The person arguing on Extra Nos follows the normal rules for defending UOJ from any meniton of the Book of Concord, Luther, or the Scriptures:
Always be angry and sarcastic.
Switch to mockery ("Mr. LPC"), another form of anger.
Make something or somebody an idol - whether Walther, Bob Preus, or Jack Kilcrease.
Hold the opinions of man (synodical votes) over the doctrine of the Bible.
Ducking the issues, call everyone else a lying coward.
Lito Cruz has a PhD in math and does a superb job of eviscerating the UOJ arguments below.Part of math training involves critical thinking and the problems with logical fallacies.
Alec said...
This is fantastic. Don't know how I missed it before.
Thank you. I needed the laugh!
Alec
Friday, January 8, 2016 at 3:19:00 AM GMT+11
Gregory Jackson said...
I read it to my wife again. We both laughed because the Lutheran leaders wrote the script. I just copy and paste.
Friday, January 8, 2016 at 11:05:00 PM GMT+11
Alec said...
True art. It teaches and entertains with a light touch.
Reposted today at Humor | Hitler loses the Universal Objective Justification (UOJ) War
Hope many more people enjoy it and learn. Thanks Greg (and Lilo).
Friday, January 8, 2016 at 11:12:00 PM GMT+11
LPC said...
Hi Alec,
Thanks for reposting, Pr. Greg is one heck of a witty writer.
Blessing to you brother.
LPC
Saturday, January 9, 2016 at 11:41:00 AM GMT+11
Don Vega said...
I fail to see the humor. There are mis-representations galore. This Jackson fella; He makes the claim on his blog and in the video that Robert Preus repudiated objective justification. Where is the citation for this claim?
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at 6:30:00 AM GMT+11
LPC said...
Don,
It is in the Preus' book 'Justification and Rome'. Preus sites old Lutherans and the quotation from them are denials of UOJ.
It is denial by default - that is by quoting the statements of orthodox Lutherans involved in the BoC. One has to have a wild perverted imagination to read UOJ in to the statements of Calov or Quenstedt etc.
LPC
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at 2:06:00 PM GMT+11
Don Vega said...
"Denial by default". According to who? You? The Jackson guy? Have you or him read the book?
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at 2:47:00 PM GMT+11
Gregory Jackson said...
Him have read the book several times, to answer your question, Don.
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at 3:07:00 PM GMT+11
Don Vega said...
Gregory Jackson; and you are English teacher?
What do you think of this statement?
"Then God, in His infinite grace, took action. He sent His Son, who was the radiance of His glory and the express image of His person (Hebrews 1:3), to become man (John 1:14) and to redeem the world (Galatians 4:4) and restore it to glory and communion with Him (John 3:17). For Christ’s sake God, who was angry with the sinful world, was reconciled, propitiated, and at peace with the world (1 John 2:2; Luke 2:14)."
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at 3:22:00 PM GMT+11
Gregory Jackson said...
Don, I was responding to your bad grammar - Have you or him read the book?
You were asking "Have you read the book" and also "Have him read the book?"
So I answered using your grammar. You simply want to post some unthinking accusations. You should get some rest, eat some prunes, and grow up a bit.
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at 3:39:00 PM GMT+11
LPC said...
Don,
Yes , I have read it and my copy is filled with notes. If Preus intended to promote UOJ then he should have not used quotes from orthodox Lutherans that question or put the teaching in to doubt.
Dr, Jackson made pictures of these quotes and let me give you an example...
In p. 131 #74 quoting Calov - "Although Christ has acquired for us the remission of sins, justification and sonship, God just the same does not justify us prior to faith..."
This runs roughshod against the LC-MS Brief Statement 1932 Article 17 which says that God has declared the whole world ALREADY righteous in Christ.
LPC
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at 8:47:00 PM GMT+11
Don Vega said...
But you did not answer my question regarding the quote I posted, Gregory Jackson. I was giving you the opportunity to address a contradiction in your claim concerning Preus; "tonto como un asno"
On your blog you have posted a quote by Rev. Jack Cascione in a graphic many times. I see no difference in what the graphic says and the quote I gave you. The quote appears on page 32 in the Preus book, Justification and Rome. Why would Preus say that if he denied objective justification?
Mr. LPC: Your line of reasoning is absurd. Of course the quotes are appropriate in the book. Preus wholeheartedly believed in Justification by Faith. All true orthodox Lutheran Christians believe this. Faith justifies us when we believe all the things the atonement and redemption accomplish. This is ever so evident in the Smalcald Articles Part II Article 1:
"1] That Jesus Christ, our God and Lord, died for our sins, and was raised again for our justification, Rom. 4:25.
2] And He alone is the Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world, John 1:29; and God has laid upon Him the iniquities of us all, Is. 53:6.
