Objective Justification

 

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The favorite term is Objective Justification, but they also like General Justification, Universal Justification, and Universal Objective Justification. The terms are not exactly limited to the Four Waltherian Sects  - LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic). Other cults use the term Objective Justification.

The Scriptures do not teach Objective Justification except Romans 3:24 on "all are justified," which includes two NIV versions and four others. The list is here. The previous NIV Bible did not include the "all," perhaps because that is absent in all of the manuscripts.

NIV Romans 3:24  and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.

The earlier NIV had - "and are justified..."

Walther followed his syphilitic Bishop's advice and even claimed OJ saved CFW's life. The LCMS, WELS, and ELS eventually forced out Justification by Faith and began exotic Biblical interpretations of Objective Justification - dynamic equivalence - Eugene Nida.

OJ False Claims

Everyone has already been forgiven, often "since the crucifixion," though others take the universalism concept back to Adam.

One variation is "guilt-free saints in Hell."

The ELCA simply states that everyone is forgiven. Their dogmatics double-volume also mocks the Trinity.

OJ Confusion

The OJ fanatics confuse themselves about the Atonement, which is clearly Jesus dying on the cross for the sins of the world. They seem blinded to the difference between the Atonement for all and Justification by faith for all who believe.

Sources - Calvinism and Pietism 

Lutherans have moved into unionism ever since Calvinism united with the state church.

New Testament Greek - John 3:16-18 and Mark 16:8

 

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16 ουτως γαρ ηγαπησεν ο θεος τον κοσμον ωστε τον υιον αυτου τον μονογενη εδωκεν ινα πας ο πιστευων εις αυτον μη αποληται αλλ εχη ζωην αιωνιον

17 ου γαρ απεστειλεν ο θεος τον υιον αυτου εις τον κοσμον ινα κρινη τον κοσμον αλλ ινα σωθη ο κοσμος δι αυτου

18 ο πιστευων εις αυτον ου κρινεται ο δε μη πιστευων ηδη κεκριται οτι μη πεπιστευκεν εις το ονομα του μονογενους υιου του θεου

Mark 16:8

8 και εξελθουσαι ταχυ, εφυγον απο του μνημειου; ειχεν δε αυτας τρομος και εκστασις και ουδενι ουδεν ειπον, εφοβουντο γαρ

8 And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre; for they trembled and were amazed: neither said they any thing to any man; for they were afraid.

Mark 16:16

16 ο πιστευσας και βαπτισθεις σωθησεται ο δε απιστησας κατακριθησεται

Enthusiasm - The Book of Concord

 

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The Smalcald Articles are in the Book of Concord.

Luther hoped for a genuine Christian conference with a fair debate. That did not happen.

The Smalcald Articles were approved by all the important Evangelical (Lutheran) leaders.

Enthusiasm means replacing the truth of the Word of God with man's factions.

1. The first example is Adam and Eve, who listened to Satan and abandoned the Word.

2. The Enthusiasts do not teach the Scriptures.

3. The Papacy and Islam are Enthusiasts.

4. The Spirit without the Word of God is Enthusiasm.

5. The prophets spoke through the Holy Spirit.

6. The apostles also spoke through the Spirit in teaching the Word.

The Divinity of Christ, Reformation Seminary

 

The Son of God executed the commands of God the Father in Genesis 1, as explained in John 1:3.

Jesus' crucifixion was predicted in KJV Genesis 3:15

15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

The angel of the Lord spoke from the Burning Bush (Two Natures of Christ) and said -

KJV Exodus 3:6 Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God. 

KJV Exodus 3:14 And God said unto Moses, I Am That I Am: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I Am hath sent me unto you. 

 I AM is Jesus' declaration in Mark and used frequently as God's Name in John's Gospel.

KJV Mark 14:62 And Jesus said, I AM: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.

 The High Priest tore his clothes, not because "It's me," but from God's Name, I AM.

Divinity of Christ Undermined

Strangely, Halle University was started as a Bible college, to counter the dry and verbose late Orthodoxy of the Calvinists attacking Lutherans, back and forth. [Objective Faithless Justification came from the dregs of Lutheran Orthodoxy.] However Halle's Biblical scholars were rationalistic after one generation. 

Irony - the Biblical stars of Halle University are hailed today as the rock-ribbed heroes behind the Historical Critical Method which denies the divinity of Christ, the Virgin Birth, the miracles of Christ, the Holy Trinity, His resurrection and His ascension.

Pietism degenerated into Rationalism and the Biblical scholars sought to be scientific. If a miracle could not be proven in a lab, it was not evidence. My sainted friend, Christian Bruce Wenger, top of his medical school class at Yale, and also a PhD in  physiology, said or rather shouted, "That is the very nature of a miracle!"

The following double question is the best way to find out if a pastor or professor is a Christian believer or just another doubter -

1. Was Jesus actually born of a Virgin?
2. Did Jesus actually rise from death and leave His tomb?

No LCA seminary professor could answer yes about the Empty Tomb, although one said "maybe." The Virgin Birth was ignored by everyone. This is why the LCA-ALC leadership welcomed the outcome of Seminex - the short-lived AELC, becoming united as ELCA in 1987. Catastrophic losses followed and accelerated after the 2009 vote.

