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The good ship ELCA...
Or the Shellfish blog...
A blog named for specious reasoning in interpreting the Scriptures ("Well, Leviticus says you can't eat shellfish..."). We've sought to help the good folk of the ELCA and her closest partners to be not deceived by the Confusionists (for whom the clear window of Scriptures, Creed, and Confessions is but a dim mirror) at the helm.
Or the Shellfish blog...
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You're correct. That was a very interesting letter. Thanks for linking to it.
Bishop Chilstrom made several strong points in that letter and I agree with his overall point. I especially liked his comments about those wanting a 2/3 majority.
Revelation 22:18-19 says, "For I testify unto everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; And if anyone takes away from the words of this book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, and from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book." Additions, subtractions, and substitutions to what God has commanded is disobedient and sinful. We have a standard today, and we are warned not to add to or take away from it. These are very stern warnings that should get our undivided attention.
What we have here is unabashed Gospel reductionism. No need to beat around the bush.
It IS interesting that he seems to imply that there was no Scriptural basis for the ordination of women either, only Scriptural disapproval. Did he really mean to imply that??
Here are Carl Braaten's comments:
http://tinyurl.com/krs4bj
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