'Did God really say?' Lutheran Church announces which Bible verses it condemns * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

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The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has condemned the Bible verses it doesn’t like. According to a new video, apparently its members believe God made some mistakes along the way.

They have to do with women, verses a spokeswoman in a video protests have to do with “power, privilege, prejudice” “within a patriarchy.” The video was at the 2025 ELCA churchwide assembly.

She condemns the contemporary “Christian church” for being “complicit in the sins of sexism and patriarchy,” and she lists Genesis 3:16, Judges 19, 1st Corinthians 11:3-16 as among those that God must not have really meant to be included in the Bible.

She explains that Lutherans “don’t have to accept literally” the words of the Bible, which she alleges arose in a society that no longer exists.

Those verses are responsible, she said, for “gender-based violence,” “restricted access” to health care and economics, and more.

Listen to the stunner:

One social media commenter was unsurprise, as this was “another reminder that the ELCA is not a Lutheran or a Christian organization.”

The new statement isn’t the first time ELCA leaders have openly condemned the Bible:

A report at Not the Bee turned blunt about the public repudiation of the Scriptures on which the Christian church worldwide has been based for millennia.

“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,” it commented.

It quoted the narrator:

“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 …”

The report said, “Blah blah blah, boilerplate feminism and wokeness shoehorned into a Christian worldview. We’ve seen it all before.”

The narrator charges that the Bible says things “about women and girls that we now recognized as harmful.”

For example, her Genesis 3:16 citation says: “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.'”

Said Not the Bee, “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.”

Corinthians says, “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.”

Explained Not the Bee, “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.”

“Give yourselves a hand, Lutherans. This may be the most creative use of ‘Did God really say?’ since the serpent in the garden,” advised Not the Bee.

Bob Unruh

Bob Unruh joined WND in 2006 after nearly three decades with the Associated Press, as well as several Upper Midwest newspapers, where he covered everything from legislative battles and sports to tornadoes and homicidal survivalists. He is currently a news editor for the WND News Center, and also a photographer whose scenic work has been used commercially. Read more of Bob Unruh's articles here.