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First Transgender Lutheran Bishop From San Francisco Sues Church Alleging Discrimination
KTVU ^ | First transgender Lutheran bishop from San Francisco sues church alleging discrimination | Brooks Jarosz

Posted on 03/10/2023 2:40:23 PM PST by nickcarraway

The first openly transgender Lutheran bishop from San Francisco is suing the church alleging harassment, defamation and whistleblowing retaliation.

Megan Rohrer said he was defamed, misgendered and forced out of the Sierra Pacific Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

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"It’s been really baffling to me the level of explicit transphobia I’ve experienced in my journey as bishop," he said. "It’s painful."

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To: dangus

But what I did mean to say is that when people sin boldly, rather than coming to believe in God’s forgiveness as Luther wrongly supposed, they usually come to believe that God approves of their sinful behavior.


Except that take on Luther’s quote is so ripped from its context as to be completely false.

Here is Luther’s quote (and remember we don’t have the entire letter it is taken from either):

“If you are a preacher of mercy, do not preach an imaginary but the true mercy. If the mercy is true, you must therefore bear the true, not an imaginary sin. God does not save those who are only imaginary sinners. Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong [or sin boldly], but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world. We will commit sins while we are here, for this life is not a place where justice resides. We, however, says Peter (2. Peter 3:13), are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth where justice will reign. It suffices that through God’s glory we have recognized the Lamb who takes away the sin of the world. No sin can separate us from Him, even if we were to kill or commit adultery thousands of times each day. Do you think such an exalted Lamb paid merely a small price with a meager sacrifice for our sins? Pray hard for you are quite a sinner.”


61 posted on 03/13/2023 7:31:49 AM PDT by CraigEsq
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To: CraigEsq

Thanks for the full context.

Now it makes sense.

More in keeping with Augustine.


62 posted on 03/13/2023 3:05:54 PM PDT by miserare ( Free Jacob Chansley!)
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