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The ELCA Propagates Vile View of God’s Creation Account

10/22/2017

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An incredibly disturbing article was written a few days ago about Christ the King Lutheran Church in Cary, North Carolina. But even more disturbing than the content of the article, was the fact that the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America proudly shared this article (multiple times) to all of their followers on Twitter and Facebook.
 
The article is titled “Amid decline, one Lutheran church strives to live up to its namesake’s spirit.” (See here)
 
The article begins by telling of a Bible study taught by ELCA pastor Daniel Pugh where he is “telling members of Christ the King Lutheran Church that one way to interpret the story of Adam and Eve is as a coming-of-age allegory about a pair of carefree teens caught red-handed having sex…In this, alternative reading of The Fall, the ‘forbidden fruit’ offered to Eve in Chapter 3 may be a metaphor for sex, he said, and the ‘serpent’ may be a metaphor for a penis.”
 
This is outrageous. And it is indicative of the warped, foolish and evil way the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America views Scripture. See below how the ELCA itself is sharing this news article. Why would anyone stay in a denomination that teaches this perverted way of viewing God’s account of creation? They treat God's Word with contempt. 

Later in the article you learn that:
 
-  Christ the King Lutheran Church’s senior pastor is Wolfgang Herz-Lane, the former ELCA Delaware-Maryland Synod Bishop.
 
-  Pastor “Herz-Lane notified the church council that he planned to officiate at a same-sex marriage in Charlotte. Pugh, an associate pastor, performed one such marriage before coming on board…Herz-Lane now wants the church to declare itself a ‘reconciling’ congregation, meaning that it is welcoming and accepting of LGBTQ people.”
 
-  The newly appointed minister for contemporary music is a gay man.
 
-  “(C)hurch leaders want the congregation to take on more of an advocacy role…they want to start a local chapter of a national community-organizing network, the Industrial Areas Foundation, which could advocate for such things as health care, green energy, criminal justice or immigrant rights.”
 
-  “Herz-Lane hopes members gain a deeper appreciation for Luther’s willingness to break the mold and try new things.” Rev. Herz-Lane concludes “We’re here for the sake of the world, not to preserve some silly tradition.”
 
Most Bible-believing Christians would be appalled by the anti-Biblical teaching, actions and “social justice” agenda of this church but the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is not. They proudly posted this article on their Facebook page.



And on Twitter:
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"God is bringing 150 people to our parking lot every morning & what are we doing about it?" -Rev. Wolfgang @HerzLane https://t.co/GkR6em7OR5

— ELCA (@ELCA) October 17, 2017

​And again, on the ELCA News account: 


.@ELCABishopEaton to congregations seeking to grow- take "a risk while being faithful to the core message of grace." https://t.co/6ndjRDfyar

— ELCA News (@ELCAnews) October 17, 2017

​Below are some ELCA Synods posting and sharing this article:
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John
10/23/2017 11:00:38 pm

Daniel Pugh's top ten sermon titles that Herz-Lane rejected:

10. It's the best "sermon research" story I could come up with after my wife discovered my porn habit

9. Why your kids need to leave the sanctuary and go to "children's church"

8. Next month's book study: the Kama Sutra

7. Why my sex sermon features Adam and Eve, not Song of Solomon: I'm too oblivious to know, and you're too oblivious to notice

6. Why my sex sermon features Adam and Eve, not Song of Solomon: Song of Solomon really is about sex, and an ELCA pastor must not get caught telling the truth

5. Just when you think you've heard every reason why there's no devil

4. I guess I really don't have anything better to say...

3. But you're paying me to keep talking...

2. While you keep bench-warming

1. Pay no attention to the heretic behind the pulpit

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Didaskalos link
10/26/2017 03:58:46 pm

Real Christianity and Liberal Christianity -- https://stream.org/what-real-christians-of-every-tradition-share/

". . . the main problem with liberal theology is not that it uses bad arguments. The problem is that it’s not Christianity. . . Liberal Christianity is like the crusty shell that cicadas leave behind: the shape without the content."

[ . . . ]

"Almost no one converts to liberal Christianity. Liberal Christianity is an off-ramp for some Christians who lose their way. (See Rob Bell.) Maybe they fall prey to naturalism in college or seminary. Maybe a trusted pastor abused them. Or perhaps they like the trappings of Christianity but adopt a lifestyle that contradicts it.

"For whatever reason, they don’t bite the bullet and become atheists. They retain vague, Christian moral intuitions and patterns of speech but abandon the Christian view of reality. They are thus left with idea-fragments — the value of the individual, our social nature, the goodness of creation — but nothing to anchor these ideas."

[ . . . ]

"But if you’re a faithful Christian distressed by all the divisions in the Body of Christ: Cheer up! The distance between faithful Lutherans, Pentecostals and Catholics is minor compared to the distance between real Christianity and its liberal counterfeit."

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Chad Burton
11/1/2017 05:52:05 pm

Just in case there's anyone who hasn't read the Genesis story for himself, the story implies nothing of the sort of which Pr. Daniel Pugh suggests.

The forbidden fruit is explicitly called the fruit of "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil" (Gen. 2:9, 17). Adam and Eve ATTAINED that knowledge by eating the fruit, because after they did so, they realized for the first time in their lives that they were naked--in other words, they experienced for the first time a sense of shame, a knowledge of their own sinfulness or evil (see 2:25; 3:7). And God said to them, "Who told you that you were naked?" (3:11).

And God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil" (3:22). So after they sinned, cherubim were placed before the tree of life, which had not previously been forbidden, to prevent them from eating of it and attaining its properties (3:22, 24).

I can't believe that a so-called "man of God" would take a Bible passage that conveys profound truths about human nature, and turn it into some kind of a cheap burlesque. But that's the ELCA for you.

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