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  1. Albion

    What are your thoughts on the Christus Victor theory of atonement?

    God
  2. Albion

    What are your thoughts on the Christus Victor theory of atonement?

    The part about MLKing is fanciful, quite "politically correct" although not very accurate; but as for the part concerning the Cross, men have tried to describe the cause and effect of Christ's death in more ordinary terms, ones that we humans can more easily identify with. However, that's all...
  3. Albion

    Should US Presidents have an age limit?

    It's not. However, I suspect that explaining the point further won't do any good,
  4. Albion

    LCMS Eucharist

    Josiah made a reference to it in an earlier post. Transubstantiation is based upon an inversion of a principle advanced by Aristotle, who was much admired during the Middle Ages. Because he said that the substance of an object does not change even when its external appearance does, it was...
  5. Albion

    Should US Presidents have an age limit?

    Yes, but my comment was about persons of advanced age. Your comment here is about people at the other end of life. Therefore, the two are not part of the same situation. That's a different argument with different considerations. It may be worth discussing, but it isn't part of what I was...
  6. Albion

    Dispensationalism

    Again, the fact that some events in the Bible are related to a certain time frame does not support a particular theory of all of human history which is commonly called "Dispensationalism." Not any more than a reference to baptize in Scripture is a reference to the local Baptist Church or the...
  7. Albion

    Should US Presidents have an age limit?

    ?? I guess I miss how these are supposed to be parallel to the issue we were discussing.
  8. Albion

    LCMS Eucharist

    The word that's normally used is "consecrate." The priest/minister of course doesn't assemble anything there, but he prays over the bread and wine, and what changes is God's doing.
  9. Albion

    LCMS Eucharist

    To "confect" something is to assemble the parts or ingredients. That isn't what happens at Mass or at the Lutheran Eucharist.
  10. Albion

    LCMS Eucharist

    I explained that in post #26. My interest in this has been simply to help you make your decision for whichever one of the two churches you choose. If you believe, as you answered in post #32, that you are "taking the word" of the Catholic priest concerning his own authority simply because...
  11. Albion

    LCMS Eucharist

    Question: What's the proof that Roman Catholic priests have that ability?
  12. Albion

    LCMS Eucharist

    It is God, of course, who makes this miracle possible, but the authority (or power if we want to put it that way) to perform the ceremony comes from Christ himself who established this sacrament at the Last Supper and directed his Apostles to continue to observe it after he was no longer with...
  13. Albion

    LCMS Eucharist

    That's correct. The Lutheran view of the Eucharist is similar to that of the Catholic Church and not at all in line with what some posters here have said when giving you their own understanding of the sacrament. In other words, you are not asking about that issue but, rather, about the...
  14. Albion

    LCMS Eucharist

    and I answered to that one, too. That's their claim, of course, but them saying what you reported doesn't make the claim correct. As I read your post, and now this later one, it sounds as though you think that what the Catholic priest said when you asked about this is definitive. But of...
  15. Albion

    LCMS Eucharist

    I referred to several points you made in that post. The one I think you are asking me about was the one that suggested that Catholic priests do not wash away, etc. any of the consecrated wine/blood whereas that's what happens when the individual cups in use at your current church are collected...
  16. Albion

    Dispensationalism

    One more time...if you have now decided that any timing that's attached to events in Scripture justifies your claims here, you are no longer arguing for what's recognized in Christian circles as the POV called "Dispensationalism."
  17. Albion

    LCMS Eucharist

    I'd think that you must first decide if the claim of him not having valid orders is correct or not. What you've described seems to me to be a crude way of concluding the distribution of the Communion and not what I've ever experienced in a Lutheran church. In any case, a more reverent way...
  18. Albion

    Should US Presidents have an age limit?

    DO we? I don't think so.
  19. Albion

    Should US Presidents have an age limit?

    Yes, but there is a reasonable reservation about anyone becoming President without being mature. Whether or not 35 is the right age for determining such competency is open to question and the Constitution can of course be amended. However, this doesn't give us an answer to the proposition about...
  20. Albion

    Should US Presidents have an age limit?

    No, That would unnecessarily infringe upon the right of the voters to elect the candidate they judge to be the best. By "unnecessarily" I mean that the presumption is that age determines competence, but as we know it does not. Some candidates would be suffering age-related diseases or...
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