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I agree with a poster up in the Anglican section who has said that the "Traditional Church."is the Roman, Orthodox and Lutheran/Reformed. These are churches where the gospel is preached and the sacraments rightly administered. And this is what I still believe, and why it is hard for me to believe that the Church is only the RCC or Orthodox or whatever.
I do know that today that confessionals Lutherans would say that the invisible church would be anyone who professes Jesus Christ as savior and trusts in his death on the Cross as payment in full for our sins. So this would be the invisible church that Luther talked about.
I have been inquiring in Orthodoxy, and was one time looking into the RCC, but I was a bit put off that the RCC basically say you cannot be saved outside of the Catholic Church(unless one is ignorant that it is necessary for Salvation) and the Orthodox will say they know where the Church is, but not where she isn't(which I like a lot better) but outside of Orthodoxy the Western churches are hetrodox and do not have valid sacraments.
I also know that when the idea of church was written by Luther and the Reformers let's face it there were not so many sects and schisms as there are today. So would they consider Anabaptists part of the Church?
I have always been a "Mere Christianity" Christian, but the reason I went back to traditional Lutheranism, is I very much believe in the Real Presence in the Eucharist and regenerational Baptism. In fact I would go on to say I don't understand why we don't have the other 5 sacraments as well.
I do know that today that confessionals Lutherans would say that the invisible church would be anyone who professes Jesus Christ as savior and trusts in his death on the Cross as payment in full for our sins. So this would be the invisible church that Luther talked about.
I have been inquiring in Orthodoxy, and was one time looking into the RCC, but I was a bit put off that the RCC basically say you cannot be saved outside of the Catholic Church(unless one is ignorant that it is necessary for Salvation) and the Orthodox will say they know where the Church is, but not where she isn't(which I like a lot better) but outside of Orthodoxy the Western churches are hetrodox and do not have valid sacraments.
I also know that when the idea of church was written by Luther and the Reformers let's face it there were not so many sects and schisms as there are today. So would they consider Anabaptists part of the Church?
I have always been a "Mere Christianity" Christian, but the reason I went back to traditional Lutheranism, is I very much believe in the Real Presence in the Eucharist and regenerational Baptism. In fact I would go on to say I don't understand why we don't have the other 5 sacraments as well.