Closed Communion

[Protoevangel]

I just can't stand the whining and the posturing... If she has an issue with the practice of closed communion, she could at least have the common courtesy of discussing it with you respectfully, instead of being antagonistic exactly where she knows that y'all can't defend yourselves. Total hypocrisy.

 

[SPALATIN]

I just can't stand the whining and the posturing... If she has an issue with the practice of closed communion, she could at least have the common courtesy of discussing it with you respectfully, instead of being antagonistic exactly where she knows that y'all can't defend yourselves. Total hypocrisy.

So we will defend ourselves here. The intolerance of anyone posting there from the LCMS is interesting since they claim to be so tolerant.

Danhead is welcome here anytime.

 

[KEPLER]

So we will defend ourselves here. The intolerance of anyone posting there from the LCMS is interesting since they claim to be so tolerant.

Danhead is welcome here anytime.

Seconded!

 

[Protoevangel]

So we will defend ourselves here. The intolerance of anyone posting there from the LCMS is interesting since they claim to be so tolerant.

Danhead is welcome here anytime.

Seconded!

Thanks guys!

 

[KEPLER]

Thanks guys!

However, you have to check your lemur at the door...you can keep your gun, but Lemurs are such a mess, and we just got this place carpeted....

 

[SPALATIN]

However, you have to check your lemur at the door...you can keep your gun, but Lemurs are such a mess, and we just got this place carpeted....

Hey,

We have been critiqued on Lutherquest.org. Discussion thread titled "Lutherquest's own on Issues etc." About 3/4 the way down on the post by Eric Obermeyer. I think he nails it on the head pretty well.

 

[Zoomer]

What a moronic song. I am sure they would be offended and hop over here if the shoe was on the other foot. Now I know why I drive 25 minutes to an LCMS church when there are 5 ELCA churches that are closer. It is always that ones the are "open" that tend to be more judgemental and rude.

 

[LutherNut]

Hey,

We have been critiqued on Lutherquest.org. Discussion thread titled "Lutherquest's own on Issues etc." About 3/4 the way down on the post by Eric Obermeyer. I think he nails it on the head pretty well.

Hit it on the head and drove it home. One thing that they failed to mention is that all of the Lutheran mods on this forum are also ELCA. That may help explain some things.


Jay

 

[SPALATIN]

Closed communion makes others pass a litany test set up by a human hierarchy before that hierarchy deems them worthy to receive Christ.

The Christ presented in the Gospels went to those least deserving of all. The outcasts, the sinners, the tax collectors... He went to them and said "Here I am."

Quite frankly, it isn't about your worthiness to receive communion. We can't truly know the heart of another person. It is about the confession you make. The ELCA has said they don't take quia the Confessions. To most of the synod they are just another source of understanding scripture. They hold no particular import. But the LCMS does take the confessions seriously (not as much as scripture). But hey we have had this argument many times before.

I am posting this here because if I did it on your subforum I would get deleted and you know it. All you guys want is the ability to say what you want and not have anyone refute it as error. Well I may not be able to do it on your forum but I will do it here.

 

[KEPLER]

Quite frankly, it isn't about your worthiness to receive communion. We can't truly know the heart of another person. It is about the confession you make. The ELCA has said they don't take quia the Confessions. To most of the synod they are just another source of understanding scripture. They hold no particular import. But the LCMS does take the confessions seriously (not as much as scripture). But hey we have had this argument many times before.

I am posting this here because if I did it on your subforum I would get deleted and you know it. All you guys want is the ability to say what you want and not have anyone refute it as error. Well I may not be able to do it on your forum but I will do it here.

Scott, is it acceptable within CF rules to post a link to your response above on the ELCA thread? Or is that still consdiered encroachment?

 

[SPALATIN]

Scott, is it acceptable within CF rules to post a link to your response above on the ELCA thread? Or is that still consdiered encroachment?

I don't know. You could try and see, but my guess is yes it is encroachment. I personally wish they would all go away and have their own little forum where I don't have the opportunity to read their gross errors.

 

[KEPLER]

I don't know. You could try and see, but my guess is yes it is encroachment. I personally wish they would all go away and have their own little forum where I don't have the opportunity to read their gross errors.

Yeah, like a train wreck...you know you shouldn't look, but....

Or maybe it's more like the Ice Cream in the freezer, you know you shoudn't, but you do, and then you feel horrible and bloated afterwards....

 

[Protoevangel]

I don't know. You could try and see, but my guess is yes it is encroachment. I personally wish they would all go away and have their own little forum where I don't have the opportunity to read their gross errors.

I fully agree. It is deception and a lampoon to have thir arguments defended and protected in a forum named Confessional Lutherans. Thair crap belongs in Liberal Theology and/or a Unitarian forum, and nowhere else.

 

[KEPLER]

I was going to say something snarky about "litany test" ...but I'm trying to keep my cool...

I was grading a student's paper once (gave him a C-), and in an email reply to me he said something to me about "reading him the ride act". Heh.

 

[Protoevangel]

Dan buddy, Just read your reply to Angelus. Wow! I think I will take cover while the MOD vultures swoon in for the kill.

Yea, maybe they'll take me out of my misery.

 

[Melethiel]

I was going to say something snarky about "litany test"

Which litany would that be...the Sunday litany, the litany of the saints, some obscure one for the day of St. Mercurius?

 

[KEPLER]

Which litany would that be...the Sunday litany, the litany of the saints, some obscure one for the day of St. Mercurius?
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Shhhh! No sharing of answers on the litany test!

 

[SPALATIN]

That's what happens when people get their religion and science terms mixed up.

 

[LutherNut]

Heh, it's harvest season and I have no fear of the reaper!

(...and that's all I'm gonna say.)


Jay

 

[Tetzel]

If people want to beef about synods other than their own, I wish they would do so in the main forum so that everyone could participate. It would make far more sense for the subforums to be places where people discuss their own church (new hymnal gripes, synod politics, etc.)