ELCA BIBLE FULL

The most popular ELCA pastor, Nadia Bolz-Weber, whom the ELCA adores and had as a keynote speaker to address 31,000 ELCA teenagers this summer, says the following about God's Word: It has allowed heresy to take hold in the denomination. The ELCA's belief about Scripture is a major problem. Popular and helpful website writes this about the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, ' It claims to hold to the authority of Scripture, but it rejects inerrancy.' (See here ) 1-3 that do not agree), and it has been open to interpretation from the beginning.' (see here) It contains clear contradictions in places (e.g. As our former presiding bishop, Mark Hanson, once said, 'I don’t believe in the Bible – I believe in the God revealed in the Bible.' The Bible is NOT inerrant. That’s what most ELCA professors and pastors teach, and I realized that was where I belonged.' (See here)ĮLCA pastor Jerry O'Neal similarly writes, 'To those who say, 'But you don’t believe in the Bible?' No, I don’t. The ELCA does not call Scriptures inerrant.ĮLCA Rev. Jay Thorson said this, in the ELCA magazine Living Lutheran, about God's Word, 'I was reclaiming the view that the Bible isn’t an inerrant oracle dropped from heaven but more like a messy, earthen vessel holding the treasure of the saving gospel message.

The ELCA states the following about the Bible, 'This church accepts the canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as the inspired Word of God and the authoritative source and norm of its proclamation, faith, and life' ( Art. Craig Miller: “Certainly, there have been copy errors and yes, if you are only reading the Bible literally, then yes there are contradictions.” (listen at the 1:05:25 minute mark here)

ELCA BIBLE FULL

Question: “So the Bible is full of mistakes and contradictions?” These have been copied over and over again and there have been mistakes that have been made.” Craig Miller: “Letter by letter? In the form that we have it? No. Question: “You don’t believe that the writers of the Bible wrote what God wanted them to write?” Question: “Do you believe that the writers of the Bible were so controlled by the Holy Spirit that they wrote exactly what God wanted them to write?” Craig Miller, Assistant to the Bishop of the Upper Susquehanna Synod, gave the following disturbing responses to questions from St.

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