The Rev. Mark S. Hanson was overwhelmingly re-elected Tuesday as presiding bishop of the nation's largest Lutheran denomination.
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Evangelical Lutherans Re-Elect Hanson as Head
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Wed, Aug. 08 2007 07:58 AM EDT
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Gnostic GodSlayer,
We also believe that Jesus rose from the dead! Here is a URL from Jews from Jesus that deals with the interesting moral question of human sacrifice you are raising:
http://www.christian-thinktank.com/sacra.html
and here is an example of the wrong kind of human child sacrifice that is still being done today:
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/SHES-75NS2T?OpenDocument
Did you know that Saklas is an Arabic word meaning "Fool"? It is found in the gnostic heretical gospel of Judas to refer to the God of the Hebrew Scriptures.
There is no bigger sin, than that the ones who claim to be christians, would five Jesus to Saklas as human sacrifice. Nothing is more detestable for religion to do than embrace human sacrifice. Jesus told Pilate he came to tell the truth, but christians betray christ and say he is a human sacrifice.
Amen. Well said.
Jesus embraced sinners but also told them to sin no more. My prayer for Rev. Mark Hanson and the ELCA would both hate evil and love righteousness while also reaching out to the poor and disenfranchised. May it not to be held to a "conservative" agenda, or a "liberal" agenda - but to a Jesus agenda which advances the Kingdom of God!
cmrk3, I know of no definitive medical studies that prove homosexuality is an innate trait but it is really irrelevant. All humans are predisposed to some type of sin and for all of those the Bible demands repentance and a changed lifestyle and thought life. Unfortunately, churches today seldom call homosexuality sin and call for repentance -- instead, we soft-pedal our politically correct wares and preach a doctrine that "tickles the ears". Our churches have backed away from scripture to please man and, as a result, are becoming apostate -- just look at the current events in the Episcopal Church. Again, Jesus judges both thought and action (the heart) and calls for a changed life -- both thought and deed.
Jesus's standards are very high for everyone!
Heterosexuality is an inate trait, and from talking to homosexuals, it appears to me that homosexuality is an inate trait. Homosexuals are not sexually attracted to the opposite sex at all, even if they have never had sex with a person of their own gender, even if they are married to someone of the opposite gender. How unusual if it is not an inate trait!
I don't agree that "Homosexuality, is in itself, not a sin." That statement presupposes that homosexuality is an innate trait, as the homosexual agenda would have us believe, vice a behavior. Also, in MT 5, Jesus condemned not only behavior but the thoughts that lead to the behavior (not just the act of adultery but the thought). At judgement, we will be judged by Christ not only on our actions, but our thoughts.
Homosexuality,is in itself, not a sin. But acting to one's sexuality in a way that do not measure up to the high standards set by Jesus - the Lord of the Church - is. My prayer is that we embrace the sexual purity that is set in place in the gospels by Jesus Christ himself. Sex belongs in a marriage - one marriage for a lifetime.