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Christian Basics Class #52: Law and Gospel
Pr. Jared Stillions of St. Peter in Hallettsville, TX joins me to look at a key concept that Christians must get right to understand the scriptures: Law and Gospel. What are they, how do we often confuse them, and how to we rightly distinguish between them?
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Christian Basics Class #47: The Letters of Peter, Jude, and John
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A quick look at important letters in the New Testament not written by Paul.
Christian Basics Class #51: Good Government
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In our final video for the entire series, we look at what Christian theology has to say about the role of government and what good government might look like. Beyond "red" or "blue", what are the underlying principles that all Christians should apply to any question of government?
Christian Basics Class #50: Economics
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In this third of a four-part series on social and moral issues, we take a look at economics. What shoudl the Christian view of free or controlled markets be? Why does it matter? Thanks again to Taylor Neill of Search (www.searchnational.org) for joining me.
Christian Basics Class #49: Abortion
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Thanks again to Pastor Michael Salemink from Lutherans for Life (www.lutheransforlife) for joining me to talk about a difficult subject. This is the second of a four-part series on application of Christian moral theology. Abortion is a reality in our land and the greatest moral evil of our day. We talk about what it is exactly, why it is wrong, and the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the wake of abor...
Christian Basics Class #48: Marriage and Family
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Pastor Michael Salemink of Lutherans for Life (www.lutheransforlife.org) joins me to look at the gift of marriage. This video kicks off a concluding four-video series that considers social and ethical questions that are applications of Christian conviction.
Christian Basics Class #41: Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?
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Thanks to Taylor Neill for stopping in and taking a look at the historical claims for the death and resurrection of Jesus. If the historical claims of his death and resurrection are not true, nothing else will hold together. This is, as all of these videos are, a high overview. A fun, easy read on this is a book called "Who Moved the Stone" by Frank Morrison.
Christians Basics Class #46: The Letters of Saint Paul, Part 2
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This video is a quick look at Paul's letters of Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians and Timothy.
Christian Basics Class #45: The Letters of St. Paul, Part 1
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This class is a very quick look at a handful of Saint Paul's letters. We look quickly at the main themes of Romans, Corinthians, Galatians, and Thessalonians.
Christian Basics Class #39: The Parables of Jesus, Part 2
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Ted Wright of Epic Archaeology (www.epicarchaeology.org) joins me again as we continue our look at Jesus' fascinating parables.
Christian Basics Class #38: The Parables of Jesus, Part 1
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Ted Wright of Epic Archaeology (www.epicarchaeology.org) joins me to begin a 2-part look at Jesus' parables. Why did he teach using parables? What are they really about? What do they say to us today?
Christian Basics Class #31: John the Baptist
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Ted Wright of Epic Archaeology joins me to look at one of the most interested - and mysterious - figures in the New Testament, John the Baptist. He really is a prophet bridge between the Old and New Testaments and his importance cannot be overstated.
Christian Basics Class #43: The Holy Spirit and Pentecost
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We look at the events of the Day of Pentecost and the ongoing role of the Third Person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit.
Christian Basics Class #44: The Life and Conversion of Paul
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The first of a three part look at Saint Paul, we consider his incredible call to be an apostle of Christ, the unique ministry he had among Gentiles, and the enduring teachings found in his 13 letters.
Christian Basics Class #42: Why did Jesus Die and Rise?
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Having looked at the evidence for Jesus' death and resurrection, we consider what they both mean.
Christian Basics Class #40: The Miracles of Jesus
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Christian Basics Class #40: The Miracles of Jesus
Christian Basics Class #35 - You Have Heard it Said
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Christian Basics Class #35 - You Have Heard it Said
Christian Basics Class #37 - Jesus Against Spiritual Powers
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Christian Basics Class #37 - Jesus Against Spiritual Powers
Christian Basics Class #36 - Jesus Against Wordly Powers
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Christian Basics Class #36 - Jesus Against Wordly Powers
Christian Basics Class #29 - How Is Lutheranism Different from Calvinism?
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Christian Basics Class #29 - How Is Lutheranism Different from Calvinism?
Christian Basics Class #28 - How are Lutherans Different from Catholics?
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Christian Basics Class #28 - How are Lutherans Different from Catholics?
Christian Basics Class #27 - What Makes Lutherans Unique?
