Head ELCA bishop: "Everybody isn't male or female…There is a whole spectrum"

Head ELCA bishop: "Everybody isn't male or everybody isn't female…There is a whole spectrum"

9/13/2017

(The following article was written by Rev. Tom Brock of pastorsstudy.org. You can follow Pastor Brock on Facebook - here and Twitter - here. At the end of his article, you will find a few additional comments by me.)

In the same interview in which Elizabeth Eaton, the head Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, said that she believes Hell is empty, she also supports a spectrum of sexualities--not everyone is male or female. Jesus said otherwise in Matthew 19:4. Bishop Eaton also recently made it clear that she wants transgendered people in the military.

Tap the below for the whole story from a pro-homosexual Lutheran group which is rejoicing.

Please, if you are a Bible-believing Lutheran and still in the ELCA, ask yourself what more it would take for you to take your money, time, and talents and join the more Biblical denomination?

Sincerely in Christ,
Pastor Tom Brock

https://www.reconcilingworks.org/bp-eaton-interview/

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Here is the quote from the Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America - “Our church has done work for years thinking about this. And we have come to the understanding that God’s creation is diverse and that the diversity of God’s creation is actually a gift and then when we take a look a people’s sexual orientation or gender identity, it’s not completely binary. Everybody isn’t male or everybody isn’t female. There’s a whole spectrum to that. I think that’s something that’s new for a lot of our people to think about, but it’s the truth…we’re very clear that everyone bears the image of God and everyone is considered precious in God’s eyes.” (listen here)

In contrast, (as Pastor Brock pointed out) Jesus said, "'Haven’t you read,' he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female...’" - Matthew 19:4

6 Comments

Dave in Texas

9/15/2017 10:07:27 am

Psychiatrists at Johns Hopkins have determined the whole "trans-sexual thing" to be mental illness. Pft!!! Johns Hopkins!!! What do THOSE idiots know?!?!?!?

Didaskalos link

9/16/2017 05:50:40 am

BREAKING NEWS from ELCA Higgins Road headquarters:

An ELCA presiding bishop -- again -- corrects both

Jesus: "Have you not read that He who made them from the beginning made them male and female?"

and

Martin Luther: "In the first part we shall consider which persons may enter into marriage with one another. In order to proceed aright let us direct our attention to Genesis 1 [:27], “So God created man . . . male and female he created them.” From this passage we may be assured that God divided mankind into two classes, namely, male and female, or a he and a she. This was so pleasing to him that he himself called it a good creation [Gen. 1:31]. Therefore, each one of us must have the kind of body God has created for us. I cannot make myself a woman, nor can you make yourself a man; we do not have that power. But we are exactly as he created us: I a man and you a woman. Moreover, he wills to have his excellent handiwork honored as his divine creation, and not despised. The man is not to despise or scoff at the woman or her body, nor the woman the man. But each should honor the other’s image and body as a divine and good creation that is well‑pleasing unto God himself."
[ http://www.lutherdansk.dk/Web-Living%20as%20husband%20and%20wife/Living%20as%20husband%20and%20wife.htm ]

John

9/16/2017 11:42:32 pm

It speaks volumes that Eaton's quote cites her staff's "work" and the buzzwords of "diversity" and "identity," but doesn't even resort to citing Galatians 3:28 ("...neither male nor female..."). She has abandoned Scripture so fully, she doesn't even misquote it anymore.

And for anyone drawn to her "new understanding," alas, it is just old gnostic heresy with a new dye job. Check out Secret Sayings of Thomas saying 114, and its transsexual twaddle from the third century. Sound familiar? Sadly, those who didn't learn history are doomed to repeat it.

George in Texas

9/17/2017 11:18:55 am

Thanks for the gnostic reference. It is true imo that ELCA says it continues to identify itself by way of its confession. But how far it truly is from both Scripture and the Lutheran Confessions. What ELCA says it confesses is not the confession of the New Testament.

Ray

9/16/2018 08:56:34 pm

Well said.

Incidentally, I am LCMS and when asked my denomination, I feel it necessary to explain that the E(L)CA is not a Confessional Lutheran Church by any stretch of the imagination. I wish they would drop Lutheran in their name. They have dropped it in their theology, after all.

debi

3/7/2019 10:42:37 am

I am very distressed. I have been a Lutheran all my life. I was very upset about the silence from the ELCA with the abortion issues. I have been looking very closely at E Eaton. I believe this person is transgendered. I also have looked at the pictures of the newly elected Bishops from last fall. At least 1/2 of them appear to be trans. One has a bio that describes the person as a he in the 1st 2 paragraphs in the bio and then as a she in the latter part of the story. What an abomination!!! Is the ELCA led by a Sodomite?

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