Simply Lutheran

The pastors in a small "Orthodox-Lutheran" consistory must have had poor marks in H.S. English and comprehension as they condemned me for saying that they are screwy regarding their view on Universal Objective Justification (cf. doctrinal articles on the olcc.us website in their antithesis #5): "We reject the notion that any of the following statements are contradictory: All ARE justified. A man is justified by faith alone. Without faith, the debt of sin remains." A grade school student used to know and conjugate the verb to be: "Are" in the above quote is the 3rd person plural of the verb to be in the present tense. "All ARE (presently) justified." Now these would-be teachers of our Christian youth would tell them that this statement is NOT contradictory with the following statements: "A man IS justified by faith alone" and "Without faith, the debt of sin REMAINS." If I were a student in their class, I would be spending a lot of time in detention because I would not be able to quit laughing at such folly. If the debt of sin "remains" that means it CONTINUES to be something; so just how are all justified (meaning having their sins absolved) when, without faith, their sins remain? Huh!? These pastors of the OLCC must think so poorly of their students that they say they must believe that these statements are not contradictory. As Pink Floyd said, "We don't need no education...all in all you're just another brick in the wall" of Universal Objective Justification. Be it known that a man is justified by faith alone!