[raygunfan]

AAAH the cafeteria protestants....giddy over luther on this subject, but very quiet on his words on mary as ever virgin, and the eucharist as the literal body and blood of christ, etc.....

[aMorePerfectUnion]

but very quiet on his words on mary as ever virgin, and the eucharist as the literal body and blood of christ, etc.....

I can't speak for others, but I've addressed every one of those issues and more on these threads over the past 18 years.

[xone]

but very quiet on his words on mary as ever virgin

That isn't Lutheran doctrine.

[daniel1212]

AAAH the cafeteria protestants....giddy over luther on this subject, but very quiet on his words on mary as ever virgin, and the eucharist as the literal body and blood of christ, etc.....

"The eucharist as the literal body and blood of Christ," meaning that what you consume is literally, actually the body that a literal reading of "This is my body which is given for you," (Luke 22:19) would mean, or that it "really" is a body which does not look like, and would not taste and scientifically test as real flesh, which the body that was given (crucified and risen) that He referred to would?

And just where in the life of the NT church in Scripture, which teachings are interpretive of the gospels, do you see this solemn, central ritual officiated by sacerdotal priests turning bread and wine into a sacrifice for sins, to be consumed in order to obtain essential spiritual life?

only the metaphorical understanding easily conflates with the totality of Scripture, as shown here by the grace of God.

[Elsie]

AAAH the cafeteria protestants....giddy over luther on this subject, but very quiet on his words on mary as ever virgin, and the eucharist as the literal body and blood of christ, etc.....

Yeah...

Sure...