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| Selective outrage is the theme for the media and the mainline denominations, which include: WELS-ELCA-LCMS-ELS-LCMC-NALC, aka the UniSynod. Lutheran officialdom has decreed the Gospel null and void through their precious Universal Objective Justification - UOJ. |
Mainline Protestantism Declared A Safe Space For Those Offended By The Gospel:
"LOUISVILLE, KY—While some college campuses have established safe spaces where the disenfranchised can avoid the pressures, biases, and judgement of the world, mainline Protestant denominations are taking it one step further. The entire umbrella group has now been designated a safe space for those who would otherwise be offended by the gospel, sources confirmed Wednesday.
Speaking on behalf of a plethora of denominations including the Presbyterian Church (USA), the Episcopal Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and the United Methodist Church, a spokesperson issued the following statement: “We are in agreement that there is a great need for churches to rise up and create spaces that are safe for questioning and accepting our identities, doubts, fears, failures, and blatant sins. Effective immediately, we are declaring all mainline Protestant churches safe spaces, where there are no judgments, conviction, repentance, or gospel presentations whatsoever.”"
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| Get on board if you want to be part of the dying, killing UniSynod. They fund abortions and voice their selective outrage toward anything Christian or conservative. |
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| Some WELS pastors think she is cool, but Nadia represents the very dark side of ELCA apostasy. |
I linked information about ELCA radicalism here, but that only means the weed has finally bloomed. What was once implied in the Leftwing euphoria of ELCA and its sisters in the UniSynod is now a documented fact. Watch the ELCA higher education appointments turn into Sherman's March through Georgia.
One by one, the LCMS-ELS-WELS made universal forgiveness and universal salvation their Chief Article. I am not exaggerating at all.
The dual dimwits Mark Zarling and Frosty Bivens named UOJ the Chief Article of Christianity, the article on which the church stands or falls, the master and price, the judge of all other articles of faith.
Bivens UOJ: The truth of justification, above all others, distinguishes Christianity from all other religions. If this teaching were obscured or lost, attempts to show significant differences between the Christian religion and others would ultimately prove to be futile. Also, as revealed and emphasized in the Bible, all other doctrines either prepare for or flow from this chief article of faith. Without this truth, all others would mean little. This doctrine is the source or basis of the benefits and blessings which mankind receives from God.
What precisely is this “master and prince, lord, ruler and judge” over other doctrines? Justification is a declaratory act of God, in which he pronounces sinners righteous. As revealed in the Bible, this declaration of God is made totally by grace and on account of Jesus Christ and his substitutionary life and death on behalf of mankind. To phrase it somewhat differently, God has justified acquitted or declared righteous the whole world of sinners. He has forgiven them.
When WELS leaders stick their hooves so firmly into their ravenous snouts - and no one notices for decades - then the remaining Christians are obliged to take notice.
One reader has explained the peculiar WELS spin on these matters, and they immerse everyone so thoroughly in their confused thinking that some feel a real struggle to hang onto the Biblical teaching. I have paraphrased this logic to avoid leaving bread crumbs that led to this person.
WELS UOJ Rationalism
They say -
- One cannot make faith a cause for justification. Note that Pastor Paul Rydecki dealt extensively with that claim.
- Therefore, Justification by Faith is making faith a cause, so that is synergism (decision theology).
- These things are always said in a condemning, patronizing tone of voice.
Here is a warning from the LCMS side - "Do not make faith a work."
I cited this passage, knowing "work" was used in an ironic sense. John's Gospel is packed with irony.
John 6:28 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?
29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on Him whom He hath sent.
Thus, according to Jesus, the primary work is faith in Him.
In a parallel statement, the primary sin is unbelief (not rejection of UOJ). Work is ironic because it diverts the attention from the common notion of work and emphasizes trust in the Savior.
John 16 8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
9 Of sin, because they believe not on me;
We Have Always Taught This - Their Whopper Lie
The UniSynod - including ELCA - once taught Justification by Faith. That was a familiar phrase used when I became a Lutheran in the LCA - in the 1960s. Now the same Chief Article is considered a denial of grace by ELCA and the rest of the UniSynod. That denial began some time ago and reached into all areas, like a slow-moving but never treated cancer.
Every part of the UniSynod taught Justification by Faith at one time, except perhaps the Little Sect on the Prairie. The ELS seems to have formed as a reaction, guided by Pieper the Parrot, who constantly repeated the errors of CFW Walther, BA.
I hear from various quarters - how the local pastor is indifferent about Biblical doctrine. But of course. When UOJ has taken root, the effect is like novocaine to the brain. Everything is numb upstairs and no one even notices the vast contradictions between being born forgiven and being baptized to wash away sin.
If you believe the Scriptural witness to the Holy Trinity, then nothing good can grow from the denial of the Gospel, be it ever so well funded by Thrivent, the priapic St. Marvin Schwan Foundation, or the Siebert Lutheran Change or Die! Foundation.
