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Recent content by KEPLER

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    I am afraid of taking the holy communion

    This is a bit confusing. It almost sounds like the Pastor has told you that you can't be baptized until you stop sinning? Am I hearing this correctly? (I hope not!) Perhaps you have put this restriction on yourself? If so, let me be perfectly clear with you: As an ADULT convert to...
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    Question About Leaving Church

    First of all, this deep in the forums, only Lutherans should be answering. As to your friend... In general, Lutherans don't have a category of 'backsliding' the way that baptists do. But we DO believe that people can be saved at some point in their life and then NOT be saved at a later point...
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    (moved) Can the Philosophical Approach of "Reformed" Protestantism lead out of Christianity?

    Rakovsky, Three things I have noticed: 1) Your command of European History is rather poor; even basic chronology has completely eluded you. 2) Perhaps your sources are bad? Some of what I've read from you sounds like it came straight out of Will and Ariel Durant's work. If so, throw it all in...
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    (moved) Can the Philosophical Approach of "Reformed" Protestantism lead out of Christianity?

    Putting Copernicus and Galileo in with the Unitarians is well and truly a stretch, to put kindly. To put it unkindly, it's asinine and completely ignorant of the historical settings of the figures. And, while Copernicus did not publish his De Orbium Coelestium until 1543, the ideas in it he...
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    (moved) Can the Philosophical Approach of "Reformed" Protestantism lead out of Christianity?

    Because, good Lutheran that Mark is, he wants to ensure that what the BoC means by 'spiritual' (in this very narrow sense) is most certainly NOT what the Reformed meant by spiritual in, e.g. the Heidelberg Catechism, where Christ's presence is in the Lord's Supper is called 'spiritual', but...
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    (moved) Can the Philosophical Approach of "Reformed" Protestantism lead out of Christianity?

    First of all, 'remember' is not in any way undermined by the physical presence. Second, you need to find out what the original meaning of this word is. It is NOTHING like how we think of 'remember' in English. Cheers, Kepler
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    (moved) Can the Philosophical Approach of "Reformed" Protestantism lead out of Christianity?

    Alright, so I was tempted over here by someone putting a link to this discussion in the Lutheran forum. Thought I'd throw a couple of spanners into the gears here... But first, since no one here knows me, here is the position I am coming from: I am Lutheran (LCMS). I hold the M.A. in...
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    Where did Luther or major Lutherans explain how the "Reformed" exaggerate the role of Reason?

    It's actually a bit stronger than that Mark. (Mind you, I'm not saying you are incorrect; I am saying that you are actually even more right than your statement above implies). As you rightly note, Transubstantiation got its current definition during the high middle ages, and specifically...
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    Are There Any Double-Predestination Lutherans?

    As far as I'm concerned, the doctrine of limited atonement is formal heresy. Kepler
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    Campbell's Soup ad has homosexual fathers

    Soup is good food the enemy of religious freedom.
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    Campbell's Soup ad has homosexual fathers

    I thank God every day that I'm not a sinner like those soup-eating gay people. K
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    Campbell's Soup ad has homosexual fathers

    Umm, so what's up with P&G products? Oral-B makes the BEST toothbrushes. K
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    Campbell's Soup ad has homosexual fathers

    I'm not sure as to why this statement was directed (or appears to have been directed) at me. I guess the first half pertains to what I said, and my response to them would be the same, to wit, "Turn it off." K
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    Campbell's Soup ad has homosexual fathers

    What about TV shows with divorced people? Viagra commercials? Any broadcast of the New York Yankees? (For Pete's sake, every good Christian knows the only sports team we can follow is the Los Angeles Angels). "While eating soup"....? "Hey, baby, you're lookin' real hot in that clam...
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    Campbell's Soup ad has homosexual fathers

    There's a button on your TV remote. It says, "Off." Try it sometime. K
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