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Christian Basics Class #27 - What Makes Lutherans Unique?
Christian Basics Class #34 - The Beatitudes
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Christian Basics Class #34 - The Beatitudes
Christian Basics Class #33 - Jesus Calls the Disciples
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Christian Basics Class #33 - Jesus Calls the Disciples
Christian Basics Class #32: The Temptation of Jesus
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Christian Basics Class #32: The Temptation of Jesus
Christian Basics Class #30: The Incarnation of God
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Christian Basics Class #30: The Incarnation of God
Christian Basics Class #13: The Prophets, Part 2
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Christian Basics Class #13: The Prophets, Part 2
Christian Basics Class #12: The Prophets, Part 1
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Christian Basics Class #12: The Prophets, Part 1
Christian Basics Class #25: The Trinity
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Christian Basics Class #25: The Trinity
Christian Basics Class #24: What About Other Religions?
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Christian Basics Class #24: What About Other Religions?
The parable of the wedding guest doesn’t say many are called but few have chosen… it says many are called but few are chosen . You flipped flopped from monergism to synergism .
Canons of Dort - Chapter 1 Article 5 The cause or guilt of this unbelief as well as of all other sins, is no wise in God, but in man himself; whereas faith in Jesus Christ, and salvation through him is the free gift of God, as it is written: "By grace ye are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God," (Eph 2:8). "And unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him," etc. (Phil 1:29).
Thanks for the good information.
I like your guests explanation of regeneration, well done.
Evangelical Free Church grew out of Lutheranism and so did Swedish Covenantal Church in the midwest.
Come back to the PCA, our sacramental theology that is consistent with God's word. Consubstantiation is wrong, and conversation is necessary. TULIP.
Conversion
Do not listen to these right wing so called Christians
Turn down the music
I am 65y old, been a Lutheran for about 2oy, raised as a Methodist. 🕊️ I am following your confirmation class, although being full, Lutheran confirmed years ago, these classes are DYNOMITE! 🎉 THANK YOU for the ability to refresh my soul, and clear some confusion. Thank you, thank you for the time and money, efforts it took for you bring these videos, to anyone that taps on your click. M. IL ❤
Thank you, good sir!
Lovely, i am a bit confused about this topic, and still fine that i wobble between each of these; one day i think i am Calvinism, the next day i think i am Lutheran, then i think i am just lost and it doesn't matter. Huh? M
I don't accept that the question of whether Catholicism teaches the true Gospel is in essence complicated. It's simply the case that it rejects justification through faith alone and therefore it follows that it doesn't teach the true Gospel. Catholicism teaches that salvation is to some degree dependent on a person's actions in that it's a person's own righteousness which plays a part in whether he's saved or not. That is a false gospel since it's only Christ’s righteousness credited to us through faith alone which justifies and saves a person. Also since Vatican 2 Catholicism has gone further in completely denying the Gospel. Whereas before they denied it was through faith alone in Christ, now in effect they're teaching it's also not through Christ alone because they accept that members of other religions like Islam and even atheists can be saved. This amounts to a complete rejection of Biblical Christianity since the Bible teaches that only those who consciously put their faith in Christ and openly declare their faith will be saved. So Luther was entirely correct in identifying the Papacy to be the Antichrist and the popes and bishops to be wolves in sheep’s clothing. Also since Catholics aren't taught that they're justified and saved through faith alone in Christ alone they've turned to Mary in a big way and look upon her as more approachable than Christ who is viewed more of as a judge than a Saviour. Mary's role in many Marian prayers is that she can intercede for a person before Christ and soften Him up. And then when one considers that Catholics have been deceived by demonic apparitions pretending to be Mary at Lourdes and other places one can see how Catholics are being led into idolatry because many of them go on pilgrimages to these Marian shrines and pray to her for miracles of healing etc. This amounts to trying to contact the dead which God said in Deuteronomy 18 is an abomination to Him. So Roman Catholicism is in reality a false religion which is only superficially Christian, and which has been designed by Satan to cause the damnation of the great majority of Catholics.
in agreement with you on here too brother. You describe exactly what's going on in Portugal. Catholicism in Portugal is worse than where I live in France when it comes to idolatry. The current Pope may be one of the worst Popes that ever lived. At the end of the day, both Catholicism and Greek Orthodoxy are a departure from the Gospel, teaching faith plus works and all the other unbiblical doctrines. Greek Orthodoxy may be less polluted by unbiblical doctrines than Rome but the teaching in their official documents is still faith plus works. We can't compromise with it.
