A Layman Asks LutherQuest about Their Objections to Justification by Faith

What is the LutherQuest objection to the reformation teaching of "Justification by Faith"? If it is a dangerous or destructive teaching, can they clearly as if to a sixth grader explain why "Justification by Faith" is wrong?

It would be extremely helpful for the Confessional Lutherans in the audience to understand the problem with "Justification by Faith" without any reference to terms not found in the Book of Concord, which is the Confession we all profess to believe, as I understand it.

Please post this.  I wasn't able to find any answer to the previous request for clarification.  Please keep asking.  And attacks on "Jackson", "Ohio Synod", "Intuitu Fidei", etc, are not an answer the underlying question: 

Why is "Justification by Faith" as Lutherans have understood it an error?

Social Media Can Be Influential

I am not so active in blogging on Moline Memories anymore, but I enjoy looking for 50th wedding anniversaries as I saw our first few indicated from the gold medal class of 66. (Music Man)

"Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives." I used to see Golden Wedding Anniversaries in our local papers, wherever we lived. Our local paper in Arkansas is almost all digital now.

About 10 years ago, our class began collecting names on Facebook so we could keep together. Whether we wanted to stay in touch was another matter. The red cell did not like my posts and blocked me, which was welcome. The rest have been sharing their big anniversaries.

The latest was Debbie, who was in the flute section in band. I found out the date was on Valentine's Day and posted the photo. I added them to the prestigious Golden Wedding Anniversary page.

So I went back to see if they were still in the top ten links for the week. They were! and so were various others on the Golden Wedding Anniversary page.

The Robesons popped up on the Top Ten. We were in Sunday School together and later in the famous Chem-Physics class. He earned a PhD in math. Another earned a PhD in rocket science. Those two also became Eagle Scouts on the same day.

John and Diana Robeson got married the same day we did, so I boast that I never forget their anniversary. Yes, we are on the top ten too, as the other couple.

Rev. Rex Bullock is on the top ten list with his wife LaWanda for their 48th, but not for their 50th. You may change that by clicking. They are well known in Wesleyan circles for their music.

The navigation list for the 50th itself is often on the top ten, perhaps because people enjoy seeing their friends' big day.

 Bonnie Bartlett's father was in showbiz and started an insurance company near the Melo Cream Donut Shop. Bonnie met William Daniels and married in 1951.

We have celebrities on the Golden Wedding Anniversary list too -

William Daniels and Bonnie Bartlett

St. Elsewhere

Here is a bio of both actors.

I also enjoy posting significant anniversaries which have not reached the golden state yet. Significant is defined by the couple.

The preceding is an example of using social media page links to leverage readership. It will be posted several times and possibly shared by others.

The LutherQuagmire Makes People Laugh, But Does It Inform?Anxious Lutherans Want To Know

 A typical LQ response emotes but does not illuminate. 

I seem to be living in the thoughts and painful nightmares of the LutherQuagmire. Someone needs to wake them and give them back their favorite edition of Calvin's Institutes.

It would be fun to debate with them, if they could focus on an argument and substantiate it with actual research. They sound like the locker room team that lost by 30 points, "because those guys were cheating all the time and refs were blind."

Arguing the correct translation of minor figures only serves as a figleaf to cover their shame.

They cannot understand, teach, or confess Justification by Faith, which is clearly taught in Genesis 15:6, with Abraham as the example. He believed in the Promises of the Messianic Kingdom first of all. Secondly, he believed that everlasting and ever-growing kingdom would start with him and his wife. Believing was counted as forgiveness, salvation for Abraham.

Genesis 15:5 And He brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and He said unto him, So shall thy seed be. 6 And he believed in the Lord; and He counted it to him for righteousness.

This same statement is the theme of the New Testament -

Romans 4:4 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? 2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. 3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.

Moreover, Jesus always taught the righteousness of faith, that the foundational sin is unbelief.

John 16:7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send Him unto you. 8 And when He is come, He will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: 9 Of sin, because they believe not on Me; 10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see Me no more; 11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.

I realize the LutherQuackers are stuck in the Slough of Despond, so I am showing them the steps to get out (The Pilgrim's Progress).

 Part II, Christiana's Story, makes the point that churchmen were supposed to help improve the Slough. 

"She perceived, also, that notwithstanding the command of the King to make this place for pilgrims good, yet it was rather worse than formerly. So I asked if that were true. Yes, said the old gentleman, too true; for that many there be that pretend to be the King’s laborers, and that say they are for mending the King’s highway, that bring dirt and dung instead of stones, and so mar instead of mending."