I am not aware of any large Protestant church doing that.
##I am not aware of any large Protestant church doing that##
Commandment #2
Exodus 20:4 (I am quoting the Bible)
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: (Continued in verse 5) KJV
Commandment #2: I am quoting Luther’s Small Catechism, ca. 1939 (My confirmation class used it.)
“Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain.” (Page 5)
Commandment #9: Exodus 20:16
“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.” KJV
Commandment #10: Exodus 20:17
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s. KJV
Commandment #9: Luther’s Small Catechism, page 7
“Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house.”
Commandment #10: Luther’s Small Catechism, page 7
“Thou shalt not covet they neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his cattle, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s.
Questions have to be asked: (Just being a Berean.)
Do those who dictate doctrine *know* that they preaching something that differs from the Bible?
Here are the Lutheran Ten Commandments...
There are the Bible’s Ten Commandments from Exodus 20...
Do the powers-that-be know their doctrine differs from the scriptures?
How many years did they spend in seminary studying scripture?
Knowing that their doctrine differs, why do they continue to teach it?
Are they worshiping in Spirit and *truth*?
Is this *another* gospel, one that we should not listen to?
See: Galatians 1: 6-9
The Catechism you will read on the web is virtually unchanged with respect to the doctrine about the Ten Commandments.
The Missouri Synod Lutherans are to be complimented for their steadfastness, but their doctrine on the Ten Commandments is identical to my statements above.
The doctrine on infant baptism, it is written in their Catechism, page 173 [edited] : “Others say, [Children] cannot believe.”
We say, “... Neither can grown persons, of their own reason or strength.”
“No man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Ghost” 1 Corinthians 12:3
“If the Holy Ghost must produce this faith in us, why can He not produce it in the infant soul...”
“They cannot deny the possibility of the Holy Spirit working in the heart of a child...”
Did you catch that last line?
The Lutheran council that dictates doctrine doesn’t have to cite scripture to prove their assertion, but they require one to prove that the Holy Spirit *did not* produce faith in the heart and soul of an infant. It’s a good approach because it is impossible to answer.
Nor can we deny that the Holy Spirit might cause faith in a dog or a tree or a stone.
How many heresies can we create just by requiring someone to deny that the Holy Spirit did this or that?
They are taking advantage of the “argument from silence.”
Are we still worshiping in Spirit and *truth*?
The Bible tells us how to get faith: “Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God.” Romans 10:17
If one preached the Lord’s gospel to a baby, did the baby *hear*? Scripture says the baby would have to *hear* in order to believe.
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