This is so interesting!
Nice discussion. I’m a Calvinist worshiping in a LCMS church for the last 13 years. There are no Reformed churches within 75 miles of our NC town. As the Catholics say, this is “mission territory.” We joined the Lutheran church because our granddaughter could be baptized there and the Lutheran doctrine of Baptism is close to theReformed than any other denomination. Reformed believers believe wholeheartedly in real presence in the Lord’s Supper which requires understanding that the elements are efficacious unto salvation. I favor closer communion between Bible believing Lutherans and Bible believing Calvinists. It hurts that LCMS members are unnecessarily indoctrinated against Calvinists. Calvinist students are taught to love Luther. Luther’s theology is constantly repeated in Reformed preaching. I wonder if conservative Calvinist theology isn’t closer to that of Luther than that of GnesioLutherans. I often refer to myself as a PaleoLutheran. I love Lutheran worship and spirituality, particularly music. But this music is to be found also in larger, more traditional Reformed churches. This past Easter we were traveling to Florida and worshipped in the First Presbyterian Church in Columbia SC, founded in 1795. What a glorious experience. Every believing Lutheran would have enjoyed that service.
In my very limited experience I think the biggest divide is with the MacArthurite Calvinists and Lutherans. It’s been years since I have gone to a Presbyterian church, but the MacArthurite ones really seem to think that their way is the only way and Lutherans probably aren’t saved and Presbyterians are iffy.
I would like to see the evidence for Luther’s support of the Arminian teachings included in the Formula of Concord. Is there a significant difference in PaleoLutheran soteriology and that of GnesioLutherans?
The Bible does address who is in charge. It clearly places the husband in charge. The feminist cultural interpretation of the Bible that pretends the husband is not clearly given both the privilege and the burden of leadership is heresy.
I'm a recent Lutheran convert coming from an Arminian background. I stand with Luther, thus I'm a 5 point Calvinist Lutheran. I disagree with the contemporary Lutheran view that God predestined us for salvation but not for eternal salvation. Can anyone shed light as to how this Reformed/Arminian hybrid makes any sense?
I’ve just seen your post and I have to disagree that Luther was the equivalent of a 5 point Calvinist. Have you read The Bondage of the Will? In it, although Luther affirmed that people are predestined to be damned, he also maintained that Christ's atonement is universal in scope. He therefore rejected the L in TULIP (i.e. limited atonement). As regards the P in TULIP (i.e. perseverance of the saints) I know he held that one can at least temporarily fall from grace and cease being in a justified state through falling into sin (as for instance happened to David when he committed adultery), but whether he believed that one can permanently fall away so that a person can lose his salvation I’m not too sure. If he did then that would mean he didn't hold to the P. Of course even those who subscribe to the Formula of Concord (which rejects predestination to hell) hold that those God has elected to save will persevere in the end and not be lost, but they also hold that one can be in a saved and justified state but permanently fall away and be lost. Whether Luther held this I’m not too sure but if he did then he believed that it happens because God has predestined it to happen as he held that all things are predestined to happen. He believed in absolute predestination because God's foreknowledge necessitates everything happening as it does. Calvinists of course also believe this but I think they also hold to OSAS (i.e. once saved always saved) which I don't accept is true because I hold with Luther that if a person falls into open sin then the Holy Spirit departs from him and he's no longer in a saved state until he repents. Those who hold to OSAS I think hold to the idea that those who are saved can't lose the Holy Spirit even when they fall into open sin. I don't accept that this is true. With respect to the position on predestination which those who identify themselves as confessional Lutherans hold they recognise that it doesn't make logical sense but they have this perverse idea that it doesn't need to make logical sense because in their eyes God can mysteriously do things which defy logical analysis. It's absurd but they’ve been deceived into believing this through the clever arguments of Martin Chemnitz who was the chief author of the Formula of Concord which was drawn up several decades after Luther's death. Chemnitz cleverly but erroneously argued that Scripture teaches that the Holy Spirit is efficacious in the Gospel towards everyone and that those who are damned are alone responsible through resisting the Holy Spirit. This isn't Scriptural and Luther didn't believe it but confessional Lutherans hold to this strongly and won't give it up. It's a defining issue for them which separates them from Calvinists. They'll never compromise on this even if they become aware that Luther didn't hold it - they'll just conclude that Luther was wrong, so strong is their belief in it. Dr Cooper himself used to be a Calvinist but now rejects double predestination and believes in the universal operation of the Holy Spirit in the means of grace (i.e. Word and sacraments). I don't accept he's a genuine Christian as he’s teaching false doctrine and misleading his followers by doing so.
