Posted on 06/23/2017 6:21:23 PM PDT by NYer
AFAIK in my time, never been around anti-semites or associated with them. My knowledge of history is deep enough that I don't need to read another screed. And yet history is indeed repeating itself in my lifetime. Eccl 1:9
“I knew of his writings.”
Bullshyte.
"I am shocked that Luther misused scripture like Satan does in producing this work. "
Evidently you didn’t know what was IN Luther's writings any better than the individuals under the purview of LCMS' curriculum - regardless of whether they were teachers or students.
Here's some more extracuricular reading the LCMS didn't cover:
"We are at liberty to be real, or to be unreal. We may be true or false, the choice is ours. We may wear now one mask and now another, and never, if we so desire, appear with our own true face. But we cannot make these choices with impunity. Causes have effects, and if we lie to ourselves and to others, then we cannot expect to find truth and reality whenever we happen to want them.
If we have chosen the way of falsity we must not be surprised that truth eludes us when we finally come to need it! "--Thomas Merton
"The right to search for truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true."
--Albert Einstein
No big surprise there!
Meanwhile - the LCMS' Icon for their "more catholic than Catholic" reformation is...
Are you not aware that when Marty farted all the angels danced in heaven?
You really are a bridge-builder guy. You know many anti-semites in LCMS today?
Unlike the "leadership" of the LCMS' Corporate HQ and District hierarchical religious fifedoms, I have no interest at all in building syncretic bridges to collectivist, fallible and uninspired, religious state-establishments.
YMMV.
Leme know when your "bridge-building" hierarchical parrots, adorned in vestigial plumage left over from the Roman empire and perched atop their fallible and uninspired infrastructure and Social Media empires in St. Louis, publish a position paper explaining their white washed edition of Martin Luther's "On The Jews and Their Lies".
"We are at liberty to be real, or to be unreal. We may be true or false, the choice is ours. We may wear now one mask and now another, and never, if we so desire, appear with our own true face. But we cannot make these choices with impunity. Causes have effects, and if we lie to ourselves and to others, then we cannot expect to find truth and reality whenever we happen to want them.
If we have chosen the way of falsity we must not be surprised that truth eludes us when we finally come to need it! "--Thomas Merton
"The right to search for truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true."
--Albert Einstein
You can't "build bridges" with syncretic religious fraud... unless your objective is to simply build more syncretic religious fraud.
"Truth is Great and Will Prevail"
--Thomas Jefferson (who, unlike Martin Luther, wasn't heroically mentioned in Mein Kampf)
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"Islam did not rise except through Ali's sword and Khadijah's wealth,"
Not what ‘bridge-builder’ means. Were you not in a Lutheran college in 1983? If so, how did you miss the useless apology? LCMS isn’t building syncretic bridges to anyone. To the extent they engage the Catholics is to honor Jesus’ desire for unity. Sadly there can be no unity without unity of doctrine and that isn’t happening, there isn’t unity of terms.
Call it whatever you want. Your symantic “unity of doctrine” is a dogmatic object of worship not unlike the other Created Things worshiped and served per Romans chapter 1.
For years, LCMS' hierarchical self-worshiping semantacists have been about as relevant as teats on a bull to the congregations they've left swinging in the "autonomous" breeze - where the actual WORK of the called is performed.
Faith isn't rendered by "unity of doctrine" -- it's rendered in the individual hearts and minds of the priesthood of all believers by the Holy Spirit - through HIS Word.
>>If so, how did you miss the useless apology?
Easy to miss because it wasn’t, and has never been, in the curriculum, super genius.
It never once came up in the class rooms, or the dorm rooms, or the locker rooms, or the bar rooms -- where enquiring minds explored and debated all subjects on campus.
And there's STILL no position paper explaining why the CPH edition of The Jews and Their Lies is, for all practical appearances, a white wash.
Meanwhile - the LCMS' Icon for their "more catholic than Catholic" reformation is still...
No it isn't, it is answering the call of Christ in John 17. There is no unity without doctrinal unity rooted in God's Word. Not worshipped or served, a common confession of our Lord IAW His prayer.
As for Luther, whatever confession you make best not have a human in its development. They are indeed sinful.
The call of Christ is answered by individuals through the work of the Holy Spirit in the Word.
Not by the “unification” pronounced by self-worshipping parrots preening their vestigial Roman plumage from a perch in Saint Louis.
Your opinion is in contrast to what Jesus prayed. There is no unification in play and won't be whilst others develop doctrine outside of the Word. Kind of like those who can read John 17 and come away with a wrong opinion.
Matt 10:34-36 34 "'a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law— 36
NIV
I get the impression you know about as much about what Jesus prayed as you "knew of" Luther's writings....
“I knew of his writings.”
"I am shocked that Luther misused scripture like Satan does in producing this work. "
... which is typically symptomatic of a disengenuous, fallible and uninspired, parrot trying to pull a dominating opinion out of the Southern end of their digestive tract.
Meanwhile the priesthood of all believers operates by the power of the Holy Spirit through the Word -- without any vestigial "unified" Roman plumage being requisitely applied.
"FUZZY WUZZY GALAXYRelatively short arms of gas and dust lend a woolly appearance to the spiral galaxy known as NGC 2841. The galaxy lies about 46 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major, the Great Bear. NGC 2841 is unusual because its tightly curled arms display a relatively low rate of star formation compared with other spiral galaxies."
light yearˈlīt ˈˌyi(ə)r/nounASTRONOMY
Did you bother to read John 17. In it Christ wants His followers to be unified.
I get the impression you know about as much about what Jesus prayed as you "knew of" Luther's writings..
Your opinion, I believe you already referenced opinions. I see where yours originates. Have a nice day.
>>Your Matt passage concerns believers vs unbelievers
In Saint Louis that evidently means “believers” as defined by vestigially plumaged Roman parrots who assume dominion over the faith of others by, among other things, asserting the world is only 6000 year old.
>>In it Christ wants His followers to be unified.
What would Christ see when he looks through a telescope?
In the case of the FUZZY WUZZY GALAXY, He’d see Light that’s been traveling for 46 million years. That's reality; and it's an observable reality that is, contrary to parroted FALLIBLE AND UNINSPIRED opinion, NOT contradicted by Scripture.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/150316-50-great-images-from-the-hubble-space-telescope/
>>I see where yours originates.
Sure you do. Just like... “I knew of his writings.” "I am shocked that Luther misused scripture like Satan does in producing this work. "
We are at liberty to be real, or to be unreal. We may be true or false, the choice is ours. We may wear now one mask and now another, and never, if we so desire, appear with our own true face. But we cannot make these choices with impunity. Causes have effects, and if we lie to ourselves and to others, then we cannot expect to find truth and reality whenever we happen to want them.
If we have chosen the way of falsity we must not be surprised that truth eludes us when we finally come to need it!--Thomas Merton
Disingenuous character rooted in dogmatic pride - THAT is why you and the parrots have lost credibility and no longer even have schools for any curriculum to be relevant in.
Wow, you are just as informed on this subject as the other.
Wow. Unlike you, I knew Martin Luther, the antisemitic drunk and LCMS Icon for the Reformation, provided a plethora of scriptural references in his "On the Jews and Their Lies"
Your disingenuous words speak for themselves!
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