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To: AnAmericanMother
Are the Loony Lutherans intending to suggest that Jesus was somehow NOT MALE?

No, the revisionism is focused--for now--on differentiating Jesus being Son of God from being Son of the Father. John 3:16 is rendered "For God so loved the world that God sent the only begotten Son..." Is the God "who so loved" the same deity as the one who sends the Son? And what is the relationship between the Son and the God(s)?

The revisionism doesn't stop there. In Evangelical Lutheran Worship the Creeds have been altered (without an explicit mandate from a Churchwide Assembly, as though a national convention could act so unilaterally independent of Western Christendom) so that Jesus no longer descends into Hell in the Apostles' Creed, except by an asterisk and tiny footnote. And the filioque has been struck from the Nicene Creed, purportedly to improve relations with the Eastern Churches. Strange, the Lutherans schism is with the West...I thought the order of business was to patch things up with Rome and to let Rome deal with the East.

6 posted on 05/08/2006 8:16:39 PM PDT by lightman (The Office of the Keys should be exercised as some ministry needs to be exorcised.)
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To: lightman
...so that Jesus no longer descends into Hell in the Apostles' Creed, except by an asterisk and tiny footnote.

What's the rationale (if one could call it that)? If you would be so kind, would you post the "new and improved" Creed as formulated by the revisionists? Thanks.

8 posted on 05/09/2006 5:49:43 AM PDT by Carolina
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