is the syllogism:
- God's grace cannot be linked to faith, a contingency.
- They (the evil ones) speak about faith in Christ.
- Therefore, they never teach grace.
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| Listen up! Faith-ians. See below. |
That is why Walther, Pieper, and their lick-spittles always run away from Scriptural exegesis. One must start with the Watherian thesis, borrowed from Stephan, nicked from Halle, press-ganged from Calvin. The OJists respond from the Waltherian sermon barrel -
- Calvinist!
- Arminian!
- Synergist!
- OJ-denier!
- Election without Faith denier!
- You make faith a work of man!
- You think salvation is incomplete so you must do one thing more - believe!
- You are not a Christ-ian. You are a Faith-ian. Your faith is in faith, not in Christ!
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| Luther was a faith-alone-ist. |
As Shakespeare (Oxford) said, "A little pot is soon hot."
To maintain this level of Scriptural stupidity, each OJ expert must ignore the plain meaning of God's Word, starting with Genesis 15:6 - continuing throughout the Old and New Testaments.