3] Likewise: All have sinned and are justified without merit [freely, and without their own works or merits] by His grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, in His blood, Rom. 3:23f
4] Now, since it is necessary to believe this, and it cannot be otherwise acquired or apprehended by any work, law, or merit, it is clear and certain that this faith alone justifies us as St. Paul says, Rom. 3:28: For we conclude that a man is justified by faith, without the deeds of the Law. Likewise 3:26: That He might be just, and the Justifier of him which believeth in Christ."
Thursday, February 25, 2016 at 2:07:00 AM GMT+11
Alec said...
Don Vega,
Do you believe that people who reject UOJ are your brothers in Christ?
I ask this because as someone new to Lutheranism, the carte blanche rejection of Timothy 5 in the discussion of this issue is startling.
Of course, if UOJ people do not believe Justification by Faith alone Lutherans are brothers, then the behavior makes sense.
Hope you will answer me.
Alec
Thursday, February 25, 2016 at 2:38:00 AM GMT+11
Don Vega said...
"Do you believe that people who reject UOJ are your brothers in Christ?"
It would depend on your definition of 'brother'. I could not be in fellowship with one who denies objective justification. I would not be able to commune with him. Since I can not commune with him, I would not consider him a brother. That is not to say that there are not true believers who will be in Heaven from across all denominations.
I do not understand how 1 Tim. 5 bears credence to the discussion.
Gregory Jackson should on the other hand recant his false accusations regarding Robt. Preus as I have shown here that he is in error.
The problems with him and Mr. Lito are this: They view that people are saved because of their faith and not through faith by grace for the sake of Christ. There is a difference and I hope you are able to see it.
Thursday, February 25, 2016 at 3:37:00 AM GMT+11
LPC said...
Don,
I do not think you understand what UOJ teaches. Do you believe the whole world including those who are to be born and the atheist etc are justified in Christ now, this very moment. Do you believe that the Muslim in your are is also already justified, meaning declared righteous? That is these people have been declared righteous already before faith and before they could repent and believe?
I do not think you have read the Brief Statement 1932 article 17. This statement has been discussed many times in this blog. But I will repeat it for you a problematic and erroneous sentence there...
"in the article of justification. Scripture teaches that God HAS ALREADY declared the whole world to be righteous in Christ, "
How could the whole world be righteous in Christ when in fact the whole world is not IN CHRIST.
My reasoning is not absurd for if you supper impose the Calov quote, Calov denies that statement.
LPC
Thursday, February 25, 2016 at 9:27:00 AM GMT+11
LPC said...
Don,
Ah I see now your problem for sure and I claim it is you who is absurd. On the one hand you stated...
"Faith justifies us when we believe all the things the atonement and redemption accomplish".
Yet on the other you claim against us --- "They view that people are saved because of their faith and not through faith by grace for the sake of Christ"
First this is a straw man, I believe that a person is saved by faith in the finished work of Christ. Not faith per se but man is saved by the object of his faith in Christ and only and upon when faith in Christ happens. Faith has an object and if that object is Christ, then man is saved, declared righteous or justified.
The problem we have with UOJ is that they have an absurd view as to when Justification of Man happens. Do you believe man is justified before faith, before he was born or anytime before faith? Mr. Don Vega, we obviously have a problem because if you DO BELIEVE this. Kindly answer this so we can have an intelligent discussion.
I hope you do not believe that man is already justified when Jesus died on the cross or was raised from the dead, for that would mean that everyone since the Cross has already been justified - which makes that position Universalist.
LPC
Thursday, February 25, 2016 at 9:54:00 AM GMT+11
Don Vega said...
First we must deal with the serious false allegation regarding Robt. Preus because it is a lie. If you are not willing to admit truth in regard to him, how can we have a truthful discussion regarding doctrine?
Thursday, February 25, 2016 at 11:53:00 AM GMT+11
LPC said...
Don,
Don't run away scared - you are deflecting the discussion.
I asked you questions which if you answer will prove whether or not Preus believed in UOJ in his Justification and Rome book.
I take it you have not yet read the book - so why don't you run away in a corner read it and comeback when you have done that.
We can hit these right off the park - define for me what you believe is the doctrine of Universal Objective Justification.
Then we can now debate whether or not in Preus' last days he believed in your doctrine on the basis of his book Justification and Rome.
Let me warn you - your type of running away from my questions is typical of other UOJers I dealt with. Show me you are someone I can take seriously, for if you simply evade, you will be another nail in the coffin why I reject UOJ.
LPC
Thursday, February 25, 2016 at 8:10:00 PM GMT+11
Don Vega said...
Mr. LPC, you are stonewalling besides deflecting. I have exposed your lie and that of this cowardly Gregory Jackson fellow by the quotation I posted. Furthermore, if you look on page 59, he reiterates that the world is redeemed and reconciled to God. Robert Preus' family members many times have testified to the truth. You are telling me you know better than his own words in the book and the closeness of his family? Can you depart from reality any more?
