"He comes." That is what "advent" means. But there is more to it than that: "He comes unto you." That we do not have to ascend to Christ, but that He descends to us is at the heart of the Gospel. That's Luther's point in his sermon for the First Sunday of Advent (1522).
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Heresy is not often the equivalent of insanity. We who grew up during the cold war know how the Soviet government often declared political dissidents mentally ill. So, I do not say this flippantly that MAGA Christianity is both heretical and insane. Heresy is often the charge the...
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