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.
WELS is especially energetic, even fanatic about teaching that everyone is born forgiven and saved. Where is the cross in this Universalist scheme, derived from Calvinism and Pietism?
"Everyone in Hell is a guilt-free saint."
"I was saved 2,000 years ago, when Christ died on the cross."
"Your faith is in faith, not in Christ. You are a Faithian, not a Christian." (Borrowed from Scaer)
"Faith is a work!"
