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Theologian: Soon "breakthrough" for a common supper
katholische.de (google translation) ^ | August 12, 2017 | unknown

Posted on 08/12/2017 7:16:17 PM PDT by ebb tide

Wolfgang Huber, former Council President of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), believes in a "breakthrough" at the communion of Protestants and Catholics to the Ecumenical Church Day of 2021. "I can not imagine that we will celebrate this church day without A breakthrough has been achieved in the area of ​​Eucharistic hospitality, "said the former bishop of Berlin in the interview of the" Weser-Kurier "(Saturday). Until the event in Frankfurt am Main 2021 something must move.

"Machistort des Papstes" less promising

According to Huber, the next steps in the Eucharist and the Lord's Supper will be "decentralized". "My feeling is that Pope Francis wants to broaden the scope of individual bishops' conferences for ecumenically relevant decisions, and sees this path as a more promising one as a central path for the whole world church and a breakthrough through a pope's power," said Huber.

The former bishop of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz was 75 years old on Saturday. Berlin's Archbishop Heiner Koch congratulated him with a congratulatory letter: Koch thanked him especially for the "strong accents" which he had placed both in the Protestant church and in the ecumenism. He praised Huber as a "strong integrator" and recalled that the fusion of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg with the Evangelical Church of the Silesian Oberlausitz fell in his office in 2004.

Huber was born on 12 August 1942 in Strasbourg. From 1994 to 2009 he was a bishop of Berlin, and from 2003 to 2009 he was the presidency of the Evangelical Church in Germany. Before that, he was himself president of the church. In his own words, however, it was self-evident for him to leave the office before his bishop's election. "For me the church day movement is characterized by the fact that it is a lay movement that cooperates with the Church, but on the basis of reciprocal freedom", he explained. At the Kirchentag this year in Berlin and Wittenberg you got the feeling of a joint event. "From the old counterpart of the church and the church day nothing was visible to the outside." He wanted something more friction, however. "Friction generates fire," says Huber. (JHE / KNA)


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To: Iscool
According to what Jesus says here neither you nor any other man can deny forgiveness to anyone...

"Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them. Whose sins you shall retain, they are retained." If you can't see that you are contradicting these explicit words of Jesus, you are wasting your time owning a Bible--or any other printed material. http://biblehub.com/john/20-23.htm

41 posted on 08/14/2017 5:52:37 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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To: Arthur McGowan; Iscool

And how did they forgive or retain sins.....see Acts 2.


42 posted on 08/14/2017 6:57:26 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: trebb

No one was excluded.... John 3:16 clearly states if we should believe.... we will be granted eternal life.

We are saved by God’s grace and grace alone... There is nothing man can do to earn it... Thus, they can never give glory to themselves.... For it is God’s alone....


43 posted on 08/14/2017 7:11:33 AM PDT by PigRigger
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To: PigRigger
I agree - nobody was excluded. I posed the question to a guy who wrote: But His Blood was shed for "many", not for "all of us". as a way to give Catholic priests more sway in their belief that we need mortal priests in order to attain Heaven.

I was born into the Catholic Church and by the time I was 14, I decided that going the "agnostic route" made as much sense. Took me another 35 years to clearly hear the message of the Gospel in a non-denominational church and be saved.

44 posted on 08/14/2017 7:24:48 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Arthur McGowan
"Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them. Whose sins you shall retain, they are retained." If you can't see that you are contradicting these explicit words of Jesus, you are wasting your time owning a Bible--or any other printed material. http://biblehub.com/john/20-23.htm

It is not I who is contradicting anything...I just posted scriptures of Jesus that contradicts what you have posted...

The bible doesn't end at the book of John, or even acts...In fact the epistles to the Gentile churches starts at the book of Romans...

Rom 1:7 To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints
1Co 1:2 Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:
2Co 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia
Gal 1:1 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) Gal 1:2 And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia:

You post obscure scripture that gives no explanation and was never recorded to have been put into practice (which indicates it may be a future prophecy)...Your religion invents it's own doctrine outside of the scriptures which contradicts the rest of the scriptures and the epistles written specifically to the churches...

Eph_4:14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
1Ti_1:3 As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine,

So ironically, those epistles written to the churches that you guys ignore apparently from unfamiliararity warns us in many places about your religion...

I don't see how you can consider yourself to be a purvayer of scritpure when you can't even discuss the scriptures outside of the talking points of your religion...Where did you learn that??? Certainly not from the apostle to the Gentile church...

Act_20:27 For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.

You're a priest, and you can't even discuss the bible??? You were never required to study the bible, right??? And it's clear you do not possess the desire for the pure milk of the word, let alone the meat...

1Pe_2:2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

45 posted on 08/14/2017 7:31:02 AM PDT by Iscool
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To: trebb

Did not mean any offense.... I just get a bit disturbed when I read we in some way can earn forgiveness and salvation through works...

God’s grace is what separates our religion from all others... It is about Him only... Not us.

Very thankful for such!


46 posted on 08/14/2017 7:35:27 AM PDT by PigRigger
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To: trebb
Who was excluded?

"You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell?"
[Matthew 23:33]

"And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died: and he was buried in hell."
[Luke 16:22]

47 posted on 08/14/2017 8:07:06 AM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: trebb

Where did the Bible come from?


