[Mrs. Don-o]

Thank you for the time and thoughtfulness you put into your follow-up responses. It's hardly a topic I feel I can dare approach, anyhow, except on my knees.

Besides, I'm not in a position to discern, dissect, or debate right now, because it's comin' on Thanksgiving and I'm getting ready for comp'ny!

Wish we could get together and discuss it over my pecan sweet potato pie! Many blessings upon you.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Let me say that I would NOT BE SURPRISED if the aforementioned theologians (LCMS Men of Gospel-reputation) did not “smack-me-around”, “beat-me-up” and subsequently “verbally flog” my post. I stand in my belief.

That offered, I defer to them in proper teaching. Yet I know that Phillip taught the Ethiopian Eunuch while trusting in the Holy Spirit to bring that same man to the Gospel Salvation.

Such is what we “believe, teach and confess”.