Friday, February 26, 2016 at 8:48:00 AM GMT+11
LPC said...
Don,
It is you who is evading. A gentleman should answer questions hurled at him and yet you do not answer my questions. I have been answering your questions now be polite and answer mine. I have page 59 in front of me. Why don't you provide an actual quote from the text itself? Give me an actual text.
P. 59 talks about the righteousness of Christ, none of them in categorical terms imply UOJ in the sense that God has already imputed righteousness to the whole world, prior to faith or before faith or before they were born, none.
Of course the atonement of Christ is the basis for the salvation of man, the question is WHEN does this benefit get to man. Lutheran exegetes who do not even believe in UOJ have affirmed and so do I that the basis for man's justification is Christ's atonement. The question is WHEN does this justification of man happen?
Here is what Preus says:
"It is precisely this righteousness which is imputed to the SINNER WHO BELIEVES and thereby becomes his righteousness . It is the purpose of the Formula of Concord to affirm just this fact"
Am I any better than Preus' family members? Are you familiar with scholarly procedures? In law as well as in scholarly circles, what you verbally say does not count, what counts is what you have written down. Even Augustine himself had to write his Retractions.
Preus prior to this book I could say he believed in UOJ. This book was written at the end or even posthumously. When I was reading his book the minimum I could conclude if ever Preus believed in UOJ was that he was confusing because the quotes he used in his book were quotes from orthodox Lutherans who can not be believed to have taught UOJ.
The fact that you can not even articulate with me what you believe about UOJ shows to me you yourself have a shaky understanding of it. Your evasion does not promote your cause.
LPC
Friday, February 26, 2016 at 10:54:00 AM GMT+11
Don Vega said...
Here is what I believe objective justification is, Mr. LPC.
"Then God, in His infinite grace, took action. He sent His Son, who was the radiance of His glory and the express image of His person (Hebrews 1:3), to become man (John 1:14) and to redeem the world (Galatians 4:4) and restore it to glory and communion with Him (John 3:17). For Christ’s sake God, who was angry with the sinful world, was reconciled, propitiated, and at peace with the world (1 John 2:2; Luke 2:14)." Pg 32 Justification and Rome
"This righteousness of Christ, this vicarious obedience under the Law and vicarious obedience unto death, results in the redemption of the world and the reconciliation of the world to God. This righteousness which constitutes the vicarious atonement is the basis of the sinner’s justification before God. " Pg 59 Justification and Rome
I believe these thing the same as Robt. Preus.
Friday, February 26, 2016 at 12:54:00 PM GMT+11
Gregory Jackson said...
In short, Don, you reject the Formula of Concord, the Book of Concord, Melanchthon, Luther, St. Paul, and the Holy Spirit, Don. Therefore, your opinions about Dr. Robert Preus are irrelevant.
"This article concerning justification by faith (as the Apology says) is the chief article in the entire Christian doctrine, without which no poor conscience can have any firm consolation, or can truly know the riches of the grace of Christ, as Dr. Luther also has written: If this only article remains pure on the battlefield, the Christian Church also remains pure, and in goodly harmony and without any sects; but if it does not remain pure, it is not possible that any error or fanatical spirit can be resisted. (Tom. 5, Jena, p. 159.) 7] And concerning this article especially Paul says that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. Therefore, in this article he urges with so much zeal and earnestness the particulas exclusivas, that is, the words whereby the works of men are excluded (namely, without Law, without works, by grace [freely],Rom. 3:28; 4:5; Eph. 2:8-9), in order to indicate how highly necessary it is that in this article, aside from [the presentation of] the pure doctrine, the antithesis, that is, all contrary dogmas, be stated separately, exposed, and rejected by this means." Formula of Concord, SD
Friday, February 26, 2016 at 1:47:00 PM GMT+11
Don Vega said...
There is no opinion, only the words of Preus which is the truth. Accept it and denounce your lies. When are you two going to address the quotes. You are confirming my original thought of you; clodding and imbecile.
Friday, February 26, 2016 at 2:09:00 PM GMT+11
LPC said...
Don,
As I said, at a minimum my conclusion is that Preus was being confusing but the mass of his quotations of orthodox old Lutherans negate the UOJ doctrine that God has already declared the whole world righteous in Christ.
Your quote has lots of past tenses.
So you and Preus believe that God is now reconciled (a finished event) with the whole world. He is no longer angry with the unbeliever, he is at peace with them. The unbeliever has no more need to fear God? Do people still go to hell today based on your doctrine?
LPC
Friday, February 26, 2016 at 2:12:00 PM GMT+11
Don Vega said...
