Taken from ForumLibertas.com
There are Lutheran churches that, based ononly in Scripture, inerrant guide to salvation” and “guided by the Holy Spirit“, they assure that God wants marriage to be between a man and a woman.
and there is other lutheran churches that, also based “on Scripture alone, an inerrant guide to salvation” and “guided by the Holy Spirit”, They claim exactly the opposite., that God accepts as “marriage” the union of two men or two women.
None of those churches have the authority to tell the neighbor that she is wrong; not even to say that she is no longer Lutheran or evangelical. And that, they assure, the Holy Spirit guides each reader of the Bible towards the truth.
While the Holy Spirit and the Bible “explained” to Lutherans around the world until 40 years ago that homosexual practice is a sin and that marriage is the union between a man and a woman, Suddenly, in a very short time, the same Spirit and the same Bible have come to mean the complete opposite. in the Lutheran churches of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the ELCA (in the United States, which also supports abortion) and recently in Argentina. And in Uruguay they are thinking about it.
Lutherans from Argentina export gay blessings to Uruguay
The United Evangelical Lutheran Church (IELU) of Argentina has recently accepted that it is good to bless the homosexual relationships of male couples or female couples. And he has also proposed to other Protestant churches in Uruguay that they also do the same.
The Argentine pastor Lisandro Orlov requested this in a Synodal Assembly of the Evangelical Waldensian Church of the Río de la Plata, from February 3 to 7. Orlov attended not only as the main leader of the IELU but also as vice president of the Argentine Federation of Evangelical Churches (where there are some 30 diverse evangelical churches, with very different beliefs about salvation, justification, baptism, and now also about what sex the parties to a marriage can be., although all of them assure that the Spirit guides them to interpret the Bible).
“The local assembly is the fundamental instance where essential questions can and must be decided in a reflective and free environment, always in dialogue with the Word of God and in attentive listening to the action of the Holy Spirit in daily life,” the synod concluded. That is to say: The Spirit tells some Lutherans that gay marriage is wanted by God, and to their neighbors in the next city or country or parish, that it is not.
The Waldensian pastors affirm that it is necessary to address the issue of homosexual marriage “from a gender perspective and in an interdisciplinary and ecumenical dialogue that allows us to overcome prejudices built on pre-scientific knowledge.” And they approve it unanimously.
US Lutherans: 4.7 million accept gay sex; 2.5 million do not accept it
The largest Lutheran denomination in the United States, the ELCA, accepts and blesses gay sex and same-sex unions. In the summer of 2009, he approved the ordination of sexually active gay and lesbian pastors.
This denomination, to which famous abortionist George Tiller, the “late-term abortion king of Kansas,” belonged, also accepts abortion (a 2008 poll –Public Religion, Clergy Views– showed that 50% of their clergy believe that abortion should be legal in most cases, 14% think it should always be legal and only 3% believe it should be illegal). Some 4.7 million Americans belong to it (data from 2007, in 1991 it was 5.2; liberal churches are losing followers at a rapid pace.
A few thousand more Lutherans, the last remaining conservatives in the ELCA, may leave within a couple of years. Many may come to the conservative Lutheran church, the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, with 2.5 million followers, which maintains the traditional doctrine on homosexual practices as a sin.
Others, tired of mutable and arbitrary doctrines, may consider the possibility that Pope Benedict XVI has opened with the Anglican Ordinariates: joining parishes of the Ordinariates, usually with elegant liturgy and full of converts with enthusiasm for the Bible and its traditional morals. Several Catholic experts of Anglican origin, such as Dwight Longenecker (author of the book of converts “Path to Rome”, ex-evangelical and ex-Anglican pastor) consider that Many people of Lutheran origin may be attracted to the parishes of these Anglican Ordinariates. In fact, Rome maintains a good ecumenical relationship with conservative Lutheran congregations, and there are barriers that have been disappearing since a joint agreement was signed on the doctrine of justification.
In Scandinavia, Lutheranism is gay
In October 2009, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Sweden, to which 73% of Swedes belong (although almost none go to their temples, except for their funeral), approved the celebration of homosexual marriages in their temples. In fact, it had already officially celebrated “blessing” rituals for homosexual unions since 2005.
Besides, In July 2009, she was elected bishop in Stockholm. (Spanish word used by classics like Lope de Rueda) the active and declared lesbian Eva Brunne, 55 years old, who lives with her partner, the priestess Gunilla Linden, and a 3-year-old boy, “their son”, says the gay press. She is the first bishop in the Lutheran world. The Swedish royal family attended the “consecration.”
In Denmark, the Danish Lutheran Church has blessed same-sex unions since 1997.. It is a Church of rituals: although 80% of Danes belong to it, less than 5% attend weekly services.
Since 2009, the Norwegian Lutheran Church has also officiated same-sex marriages., enthusiastically following the government’s initiative. Again, this is a national church to which 82 percent of Norwegians belong, but to which almost no one goes on Sundays.
In Germany there are more than a dozen different Lutheran denominations (the largest, the Lutheran Church of Hanover, has 3.2 million followers). It is to be hoped that a few of them will gradually accept the homosexualist doctrine.
