Good grief!
Here I am blogging about institutional idolatry when the same ELCA Churchwide Assembly where it's been so much in evidence has actually and literally authorized the worship of a false god! Or goddess. Or something.
The ELCA has authorized a new hymnal offering "alternative language" to the "male oriented" Name of the Most Holy Trinity! It will no longer be the Name of the Lord upon which people in the ELCA will be calling on Sunday mornings, but that of a politically correct idol!
And make no mistake- "Father, Son and Holy Spirit" is nothing more or less than God's Name. It is not a series of mere human metaphors. It is that by which God predicates Himself in His self-disclosure. It bespeaks His inner being, and the terms upon which He deals with us. The gender-free god/goddess of inclusiveness is, by definition, not the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
In fact, that's the whole point of "alternative language" to the Trinitarian Name of God- to spare the squeamish the ordeal of relating to a God Who is Who He has revealed Himself to us to be!
No, God isn't literally male. That isn't the point. The point is that He gets to tell us Who He is- and we don't get to "correct" Him.
The point is that any god who is not Father, Son and Holy Spirit is a false god- and that includes the idol we used to worship in the chapel of Wartburg Seminary, and whose cult has now been inflicted on the ELCA as a whole.
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The new hymnal is a joke which will not become funnier, but sadder. The powers that be have encouraged everyone to "trust them." They approved the whole project without seeing the final product. I wouldn't buy a used car from these people. Why would I trust them with providing a faithful marriage ceremony when they can't even offer an invocation without an alternative which re-names God. We can be assured they will re-name or re-define marriage with an alternative blessing which is "appropriate" for same sex couples.
Trust is good. Verification is better.
What else could one expect from an organization which puts its trust in the system and not in God.
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