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To: american colleen
It's always over sex.

Maybe partly,but mostly no. The main disagreement is about solo scriptura.Solo scriptura, a central part of the Lutheran church, follows Martin Luther's belief that people get to heaven through the faith and grace of God instead of by good works or church favors.

There was once a saying among African-Americans ,"Its a black thing,you wouldn't understand." I believe you're from a Roman Catholic background, so this Protestant thing may seem strange, weird,or doctrinally unsound to you.

Pastor Lindler was also trying to free his congregation from a central bureaucracy he felt was leaving behind traditional Lutheran teachings .He also felt ELCA was becoming a centralized dictatorship. St. Paul's did what they thought was right.

4 posted on 11/09/2002 3:47:45 PM PST by Captain Shady
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To: Captain Shady
I'm sure you know better than I do!

However, I made my statement because I see the ELCA becoming more and more liberal (my in-Laws are ELCA) with the homosexual and female agenda... by doing that they are becoming more and more distant from the teachings of Jesus Christ and eschewing the teachings of Martin Luther. I don't know the specifics of the "sola scriptura" problem between St. Paul's and the ELCA. Anyhow, in a few of the Evangelical Lutheran churches it seems like they are almost Universalist Unitarians, IMVHO.

Tough times for Christianity, no matter where one stands.

5 posted on 11/09/2002 5:39:43 PM PST by american colleen
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