@@Edward-ng8oo Reformed teach that the atonement is universally sufficient but not universally efficient. That seems to be what the Scriptures teach.
Thank you very helpful
Love this! I can’t wait to watch more!
The music is TOO LOUD
Hello Nobody in scripture goes around preaching “God became a man” Jesus is the Messiah The Son of God The Son of David The Son of man The man God has chosen to be his anointed king The man God will judge the world through The man God raised from the dead Jesus will return and rule the nations with believers in the kingdom of God on the earth Jesus has a God There is no triune god in scripture Jesus said the Father is the only true God! John 17 3 And this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. - Acts 3 13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Servant Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied before the face of Pilate, when he had determined to release him. 14 But ye denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted unto you, 15 and killed the Prince of life; whom God raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses. Notice Jesus is NOT the God of Abraham 13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Servant Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied before the face of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.
Explain Hebrews 1 and Psalm 102.
@@shaneholmgren4007 Hello, If you look at all the quotes in Hebrews 1 applied to Jesus, none of them are originally addressed to the Son. They are reapplying old verses to the Son with new application. For instance, Psalm 45 is quoted in v8-9 area, which is about a Davidic King, maybe Solomon, but that doesn’t mean Jesus is that Davidic King that the Psalm was addressed to. The writer is appply the verses in a new way. Similar to how Matthew quotes “out of Egypt I called my son” in reference to Jesus’s early years, but the original quote in Hosea was about Israel and the Exodus. It would also be strange to write a chapter arguing that God is greater than angels.
How spread or customary was crucifixion as a death penalty within the Roman Empire. Was this a custom accepted in Palestine? Did Herod it as a punishment tool as well?
A priceless video. Pretty clarifying and helpful insights. Thank you! As for future entries, try to get the background music a bit lower. Thanks in advance.
I have definite respect for Biblical Lutherans...NON ELCA LCMS and WELS are ones I know of and respect, as a member of the OPC. We obviously have differences but I do believe that we are brothers. God bless.
a Calvinist would say that the Lutheran view limits the sovereignty of God in salvation.
Never outgrow great teaching. God's peace be with you all.
My issue with the Christian-Capitalist read on the Scriptures is that it operates with an unnecessarily "individualistic" approach to civic ethics. For e.g. seeing all teachings about what we should do for the poor in our midst being exclusively third-use of the law imperatives (for the individual Christian in their sanctification, forget the collective body of Christ) rather than having any corporate first-use of the law application for a societal covenant (as the context of Ancient Israel was; communitarian and collectivist). While I don't want to go so far as to say the Bible teaches socialism, I think it is safe to say that the principles of individualism inherent in modern, Western societies are simply alien to the Biblical context -- where the Laws of God (including economic obligations to those in need) were understood as equally binding on kings as peasants (in fact, more so).
I'm no cessationist -- I've seen all of these gifts utilized with my own eyes (in Lutheran congregations mind you) but neither am I a hard-core charismatic in that I see these gifts as normative. They happen, they haven't ceased and we shouldn't be afraid to seek after them; yet they are not an ordinary experience in salvation and don't imply a two-tiered Christianity or anything absurd like that.
Thank you for the comment! Yes, I think the gifts are still possible, albeit rare. It's more about there not being healers and prophets among us today, even though healing is possible and God can certainly still communicate to His people.
