![]() Its paradox.īut perhaps since that is sortof where I am coming from it really doesn't help your question about the ELCA, but it is coming from an ELCA person. Or the trinity, one and three being the same? Though 1=3 is not a contradiction, nor Christ fully a man and yet completely God. Look just at the nature of Christ, true man-true God. In terms of contradictions, again, I think there is a difference between contradiction and paradox. And in this means, I do not think it lies or errs but is above the truths we normally like to hold up. This is just one example I think of the difference of what is commonly thought of as truth or fact and what I believe the Bible presents as truth. It is what one of my Professors would call "theological truth". That while the passover lambs are being slaughtered in the temple Jesus is dying on the cross. But this is speaking to a greater truth about the death of Jesus. John's gospel has the passover on a different day than the synoptic gospels, therefore Jesus dies on the day of preparation. Because there are truths that go above a historical truth. But the Bible I think does not err in TRUTH. ![]() This can seem probablematic in a society where the idea of fact is so important. The Bible may not always offer "historical" truth. And I am not real familiar with the formal stance though Regular seems to have shown that already anyways, I just wanted to offer where I have come (how close or far I am from the ELCA as a whole is debatable): The answer you get from ELCA people might very from person to person, church to church, etc. This church accepts the canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as the inspired Word of God and the authoritative source and norm of its proclamation, faith, and life. Through them Gods Spirit speaks to us to create and sustain Christian faith and fellowship for service in the world.Ģ.03. Inspired by Gods speaking through their authors, they record and announce Gods revelation centering in Jesus Christ. However, the ELCA, like Martin Luther himself, holds the Bible in the highest regard.Ģ.02.c The canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the written Word of God. A simple read-through of the Bible shows that this is not the case. That is, we do not teach that the Bible contains no errors in matters of science and history, or that it is without contradiction. The ELCA does not insist that its members believe in the inerrancy of Scripture.
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