48 posted on 08/14/2017 8:13:31 AM PDT by Solson (Trump 2020!)
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To: trebb

“Even the very dust of your city that cleaveth to us, we wipe off against you. Yet know this, that the kingdom of God is at hand. I say to you, it shall be more tolerable at that day for Sodom, than for that city. Woe to thee, Corozain, woe to thee, Bethsaida. For if in Tyre and Sidon had been wrought the mighty works that have been wrought in you, they would have done penance long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgement, than for you. And thou, Capharnaum, which art exalted unto heaven, thou shalt be thrust down to hell.”
[Luke 10: 11-15]


49 posted on 08/14/2017 8:22:02 AM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: PigRigger

Amen! Didn’t offend me at all.


50 posted on 08/14/2017 9:54:01 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: ebb tide
Context is everything....in Matthew 23, Jesus was condemning the fake teachers/pharisees and those who were trying to keep their mortal selves important/relevant by sticking to the Law - later down the road they and those who followed their thinking were berated for having fallen from Grace:

Galatians 5:4 - You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.

In Luke 16, Lazarus was poor and "longing to eat the scraps that fell from the rich man's table. The rich guy showed no charity.

Also, remember that while Jesus was [reaching what would come in the New Covenant that God had promised, He was also living under the Old Covenant and much of what He said was in conformance to the Covenant He lived under - and He also had to be the only Man to walk the Earth without breaking the Old Covenant.

John gave us baptism and he told us: "Behold, the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world"..... John 1:29, 36

Was he a loony-toon except for the baptism part?

51 posted on 08/14/2017 10:20:04 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Solson
Do you mean the whole 2,000 year, many, many authors of the all the writings or the catholic Church and others who opted to streamline" parts of it? Moses writing the Torah, or others deciding what we needed to see to conform with "authoritative teaching" as we moved from the Old Covenant to the New Covenant?

Even in its 'abridged" format, many opt to take certain parts out of context and ignore that Jesus lived under the Old Covenant (New Covenant didn't start until he had risen).

Please add something to your question and you might find some folks who are more qualified to answer it....I was saved in a non-denominational church (after missing the message in 14 years as a catholic) and the Bible is a guide to Salvation - and Jesus walked the Earth as fully God and fully Man so we could relate to him and develop a personal relationship. It contains everything one needs to make the decision on whether or not to accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior and doesn't allow for mortals to make the decision as to whether or not we have been saved by Faith in the Blood of Jesus.

52 posted on 08/14/2017 10:30:15 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: ebb tide
Yeah - those who opt not to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior are doomed. What mortal can decide that one who has accepted Him has not done it to their standards and will therefore be denied the Kingdom of Heaven? He knows our hearts and other mortals can only guess - if you got a new priest who decided that the lot of you were going to Hell, would you listen to him or rely on your personal relationship with Jesus?Luke 10 is aimed at those who refuse the message of Christ - He tells them to carry the extra message but He doesn't give them authority to send folks to Hell, it is His authority used to send the message.

Also, He was still living in the Old Covenant and had not shed His blood that the sins of others might be washed away if they decided to accept Him.

53 posted on 08/14/2017 10:38:21 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: trebb
The rich guy showed no charity.

But I thought you said,"We are saved by God’s grace and grace alone...

But now you're contradicting yourself by throwing in "charity", i.e. "works". You can't cherry-pick the bible to your own liking.

54 posted on 08/14/2017 10:43:30 AM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: trebb

Do you even believe in Hell?


55 posted on 08/14/2017 10:45:10 AM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ebb tide
LOL! Grasping at straws are we? Don't forget in this parable, He was still living under the Old Testament and the rich guy was doing nothing to earn a chance - back then folks either earned it or got special dispensation from God --- David kicking the bucket sin free and Heaven-bound despite the whole Uriah faux pas comes to mind.

Accepting Jesus as Lord and Savior is the only path to Heaven and under the New Covenant, it is by Faith and Faith (in His loving sacrifice) alone that we are saved..

You are the one who has been cherry-picking passages w/o keeping them in context.

56 posted on 08/14/2017 10:50:47 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: trebb

So you think every Christian goes to Heaven?

Good luck with that “belief”.


57 posted on 08/14/2017 10:55:17 AM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ebb tide
I do believe in Hell - gotta believe in it if you believe in Heaven. I also believe when God spoke through Jeremiah about how He would bring us a New Covenant and would forgive our wickedness and recognize our sins no more, He was not telling us a lot of lies. I believe that Jesus died for all our sins and the only requirement to reap eternity with Him is to believe He died on the cross to pay the death penalty of all our sins and all we have to do to redeem that is to go to Him as sinners who realize that we cannot be worthy of our own efforts and to accept that He will make us fully worthy if we acknowledge His sacrifice and accept Him as our Lord and Savior.

Those who were rebuked for having fallen from Grace were still trying to be worthy of their own efforts by trying to do the impossible by following the Law that nobody but Christ could follow in order to help save themselves instead of acknowledging His incredible gift of Love.

58 posted on 08/14/2017 10:56:03 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: ebb tide
Define "Christian"...Those who have accepted Christ are those I consider to be Christians - can't know one way or the other for sure except for myself, but if they accepted Him as their lord and Savior, then yes, i do believe it. Do you believe a priest, who cannot read one's heart and mind, can make the decision for you? Do you believe Christ, having died because there was no way we could be worthy without His sacrifice, would pull the rug out from under us because, having been saved, we still couldn't be worthy of our own efforts?

The pharisees were roundly castigated for primping and preening their piousness in public displays while not having God/Christ in their hearts. What makes any other mortal more deserving of belief in them than the pharisees? Pomp and rituals?

59 posted on 08/14/2017 11:01:31 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: trebb
Define "Christian"...

Gladly!

Please, Don’t Call Protestants Christians

60 posted on 08/14/2017 11:14:44 AM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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