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I am quite sure that many agree with this basic description of denominations today -
The organization, just like the Church of Rome, tells everyone what the Scriptures say - that is, the Biblical passages they mangle mercilessly.
In this respect, there is no difference between one denomination and the others, except a different emphasis. The important part is who rules what the Scriptures say.
They agree about repudiating the Apostolic witness in the Majority Text, and they despise the King James Version - the best and most precise English Bible.
They punish and expel those who seek the Word instead of the brass-knuckle law of the denomination.
They reward their in-bred relatives, protect their felons, and treat any departure from their decrees as horrible sins punishable by stink-eye, shunning, and permanent exclusion.
In Contrast
Those who study the Word of God as it is, instead of forcing a specific structure on everyone (to benefit the hierarchy), will find that God's efficacious Word accomplishes miracles apart from land, titles, and endowments.
One small but significant example - I have joked with people that if I demanded a member find and produce hundreds of classic Lutheran and Christian works, with dozens of them brought into print, I would have been called a bully, a thug, a tyrant, a megalomaniac.
But that is what Alec Satin, Lutheran Librarian, has done - and he continues! If I post numbers, they will be obsolete tomorrow.
Or - "Listen here - Norma A. Boeckler - buy and learn Photoshop and start producing Christian graphics - hundreds upon hundreds - many hundreds alone just for The Lutheran Hymnal hymns!"
My email would have boiled over with rage from the membership and many other readers. But Norma did that on her own because she loves combining art with the Christian Faith.