It's not my words, or Preus for the matter but scripture. How could a God who dies for His creation be mad? No, the unbeliever should fear God, but he does not and in so doing damns himself to hell.
Friday, February 26, 2016 at 2:46:00 PM GMT+11
Gregory Jackson said...
Don, you are opposed to the Word of God "KJV John 3:36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him."
You are very mixed up, which is why you are so angry.
Friday, February 26, 2016 at 3:14:00 PM GMT+11
Don Vega said...
Nowhere have I or Preus denied this. Get some rest. Eat some prunes. Grow up a bit.
Friday, February 26, 2016 at 3:25:00 PM GMT+11
LPC said...
Mr. Vega,
It is you who needs to stop and calm down you are very excitable. You do not appreciate the points being made to you.
The reason Pr. Greg quoted to you John 3:36 is because you claim that God is at peace with the world, he is not angry with the whole world anymore.
Can you see why he quoted that to you? I should have not asked -- you don't see it do you.
You do not even realise why I said most of your quote about God being reconciled to the world and no longer at war is IN THE PAST TENSE, which I intend to imply as unbiblical.
In Luke 2:14 God is declaring peace, but with God if you do not want his peace, you will receive his war. That does not mean God is at peace with the whole world, he is announcing Isaiah 1:18. Also God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself 2 Cor 5:19, this reconciling started in the past but it is still going on today, it is not in the past tense, a completed event, no way. Only believers are reconciled with God, for they are the only ones in Christ and that is where God's peace is located.
So your answer to me is that God who is at peace with the world wants the unbeliever to fear him even though God is not mad anymore with him, and yet, when this unbeliever fails to fear a God who no longer is mad at him, this God (so you suppose) sends that unbeliever to hell.
Hehehehe, Mr. Vega, hell is the ultimate expression of God's wrath. You make God inconsistent in himself. Which is which, Mr. Vega? Is God no longer mad, and yet he sends people to Hell (the expression of his ultimate wrath) for those who do not fear his anger which does not exists anymore?
You are confused about God. You have swallowed UOJ sophistry (you probably do not know what that means since you reason that way).
I recommend you eat a lot of peanuts, it is know to cure morons of their stupidity.
Sincerely yours,
LPC
Friday, February 26, 2016 at 7:01:00 PM GMT+11
Don Vega said...
So you now admit Preus was a UOJer?
Friday, February 26, 2016 at 11:41:00 PM GMT+11
LPC said...
I can not conclude beyond the shadow of a doubt that he was in the last several chapters of his book a UOJer. Why would I conclude that, I already told you at the very minimum, Preus was confusing - did I not say that?
You were running well in taking the discussion to the Scriptures away from Preus for after all what we do think about him are opinions and thus is irrelevant. You can get everything in the world right, you can even be right about Preus, but if you get Justification wrong you are still in deep pooh.
I can not conclude he remained a solid UOJer if I look at the last few chapters of his book.
For one reason, he discusses faith in not only in 1 chapter of the book but the vital last 4 chapters of the book.
In UOJ the object of faith is the (imagined) justification that has presumed to have already happened to the world either when Christ died on the cross or was raised from the dead. According to Pr. Jay Webber in this blog(I am too busy to cite it for you but you can find his comments in this blog), that is the object of faith in UOJ. UOJ confuses and conflates the Atonement with Justification, much like the Calvinists do. They conclude that since Christ died for the world, that automatically means God has also justified or forgiven the whole world.
In p.86 Preus quotes Quenstedt.
"When the terms grace or mercy of God are set forth as the object of our trust, this does not exclude Christ our Mediator and His ATONEMENT for our sins from being object of our faith, but includes it".
The emphasis is mine. This is nothing more but the exposition of Rom 3:21-26 which JBFA people have always asserted.
So in so quoting Quenstedt, I can hardly say Preus is being a UOJist here.
LPC
Saturday, February 27, 2016 at 9:57:00 AM GMT+11
Don Vega said...
Well, Mr. LPC, you can conclude beyond the shadow of a doubt that Preus was a UOJer to the end. His two quotes that I provided cement the deal. The world is reconciled to God on the account of Christ.
UOJ is not universalism. I believe (as do others) faith is required for salvation; or to put it another way; a lack of rejection (unbelief) saves since all are declared innocent on the account of Christ's blood. A lack of rejection = faith since one is either quick or dead.
Let me ask you something. Since you confess repeatedly that the sins of the world are not forgiven in the atonement; what assures you that your sins are indeed forgiven, Mr. LPC?
Saturday, February 27, 2016 at 11:23:00 AM GMT+11
LPC said...
Your quote happened in the first part of the book, I point to the last part where he expound JBFA like most non-UOJ Lutherans do. Anyway that is irrelevant now.
UOJ is indeed the universalism of Huber. For you like UOJ I have encountered believe that all are now saved and have been forgiven by God (with out the means