To: marshmallow
If the left cannot spread their corruption to that other church, there will be no merger.
2 posted on
07/08/2014 7:55:12 PM PDT by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: marshmallow
3 posted on
07/08/2014 7:57:39 PM PDT by
yldstrk
( My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: marshmallow
Metropolitan Hilarion summarized the problems at play in Orthodox-Lutheran dialogue in an interview with Der Spiegel. “Many Protestant churches have liberalized their notions of ethics, giving a theological justification to homosexuality and blessing same-sex couples,” he said. “Some refuse to consider abortion to be a sin. We do not share the understanding of the Church and church order, especially as the Protestants, unlike the Orthodox and Catholic Churches, ordain women.”
4 posted on
07/08/2014 7:58:23 PM PDT by
iowamark
(I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
To: marshmallow
it isn’t welcomed - women pastors - in LCMS or WELS.
5 posted on
07/08/2014 8:01:04 PM PDT by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: marshmallow
We have to come together on this issue, else how can we get this ecumenical movement snowballing into a one world religion?
6 posted on
07/08/2014 8:05:07 PM PDT by
BipolarBob
(Obama - The Scandal a Week President.)
To: marshmallow
I wonder how the secret dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod is going?
To: marshmallow
How perceptive. Yes, for us Orthodox, women’s ordination to the presbyterate is a complete non-starter — even if another body confessed the creed without the filioque, held all the doctrines of the Seven Ecumenical Councils, maintained the Palamite understanding of grace, if they ordain women as priests, the Orthodox will not enter into communion with them.
The diaconate might be another matter. There plainly was an ancient order of deaconesses, but whether they ever functioned liturgically as deacons is a matter of great dispute, and the affirmative position that they did must be tempered with the fact that ancient canons forbid women entering the altar unless the be virgins over the age of 40 or widows living in chastity over the age of 60. There is also general opposition to any attempt to revive the order of deaconess.
10 posted on
07/08/2014 8:31:16 PM PDT by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
To: marshmallow; lightman
If Lutherans want unity with us Orthodox, they have to BECOME Orthodox!!!!
It’s the only way. Just getting rid of women/gay/transsexual pastors and “bishops” won’t work.
Trust me. I know!!!!
12 posted on
07/08/2014 8:32:16 PM PDT by
Honorary Serb
(Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
To: marshmallow
“Rev. Dr. Jennifer...”
I see part of the problem.
15 posted on
07/08/2014 10:30:26 PM PDT by
Roos_Girl
(The world is full of educated derelicts. - Calvin Coolidge)
To: aberaussie; Aeronaut; aliquando; AlternateViewpoint; AnalogReigns; Archie Bunker on steroids; ...
Lutheran Ping!
Be rooted in Christ!
19 posted on
07/09/2014 1:44:55 AM PDT by
lightman
(O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
To: marshmallow
Talking to the wrong Lutherans.
24 posted on
07/09/2014 5:23:42 AM PDT by
Lee N. Field
("He shall slay the dragon that is in the sea." Isaiah 27:1)
To: marshmallow
Which is why the LCMS and affiliated synods now view ecumenical dialog with a lot more suspicion than before.
25 posted on
07/09/2014 5:31:08 AM PDT by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
To: marshmallow
The situation has been exacerbated by the election of Elizabeth Eaton as Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)
44 posted on
07/09/2014 6:43:58 PM PDT by
lightman
(O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
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