ELCA Synod Posts "The Christian Life is Not About Believing...What We Need to Believe...So That We Can Be Saved."

ELCA Synod Posts 'The Christian Life is Not About Believing...What We Need to Believe...So That We Can Be Saved'

3/9/2019

The Southwestern Washington Synod of the ELCA posted on Facebook a quote by noted liberal theologian Marcus Borg. The quote, below, says what one believes is not important for salvation. Of course, this is false. The Bible tells us, many times, that belief in Christ is needed for salvation. (See Romans 10:9-10 and Acts 16:31)

The Christian church should be helping people believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. But Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's presiding bishop thinks all will go to heaven, and universal salvation is widely accepted in the denomination. I fear, for all listening to them, who will wind up in hell.

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Didaskalos link

3/9/2019 12:19:40 pm

The universalism-preaching ELCA understandably still lionizes the late "Christian" panentheist and Jesus Seminar heretic Marcus Borg.

". . .Fifteen years ago [2000], in a typical exchange, Borg and Wright spoke at National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., which I attended and reported. Borg of course said much of the Gospels, like the Virgin Birth and Jesus’ multiplying of the loaves or walking on the sea, were “history metaphorized.” Likely Jesus didn’t think Himself a messiah or anticipate His death. Instead his martyrdom made him like Gandhi and Martin Luther King.

" . . . Borg described Jesus as a Jewish mystic or “spirit person,” whose “visions of the sacred” were “shamanic,” “peak experiences,” or “altered states of consciousness.”

"Like Buddha, Jesus taught “wisdom,” and Jesus was also a social prophet who critiqued the “domination system” of His day. “Does it matter if Jesus thought He was messiah?” Borg asked. “Tom [Wright] says yes. I say no.” He rejected an “interventionist God” who performs miracles or directly inspires Scripture. . . .

"Even though he professed Christianity, Borg was frank about rejecting nearly all core Christian beliefs. The “pre-Easter Jesus is a figure of the past, dead and gone. He isn’t anywhere,” with talk about his corpse or an empty tomb merely “irrelevant distractions.” Only an arrogant, delusional Jesus would have claimed divinity or predicted resurrection, Borg noted, adding, “We have categories of psychology for people who talk that way about themselves.”

--https://juicyecumenism.com/2015/01/26/death-marcus-borg-christian-panentheist/

Get out of Babylon, ELCA member. Why allow your offering dollars to prop up a denomination whose teachings lure people toward eternal damnation? The ELCA differs with the Bible and Martin Luther on almost every foundational Christian tenet.

Luther remains a better, Biblical guide: "..it is impossible for anyone to be saved without faith. Otherwise every sermon, the gospel, & faith would be vain, false, & deceptive, since the entire gospel makes faith necessary."
-- http://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2011/03/luther-and-the-universalism-debate/

John

3/9/2019 03:43:44 pm

Borg and the Jesus Seminar spent their careers trying to dismantle Christianity. Quoting them for faith advice is hardly any better than Madalyn Murray O'Hair. Of course, Josh McDowell and Lee Strobel are contemporaries of Borg, and their books proved him wrong at every point, especially regarding the quote above. So when will the ELCA post a quote from McDowell, or Strobel -- or even this quote from Jesus (John 8:24b): "For unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”

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