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Absolutely. One of my co- workers, actually, is a very devout member of the Anglican Church in North America ( ACNA) and there are Anglican Catholics who emphasize historic, liturgical Anglicanism very much. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is a heretical body that calls itself "...
Okay, I'm back. Well, let me get started right away by saying that I was brought up as a Southern Baptist and their emphasis on Scripture is certainly something I appreciated. In Sunday School, I was the guy who asked some pretty tough questions ( I had been interested in Church History from a...
Hey, I'm just going to post this real quick before I go to work. I'll get into it in more detail later, but I am a member of a Lutheran Church- Missouri Synod church as an answer to prayer. I was looking for a Biblically based, liturgical church whose doctrine didn't deviate from area to area...
Lutherans look at faith as not only an intellectual assent, but as that which applies the promises of the Gospel to the individual. Faith leads to love, which is manifested in good works to our neighbor.
I was just trying to offer up my agreement that " is" does mean " is," while adding that this doctrine is so vital to the life of the Church, it determines who may participate in the Sacrament of the Altar and who may not. For some of us, this is the pinnacle of the Christian experience.
That's why we have Closed Communion.. Of course "is means is." That's why the Lutherans and the Zwinglians couldn't agree to a common Communion at the Colloquy of Marburg.. they weren't in agreement about the bodily Presence of Jesus Christ in the bread and Wine. Scripture states that those who...
I honestly can't really say I'm surprised at all by all this. With our cultural media and the emphasis on people doing their own thing, such a trend is to be expected.
Sure God talks to us. Through Word and Sacrament, Law and Gospel, we know full well what His will for us is. If somebody's hearing voices, they might want to get a psychological evaluation.
Yes, indeed, this right here. What does it say in Deuteronomy? That we are to keep those things revealed to us, but the secret things belong to God? Also, Paul says somewhere not to go beyond that which is written. We needn't understand everything now, but later all will be revealed, in the...
The thing about that was that during his campaign, Trump identified very strongly with the Christian Right, had photos taken of him praying and speaking out about his Presbyterian faith, e.g...