Thrivent Gnosticism
We’re getting new carpet in the church offices, and as a result, all books had to be moved out. This has given us an opportunity to sort through some things and throw a lot of junk out. One piece of junk came in the form of a book from Thrivent called A Time to Mourn, A Time to Dance: Help for the Losses in Life. We have a small stack of these; Kassie asked me to look at it to see if it passed doctrinal muster to give away to people in need or put in the church library. My first question: what does it teach about the resurrection? The first page I turned to said this about how to explain death to children:
When we are born, God gives us a body to use for our lifetime. Our body lets us walk and play and do God’s work. When we die and go to heaven to live with God, we don’t need our bodies anymore.
So much for the resurrection of the dead. Into the trash you go!
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I always liked the crosses they gave with the dove on them for confirmation. They went and crucified the Holy Ghost! Pneumapassianism!!
The pre-Thrivent 1995 Aid Association for Lutherans (AAL) book of the same title says the exact same thing. We keep a copy of it in our fellowship hall for members to use (it's my great-grandmother's copy from when she was an AAL member a few years ago) so I wrote a comment about looking forward to the resurrection of the body on the page in question.