WHO IS SAVED ? – THE CASE AGAINST UNIVERSAL SALVATION AND ECUMENISM
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The word of God is clear that those who believe in Jesus are the sons of God ,not born of the flesh nor of the will of man but born of God. This issue of being part of the family God has divided the church for centuries and now is being corrupted by the Universalists/Ecumenists.
These two camps believe that there are many ways to God other than the only way, Jesus Christ. They also hold that since all men came from God, then all are saved because they have one Father or source.
But John 1 expressly says that the sons of God are those who believe in Jesus name, not those who trust in the flesh and blood or their family’s righteousness.
This false doctrine is actually racist in nature where people divide one another on the basis of origin.So in an attempt to heal racial rifts ,they opt for tolerance and universal salvation where one can get saved in any religion as long as they do good. This is an insult to the blood of Jesus and the Spirit of Grace and it is as old as the early church.
THE JEWISH/GENTILE QUESTION IN THE EARLY CHURCH
The Hebrew disciples of Jesus preached at first to their kinsmen until God had to reveal to Peter that the Gentiles were part of the New Covenant. Jesus had broken the wall of division by shedding his blood for both the Jew and the Gentile.
Thus God taught Peter this lesson at Cornelius house when Gentile believers were filed with the HolySpirit just as the Jewish believers were baptized on the day of Pentecost.
However it was a tough pill to swallow for some believing Jews. The national thought was that the Jews were the sons of God,because of the Abrahamic covenant and fleshly circumcision.How could Gentiles, heathen, uncircumcised become sons of God ?
So out of man’s wisdom ,they insisted that one had to be circumcised and keep the law of Moses for them to be saved !!
They did not understand the gospel of Jesus Christ.
It is for this reason that God called Paul, who was not a Gentile, but one of the most devout Jews, to minister the powerful mystery where both Jews and Gentiles become sons of God through Jesus Christ.
Thus a Jew is a son of God because he believes in Jesus Christ then walks in his teachings; A Gentile is a son of God because he believes in Jesus Christ then walks in his teachings
A man is a son of God because he believes in Jesus Christ then walks in His teachings; A woman is a son of God (not gender son, male) because she believes in Jesus Christ then walks in his teachings. Therefore all who believe in Jesus Christ have the Holy Spirit, whether a man or a woman, a Jew or a Gentile. Amen.
This is unity In Jesus Christ is about salvation and not about Order.For in order, the gospel was preached first to the Jewish nation then to the Gentile nation.In the church leadership , a married man was eligible to be a bishop and not a woman.
But in salvation all who believe are one. No racial discrimination, no economic division ,no gender discrimination .Thus salvation was taught to be in Jesus Christ.
THE APOSTATE SALVATION
This teaching of salvation in Jesus Christ was corrupted profusely by the inception of the Roman Catholic church by Constantine where salvation was placed in the church and not faith in Jesus Christ. Thus one became a son of God by the flesh or the will of man and not by God. Observance of Church rituals and not faith in Jesus was what saved man- blasphemy.
It this false doctrine that spurred the Protestant Reformation. However as years went on , the same Man’s wisdom that had infiltrated the believing Pharisees of the early church to save man by fleshly means ,also captured Protestant leadership.
Salvation was based on church membership and other rituals. This is what spread the wave of denominations. Diverse ways of salvation instead of faith in Jesus Christ.Today the same Man’s wisdom has crept in the Evangelical church which actually arose to restore the truth of salvation in Jesus Christ.This is seen through the planting a seed issue and faith in yourself of the Word Faith movement. All false ways of becoming sons of God.
THE UNIVERSAL SALVATION AND ECUMENISM—- FALSE SALVATION.
Now with the rise of numerous religions due to the current multicultural interactions of all societies in the world, tolerance and cohesion is being sought. This pursuit has been defiled by Christian leadership that is now rejecting the fact that salvation is in Jesus Christ alone. All in the name of tolerance and false peace.
Bishop Td Jakes called faith in Jesus Christ in one of his TV programs ” a better way than other ways /religions” when the Bible is clear that Jesus is the way the truth and the life. No man can go to God except through Jesus Christ.
A look at the Rod Parsley Dominion Camp Meeting list of preachers shows how the Evangelical leadership is not concerned about doctrine. How can one host many preachers who hold different views about one clear thing in the scriptures and say you are united unless you are just tolerating each other for gain’s sake.
Paul Crouch Jr. of TBN boldly stated that TBN is divided theologically ,having so many divergent doctrines that actually clash with one another. Yet they say they are preaching one Christ.
We can now see how Tolerance sells because if TBN chose to be firm on the one doctrine of Christ many shows would have been chopped off the list and TBN will not be able to pay the bills and build empires.
The fact in all this is that the lack of insistence of salvation in Jesus Christ means that right now salvation is of the flesh and the will of man. It leads to the worship of the Antichrist.
A reformation is needed as the false salvation of ecumenism and universalism is creating false hope that leads to destruction. BEWARE.
In Christ Jesus
Arthur Owiti