What Dr Cooper failed to mention is that confessional Lutheranism disagrees with Luther's position in The Bondage of the Will. Although Luther held that Christ died for the sins of the whole world, he didn't hold that the Holy Spirit is efficacious in the Word to all who hear it. Luther held that the Scriptures teach double predestination, and that God wills to damn some from eternity. I agree with Luther. For instance Paul's analogy of the potter who makes vessels of honour and dishonour in Romans 9 wouldn't be apropos if indeed Paul didn't hold that God predestines people to both heaven and hell. If Paul had been confessional Lutheran in theology he wouldn't have the potter making vessels of dishonour (e.g. chamber pots), but only vessels of honour (e.g. vases). With regards to the confessional Lutheran doctrine of the universal operation of the Holy Spirit in the means of grace (Word and sacraments), Luther rejected this in The Bondage of the Will. He distinguished between the outer drawing of the Gospel which goes out to everyone but which doesn't have the power to regenerate, and the inner drawing by the Holy Spirit through the Gospel which irresistibly regenerates those whom the Father wills. Luther wrote: Now take the saying of Christ in John 6 [:44]: "No one comes to me unless my Father draws him." What does this leave to free choice? For he says that everyone needs to hear and learn from the Father himself, and that all must be taught by God. He plainly teaches here, not only that the works and efforts of free choice are fruitless, but that even the message of the gospel itself (which is what this passage is about) is heard in vain unless the Father himself speaks, teaches, and draws inwardly…. But the ungodly does not come even when he hears the Word unless the Father draws and teaches him inwardly, which He does by pouring out the Spirit. There is then another "drawing" than the one that takes place outwardly; for then Christ is set forth by the light of the Spirit, so that a man rapt away to Christ with the sweetest rapture, and rather yields passively to God's speaking, teaching, and drawing than seeks and runs himself. (p.285,286, Vol. 33, Luther's Works) Confessional Lutherans don't accept this distinction between an inner and an outer drawing, and believe that the Holy Spirit is always efficacious in the Word towards everyone, and that the reason why people are damned is because they resist the Holy Spirit. Luther on the other hand rejected this and held that people are damned because God doesn't will to regenerate them through the Holy Spirit but rather to leave them in their sins so that they're damned. Luther addressed the seeming injustice of God in doing so by explaining that God's justice can't be comprehended in this life but will be understood in the next. Confessional Lutherans wrongly conclude from the fact that God through Christ desires to save everyone that it must follow that He hasn't predestined anyone to be damned. However this is a false deduction. The Scriptures teach both and it's wrong to pit one against the other and conclude that the Scriptures only teach single predestination. Simple logic also dictates that if people are saved only because God has elected to save them in eternity that the reason why people are damned is because God didn't elect or will to save them in eternity. It's not possible that predestination to heaven can exist on its own without it being accompanied by predestination to hell. Confessional Lutherans should have stayed with Luther's Scriptural doctrine of predestination instead of adopting Chemnitz's heretical doctrine. By the way, I'm not a Calvinist. I agree with the documents contained in the Book of Concord that were in existence during Luther's lifetime. It's only the Formula of Concord, which was produced after Luther's death, that I take issue with.
Do people really think that God requires call these convoluted philosophical notions?? It's way too much for the average person!
@@dovygoodguy1296 Christians should have a basic understanding that God is all-powerful and that everything is under His control, and nothing can happen outside of His will. Since God is omnipotent, which means there's no force greater than Himself forcing Him to endure things which He doesn't will, it has to follow that He wills whatever happens. Also since He wills and foreknows everything from eternity, it follows that what happens is predestined to happen. Although the average Christian might not have a clear grasp of this, at least he shouldn't be denying it as confessional Lutherans do.
Very well presented evidence of Luther’s view of predestination. Thank you.
@@Edward-ng8oo In your original post, you are ignoring the differences between single and double predestination and simply stating that "simple logic" means that they are equivalent. There is a big difference between God actively creating someone for damnation (double predestination) verses God not electing someone to Heaven (single). There is a difference between refusing to save a drowning man verses actively pushing his head underwater and killing him. Its also important to remember that Romans 9 is not dealing with individual election but corporate election. Paul is addressing the entire nation of Israel's rejection of the Gospel. The vessel of wrath was Egypt in the Old Testament and Israel in the NT. The vessel of mercy are the Gentiles brought into the church.
