Monday, 22 April 2019

Is Salvation opened to everyone?

Greg Williams, the new GCI president, on a recent trip to Israel wrote: "The metaphor used by Matthew likens the Godhead to a mother hen (a rare biblical use of a feminine image for God). The image of a mother hen whose intent is to gather, nurture and protect her offspring. It fits well with Jesus’s words about his impending crucifixion – “And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.” (John 12:32 ESV). Uniting all people to himself – in a relationship of total forgiveness and pure love – was his purpose then and for all time."

The question we must first ask, is that sound doctrine or pure heresy? To answer the question, all we have to do is have a look at what the bible actually teaches. The citation from John 12:32 is, "If I be lifted up from the earth, I will draw all "men" unto me." The term "men" was inserted by the translators with the intent of giving an object to the phrase, "I will draw all..." But the correct translation is, "I will draw all unto me." The "all" refers to God's elect, and that includes women, who were predestined to be called, justified and glorified (Rom.8:29-30). 

For if Jesus were going to draw "all men" to him, that would mean every person who ever lived will be saved. That doctrine is pure heresy. For it denies what is recorded in (Matt. 25:31-46); but especially verse 46 thus: "And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal." So it is clearly evident from Matthew, and many other Scriptural texts, that only God's elect, whom he calls, "Vessels of Mercy," will be saved.

Joe junior has retired to spend some of the $109 million he got from the sale of Ambassador Auditorium.  That is if he is still alive or not bedridden with an incurable illness.  He introduced rebellion and heresy into WCG, and God asked, "is this of thy whoredoms a small matter.(?)"  The judgment is, woe, woe, woe unto you, says the Lord.

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