ELCA False Teaching: Calling Everyone a Child of God

11/6/2023

See the false blanket statement below made by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The ELCA is deceiving people. Not everyone is a child of God. God tells us in His Word:

“To all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God” (John 1:12).

“By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.” - 1 John 3:10

4 Comments

Didaskalos link

11/6/2023 09:27:39 pm

Moralistic Therapeutic Deism is the ELCA's "gospel." Banal bromides are what its clerics peddle to a world that, like the ELCAnites, wants just a dollop of palliative religion applied to its headlong pursuit of willful sin.

Subtle Modern Heresies
-- https://juicyecumenism.com/2022/06/16/subtle-modern-heresies/

[ . . .] "They who propagate a neutralized Christianity are often unclear and rarely learned. Their errors are neither immense nor developed and, therefore, are not doctrinally neat. Often the one explaining them could not do so in a syllogism; they are instead taught with simple tautologies. I suspect that most doctrinal errors of today are not the product of scholarly errors, but mindlessness. They are not presented in a summa or treatise; they instead bypass both the speaker and listener in vague platitudes and slogans. This ambiguity is their amnesty. Rather than fight on the battlefield in daylight, with clear lines, they sneak into congregations quietly. The Trojan Horse is filled with lies that are hidden until they enter and burn the city.

"Church teaching is becoming less rigorous, less zealous, and less distinct. Messages now slide toward a more general mean, bound together by vague clichés that neither elevate nor disturb. We are led astray, not by persuasion, but by telling us what we already know and keeping us where we presently are. I do not fear the strength of these orations but their simplicity, not their power but their pusillanimity. It is vague moralisms, not strong, developed doctrines that the Church must guard against. Such heresies may be less clear, but they are not less dangerous."

Jerry Dimpel link

11/7/2023 02:42:07 pm

The ELCA inherited over 150 years of false teaching, mostly from the LCA and its predecessors and the "renegade" LCMS members who formed the AELC for the major purpose of merging with the LCA. Ever since, it has reached new lows in apostasy, and people are still leaving. In fact, conventional wisdom has it that, if a return to true Biblical teaching, preaching, and confession, which would seemingly take a miracle from God Himself, is not undertaken, the ELCA will fall below the LCMS in terms of membership within a decade.
As for the LCMS, its commitment to Confessional Lutheranism is not entirely to be trusted as a sizable number of pastors available for their congregational call today were educated by professors who at least were in sympathy with Seminex and its false doctrines.
WELS, ELS, NALC, LCMC, AFLC, CLC, AALC, ELCM, and all other church bodies who claim to believe, teach, preach, and confess Confessional Lutheranism: This is a cautionary tale we (full disclosure: I am a member of the CLC) must make note of and act accordingly. No one--not even Jesus-- knows when Judgement Day will come, but we do not want to be on the "easy" road of teaching and preaching what the world wants to hear when that day does comes. So all I can say is this:

WE ARE CONFESSIONAL LUTHERANS, NOT QUASI-ANYTHING PROGRESSIVES!
SOLA FIDE! SIOLA GARTIA! SOLA SCRIPTURA!
SOLI DEO GLORIA!!

Snuggarunt

11/8/2023 10:33:29 am

Since each of us is a 'beloved child of God,' according to the ELCA, can this status ever be put into jeopardy? What about those children who are false prophets or false disciples (Matthew 7) and refuse to listen? Or does John 1:12 trump Christ's words of warning?

Jerry Dimpel

1/4/2024 10:58:21 pm

Absolutely not, for in order to be considered a believer, one must accept the doctrine taught by Jesus Christ and His Disciples, and if they belong to a particular church body, they must also accept what the founders of that body taught. (Not to mention the fact that no part of the Bible ever contradicts another, for Paul wrote to timothy that all scripture is breather out by God, and is therefore reliable and trustworthy
Obviously, the ELCA and many of its predecessor Lutheran bodies taught from their inception that Christian (and therefore Lutheran) doctrine is whatever the leadership says it is at the time they are saying it.
This is why no true Confessional Lutheran can in good conscience belong to the ELCA.

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