In a recent communication, 29A pointed out that the avalanche of Biblical translations is having the effect of destroying Biblical doctrine.
I thought that was an astute observation. WELS will adopt and sell the New NIV precisely for that reason. UOJ does not stand up to the plain Word of God, in Greek or English, so the NNIV paraphrase serves a useful purpose in providing the dogma that the mainline denominations want.
Biblical inerrancy is not much of a stance when defending the NNIV, joining with the most Leftist denominations of the National Council of Churches.
Missouri is no better, since their beloved ESV is more accurately called the Calvinist edition of the RSV, which is owned by the...National Council of Churches.
That follows the modern political trickery of providing a safe alternative in the same orbit as the one that must be shunned. Thus RomneyCare versus ObamaCare, Global Warming McCain versus Global Warming Obama; Yale Skull and Bones Bush versus Yale Skull and Bones Kerry.
http://www.intrepidlutherans.com/2012/12/how-does-one-interpret-language-in-post.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IntrepidLutherans+%28Intrepid+Lutherans%29
As reported several times before, the NNIV philosophy comes from an apostate. One advisor was a lesbian, etc.
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We see this today in those who openly reject universal forgiveness in Christ. Such people may think they are evangelical and confessional and genuinely Lutheran, but in every case I have seen, they confuse law and gospel in the most wretched way, and most sadly, they deny the fullness, the freedom and the completeness of the gospel. They are unwilling to say in an unqualified and unconditional way, "God has forgiven your sins in Christ! God canceled your debt in Christ!" They speak of the necessity of repentance and the righteousness of faith and the importance of faith and the confessional doctrine of justification by faith—and we deny none of these things!— but finally their aberrant spirit is revealed when it becomes obvious that their “gospel” is qualified and conditional and loaded with “ifs.” They offer potential forgiveness as an unfulfilled promise until the conditions of repentance and faith are met. It is a wrong, legal focus that is more about the individual than it is about the object. Confusion of law and gospel and a preponderance of law expose the sinister, diabolical agenda that robs God of glory and deprives sinners of certain comfort in Christ.
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http://azcadistrict.com/sites/default/files/papers/Buchholz_2012-10.pdf
This UOJ quote is from (W)ELS DP Pastor Jon Buchholz’ most recent defense of Universal Justification and his excommunication of Pastor Paul Rydecki for teaching Justification by Faith Alone. It is similar to the false statement quoted by (W)ELS Evergreen Lutheran High School in defense of their attack on Justification by Faith Alone written in the WELS Our Great Heritage, “And yet many Lutherans still labor under the delusion that God does not forgive us unless we believe. Instead of seeing faith as nothing more than the spiritual hand with which we make the forgiveness of God our own, they see it as a reason why God forgives us. They believe that Christ has indeed provided forgiveness for all men, that God is willing to forgive them, but before he really forgives he first of all demands that we should be sorry for our sins and that we should have faith. Just have faith they say, and then God will forgive you. All the right words are there. The only thing wrong is that the words are in the wrong order. God does not forgive us IF we have faith. He has forgiven us long ago when he raised his Son from the dead." (p. 59)
"If forgiveness were dependent on faith in the sense that God does not forgive until we believe, we would always have to be sure that we are believers before we would be sure that we are forgiven." (p.60)
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Buchholz is defending the shame of the (W)ELS perversion of the chief and central article of Christ’s doctrine – Justification. If UOJ teaches contrary to Scripture in just one point it is a false doctrine. In fact, it fails in all points and has been clearly shown to be a false gospel, a new and false way of righteousness before God, which perverts the work of Christ, the declarations of God the Father, the righteousness of the Holy Spirit’s faith and the Means of Grace.
Compare the UOJ statements above to Christ’s clear Scripture in John 3:18, “He that believeth on him his not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” And 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.”
Buchholz, Webber, Schroeder and the rest are leading the Lutheran Synods away from Scripture and the faithful Lutheran Confessions and into the New Age religion by teaching Universal Objective Justification and that there are multiple realities with God. Little surprise then that they are working with Thrivent Financial for Lutherans to sponsor and support the United Religions Initiative (URI) which is a NGO of the United Nations and the religious arm of the New World Order.