Some of the intellectual tricks of the current age include -

1. Scholars are divided.
2. That is a hapax - a phrase that only occurs once, so it is difficult to say.
3. Mark is the first Gospel written, so there are problems.
4. We have not found the actual Q so far, but it is there in Matthew and Luke.
5. John's Gospel was written 300 years after Jesus, and it is Gnostic, so it cannot be used in harmony with the Synoptic Gospels, Matthew, Mark, and Luke.
6. "Contradictions" are used to dismiss a text as wrong or hazy.
7. This famous scholar, my professor, said this, and you disagree?
8. Priest and Christian Brother together - "There is no use talking to you, Jackson!" And they stormed away. The priest got married to a woman and the Christian Brother became president of a famous university for teaching.
9. The modern Bibles are much better than the KJV, three of them licensed by the National Council of Left-Wing Churches: RSV, NRSV, ESV. Other disasters are the NIV, Beck Bible, Good News for Modern Man, "Living" and "Amplified" Bibles.

The Humanity of Jesus

 

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The Son of God existed from eternity and manifested Himself in many ways in the Old Testament. In Exodus 3 His voice came from the Burning Bush, using the Name - I AM.

As predicted in Isaiah 7:14, He was the great Incarnation, God in man, Immanuel, God with us. His suffering as a man is clearly described in Isaiah 53 and Psalm 22, with Psalm 23 predicting the Good Shepherd.

The Incarnation - God in the flesh - took place according to the calendar established by God. Mary was with child, and the angels rejoiced, proclaiming this miracle to the shepherds. There are many false gods, but only Jesus Christ can be called God and man, the Two Natures united in one person and forever One. 

The rationalist era, which grew from Calvinism and Pietism, created The Life of Jesus books, which catered to believers but emphasized their lack of faith in Him. Reaction to this has led to emphasizing His divine nature without much about His human nature.

Below are some examples of His humanity (remembering that His divine nature is never subordinate to His human nature).

1. Jesus was conceived and born, having all the qualities of a baby boy, nursed by His mother Mary, and growing up in a household that included Joseph as his father.

2. He was baptized by John in the Jordan River, even though John did not feel equal to this person.

3. He went to the desert wilderness where Satan confronted Him. He had water but no bread to eat. He listened to the twisted logic of Satan but did not fall prey to the Evil One.

4. He gathered disciples and trained them. We often see this in light of His divinity, but they did not know the full extent of His divinity until after the Resurrection.

5. He grew weary and prayed.

KJV Matthew 26:36f. Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder. 37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.

KJV Mark 1:35 And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed. 36 And Simon and they that were with him followed after him. 37 And when they had found him, they said unto him, All men seek for thee.

 Luke has many more examples on this link.

KJV John 4:6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour. 

A man said, "I don't go to church."

An older lady said, "So you are better than Jesus?
He said, "No, why do you say that."

She answered, "Jesus was always praying in the synagogue, so you are better than Jesus."

The Parables of Jesus

 

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Unbelievers - especially the apostate clergy and bishops, who have abandoned the Christian Faith - cannot understand or teach the Parables of Jesus.

The parables of Jesus were never designed to teach the masses, but only to obscure the stories and comparisons. Do not get angry, because Jesus stated that apparent contradiction for good reason.

KJV Matthew 13:10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? 11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. 13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

Then, as now, people seized on certain examples and did not absorb what Jesus was saying. Many errors blossomed in the first centuries after the Savior ascended to Heaven. The most obvious is the elevation of Mary which was gradually boosted by the new idea - that Mary had to be without sin of any kind, because the Son of God could not have been born unless the mother was immaculate (literally without spot).

Purgatory grew from false notions, that people died in a sinful state, no matter how much was done (reparation offerings - literally repayment; self-punishing; merits - faith needing works.) The demands and punishments of Purgatory grew so much that even the living were enlisted to cut down on the time required. 

The concepts of Immaculate Mary and Purgatory were woven together, since Mary was turned into the comforter of those who were paying for their sins. Jesus became the angry judge who had to be restrained by Mary. Fear and emotions created a vast world-wide community of dogma. 

The parables are for believers who study and hear the Word of God. Their faith in Jesus Christ is mocked, and those mockers love to say, "Nobody knows what the parables mean."

KJV Matthew  13:34 All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them: 35 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.

Matthew 13 is the treasure trove of parables, but they are found elsewhere, often with slight differences (mocked by apostates).

1. Matthew 13:18 - The Sower and the Seed
2. Matthew 13:24 - The Good Seed
3. Matthew 13:31 - The Grain of Mustard Seed'
4. Matthew 13:33 - The Leaven
5. Matthew 13:44 - Treasure Hidden in a Field
6. Matthew 13:45 - The Pearl of Great Price
7. Matthew 13:47 - The Net Cast

The Faith of Jesus - The Apostle Paul's Three Distinct Statements

 

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Romans

KJV Romans 3:22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

22 δικαιοσυνη δε θεου δια πιστεως ιησου χριστου εις παντας και επι παντας τους πιστευοντας ου γαρ εστιν διαστολη

Galatians

Galatians 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

Galatians 2:16 16 ειδοτες οτι ου δικαιουται ανθρωπος εξ εργων νομου εαν μη δια πιστεως ιησου χριστου και ημεις εις χριστον ιησουν επιστευσαμεν ινα δικαιωθωμεν εκ πιστεως χριστου και ουκ εξ εργων νομου διοτι ου δικαιωθησεται εξ εργων νομου πασα σαρξ

Philippians

Philippians 3:9  και ευρεθω εν αυτω μη εχων εμην δικαιοσυνην την εκ νομου αλλα την δια πιστεως χριστου την εκ θεου δικαιοσυνην επι τη πιστει

Philippians 3:9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

Romans 3:22 in all the English translations