Nazis and Hitler are in Heaven, According to ELCA Magazine

8/28/2014

Read for yourself what the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America published about salvation. It's from an article written by an ELCA seminary professor:

“Difficult as it is—because I always think of it as unfair—I’ve come to accept God’s universal salvation as the final consequence of Jesus’ resurrection. I think of all the best and worst, the innocent and the guilty, Holocaust victims and the evil perpetrators, those killed in all of our senseless wars and the misguided leaders who send them into battle. Christ will raise us all—and somehow bend us into shape so we become the human beings we were intended to be.” (read the article published in the ELCA's The Lutheran magazine here)

Make no mistake, the ELCA magazine does NOT say that faith is required for salvation. They are clear: all people will go to heaven. Hitler, who murdered 6 million Jews, is in heaven according to them -- as are all his Nazi minions. In the same vein, so is ELCA member and late-term abortion doctor George Tiller . . . and Josef Stalin, Osama bin Laden, King Herod, kidnappers, rapists, murderers, terrorists . . . all people go to heaven, even if they reject Christ, according to the ELCA.

Here is another quote from the article advocating universal salvation:
“Because Jesus is risen everything has changed radically. We are set free from serving the powers of death with our lives, fears, policies...This vision also applies to everyone. Paul says 'all' repeatedly, and I take it that he means 'all.' Theologian Robert Farrar Capon taught me years ago that Jesus didn’t come to repair the repairable, correct the correctable, improve the improvable. He came to raise the dead! The only final condition for eternal participation in Christ’s victory is that we be dead, 100 percent, gold-plated dead.”

All dead people go to heaven . . . so says the ELCA.

That is completely false and hundreds of verses from God's Word make this clear. There is a hell. People will go there. The universal salvation message, that the ELCA is espousing, is deceiving its members and putting their salvation at risk. It is by grace, through faith in Jesus, that anyone may have the assurance of salvation. Who are these leaders who have the audacity to declare anything other than what God's Word declares?

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See more documentation on the ELCA teaching universalism here.

5 Comments

8/30/2014 04:03:37 am

This is an important post, and I will tell you why, take it or leave it. Bouman wrote: "Christ will raise us all—and somehow bend us into shape so we become the human beings we were intended to be.” Except for the word "all," this is the Doctrine of Purgatory. Bouman eliminated Hell and reinstated Purgatory. In the years since his death, the ELCA has all but proclaimed ex cathedra from Chicago that Hell does not exist.

Bouman wrote: "Now I’m entering into the final baptism, ‘my beginning’s end'—the final dying with Jesus to await with curiosity the promise that God will be everything in everyone. I’m leaving the saints on this side of the grave to join the saints on the other side. Sainthood doesn’t mean that our morals or behaviors are somehow better than others. Sainthood, that is holiness, means being set apart for God’s reign."

Jesus speaks of the afterlife in figurative terms. "Truly I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny." (Mt 5:26) The "prison" is Purgatory.

Our understanding of Heaven, Hell and Purgatory come from the Tradition of the Catholic Church, the Tradition that was developed by great thinkers and the entire Church during 1,500 years. After 1517, Luther read the Scripture and interpreted it to mean that there is no Purgatory. In 2005, Bouman, facing death, interpreted the Scripture to mean that there is no Hell. Bouman did nothing more than Luther did: He gave us his own personal interpretation of the Bible, at variance with the Teachings of the Church. Since the Lutheran Church does not have a Magisterium to teach in a uniform way, now different factions in Luther's Church are coming up with different interpretations of Scripture. The ELCA says there is no Hell, but "Confessional" Lutherans, following Luther, say Hell exists.

Luther said we go to only Heaven or Hell. He was right. Unfortunately he left out the Time factor. Most of us know, like Bouman, that we are not perfect and not ready to enter the mystical Purity of Heaven... hence temporal purification, Purgatory. Purgatory is not necessarily "punishment" -- it is purification. Eliminating Hell is Heresy, but so is eliminating Purgatory.

Gene S.

9/7/2014 12:20:23 pm

The ELCA is infected with the heresy of antinomianism, the belief that there is no moral law whatsoever. God is okay with whatever you do, no matter how diabolical. Antinomianism is far more destructive than atheism. An atheist, if he is rational, can see that evil actions do harm to individuals or to society, and thus such actions are to be condemned as immoral. The antinomian Christian has no such understanding. He lives in a fantasy world in which everything is morally neutral, chanting his mantra, "God loves everyone equally." Therefore, I think it is reasonable to say that antinomian Christians actually worship Satan.

A.W.

1/25/2015 11:16:20 pm

"Ye have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them." (Malachi 2:17)

9/7/2014 12:22:17 pm

I regard antinomianism and the modern (absolute) form of universalism as two sides of the same coin: they both imply an amoral god.

B. Griswald

9/11/2014 08:54:20 am

"The demand that God should forgive ...[a wicked] man while he remains what he is, is based on a confusion between condoning and forgiving. To condone an evil is simply to ignore it, to treat it as if it were good. But forgiveness needs to be accepted as well as offered if it is to be complete: and a man who admits no guilt can accept no forgiveness."

"...Our Lord often speaks of Hell as a sentence inflicted by a tribunal, He also says elsewhere that the judgement consists in the very fact that men prefer darkness to light, and that not He, but His 'word', judges men (John 3:19; 12:48). We are therefore at liberty--since the two conceptions, in the long run, mean the same thing--to think of this bad man's perdition not as a sentence imposed on him but as the mere fact of being what he is. The characteristic of lost souls is 'their rejection of everything that is not simply themselves'."

"I willingly believe that the damned are, on one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the INSIDE. I do not mean that the ghosts may not WISH to come out of hell, in the vague fashion wherein an envious man 'wishes' to be happy: but they certainly do not will even the first preliminary stages of that self-abandonment through which alone the soul can reach any good. They enjoy forever the horrible freedom they have demanded, and are therefore self-enslaved: just as the blessed, forever submitting to obedience, become through all eternity more and more free."

"In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: 'What are you asking God to do?' To wipe out their past sins and, at all costs, to give them a fresh start, smoothing every difficulty and offering every miraculous help? But He has done so, on Calvary. To forgive them? They will not be forgiven. To leave them alone? Alas, I am afraid that is what He does." (C.S. Lewis, THE PROBLEM OF PAIN [1940; HarperCollins Publishers, 2001] ch. 8, pp. 124, 130)

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