I think if Luther had seen this video, it's entirely possible that he might have kept his 99 problems with the Catholic church to himself.
BEHOLD: When you're too woke for Jesus:
In the ... ELCA, we believe all people are created equally in the image of God. God intends for everyone to flourish. But because of the sin of sexism, women are often deprived of that right ... we are called to seek equity and justice for all ...
The Lutheran commitment to neighbor justice compels us to expose how patriarchy and sexism cause harm to all of creation ... This has roots in patterns of power, privilege, and prejudice within a patriarchy ...
Blah blah blah, boilerplate feminism and wokeness shoehorned into a Christian worldview. We've seen it all before.
The Christian tradition is both a challenge and a resource when it comes to addressing sexism. And, let me tell ya, it's been a big challenge ... biblical texts say things about women and girls that we now recognize as harmful.
The Bible says things that are "harmful" to women?
Here are some of the verses the ELCA has highlighted as "harmful" to women.
The first example given is Genesis 3:16:
To the woman He said,
'I will greatly multiply
Your pain in childbirth,
In pain you will bring forth children;
Yet your desire will be for your husband,
And he will rule over you.'
These are the words of God, describing the curse of the fall on the woman. What Adam and Eve incurred in the curse is apparently "harmful" to women.
The ELCA also objects to Exodus 20:17, AKA the 10th Commandment (presumably because the neighbor's wife and female servant are given as examples of what you are not allowed to covet.)
Then there's an entire passage in Corinthians beginning with this:
But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.
The Bible says man should submit to Christ in the same way Christ submits to the Father, then says wives should submit to husbands in the same way, as a model of sacrificial love that reflects God's design for the world, His love for us, and the relationship of the Trinity.
So to sum up, the ELCA takes pretty much every pastoral text on men and women and rejects them in favor of feminism and communism.
Give yourselves a hand, Lutherans. This may be the most creative use of "Did God really say?" since the serpent in the garden.
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