Early Church Fathers

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Where does that quote address the nature of the sacramental union?

Or is your point that if we were true we wouldn’t call ourselves Lutherans? Well, as to that, it’s not the name we chose for ourselves. You all stuck us with it, and as is so often the case in Christian history, the name has stayed.

But we are Christians standing in the stream of historic Christianity claiming no pedigree beyond a commitment to apostolic doctrine.
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Hello steadfast,

Though I would point out not in the same way the Church Fathers believed it as (as still affirmed in the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Churches).

And just curious if you read St. Jerome’s words here when addressing the Luciferians (a separated group of believers who followed the Bishop Lucifer of Sardinia):

“We ought to remain in that Church which was founded by the Apostles and continues to this day. If ever you hear of any that are called Christians taking their name not from the Lord Jesus Christ, but from some other, for instance, Marcionites, Valentinians, Men of the mountain or the plain, you may be sure that you have there not the Church of Christ, but the synagogue of Antichrist. For the fact that they took their rise after the foundation of the Church is proof that they are those whose coming the Apostle foretold. And let them not flatter themselves if they think they have Scripture authority for their assertions, since the devil himself quoted Scripture, and the essence of the Scriptures is not the letter, but the meaning. Otherwise, if we follow the letter, we too can concoct a new dogma and assert that such persons as wear shoes and have two coats must not be received into the Church.”

newadvent.org/fathers/3005.htm
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