Posted on 06/06/2009 8:36:22 AM PDT by Bushwacker777
A google search shows just 7% of Sweden attends church regularly. This might have been a PR stunt to remind people there is a church in Sweden.
My S/L grandmother is rolling in her grave.
That little boy doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of a normal life. Not even by 21st Century Swedish standards.
“She has been praised for her natural authority, enthusiasm and sense of humour, telling one reporter who asked about her hobbies: “I read crime fiction. And I carve. The things you do to conform to Jesus, huh?”
Yeah, you’ll be laughing it up at the Bema seat of judgment...
Lady, you’d better drop to your knees in repentance before it’s too late—
1 Corinthians 6
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
That’s more the result when a society is as secularized and influenced by left wing thought as Sweden is. So don’t blame Protestantism.
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It’s not Lutheranism but rather what happens when a country is as secularized and as influenced by leftist thought as Sweden is. As Charles Hendrickson pointed out, the “Church of Sweden has been taken over by extreme social-political-theological liberalism, and increasingly so, for decades. It’s like the ELCA on steroids.” Basically, we Lutherans don’t need to “come home”, but rather return to the truths in the Bible, and to clean up the liberal churches or buttress the conservative ones so as to offer a alternative.
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That was already the case in AD 1530 when the Confession of Augsburg was presented to the Emporer Charles V.
Of the 30 articles in the document, 21 were held in common between the Lutherans and Cathoics, including definitions of Justification, the Sacraments, and Pennance.
Some of the disputed articles have slowly been resolving, such as distributing both species in the Eucharist and allowing for (granted, as exceptions, not the general rule) married Priests.
There is still a long way to go; but the commonalities greatly exceed the differences.
Unfortunately, situations like this one in Sweden move us rapidly backward.
“Being a “priest,” in Swedish Lutheranism, does not carry with it the requirement of mandatory celibacy that medieval Roman Catholicism came up with.”
- I haven’t paid much attention to this issue of debate throughout my life, so far.
In any case, from what I have understood, mandatory celibacy for priests is very un-Lutheran.
Did you see this!
I see that the aging lesbians in Sweden have started having relationships with much younger women.
To the extent that there can be a worrisome sub-trend of a worrisome trend, that's it.
And that poor boy! I know a boy who is the "child" of two lesbians -- problem is they're man-haters (like most of them) and the older he gets the more they can't deal with him. They've tried to feminize him as much as possible (I couldn't believe when he was rummaging in his bag and said, "I can't find my panties!") but that isn't going to last past puberty.
>So, this is not something one could possibly see in the United States in a Lutheran Church? Ever?
Not one which stays true to the Bible,and which doesn’t succumb to liberalism.
>At the same time, as a Catholic, of course, I believe Holy Scripture, read within context, ultimately favors the doctrines of the Catholic Church.
I suspect that Lutheran theologicians would say the same, but that they support Lutheranism. Who can say?
Consider yourself lucky with the red x.
You also cannot convince me that two women raising one kid, will not also have serious mothering/jealousy issues—which will warp the kid seriously as well, besides their clear sexual confusion.
The homosexual agenda is so wrong on so many levels, it’s just plain evil.
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