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Exposing the ELCA Poll#10 - universal salvation

1/13/2011

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Exposing the ELCA polled its readers asking this: “If you conclude that the ELCA teaches and/or supports the belief that 'everyone will be saved,' is that sufficient grounds to leave the denomination?”

The results of the poll -


90.31% of the readers said “Yes.”  (177 votes)
9.69% of the readers said “No.”  (19 votes)


There were a total of 196 votes cast.
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ELCA Is Putting Souls At Risk

11/23/2010

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Universal salvation, the view that all people will be saved, is taking over the ELCA as the prominent belief regarding salvation, thanks to the leadership of the denomination. (see here  and here)  This anti-Biblical, dangerous belief is thriving and leaders in the ELCA are not only doing nothing to stop it, but they are promoting it.  All at the expense of billions of souls.

Truth be told, there is no reason to be preaching and teaching universal salvation.  First and foremost, it goes against God’s truth revealed to us in the Bible (see here ).  Secondly, if it was true, a person would be saved no matter if he/she believed in universal salvation or not. 

We know that universal salvation is unfounded and false, yet the ELCA is promoting this belief.  The ramifications of this wrong teaching have eternal consequences.  1) Because those that believe this are not telling people about their need for our Savior.  2) People do and believe whatever they want because they think they are “saved know matter what.”  Sorry, but universal salvation in the gospel of Satan.

Sadly here is another ELCA leader preaching and teaching universal salvation.  Mark Thomsen, Visiting Professor of Mission, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (LSTC), writes,

“It would appear that if one takes Jesus seriously, faith in the finality of Christ necessarily includes the recognition of God's creative saving work outside of hearing and believing in Jesus Christ!”

“God's universal transforming work identified in the resurrection of Christ has saving significance for the whole of creation and the whole human family, not just for those who hear and respond to the gospel.”  (read here)

The universal salvation believing leaders have taken over the ELCA.  In our seminaries you have professors that teach pastors, who in turn, affect eternity for millions of people as well as future generations.  


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Don't Need to Know Christ For Salvation, Says ELCA

10/25/2010

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Exposing the ELCA has documented that the ELCA’s official website supports and promotes Universal Salvation, the belief that “everyone will be saved.”  Within a section called “What We Believe,” on a page dealing with “Salvation” the denomination states:

"Because Jesus is the unique and universal Savior, there is a large hope for salvation, not only for me and others with the proper credentials of believing and belonging to the church, but for all people whenever or wherever they might have lived and no matter how religious or irreligious they may have proved to be themselves. It is clearly God’s announced will that all people shall be saved and come to the knowledge of truth (1 Timothy 2:4)."
(ELCA webpage has been taken down but an internet archive website has it here)


This is not the only mention of this false teaching on the ELCA website.  On “The Resurrection” page, is a subheading “Resurrection for all?”  The ELCA document, after first saying that most of the verses in the Bible say not everyone will be saved, goes on to say,

"(B)ut ELCA members also look to New Testament texts that go beyond those parameters . . . Lutheran theologian Joseph Sittler coined the phrase ‘Cosmic Christ’ in his 1952 address to the New Delhi assembly of the World Council of Churches, saying, ‘It is now excruciatingly clear that Christ cannot be a light that lighteth everyone coming into the world, if he is not also the light that falls upon the world into which everyone comes.’"

A little later it states, “For ELCA members, the resurrection that completes the victory of Christ over sin and death is not intended for Christians alone.”

The article continues,

"Beyond that,
  • our belief that Christ came into the world to redeem the world (John 3:17)
  • our belief in the proclamation that God has ‘a plan for the fullness of time, to gather up all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth,’ (Ephesians 1:10) 
  • our trust in God’s righteousness
causes us to bear witness that Christ, the principal of creation, is also the principal of the new life initiated by his resurrection for all creation. For St. Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians 5:19, ‘in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us.’

ELCA members believe that, being ‘entrusted’ with this message of reconciliation, we are to proclaim this salvation intended for all humankind, this redemption of the whole world, this resurrection to new life.” (webpage has been taken down but an internet archive website has the page here)

This is on the ELCA’s official website, and it is contained in a section called “What We Believe.”  Is there any doubt the ELCA is preaching Universal Salvation?

To read more evidence that the ELCA teaches and promotes Universal Salvation see here. 

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Question about Universal Salvation - Poll Results

7/9/2010

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Exposing the ELCA asked it's readership to reply to this statement.  "The ELCA should not be teaching universal salvation." 
92% (243 people) answered "True" to the statement.
8% (22 people) answered "False" to the statement.


