Posted on 12/16/2021 4:05:03 PM PST by ebb tide
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Sex is for sacramentally married couples, for the strength of the marriage and for childbearing. Anything beyond that is a perversion and injures the soul. Doesn’t matter if it’s het or homo.
Welcome to the club.
I was born, baptized and raised in a staunchly conservative Lutheran church. Even attended a Lutheran college. My family’s Lutheran heritage extends back to the Protestant Reformation with Martin Luther’s “95 Thesis”.
It all came to an inglorious end when the ELCA endorsed queer marriage followed by ordination of queers into the ministry. I have not attended a Lutheran service in o er 15 years. The church that raised and nurtured me for over 40 years has become a den den of sin and debauchery.
Fags, lesbians, and bisexuals have infiltrated every aspect of our lives. And as prophesized, this was foreseen and a sign of the end times.
Piss on ‘em all and may God have mercy upon their souls.
The devil is using the Christian beliefs against Christians. Like “Love your neighbor” or “Love others”. But nowhere in the Bible do I read that you have to accept or include perverts into your faith!
It didn’t take long for the ELCA to become almost an imitation of the Unitarians.
The Synod is not at the top of my church!
I can just visualize the conversation between the Synod and God.
Synod: “We should embrace the stuff you have warned us about for thousands of years.”
God: “You know, after giving it careful consideration, I’ve changed my mind and agree with you.”
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It’s Sin-Nod: as in a nod towards sin, e.g. adultery, cohabitation, homosexual activity, abortion, artificial birth control, etc. Anything goes in Jorge’s “church”.
Well said.
Not all Lutheran churches are ELCA members. The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod are truer to Scripture and the historic Lutheran faith than the apostate ELCA.
The Catholic Church either stands for the truth about human sexuality or it doesn’t. There is no middle ground. The errors of liberal protestantism in this area are proof positive that once you accept homosexuality as a positive good, then it’s just a short hop to same-sex marriage, same-sex-married clergy, transgender clergy, etc. etc.
As a Catholic, I will refuse to recognize to continue to affiliate myself with a Church that features same-sex marriage, same-sex-married clergy, transgender clergy, etc. We need another St Peter Damian to come along and rid our Church of these pervs and their sympathizers.
Yeah, right?
God says: “Oops. You’re right. You all are so much more intelligent and wiser than me. Forget My Commandments. Forget My instructions. Forget the things that I instituted which have allowed civilization to progress to where it is now. Go ahead and disregard everything I said and do as you see right and proper. Just like those folks at Sodom and Gomorrah.
Millions of Catholic heretics like it that way
Understood and agreed, but out here on the left coast both of those synods are far and few between.
I have said for years that “Christian” dems and progressives think God is an idiot....
They are few and far between everywhere.
Agreed. That sums it up next nicely.
1 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God— 2 the gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures 3 regarding his Son, who as to his earthly life[a] was a descendant of David, 4 and who through the Spirit of holiness was appointed the Son of God in power[b] by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord.
5 Through him we received grace and apostleship to call all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from[c] faith for his name’s sake.
6 And you also are among those Gentiles who are called to belong to Jesus Christ.
7 To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be his holy people:
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being reported all over the world. 9 God, whom I serve in my spirit in preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you 10 in my prayers at all times; and I pray that now at last by God’s will the way may be opened for me to come to you.
11 I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong— 12 that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith. 13 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters,[d] that I planned many times to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now) in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.
14 I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish. 15 That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome.
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.
17 For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last,[e] just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”[f]
18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.
20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.
22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.
25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.
27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.
29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.
32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
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