[bcsco]

To them, the bible is just a reference book. Their reasoning trumps biblical authority.

This is not the view of this particular ELCA church but that of the ELCA as a whole. I belonged to an ELCA parish who's pastor threw the Bible on the floor in an Adult Sunday School class and stated the Bible was just another book.

If you go the the ELCA website and look at their beliefs, you'll find little that gives you insight into this. But it's there. I left for the LCMS years ago because of this; precipitated by their stance on homosexuality.

[Guenevere]

That's also how the PCA Presbyterian began, over 30 years ago...
..leaving the mainline Presbyterian Church, USA...due to their apostasy.