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I seem to recall that in the preface to the small catechism Luther comments that the common people had a frighteningly bad grasp of fundamental concepts. Consequently the text was something of an emergency instruction book. I have a nice pocket version of the small catechism from the 80s. I'd be...

WELS is in fellowship with the Evangelical Lutheran Synod (ELS) based in Mankato Minnesota. They are Norwegians.

Article 5 of the Augsburg Confession says: That we may obtain this faith, the Ministry of Teaching the Gospel and administering the Sacraments was instituted. For through the Word and Sacraments, as through instruments, the Holy Ghost is given, who works faith; where and when it pleases God, in...

Is this certain? I can see what you're saying if we're talking about the Gospels or Acts, but does an epistle have a pre-existing tradition before it's written? You could say that about Luke's Gospel or Acts, which are reports of events some of which Luke did not witness first hand. Thus some...

I agree with you.

The confessions aren't very big on celibacy.

How do we read it? Why do we read it? Can you even read prophecy in a figurative manner? Doesn't that render the prophecy unfalsifiable?

Gesangbuch SELK

It would have been nice if the LSB had included a page called "What to do if you're in part of the world where there are no LCMS congregations"

I have a difficult time imagining a Lutheran exorcism as a ritual of its own. In Luthers baptism formula there was an exorcism consisting of blowing in the ear three times and saying something along the lines of "Fahr auss du unreyner Gaist", so there is an exorcism there. But when I read...

I'm really shocked that nobody has mentioned Rosicrucianism yet. KofC has always been kind of a pale imitation of freemasonry, which of course is forbidden to Catholics (and should be eschewed by all Christians) for its syncretism. Rosicrucianism is actually much more similar to freemasonry...

Sometimes.

Luther's 1545 edition. Lutherbibel.net - Biblia 1545 Ausgabe Letzter Hand

Very incorrect. 300,000 slaveholders owned 4,000,000 slaves in the US in 1860. The total population was 31,500,000

Evidently God and Oklahoma are not in agreement here. My Latin prof mentioned Cain and Abel once when we were translating a passage on something related. He said that both in Classical literature and in scripture there is a preference for the natural and pastoral over the cultivated (the...

Because of Satan!

The Wikipedia article on immaculate conc. says he dropped support of it. Footnoted too.

I would say that within the Anglican church there might be some people who have views that are Lutheran. The Anglican church is much more doctrinally diverse than Lutheranism. Lutheranism, even across the several church bodies it encompasses, is theologically rather uniform, it is the practice...

Hold on! I heard that pineapple makes it impossible for jello to congeal. The Straight Dope: Why you can't put pineapple in Jell-O

What happened to the fall?