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Great question, since everything we say should be supported by Scripture. I suppose I'd answer by saying that there is not a huge difference between saving someone and someone being elected, since, by definition if one is part of the elect one is saved and if one is saved one is part of the...

There was a large thread on this at some point, perhaps you could search and find some answers. But basically, here are the differences spelled out. Lutheran: 1) All men are sinners and from the moment of conception are doomed to hell because of Original Sin. 2) God elects people through...

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The Book of Concord mentions the Perpetual Virginity of Mary at least twice, once explicitly and once implicitly. (SA, Part I, IV explicitly and AC III implicitly). Semper Virgo was held pretty unanimously in the Lutheran Church until about 1900.

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I agree, if by fundamentalist you mean literal. However, the approach taken to get there is quite different. Even the WELS stresses the importance of the original languages and historical context as opposed to fundamentalists which ignore the latter and minimize the former, particularly when...

Private businesses have the right to refuse service to whomever they feel like. To suggest otherwise is to say that the government has the right to regulate a business when it has not taken on any of the risk, skill, or investment involved in maintaining a business.

Traditionally the RCC uses the four senses of Scripture to evaluate a Biblical text. Take for example "Jerusalem." Literally, it means the city located in the Middle East. Allegorically it could be the church on earth. Morally it could be the just man or the just soul. Analogically it's the...

I've only seen the interest in Patristics increase over the past few years. I feel like when we say the Bible is "without error" we're using a slogan that doesn't mean what we think it means. I definitely disagree, rather strongly, that Lutheranism is moving towards Evangelicalism. You have...

I give determinists the benefit of the doubt as far as their motives, they hold their views out of a pious love of God the Father. Most that I speak to hold that if God gives us free will, He cedes some control of the universe. In the Calvinist paradigm, God must always be sovereign. They...

For mortal sin, yes. You didn't specify that in your first comment though.

Only if you assume that it requires a will of your own to sin. You also have to assume that you can only posses a free will, there's the alternative that they have a will which is not completely free.

No. I've stated facts. There is not one passage in the New Testament that commands believers to use violence in evangelization. Yeah, your passages prove my point. Christians end up getting martyred, but we're never commanded to go out and use swords to spread our faith. I never said there's...

This argument doesn't work with Islam. Christians do not use violence to spread their religion, in accordance with the teachings of the New Testament. Christians that use violence to spread their religion do it in opposition and despite of what the New Testament says. There are Muslims who...

It's weird for the RCC hierarchy to be so open armed to muslims when there are RC faithful and priests being killed by muslims as we speak: Syrian terrorists behead Catholic priest accused of collaborating with the Assad regime - NY Daily News The RCC has enemies, it should be more aware of...

Within a Christian context, the issue becomes whether we can be a Christian (that being a particular action out of the choices of being a Christian or not) without the entirety of the choice (of being one) determined by past causes. No one would argue that past choices affect our future...

This is what I think is interesting about the RC hierarchy. Those in the Church aren't guaranteed salvation, but to those outside they tend to give the benefit of the doubt. That's not even what Vatican II taught so I don't know where it comes from. I don't think the SSPX was the only group...

For all peoples? Maybe in some isolated statements, but the Bible, in general, pits God's chosen people against an enemy, other tribes in the OT and "the world" in the NT. It's rather tribal at times. Thank you for qualifying it with the NT, but the NT is not a hippie love-fest that some people...

That is where I disagree with John Paul II (a Protestant disagreeing with the Pope, shocker!) He did alot of great things, he helped end communism, he inspired people to practice their religion. The problem was that he bordered on religious indifferentism in some of his unofficial statements...

Thanks for the explanation. So the CCC is not equivalent to a Canon or an Ecumenical Council then, correct?