Question regarding Protestants and Holy Water

[MamaMia3]

Do Protastants such as “Luteran” believe in the healing powers of Holy Water? Or is “Holy Water” specific only to The Catholic and Orthodox Faiths?:

 

[puzzleannie]

my guess is that since the efficacy of holy water comes from the blessing conferred by the priest, denominations that have rejected the whole notion of the sacrificial priesthood also reject the whole notion of blessings that derive their grace from that sacrifice celebrated in the Catholic liturgy

 

[pigtown]

I’ve never seen holy water in Lutheran churches or in any other churches that I’ve gone to so I’m guessing that it’s only seen in Catholic and Orthodox churches.

 

[FrDavid96]

I’ve seen the practice in Anglican churches, but since the water is not blessed by a priest or deacon, it is not in the proper sense of the word “Holy Water” anyway.

 

[Aramis]

I’ve never seen holy water in Lutheran churches or in any other churches that I’ve gone to so I’m guessing that it’s only seen in Catholic and Orthodox churches.

It isn’t done in ELCA, but a couple of the other Lutheran Synods are so Roman in praxis as to even have holy water.

To be honest, any look at Lutheranism needs to realize it’s as vague a term as Orthodox… A collection of autonomous churches.

 

[pigtown]

I’ve never gone to an ELCA Lutheran Church but have gone to some LCMS and none of them have used holy water.

 

[Cat]

I’m a convert from evangelical Protestantism.

Evangelicals don’t believe that material objects can be made “holy.”

Many evangelicals believe that the body is somehow incapable of being “holy”. I know I’m not explaining it very well, but what I’m trying to say is that evangelicals emphasize the “spiritual” over the physical.

 

[bpbasilphx]

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Many evangelicals believe that the body is somehow incapable of being “holy”. I know I’m not explaining it very well, but what I’m trying to say is that evangelicals emphasize the “spiritual” over the physical.**

**And yet, since WHEN has God wrought spiritual things EXCEPT through the physical?

As one former Evangelical (who is now an Orthodox priest said), “Salvation is a spiritual matter, but when you take away all of its physical aspects, including 3 hours on a cross, you have NO salvation.”**

Evangelicals don’t believe that material objects can be made "holy."

And this is basically the heresies of docetism and gnosticism.

 

[Cat]

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Many evangelicals believe that the body is somehow incapable of being “holy”. I know I’m not explaining it very well, but what I’m trying to say is that evangelicals emphasize the “spiritual” over the physical.**

**And yet, since WHEN has God wrought spiritual things EXCEPT through the physical?

As one former Evangelical (who is now an Orthodox priest said), “Salvation is a spiritual matter, but when you take away all of its physical aspects, including 3 hours on a cross, you have NO salvation.”**

Evangelicals don’t believe that material objects can be made "holy."

And this is basically the heresies of docetism and gnosticism.

I agree. This is one of the issues that made my husband and I decide in favor of becoming Catholic.