Nidaros Cathedral of the Church of Norway in Trondheim, NorwayPosted on 04/26/2016 5:31:16 AM PDT by NRx
Oslo, April 23, 2016
People are leaving the Lutheran Church of Norway in droves after its Synod voted in favor of allowing gay people to be married in Church, reports RIA-Novosti.
Nidaros Cathedral of the Church of Norway in Trondheim, Norway
The majority decision came in early April with 88 of 115 Synod members voting for the blessing of same-sex couples. In the resulting document it is noted that the Church should work out a special service which could be used for gay couples. Such a service could be approved already in early 2017.
Representatives of the Church of Norway report that as many as 4200 people have resigned their membership in the denomination since the beginning of 2016, with most leaving the Church in April.
The press secretary of the Church of Norway, Ole Inge Bekkelund, commenting on the statistic, has said that the present situation is not “dramatic”, although these “signals” are perceived “with sadness and sorrow” by the Church.
The Lutheran Church of Norway was founded in 1537. Until 1969 it was called “the State Church”, its constituted head being the king of Norway. In 2012 the Church of Norway completely separated itself from the state.
The wheat is being separated from the chaff.
“Nidaros Cathedral (Norwegian: Nidarosdomen / Nidaros Domkirke) is a Church of Norway cathedral located in the city of Trondheim in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. Built over the burial site of Saint Olav, the king of Norway in the 11th century, who became the patron saint of the nation. It is the traditional location for the consecration of the King of Norway. It was built from 1070 to 1300, and designated as the cathedral for the Diocese of Nidaros in 1152. After the Protestant Reformation, it was taken from the Roman Catholics by the Lutheran Church in 1537. It is the northernmost medieval cathedral in the world.[1]”
Stole it from the Catholics. Serves them right.
What’s the point of a church that has rejected God?
Once the leadership of the Church embrace willful sin and disobedience against God, that Church no longer represented God. So I agree, no reason to attend there.
No worries, they can always replace them with the ranks of the perverts swarming society. Oh wait, no they can’t. They simply have sided with the beast.
Nice picture of a stolen Catholic cathedral you posted there:
Nidaros Cathedral (Norwegian: Nidarosdomen / Nidaros Domkirke) is a Church of Norway cathedral located in the city of Trondheim in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. Built over the burial site of Saint Olav, the king of Norway in the 11th century, who became the patron saint of the nation. It is the traditional location for the consecration of the King of Norway. It was built from 1070 to 1300, and designated as the cathedral for the Diocese of Nidaros in 1152. After the Protestant Reformation, it was taken from the Roman Catholics by the Lutheran Church in 1537. It is the northernmost medieval cathedral in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidaros_Cathedral
The wheat is being separated from the chaff.
“Did God create this church?”
Nope. Some Protestant did. The Lutheran Church in Norway is going the direction Protestantism must lead it in. It is inevitable.
The left wants to corrupt mainstream institutions if possible or destroy them. They’re happy with either outcome.
The current Pope is taking Catholicism in the same direction at double speed.
How soon before it becomes a mosque?
Good for them
fixing my tagline
What’s the point of a church that has rejected God?
So that people can worship that with which they replaced the Judeo-christian deity...
assuredly they believe it to be the same point as a church that does worship God; IOW, the church itself is the stable element, and the diety the variable, depending on cultural shift...
Dear commentators. I notice the Catholic - Protestant war going on in the comments.
This is neither. This is believers versus unbelievers, of which there are Catholics and Protestants, and Baptists. The wheat will survive, no matter which “church” it is.
Because the true church is the believers, not a building.
The Lutheran Church in Norway is going the direction Protestantism must lead it in. It is inevitable.
Yes, that is a true statement...but incomplete; this church is going in the direction that secularized society must take it, regardless of the denomination...
one glance at a typical suburban Novus Ordo Catholic Mass should make abundantly clear that socially correct interaction trumps theological worship today, as is inevitable...
Indeed! Why stick around in that ...faith?
I like you.
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