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| Paul Wendland, WELS, lives and breathes UOJ, but presents it as justification by faith - the only dogma of WELS-ELS. |
Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Emmanuel Lutheran Church » 20120916 Children's Ser...":
Paul Wendland promotes UOJ in his 2012 convention essay on the (W)ELS gospel.
"This understanding of justification also means that, by God’s grace, we are the church of the unconditional gospel, the pure gospel, the gospel with no strings attached (universal and objective justification). The pure gospel states: “Just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people” (Ro 5:18)."
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http://scdwels.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/not-ashamed-of-the-gospel.pdf
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Interesting that many false teachers promoting UOJ use Romans 5:18 as a proof text of Universal Justification without faith. See that Life: eternal salvation, is also included. If they are to strip this verse from the rest of Scripture and teach that justification has been divinely declared upon the whole unbelieving world then its inseparable companion - eternal salvation (life) is also declared upon the whole unbelieving world. Again, UOJ asserts its Universalism although vehemently denied by the false teachers who promote it.
What Romans 5:18 confirms is that through God's gracious faith in Christ an individual receives the forgiveness of sins and life eternal. The false teachers have separated Salvation from the forgiveness of sins in order to establish their new way to righteousness but it is not Christ's way and therefore it is not Christian. Scripture teaches and the Confessions confirm that Christ is our Mediator between God and man through faith alone. Without faith in Christ, of which He is the Author and Finisher of, no one is justified, forgiven or saved.
Having rejected the Holy Spirit's faith, the UOJists will continue to blindly wage war against the Church of Christ and His chief and central doctrine while promoting all kinds of heinous doctrines, practices and persecute those faithful to Christ. Fortunately they will continue to leave a bloody trail of Scriptural contradictions and false teachings all the way to Rome.
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Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel has left a new comment on your post "Paul Wendland promotes UOJ in his 2012 convention ...":
Ichabod -
Very well stated:
>>>>>> .... The false teachers have separated Salvation from the forgiveness of sins in order to establish their new way to righteousness but it is not Christ's way and therefore it is not Christian...... <<<<<<< [Your words]
A major error that is continually being perpetrated by these theological lame brains, is that they isolate certain Scriptures to build their false universal objective justification house of cards. They conveniently overlook one of the first and foremost basic hermeneutical principles; that being, comparing Scripture with Scripture. As with others who molest Scripture, these UOJ enthusiasts begin with their form of eternal security presuppositions and then bend Scripture to satisfy and suit their own selfish and carnal desires.
Nathan M. Bickel
www.thechristianmessage.org
www.moralmatters.org
