ELCA Goddess Worship: Honoring, Celebrating and Singing a Hymn to Inanna / Ishtar

5/23/2019

Goddess worship is and has been occurring in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Ebenezer Lutheran Church, otherwise known as "Herchurch," in San Francisco, has long been known for goddess worship and is a church in good-standing with the ELCA. (See goddess worshiping articles here)

In February 2019, Herchurch held a Sunday worship service that they describe this way (also see below), "we honor and celebrate Sister Wisdom who comes to guide us and Inanna (Ancient Queen of Heaven and Earth). The Liturgy provides a sacred time and space in which the community and individual encounters and responds to the loving, creative, challenging, empowering, prophetic wisdom and word of the divine feminine." At this service they will have an "original Hymn to Inanna" with a "Sacred Dance."

Wikipedia tells us "Inanna is an ancient Mesopotamian goddess associated with love, beauty, sex, desire, fertility, war, justice, and political power. She was originally worshipped in Sumer and was later worshipped by the Akkadians, Babylonians, and Assyrians under the name Ishtar. She was known as the 'Queen of Heaven'" (See here)

The One True God tells us in His Word:

“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me.”
- Exodus 20:2, 3

Why are you part of a denomination that has given its approval to goddess worship?

3 Comments

Didaskalos link

5/24/2019 01:07:32 pm

When satire converges with ineluctable truth:

Mainline Protestantism Declared A Safe Space For Those Offended By The Gospel -- https://babylonbee.com/news/mainline-protestantism-declared-safe-space-offended-gospel

"..Speaking on behalf of a plethora of denominations including the Presbyterian Church (USA), the Episcopal Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and the United Methodist Church, a spokesperson issued the following statement: “We are in agreement that there is a great need for churches to rise up and create spaces that are safe for questioning and accepting our identities, doubts, fears, failures, and blatant sins. Effective immediately, we are declaring all mainline Protestant churches safe spaces, where there are no judgments, conviction, repentance, or gospel presentations whatsoever.”

"The statement listed elements that safe space churches should remove from their premises, including “crosses, Bibles, pulpits, organs, hymnals, systematic theologies, and sermons exhibiting any form of triggering micro-aggression. Be considerate.” Words like “sin,” “hell,” “death,” “wrath,” “propitiation,” and “substitutionary atonement” are also on the ban list.

"On behalf of all of mainline Protestantism, the spokesperson expressed heartfelt joy that they were able to make such a major step toward accepting—and not judging—anyone who may be on a path toward God’s judgment. “Our congregations are now spaces that are safe from the power of God in the gospel, where each person is free to construct their own narrative. That’s worthy of celebration.”

LeaAnn Buckwell

5/25/2019 10:05:41 am

It is the right of all individuals to worship as each chooses in this country. As a mainline Protestant I believe it is time for all true Christians to stand up and demand that those belonging to these apostate heretical organizations remove the term Christian from their names. If they do not uphold the teachings of Christ and the Scripture on which He based those teachings, why would they want to include His name in their organizations?

Even Ezer

5/25/2019 11:10:57 am

Jeremiah 44
25 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the G-D of Israel, saying; You and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hands, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: you will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.
26 Therefore hear you the word of the LORD, All Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by My great Mame, says the LORD, that My Name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord G-D lives.
27 Behold, I will watch over them for harm, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there is an end of them.
28 Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, Mine, or theirs.
29 And this shall be a sign unto you, says the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, that you may know that My words shall surely stand against you for harm:
30 Thus says the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaoh-hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life.

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