From Pastor Tim's websty:
"But Christ Teaches:
Because Christ paid the penalty for our sins on the cross, God now looks on us as his innocent children. Although we continue to struggle with sin, in God’s eyes we are completely justified. This forgiveness of sins Christ won for us on the cross is completely and totally a free gift from God (Eph. 2:8,9). In no way, shape, or form do we deserve the gift, there is nothing we can do to accept the gift, and we cannot even cooperate with God in the reception of the gift (Eph. 2:8-9). Instead, God the Spirit works faith in our hearts to receive this gift of justification (1 Cor. 2:14). This is what Paul means when he says that we have been saved “by grace” (Eph. 2:8). Christ teaches that believers were chosen for salvation before creation (Eph. 1:4-6) but Christ does not teach that unbelievers were chosen for damnation before creation. Rather, the rejection of this gift is entirely the result of each person’s own will and has nothing to do with God’s will. Christ wishes all to be saved and gave his life for every person in the entire world (John 3:16)."
Does the Word of God teach this?
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.
If the wrath of God abides on unbelievers, then God is not looking on them as "innocent children" (an odd phrase by itself) and as "already justified."
The fake Ichabod has a lot in common with Tim Glende, including an obsession with promoting UOJ.
This peculiar form of Midwestern Universalism is easily blended with the emerging church types who really have no doctrine. Groeschel grew up United Methodist (no doctrine) attended a Disciples seminary (extreme Left - they teach jointly with Unitarians in Indiana), and began working with Andy Stanley, a stealth Babtist.
The fake Ichabod condemns reading Lenski, but Glende copies Groeschel verbatim. He hides this on his websty because he knows that my research team downloads and keeps documents as evidence. Those who attend St. Peter in Freedom, Wisconsin are confronted with an all-Groeschel congregation, including bulletin inserts.
We all know from the past that Glende lies to his congregation. He pretends to be going to WELS pastoral conferences when he is going to Andy Stanly and Marc Driscoll (cussing pastor) events. Bishop Katie got the picture of Tim and Ski gorging themselves when they were all out to learn from Driscoll.
UOJ are Antinomian legalists. There is no Law, but they apply their man-made law to everyone else. For example, Glende can attend all kinds of unionistic religious worship services. Why is that?
The fake blogger seems terrified that someone might read the commentary (Lenski) that every WELS seminary student buys, but Glende has no problem with Stanley, Groeschel, Driscoll, and who knows what else.
The fake blogger hides his identity. Glende stopped Twitter (supposedly) once I began reading his Tweets and reporting them. Bishop Katie kept on and gave great descriptions about what they and five other WELS workers were doing at unionistic worship conferences.
A pastor must be apt to teach, but Glende has shown himself to be as inept as the fake blogger, which is why I think he is the fake. Here is Glende stumbling through a little Christology:
"But Christ Teaches:
When our imperfect natures made us unable to keep God’s law, Jesus was sent by the Father to fulfill the law for us (Matt. 5:17). Since God is Jesus’ father, Jesus is one-hundred percent God and completely sinless. At the same time, by being born from a virgin woman he became one-hundred percent human at the same time as God. Even though completely God, he took on the form of a servant and laid aside his full godly powers. Therefore, he endured suffering, temptation, and humbled himself to a shameful death (Phil. 2:7,8). By suffering and dying, Jesus took the punishment that should have been ours, and through his perfect obedience he became a ransom for us (Isa. 53:6, Matt. 20:28). This is why Christians proclaim that the forgiveness of sins has been gained entirely through Jesus, that God has literally justified all people (2 Cor. 5:21). On the third day after his death, he rose from the dead and ascended, assuring us that he was who he claimed to be and that our sins were certainly forgiven (Rom. 4:25)."
I do not know where to start, except to wonder in awe and astonishment that he graduated from any Lutheran seminary. But wait, he played football, and that trumps everything else in WELS.
Tim tries to hide a lot. Why is he ashamed of Stanley and Driscoll, if they are the salvation of WELS?
He cannot hide his inability to grasp and teach the basics of the Faith. Too bad he grew up under the odious influence of Floyd Luther Stolzenburg.
