• Abortion
You asked me one question, Mickey, which I answered.After you answer the questions that you have been avoiding from everyone on this thread for days. You are very good at throwing subtle insults…but you lost the debate on sola scriptura long ago. I’ll tell ya what. Start with PRmergers questions…and we’ll go from there…eh?
PR, maybe you’re familiar with the term “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone”? One can see that many (not all) of these same problems plague the RCC as well as the Protestant Churches. Your system isn’t anymore perfect than ours.
Cute. I have had many discussions with my Catholic brothers and sisters regarding papal primacy vs supremacy. And there are many threads of which you may participate.
At least the roman catholics can appeal to tradition and their elders, if a lutheran feels compelled by the spirit and reading of the bible to say homosexuals should marry can he be reasonably refuted? He is relying (at least from his perspective) the highest authority above any Council, bishop or tradition.
“The Protestant churches, as you know, came out of the Roman Church when this body was already separated from the Eastern Orthodox Church. Thus, as one Russian theologian put it in the last century, it is probably true to say that the Roman and Reformed Protestant churches are much closer to each other—historically, spiritually, theologically, culturally, psychologically—than the Orthodox Church is to either.The many events and changes in the various churches in recent days, not excluding the Orthodox Church, makes this question still more difficult to answer. Thus, although we might say that the Orthodox are closer to the so-called “high” churches of the West such as the Roman and Anglican, it might be much safer and more correct to approach Orthodoxy solely on its own ground without too much comparison to others.” oca.org/questions/romancatholicism/is-the-orthodox-church-is-closer-to-the-roman-catholic-church-than-to-the-p
Of course he can be refuted. If he takes being a Lutheran seriously, he’s read the conclusion of the Augsburg Confession which says:
I find nothing in scripture or the historic Church Catholic that permits what you say above.
Again your man opinion agianst his idea of what the bible says.
You thrust yourself away from the Latin Catholic Church in protest…that’s for sure. And then you kept on reforming. You threw out the Sacraments including the apostolic succession.
This would be determined by the church. Individual opinion of Scripture, creeds, confessions, and other authorities have no place in the confessional Lutheran church.
That quote is from the OCA.You thrust yourself away from the Latin Catholic Church in protest…that’s for sure. And then you kept on reforming. You threw out the Sacraments including the apostolic succession.
You are certainly not closer to them than the Orthodox.
Our system, batman, is infinitely better than yours, in that we have a functioning magisterium to declare what is God’s revelation and what is not.
I would politely disagree. Does the scripture say "Cursed is the man who trusts in man, or Blessed is the man who trusts in man? (Jer. 17:5) The idea that a fallible humans can make infallible decrees is just not a good one. That is the whole point of using the Bible as the sole authority. There, you have God’s written Word. Now, to those churches that make light of what is written in scripture, and go against His Word, they will be accountable for what they have done.
Ah… but that’s lumping all the Protestants together and pronouncing their difference.
And what is a church if not composed of a Creed, opinions of scripture, confessions and authorities?
We’re trying to do better!This went downhill fast…
I will see you there!
Amen.