@@mosesking2923 In my original post I said that “simple logic also dictates that if people are saved only because God has elected to save them in eternity that the reason why people are damned is because God didn't elect or will to save them in eternity.” This however doesn't mean that predestination to hell is equivalent to predestination to heaven in that God wills to make people evil as He wills to make people good. I was arguing from the position that all people are evil through the Fall but that God elects to save some through the regeneration of the Holy Spirit whilst opting not to save others through the Holy Spirit. This is analogous to saving someone from drowning by actively reaching out a hand to save him whilst not doing so to another who then drowns through one's non-intervention. That's basically what I'm arguing for which amounts to infralapsarianism. Actively pushing a person's head under water so that he drowns amounts to supralapsarianism which wasn't what I was arguing for. Also note that by not actively intervening in order to save a person from drowning one is predestining that person to be drowned. So what you're defending is actually that God has predestined some to be damned by non-intervention which confessional Lutherans deny is the case. They don't accept that God bypasses anyone with His grace but rather actively seeks to save everyone through the Holy Spirit. This is contradictory because whilst they admit that God elects only some to be saved they won't accept that God only wills to give the Holy Spirit to some and not to others. If God didn't actually select only some people to be regenerated by the Holy Spirit, then He couldn't elect and predestine only some people to be saved. If God makes no distinction between people and tries to give the Holy Spirit to everyone, as Lutherans believe, then no one could be predestined by God to be saved. Being saved would then depend upon a free will decision to accept the assistance of the Holy Spirit. However Lutherans deny that anyone has free will as they believe in monergism. Basically their position makes absolutely no sense and can't possibly be true because nothing logically contradictory can ever be true. With regards to Romans 9 Paul is clearly arguing for individual election and predestination. He says for instance that God “has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.” which refers to individuals.
Universal salvation is not the same thing as universal regeneration.
Jesus does not give Peter the keys in Matthew 16. He only promises to give the keys. The keys to forgive and retain sins are finally given in John 20 - and Jesus gives them to all the disciples at that time. The keys are not literal, obviously. The keys are the right to forgive sins in the Name of Jesus Christ.
When you accept the objective dual reality, the two views are not even close.
Reformed guy here. Very fair analysis.
Dr. Cooper often does a very good job at providing an honest analysis of different traditions than his own.
One of the areas of disunity that should be eliminated immediately is the refusal to take the Lord’s Supper or Holy Communion together. Both the Reformed and Lutherans believe what the Word says, “This is my body broken for you, this is my blood shed for you”, and both even recite the Scripture every time before taking communion- as in fact do the Evangelicals as well. That should be unity enough, without trying to nitpick down to some level of disagreement. The fact that we do not commune together at the table is a very poor witness to those outside the Body.
But spiritual presence as the reformed holds onto isn't the same as real presence as what Luther believed.
But that is my point. Both groups hold to what Jesus said on the day. They disagree with the further clarifications that men have added on to what Jesus said. We as believers should be happy to share the table with other believers who affirm what Jesus himself said. That is our unity in Christ, and that is our good witness to the watching world.
@@PenMom9 No, it’s not as minor as you want to imagine. When you finally realize the bread and wine are physically the Body and Blood of Christ, the spiritual view is far from sufficient… and diluting the Truth is unacceptable.
@@zarnoffa or when you realize that it really is bread and wine but that God is spiritually present. That we are not cannibals that that is unacceptable.
@@slamdancer1720 Is it cannibalism for a child to drink its mother’s milk which IS her body? Is it cannibalism for a woman to receive her husband’s seed into herself? A man’s seed is his body… and arguably his blood. These are types of communion of bodies - not cannibalism. When we share bread and wine identified as the Body and Blood of Christ, we are sharing PHYSICAL unity with Christ… not just spiritual. The Church is the Body of Christ. That’s not merely figurative. As Paul says, it’s a mystery. The flesh of Christ and the flesh of the church are one flesh. It’s not merely spiritual. Ephesians 5:32 “This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.”
I can ask you to pray for me, same with the blessed mother. FYI, when you lose something St Anthony never disappoints. In all respect and love, and my background leaves me with a broad sense of religion and a twisted but necessary sense of humor
Great video, pastors. Being a lutheropailian,.from birth (1956), I'm in the middle. Love God's church and I still love the mass
Cradle Lutheran here
love the video, but some constructive criticism, please cut/fade the music out a lot sooner (preferably right as Dr. Cooper begins talking)
Loved these past 3 videos. Thank you and God's Peace be with you all.
As a Calvinist, looking forward to the Calvinism episode.
Another great video. God's Peace be with you.
Great video. God's Peace be with you all.
New Lutheran learning a lot from your channel! Thank you!