BJ Bear
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No, but since it is a headline grabber and fits the contrary to Scripture secular narrative in the U.S. it gets a lot of press.
First Lutheran transgender bishop, Megan Rohrer
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BJ Bear
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Sure. Looking at the U.S. and going from right to left, so to speak, among larger synods then it is WELS/ELS and LCMS. There are a lot of smaller synods of which some would claim to be to the right of WELS and ELS.
Which would be the bent of the Missouri group?
Does the Lutheran church have a preferred bible version for use?
BJ Bear
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No, but since modern translations have licensing fees synods which use one find it practical to pick one and pay the one fee for use in the Service.
BJ Bear
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They are center or right of center. But, being a WELS guy I think they might only say they are right of center. 😊
Do they have own translation?
WELS?
What do you mean conservative? There is no such concept in the Biblical testimony as 'transgender' whether right wing or left wing
It isnt legit according to God's Biblical testimony whatever different people claim
BJ Bear
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There is always the Luther Bibel, but since the churches in America made a push to use English in the twentieth century there usually aren't enough German speakers to use it regularly.
I think a little bit before the first NIV was published Dr Beck did his translation. It was originally called the Beck Bible but later became known as An American Translation, AAT.
Some laymen in the WELS and maybe others got together and translated it and their version is called the Evangelical Heritage Version, EHV.
Like all translations they have their pluses and minuses. The Bibles listed above in chronological order is also my order of preference.
The 1545 Luther Bibel can be found online and in modules for free Bible study programs and also for fee programs and hard copy. But be careful because there are some revised electronic versions which are labeled as Luther Bibles. Also, in hard copy what is often sold as a Luther Bible is a twentieth century revision which lacks some of the Evangelical aspects of Luther's translation.
So far as I know the AAT is hard copy only.
The EHV is one of the choices available at biblegateway.com and in hard copy.
BJ Bear
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Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
We are so far to the "right" that an ELCA pastor I know can't bring himself to say WELS. He can barely say LCMS out loud.
Bonnie
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No--the more conservative synods, like LCMS and WELS, do NOT.
Bonnie
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Absolutely! The LCMS and WELS synods are conservative wings. I think the ELS is, also.
Bonnie
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The LCMS does not permit women's ordination, nor are women supposed to be elders in a church, since they must often fill in for the pastor.
The LCMS church uses mostly now the ESV. One of their Greek professors did a lot of the translation of the NT. I prefer the NASB, myself.
BJ Bear
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I missed one in the list of translations.
God's Word To The Nation's, GW. It was originally based on Beck's Bible and I think was intended to supercede it. They made enough changes that the Beck Bible came back as the AAT.
It too is available as a module in some free Bible Study programs as well as for fee Bible study programs. It is also an option at Biblegateway.com and available in hard copy.
BJ Bear
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On a side note, when are they going to update the names? If a person doesn't have ties to the Evangelical Church or the Midwest it is confusing.
As a newbie I remember thinking that they were churches for people from Wisconsin and Missouri. I initially had a don't ask don't tell policy in that regard.
So you are the equivalent of Independent Fundamental baptists then?