Thanks to all for participating.
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More About the ELCA's "Universal" Ways

4/29/2010

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The leadership and seminaries of the ELCA are teaching and believing heresy.   I wish all ELCA members would come to knowledge that their/our denomination believes in Universal Salvation.  Below is an interesting blog on the topic.  (There is more to come on this topic also, as I am researching and putting together a blog on it, which should be ready in a week or two.)

Pastor Harrison's Convention Report
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Do You Want This ELCA Endorsed Speaker Teaching Your Church Youth Workers?

3/25/2010

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This speaker will be teaching at a youth conference organized and hosted by an ELCA seminary, the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (LSTC).

From the a LSTC website -
Sacred Stories: Youth Faith Formation in an Interfaith World The 2010 Youth in Mission Conference for Youth Ministry Workers - April 12-13, 2010



Keynote Speaker:
Hannah McConnaughay, Program Associate in the Outreach Education and Training Department of the Interfaith Youth Core

Saveelca.blogspot.com reports more details of the keynote speaker.

"Hannah McConnaughay of the Interfaith Youth Core, will present Youth Ministry in the 21st Century: Navigating Religious Diversity and Identity." McConnaughay's work in the Outreach Education and Training Department of the Interfaith Youth Core takes her to college campuses and conferences to promote religious pluralism and offer skills trainings. She is developing a nationwide interfaith curriculum for youth in the Unitarian Universalist Association and is a former site coordinator of Inspired to Serve, the first federally funded interfaith service program. McConnaughay is a Christian committed to the call to work for justice. She holds a B.A. in Religious Studies and Economics from the University of Chicago and has worked in the fields of rape crisis, social work, and educational enrichment programming.
"

This individual is working  for the Unitarian Universalist Association.  For those that don't know, this is not a Christian denomination.  They describe themselves this way, "Unitarian Universalism is a caring, open-minded religion that encourages seekers to find their own spiritual path. Our faith draws on many religious sources, welcoming people with different beliefs." (see here)

They go on to say "Unitarian Universalism is a theologically diverse religion in which members support one another in our search for truth and meaning.  We have historic roots in the Jewish and Christian traditions, but today individual Unitarian Universalists may identify as Atheist, Agnostic, Buddhist, Humanist,  Pagan, or with other philosophical or religious traditions. 
We promote reason and tolerance in our communities and embrace a free and responsible search for truth and meaning. As members of a non-creedal religious tradition, we Unitarian Universalists are encouraged to discern our own beliefs about different spiritual topics."


The ELCA is going the way of universal salvation and now they are letting people who develop youth curriculum for an Association that believes "all paths lead to God" mentor the youth leaders that teach our kids.  This is a serious thing.  There is only one way to heaven, and it is through Jesus Christ.  This is about people's souls.  Don't let the ELCA drag your children to hell with their false universal salvation teachings.
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Salvation

1/12/2010

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In my last blog I asked the question, "How many times in the last 2 years have you heard your ELCA pastor explain, during a sermon, class or any time, how someone becomes a Christian?"
I know there are a lot of good, Bible-believing ELCA pastors who do not believe in Universal Salvation.  Thank God for them.  But the fact is, the ELCA seminaries are producing pastors every year and they are taught that all people are saved.  If you believe otherwise you're one of the minority in this denomination.  As the seminaries go, so goes the church.
But who cares?  Right?  Well, we all should.  This is a dangerous belief.  The pastors are playing with people's souls.  What if only those who have Jesus as their Lord and Savior are going to heaven?  (and that's true)  It means a lot of people are NOT going to heaven.  And the ELCA is responsible for those they didn't tell.  The enemy is winning here.  He has God's Church believing a lie and being silent.   I heard a stat that says the ELCA is sending out 60% less missionaries than they were 20 years ago.  I should be shocked, but the reality is, if the ELCA thinks everyone is saved anyway, why send out missionaries?
Universal Salvation is a lie and a huge risk.  Hell is a reality.  Nobody wishes their worst enemy be sent there.  The Bible says those that don't know Jesus will go there.  When ELCA pastors are taught to disregard the Bible, in so many ways, salvation in Jesus can be discarded too, because it feels better to say "everyone will be saved."  They say this even though there are hundreds of Bible verses about people going to hell.  I guess the Universal Salvation teaching seminaries disregard those verses too.
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    Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.  
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