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typo. I meant it is not binding,

I don’t think we have Confirmation at our church anymore. They have what’s called The Rooted Experience, now just called “Rooted” and then after something like 10 weeks there’s a dinner and a thing in the church where we’re introduced. We might’ve had to answer some questions or recite something...

The only ELCA in town that I’m aware of is too far away from here for me to drive and is dwindling, They went from being a pretty vibrant church to losing their preschool and now they’re down to one service on Sunday.

The people at the convention a few years ago made it sound that way to me…..though Josiah once already posted that really, it was just their opinion s. It binding.

Ok dumb question alert but what are “Lutheran teachings on Justification?” and about the other things, purgatory, Mary, the Pope etc. I havent given all that much thought. Yet.

I don’t know, except that it just seems like such an important part of being LCMS.

That’s pretty much what my pastors say at the LCMS church. Catholics say it’s the Holy Spirit but that it can only be done by a validly ordained priest. It’s so confusing because the LCMS says one thing, Catholics say another, but Communion isn’t my biggest problem. The biggest problem goes back...

Ok well, what about ALL the scientific evidence that says we didn’t come from the dust of the ground but from a group of people in Africa?

To give it, no. To consecrate it? I dunno

Math isn’t my forte‘. So if creation was around the years listed, that would make the earth how old?

Yes, but what about the dating of the earth? I read credible scientific articles that said creationists make it sound as if the dating method (s) is faulty when in reality they have many different dating methods, all pointing to an old earth. Creationists use the Grand Canyons bent layers of...

I guess what bothers me a lot, too, is that in doing online research, all I get is old earth commentary, articles etc. unless it’s from questionable creationist sites like Answers In Genesis, rather than scientists.

The genealogies of Genesis provide the framework around which the Book of Genesis is structured. Beginning with Adam, genealogical material in Genesis 4, 5, 10, 11, 22, 25, 29–30, 35–36, and 46 moves the narrative forward from the creation to the beginnings of the Israelites' existence as a...

I think I believe that the RCC communion is Jesus. But at the same time IF the LCMS also has Jesus in and under the bread and wine, all the better. That makes more sense to me than transubstantiation.

No, I question my Pastors ability to consecrate the Eucharist (via the Holy Spirit) or whatever it’s called due to their lack of apostolic succession.

I haven’t seen 20,000 years but I have seen 10,000 years.

Thank you! Food for thought. I prefer my Lutheran church…..awesome pastors, awesome congregants, awesome messages, awesome music, but because of my doubts about all this I felt like I’d have to return to the RCC. Still don’t know what I’m going to do but I emailed my registration to the RCC...

He doesn’t preach this, it’s just the official position of the LCMS. It supposedly come from the genealogies in Genesis.

Well, speaking of the Eucharist, I don’t know that I believe the LCMS Eucharist is really Jesus, like the RCC.

I’m LCMS. My pastor and I have talked about this ad nauseam. (Sp) He says that science changes every so often and he believes in the supernatural. Among other things.