ICHABOD, THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED - explores the Age of Apostasy, predicted in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, to attack Objective Faithless Justification, Church Growth Clowns, and their ringmasters. The antidote to these poisons is trusting the efficacious Word in the Means of Grace. John 16:8. Isaiah 55:8ff. Romans 10. Most readers are WELS, LCMS, ELS, or ELCA. This blog also covers the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Left-wing, National Council of Churches denominations.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Lito Cruz, PhD, Explains All
LPC has left a new comment on your post "Cyrus Scofield, Convicted Felon, And His Reference...":
Marco,
Yes you are right.
In the KJV the ones being justified freely by his grace points back to the "upon all them that believe". This is the context.
Yes indeed, all these who believe have sinned, yet they are the ones who are justified.
Here is where Calvinism and UOJers get things wrong.
When the Bible speaks of ALL human beings, the Calvinist misses this and limits it to believers.
When the Bible speaks of ALL believers, the UOJer misses this and extends this to the whole world.
In other words, UOJers and Calvinists are united in their mistake on how ALL is to be interpreted, just that they are opposites of each other.
The proper way is to interpret ALL as referring to all human beings when the Bible clearly says so. Then also interpret ALL as referring only to believers when the Bible clearly says so. The context clarifies this.
LPC
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GJ - Concise and correct. Thank you Dr. Cruz.