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I don't think this happened of his own accord, more likely some Lutherans got to him after reading his books that had a Reformed bent and then he came to the Lutheran position, plus he had to be employed somewhere to feed his family. I doubt he's gone from presuppositional to evidential...

awesome first sermon as a Lutheran; he hit on baptism, the substitutional atonement, baptism, and the "for you" meaning not "limited" atonement but available to all : (objective/ subjective justification)

awesome!! so this must mean he now agrees with us on the eucharist and icons

I didn't know he was once Catholic or Reformed

We read many instances of this in EO lives of saints books, such as those from sale from St. Vladimirs/Hermans. The stories seems very believable. How realistic is this, of knowing others thoughts? Are there Lutherans with this ability?

I've studied him for over a decade. He is not interested in Lutheranism. I'm sure he understands it but it's not his thing. I used to read the blogs of some guys who debated him constantly about 12 years ago about EO, back when some other EO guys also did a lot of blogging, reams and reams of...

To--- Ceallaigh " I heed not that my earthly lot Hath-little of Earth in it— That years of love have been forgot In the hatred of a minute:— I mourn not that the desolate Are happier, sweet, than I, But that you sorrow for my fate Who am a...

yea if it was a supportive environment and there were people my age but I've seen how it is usually at the local churches in my area and it's mostly people nowhere near my age range; there are very few 30 somethings apparently who go to church near me ; i've been there. there are no such in my...

I still disagree with your overly optimistic assessment. my mental issues didn't really start till 28, but before that even when I was normal I was still sort of an outcast. in high school, it was the most positive as I got along with every guy, but after that I became more isolated gradually...

no , "clique of spiritual midgets" was used by Paul4JC above for those not really taking church seriously. But as far as having a "bad attitude", this is something introverts often get told but in actuality, I'm yet to meet someone who says something to the affect that peers have always...

yea but in the interim if you take a break from church for a year, for mental health, you shouldn't be considered an outcast lol. I've grown mostly via self study , its like learning something as an autodidact. those who say you must go to church should look at Haggai, just going is also...

I respectfully disagree, being taken advantage of is not good either.

So I'm just telling some of my personal experience. Especially two scenarios that happened to me when I was young between the age of 18-26. The first I would say is the most dissapointing of the two: I had gone to a Lutheran church for most of my life age 0-17, the pastor changed while I was...

it's weird, even in Orthodoxy there is a tradition of staretz or holy fools who act like Ezekiel and do outside evangelism, I think its similar to why the sermon style differs from the Reformed--- teaching of doctrine should only be inside the church building, and anti- monk/ staretz theology...

the most conservative is the lcms probably because they are the German branch, the scandinavian synods were founded by Pietists who tended to be more arminian in theology. after world war 2 , the German population significantly declined which is why there are more Lutherans of the ELCA...

no I accept sola scriptura, maybe it was you who didn't accept the authority of Scripture as I recall based on other posts of yours lol. don't know where you got that from. I linked articles on Brenz that explain his position. I can't really understand what you wrote. Lutheranism doesn't accept...

true but I think the reason why the gospel has made zero progress in Hindu/Buddhist countries besides South Korea is that by and large our apologetic methodology does not really understand what they even believe (people like Ray Comfort), and in the US we focus way too much on Islam as a threat...

oh ok. I remember I had to read the Dhammapada once , I never thought Pali was the original language. I never thought Theravada was the original but haven't looked into it enough. I liked the idea of Mahayana better, but it's true that the shin branch puts an emphasis on Pali and Japanese and...

https://afkimel.wordpress.com/2018/09/10/johannes-brenz-on-the-real-presence-of-christ-in-the-supper/ https://afkimel.wordpress.com/2022/02/06/on-the-personal-union-of-the-two-natures-in-christ-by-johannes-brenz/ thanks for that on the Buddhism. I've looked into jodo shinshu before but lately...

Lately I'm struggling to see how/why I should reject Brenz's view of Christology. How / why should I accept Chemnitz nuanced view that seems to be more Reformed than Lutheran. If Christ is not everywhere as in Pantheism/ Buddhism, then then Lutheran view makes no sense to me. The infinite must...