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Hello! I'm an evangelical Baptist exploring the Lutheran faith.
I have asked other people on CF what church I would fit in with best, and the LCMS was recommended to me and I was told I would make a very good Lutheran.
However, as much as I admire Lutheranism, I have a couple of questions.
-I'm a credobaptist, but I see both sides of the baptism debate. I neither affirm or deny baptismal regeneration. It just doesn't seem to make much of a difference to me as both a Lutheran and a Baptist would agree that if someone claims to be a Christian, but refuses to be baptized, then his faith probably isn't genuine. Idk if so I am misrepresenting the Lutheran position, here. Please pardon me if I did.
- I'm a premillennialist, but not of the dispensationalist variety, but Lutheranism seems to have a strong Amillennial bent. Is a premillennialist stance "un-Lutheran?" I recognize the eschatological significance of the modern nation of Israel, but I think dispensationalists go too far and end up with some un- biblical conclusions.
I looked into Anglicanism, but it seems too diverse to the point it sacrifices orthodoxy and there seems to be a serious lack of literal six day creationists, which I am probably more likely to find among the LCMS and WELS.
So, how Lutheran am I?
I have asked other people on CF what church I would fit in with best, and the LCMS was recommended to me and I was told I would make a very good Lutheran.
However, as much as I admire Lutheranism, I have a couple of questions.
-I'm a credobaptist, but I see both sides of the baptism debate. I neither affirm or deny baptismal regeneration. It just doesn't seem to make much of a difference to me as both a Lutheran and a Baptist would agree that if someone claims to be a Christian, but refuses to be baptized, then his faith probably isn't genuine. Idk if so I am misrepresenting the Lutheran position, here. Please pardon me if I did.
- I'm a premillennialist, but not of the dispensationalist variety, but Lutheranism seems to have a strong Amillennial bent. Is a premillennialist stance "un-Lutheran?" I recognize the eschatological significance of the modern nation of Israel, but I think dispensationalists go too far and end up with some un- biblical conclusions.
I looked into Anglicanism, but it seems too diverse to the point it sacrifices orthodoxy and there seems to be a serious lack of literal six day creationists, which I am probably more likely to find among the LCMS and WELS.
So, how Lutheran am I?