Jesus Isn't God?

3/2/2014

An ELCA pastor wrote the following on an ELCA facebook page which was discussing the movie "Son of God" -

"Not a great title in this era of increasingly aware inter-faith-sensitive folks who see Christian History as a history of violence done toward peoples of other faiths because Christians believed that their spokesperson or prophet was the Son of God (misunderstood to mean that Jesus was God). Son of God was originally attributed to Ceasar. The Christians wanted all to know that their allegiance was NOT to Ceasar, but to the Holy One to whom this itinerant Rabbi pointed. The One who sent me, Jesus would say. In other words, we need to make a theocentric move here in order to show consideration for our Muslim, Jewish, Hindhu, Buddhist....and all other friends. These kinds of Christocentric obsessive movies just continue to give the rest of us Christians a bad name." (reported by Lutheran CORE here and originally post from a closed ELCA facebook group here)

It is this pastor and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America that give Christians a bad name, but worse than that, they are leading people away from Truth, God's Word and Faith in God the Son.

3 Comments

Chuck Braun

3/2/2014 11:15:43 pm

Well, some years ago, just out of curiosity, I went to see a movie about the Buddha. I was be no means offended, nor did I desire to disown Christ and consider Buddha. But that film was most assuredly Buddhocentric. When an ostensibly Christian pastor no longer believes that Jesus is The only Way, Truth and Life and desires to dethrone that very same King of the universe from His central role in the salvation of humankind, that pastor is ashamed of Christ, and not only has nullified their baptism into Christ, but also broken their pastoral vows as servants of Jesus Christ who have sworn to uphold the Scriptures and the Creeds which summarize their teachings . In His Word, Jesus plainly says that those who teach will be held to a stricter judgment. And He also says that He will be ashamed of those who were ashamed of Him upon His return. It would be better for this "Christian" pastor to just leave the ELCA for the Unitarian Universalism which they truly believe, than to remain the wolves in sheep's clothing that would shipwreck the Faith once delivered to the saints by our Lord Himself, which exists in those under their pastoral care.
To the Christian, there are two worldviews: Christocentric or diabolocentric. Whom will this pastor continue to serve, God or Satan? Prayers are needed for this false shepherd's repentance, and for their congregations, that they would hear their true Shepherd's Voice and depart from the ELCA.
Will God avenge the elect? Yes, He will. Speedily. But when He returns, will He find faith on earth? Not likely on Higgins Road. When a house builds on the shifting sands of fallen human cultural desires, rather than on the chief Cornerstone, Jesus Christ, great will be its fall. But whatever the fate of the liberal Protestant apostate church, may our Lord use the outcome for His purpose, as His true believers continue to walk away from those churches whose candlesticks have been removed. And may we never cease to pray for the misguided leaders, who see but do not perceive, whose ears have been dulled, whose hearts have been grown cold, that they would repent and be healed...

Chemnitz

3/4/2014 09:22:55 am

That person nay have been ordained but s/he is not a Lutheran pastor or even Christian.

Didaskalos link

3/5/2014 07:27:13 pm

"And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn?"

J. Budziszewski explains why the self-satisfied ELCA is so Gospel-resistant:

"... the pagan knew he was not a Christian. By contrast, a certain kind of neo-pagan may think that he is one. This oddity is perhaps the most challenging difference between evangelization and re-evangelization. In the ancient world, the people who needed to be evangelized were outside the walls of the Church; today they include thousands who are inside, but who think just like those who are outside. When the Gospel is proclaimed, they complain.

"A pew is a difficult mission field. It is hard for the shepherds to bring home the sheep if they think they are already in the fold.. . ."

Harder still when ELCA Gospel-rejecting ersatz "shepherds" are willfully leading their flocks astray.

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