I have seen more open discussion of justification by faith in the last year than I have in the last 20 years. In the past, when some of you were still on trikes, the slightest indication of doubt about UOJ would send the self-appointed Storm-Brownies into abusive rages.
The Storm-Brownies are still using the same tactics, but they hear about justification by faith from many different quarters. They are not pleased.
They imagine they have the Gospel, but they cannot get along. The Rolf Sect parted with Rolf even though they believe the same nonsense about justification without faith. The Chief Article should unite them, but they are friends with the Chief Deceiver, who lies, murders, and alienates. WELS and the Little Sect despise one another, but they are supposedly united on the Kokomo Statements. Pope John the Malefactor is even denser on this topic than Mark the Bookkeeper, so they should all be lovey-dovey. Not so. They only copy one another's biggest blunders. Once WELS was done with Floyd Luther Stolzenburg, the ELS adopted him and allied him with their questionable work in the Ukraine. The open affiliation, through Jay Webber and John Shep, did not stop until I repeatedly exposed it by quoting CG guru Stolzenburg.
UOJ has united WELS, LCMS, ELCA, and the United Nations. They are closer than a house full of Mormon wives.
Below are the basic errors of Justification without Faith, commonly known as Universal Objective Justification:
- Paul teaches UOJ in Romans 4, when the chapter is only about justification by faith.
- Justification becomes a work when "if you believe" is included - a claim also destroyed by Romans 4, especially Romans 4:24.
- Romans 5 describes UOJ perfectly, although the heading of the chapter (clearly a thematic chapter, even before chapter and verses) is justification by faith, access to God's grace. Therefore, Paul contradicted himself immediately after JBFA in Romans 4 and contradicted JBFA in Romans 5:1-2 in the next few verses.
- When Jesus rose from the dead, the entire world was justified without faith - contradicted by their claim that when Jesus died, the entire world was justified without faith in Him.
- Because Jesus became sin for us, the entire world was declared righteous without faith.
- The Atonement is exactly the same as justification, but not adequate for forgiveness, since all those forgiven and righteous saints have to believe they were already forgiven and righteous or they are not really forgiven and righteous.
- Everyone is "in Christ" even though in Christ means - only those who believe in Christ.
- UOJ is not rationalistic Pietism, even though their main thinkers and statements come from Halle University, the mother ship of Pietism in Europe.
- UOJ is not a form of Calvinism, even though the first proponent, Samuel Huber, was a former Calvinist who reverted and was expelled from the Wittenberg U. faculty.
- Robert Preus never stopped believing in UOJ, even though his last book, Justification and Rome, shreds UOJ with quotations from the Age of Lutheran Orthodoxy.
- Forget about that Calov quotation! It really teaches UOJ even though it clearly teaches justification by faith alone.
- Ignore Quensteadt and Gerhard too. In spite of what they seem to say, like Luther, they really believed in UOJ, even before the glorious Age of unionistic, rationalistic Pietism.
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