Twenty prominent figures of the Finnish Lutheran Church signed the resolution opposing the church's official decision to allow same-sex couples to be blessed in the church.
On Wednesday afternoon, twenty prominent members of the Finnish Lutheran church life, including Niilo Räsänen, the protagonist of the Bible trial and the husband of former Minister of the Interior Päivi Räsänen, signed the resolution protesting the official decision of the Northern Lutheran Church. The precedent of the case is that the bishops' faculty of the Finnish Evangelical Church made an official proposal to allow the official church blessing of same-sex couples, although in any case it would be left to the freedom of conscience of the pastors whether to undertake this service.
The signatories emphasize:
the teaching of the New Testament is completely clear regarding the institution of marriage (also), while it is also a clear biblical teaching that homosexuality is not God's will and that the experience of attraction is a sin. And since we cannot find a single passage in the Bible in which God approves of homosexuality, no Christian should dare to convey a blessing to sin.
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At the same time, they also emphasize that those people who struggle with the temptation of homosexuality and such desires in their everyday lives are no more guilty than anyone else. It is necessary for Christians to support and encourage them to live a biblical life.
At a time when the church is abandoning the biblical teaching on marriage, what is needed is not to follow a faulty example, but a firm commitment, the signatories say. They state that, while they do not consider it appropriate to bless same-sex couples, or even to participate in such relationships, they expect those who serve in the church to accept and follow the correct biblical interpretation.
We reject false teachers and false teachings that teach against the Bible about marriage
they write.
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