Lutheran Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future.

  By Rev. Dan Greg Have you ever seen images/memes like this? This image was randomly generated by a computer’s so-called “artificial intelligence” program.     A computer program scours the internet, full of images, and spins them altogether into "art."   The result?   Frankenstein, but worse.   A crude mockery.    Instead of "man made horrors beyond our comprehension,"    They're inhuman.    Other.  If you’re a Christian like me, or even a God fearing pagan; when you look at this image, something turns in your gut. Something’s wrong. . . It’s disgusting! This image and others like it, are Philistine barbarisms of the beautiful work of God who created all things out of nothing (Hebrews 11:3). They even mar the beautiful work of Man or Woman who were gifted the creative spirit when they received the “image of God” and “breath of life” (Genesis 1:27, 2:7). One of the simple pleasures we steward from God is that all people can get a taste of this creativity when

    By Rev. Dan Greg I get it. You’re a Christian, maybe you’re a pastor as well.  You’re not crazy, nor are you gullible.  You have a good head on your shoulders. You were born at night, but not last night. I get it. But as you work with the Holy Spirit in your Christian life to become someone of Christian maturity;    as you develop the personal garden of your heart that Jesus dwells in by pulling weeds, building walls and chairs, planting flowers by His Spirit;    other Christians are going to begin trusting you, especially with their confessions and testimonies of how the spiritual and how God is working in his or her life. “Suzy, sometimes I see my deceased husband sitting at the edge of my bed early in the morning; like, he’s getting ready to head to work like the old days. Is he really in heaven like Pastor says?” “Pastor, sometime in the Summer of 1983, I saw a strange object in the sky hovering over my backyard. Ever since, I’ve had doubts about God. . .” “Jim, when I was in h