"Someone sent Jeske a question last week, asking about what he meant by pre-forgiveness. He said he meant universal objective love. He did mention faith but it made no sense because he said we are already forgiven. Just a rehash of UOJ. The thing that I was shocked by was the term pre-forgiveness. I wonder where he got that new term?
We just keep moving more and more away from the Biblical terms and the Book of Concord.
YOU now have pre-forgiveness. My cats have pre -forgiven me even before I hurt their feelings."
29A*
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GJ - I am not sure if Jeske is drawing his language from the prevenient grace of Arminians and Roman Catholics.
More likely he is simply recasting UOJ into elementary language, a staple of boob tube entertainment. Universal Objective Justification, as a phrase on TV, makes the lights go out. That effect is good in the synodical classroom, but alarming in mass media.
Universal love is so much better, and pre-forgiveness is the best thing since indulgences.
No wonder so many WELS pastors fall off the wagon and into bed with their members. They are pre-forgiven.
*He is so deep under cover that he is only known by a hexadecimal number, 29A.
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It looks like the term Pre-Forgiveness was coined by Nationwide Insurance and used in a widescale advertising track. Most of the religious internet references to Pre-forgiveness reference this flyer that they received and then related it to their own doctrine. It's interesting to see who found the term appealing.
(W)ELS in the form of their LCMS advanced pastoral scout Mark Jeske have bound themselves to Universalism in their central doctrine of UOJ. The Ichabod linked (W)ELS essays, which constitute their official explanation of doctrine, clearly show the outlandish claims of forgiven saints in Hell are not caricatures of the doctrine but quotes from the (W)ELS' own theologians. The caricature is their feeble defense of the false gospel. UOJ has it's foundation in Universalism and that is taught in many cults including the New Age World religion, Seventh Day Adventists, Unitarian Universalists etc. When the Satanic Taize new agers are referred to as Christian by (W)ELS pastors, there is little if anything to keep them from coming together.
Here's a UU website discussing the term Pre Forgiveness.
“You’ve Been Pre-forgiven! (Open to find out how)” Unitarian Universalists of the Cumberland Valley
http://www.uucv.net/worship/sermons/jw/YouveBeenPreForgiven.pdf
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