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By Pastor Tom Brock of pastorsstudy.org. Facebook users can follow Pastor Brock by going here and twitter users here.
Pastor Peter Marty writes a monthly column in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's national magazine The Lutheran. In recent months he has espoused the heresy of Universalism which teaches that people can be saved apart from faith in Jesus Christ. In this month's article he urges the Church to move beyond seeing God as male: "...we can certainly give fresh effort to finding new words for knowing this great God of ours, who as Father and Mother to us reveals the best of parental love." (see here) I recently attended a United Church of Christ worship service in which the Lord's Prayer was changed to "Our Mother and Father who art in heaven, hollowed be thy name..." I got justifiably angry – who is this church to correct Jesus' words? Do they know more than Him? The United Church of Christ has shrunk hugely in members, and so has the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The ELCA's most recent hymnal has changed the original wording of the Old Testament and desexed all of the Psalms in order to get rid of masculine references for God. Churches which tamper with God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit deserve whatever losses they get. May we ever worship the wonderful God which Jesus revealed to us in His last words on earth: "Go… baptizing in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit..." (Matthew 28:19). In Him, Pastor Tom Brock pastorsstudy.org
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Kathy S
8/5/2014 04:38:33 am
Every time I read about this "gender language" issue, I am more and more confounded by the stupidity of the churches that have fallen into this trap. I really think the situation is beyond remedy. It is a tangled mess.
Cris
8/9/2014 02:57:42 pm
Whether it is acceptable to conceptualize God as a female or not, it's a sure sign of what is really wrong with the church today, an overwhelming desire to make itself "relevant" to those they seek to evangelize by being ever willing to subordinate the teachings of the church to the issues of the day.
Kathy S
8/10/2014 04:43:03 am
Yes, this really is a non-issue. The ELCA is exploiting it to justify it's heretical gender-equality point of view -- and of course, gay marriage, gay clergy. It is interesting to me that in Jewish Kabbalah, God has equal feminine and masculine attributes. "He" is perfect Justice (male) and perfect Mercy (female). Your comment will be posted after it is approved.
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