Until this noon, all the votes were for justification by faith. Then, at the same time a WELS seminarian posted his UOJ beliefs, we suddenly had 10 votes for UOJ. Are Mequonians jumping on the poll, urged by GA Pope M Schottey? There are 10 knuckleheads saying "All sins are forgiven." I used to watch seminarians at Mequon sleeping in class. The amusement kept me awake when Somo-Nitz was droning on, when we went through doctrinal quotations in Gawa's class, like football fans going through a bag of Fritos.
Yes, Ichabodians, I was there at Mequon too.
Everyone is forgiven, but not everyone is justified. No wait. They are justified but not justified-justified.
Therefore, based on UOJ, I was not born with Original Sin and had no need for Holy Baptism.
ICHABOD, THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED - explores the Age of Apostasy, predicted in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, to attack Objective Faithless Justification, Church Growth Clowns, and their ringmasters. The antidote to these poisons is trusting the efficacious Word in the Means of Grace. John 16:8. Isaiah 55:8ff. Romans 10. Most readers are WELS, LCMS, ELS, or ELCA. This blog also covers the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Left-wing, National Council of Churches denominations.
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