Religion is the second worst thing which happened to humanity, the first being inhumanity itself of the secular world.
The following is not going to be a diatribe against against religion though as it is a necessary evil in being a place the unsaved can look to and a necessary good for those people to flee to in 9 11 events. Religion though like all things man created does one thing and that is place a barrier between people and God. Every time you have a religion you have some self serving Obama in charge of it, telling the rest of the people that only he can communicate with God and can intercede for them.
That is a lie as Jesus the Son of God actually is the Intercessor for everyone. All people have to do is talk to Jesus and He opens the Conversation to the Father.
This piece though is about the Lutherans or that sodomite sect known as the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America which just made gays leaders of their flocks. There is a split coming in this group as they vote to re fracture their brand of Lutheranism.
I have always found it strange how almost immediately after Christ went to Heaven how some were following Paul, some Peter etc.... when it was all about Christ bringing the Kingdom of God to earth.
Perhaps the 3rd greatest person in history after Jesus and then Paul was the German reformist, Martin Luther. In a world of Catholic government domination and inquisitions Martin Luther nailed to the door his thesis which re stated basically the teachings of Christ which the Vatican had bastardized.
Martin Luther had a rather defeated end, but his protest started the liberty which became the Protestant movement and was aided by the Gutenberg Press and John Calvin of the English.
I have always had a great love for these Israelite Germans. The world would be a much more sour place if not for the hope Luther resowed upon the masses and the music which Bach and his son brought to Christian worship.
For me, Lutherans will always be Germans or the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, and the rest of these sects are led by the products of Luther in the Scandinavian Lutherans, known in the inner circles as American Lutherans, with rest in various degrees of being Christian and the others being blasphemous sodomite devil religions.
I didn't write the Bible, so the Laws are Gods, but each year that passes in my life, I fully confess that I would have written exactly the same Laws in the Bible protecting society from humans, because there is no worse example than America today in what happens when one tosses God out and bastardizes the Church to include rebellion like sodomy.
As a champion of women, it might surprise many that I do not believe women have a place in any pulpit. The reasoning is sound based upon menstrual laws and upon the fact that women were born as women to learn how to become like Sarah in Princesses of their own tents in governing in dealing with assisting men to stop being sloven in not becoming all they are supposed to be.
It is the most worst duel of humans in men have to overcome being men in tyrants in being weak or sloven in being lazy and women have to overcome being dominating or being vassal.
It is not easy being the man in dying for your wife, your family, your community or your society as an expendable component and it is not easy for women to have to produce and nurture people expendable in wars.
Women have a most difficult task and they do not need the added burden of being men in the pulpit. Miriam could prophesy and Deborah could judge, but the High Priest role was for a Levite male alone. The greatest burden a man will never admit to is they can never be a woman, even though most were born to it.
That is what divides many Lutherans from the Germans in the Germans are strict in Biblical Law while others fudge every whim they can to suit their comfort zones, and toss God's to the side, instead of moulding themselves to God's Legal Pattern.
The Missouri Synod is not a perfect religion. They left out the Commandment on idolatry and gave two on coveting. I have no idea if they liked the Catholic pretty windows and statues, but that is just one of the flaws they have in a very good religion which teaches the basic in spreading the Salvation message that he who believes and confesses that Jesus is thee only begotten Son of God, is washed of their sins in Baptism of the Holy Ghost, will be saved.
Having known these people for years as they are spread around America, the Missouri Lutherans had a meltdown similar to the ELCA in the early 1970's when a group of demoniacs tried taking over the Church, and when the dust settled, the children of God won and threw out the sinners.
The ELCA though failed in the sinners have now taken over the ELCA and now the Christians there are searching for a new division.
My advice to the ELCA Christians would be to cast about to either the German or American Wisconsin Synods, in effect, if they want to evangelize then go with the Germans and if they want women in their pulpits then join the American Lutheran Synod, and stop fracturing.
Having attended German worship with old German Pastors, it is delightful to listen to the resonant tones and the Te Deum Laudamus which in liturgy is one of thee most beautiful hymns of ascension ever created.
The tragedy though is even the Germans have cast aside those old red hymnals of hymns of Back and brought in some modern worship which is just horrid.
I sat in a Church of the Missouri Synod and paged through the songs and as a writer, I was absolutely flabbergasted that somewhere in that group there were little twerps who were changing the words to songs "for a modern appeal". Songs written by the Bach's changed. I wondered what blasphemous right these people had to ever change an artists work to suit them.
Yet the Vatican and almost every religion changes the entire profile of God's Word as these gravitators to power, just like Obama, have to have a change that reflects them, instead of the sacred institutions which have stood the test of time.
I am a Biblical Christian who adheres strictly to the Word of God in all teachings. I grow daily to perfecting this creation, but I am not perfect. Christ is the only perfect One and He paid my admission. There is nothing I can ever do to earn a place in Heaven. It is all Jesus and when I have to be a slave to all, a humiliated servant, a person betrayed, a person lied about, a person scorned, ridiculed and a person often screamed at that I'm going to hell, then I suffer it for Christ as He suffered for everyone.
I do not and will not submit to charges which degrade me, but I willingly submit to anything Christ initiates in this life which is all about Him.
That is after all what this is all about. It is not about theologians or authors writing sensational lies for profit or power, nor is it about gay people desiring a religion which says their sin is good. The entire point of this earth soul greenhouse was for God to create physical people who had to chose not to give into the flaws they have born in them.
There are greater trials in this life for people than being gay and it is time that gay people stopped defining themselves as a sex act and start growing toward being deniers of themselves like Paul was and as Christ even did in not sinning, because every human is suppose to be a soul to be implanted with the Holy Spirit to transform into a child of God, a Spiritual eternal being.
God's Laws are God's Laws which are meant to refine the character of Life into a human. It would be silly to have a vote in a Church to put fishing rods into a pulpit as everyone loved to fish and be defined as fishermen first in their lives, instead of Christians. Yet the gay vote is of the same context, but worse in immoral character as it degrades a person to focus upon them as sex acts.
There will come a day soon enough when the Word of God, Who is Jesus, will return as a Warrior King, and by martial law and slaughter institute His Father's Kingdom rule on earth. There will be punishments as Ezekiel points out and training. There will also not be Catholics, Lutherans, Baptists, Methodists or any other sect.
There will be only those who focused on Christ's Salvation, their implementing His mandate of caring about others and living their lives according to His Laws.
The rest face Christ's Judgment Throne. It seems and is a most idiot thing to destroy a Church over a sex act. It is a most idiot thing to throw away eternal life over sex.
I doubt any of these ECLA gay benefactors would throw away a 100 million dollar lottery ticket for a gay sex act. I doubt anyone of them would not submit to a condition they would receive 100 million dollars if they just stopped engaging in gay sex for a year.
So if they can control themselves for 100 million dollars, don't you conclude they could control themselves for their own self interests at least in eternal life, even if they could not do it for God.
Rhetorical
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