What Makes Lutheranism Different From Every Other Denomination
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What makes Lutheranism different from every other denomination? The comfort for troubled consciences.
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Born into Lutheran household. Baptised, confirmed as a Lutheran wish i had a Church nearby.
I speak to God non stop.....❤🕊️
Proud to be a Lutheran. My husband introduced me to the faith several years ago and everything just clicked. So happy with our church and get excited to go every Sunday.
Same here. Love the liturgy and the Christ centered worship!
I love how this guy communicates. No artifice or super-polished sound bytes - he simply means what he says, and says it plainly.
I'm Fundamental Baptist, and I'm searching a sense of tradition which our church lacks, I am converting to Lutheranism currently :) :) I love the Lutheran tradition xd xd
Good for you! I once had a background among fundamentalist baptists also, and I can definitely say that they have very little to offer. In fact, fundamentalists do greatly err in many doctrines, which I can readily prove.
It should be said that doctrinally speaking, fundamentalists usually hold to some of the great fundamentals of the faith and hence assume the name "fundamentalists". But in this they fall short of "conservative" Christians (i.e. true Lutherans).
Conservative Christians, or genuine Lutherans, are so named because they hold to and insist upon the Word of God in ALL its doctrines in their truth and purity. They also hold to the right use of Baptism and the Lord's supper, according to to the words of institution of the Lord.
And this means that "Christ Crucified for sinners" is always the predominant preaching of a true Lutheran. But it also means ........ That Scripture Alone ... and not human reason, is at the centre of true Bible teaching (1 Peter 4:11). And this is good news. Instead of the Babel of baptist and reformed and mystical Catholic and orthodox traditions, we find the Word of God and Christ at the centre.
So beware of liberal "Lutheran" churches, as these are not true to Christ and ought not to use the name Lutheran. Beware of fundamentalists who turn baptism into a work that we must do for God and distort much of the Bible. Beware of catholic mysticism, whether anglo catholic, or roman catholic, or greek or russian catholic. Christ is not a mystic, and all the promises of God are yea and amen in him.
In summary, all Christendom may be summarised as follows:
- Upon the left hand are the various mystic forms of "Christianity", namely anglo, roman and greek catholic churches. these religions ultimately teach salvation by works.
- Upon the right hand are the reformed rationaists, namely baptists, presbyterians, pentecostals, methodists, congregationalists and the like. And it ought to be noted that reformed rationalists eventually give way to even to one of two extremes:
either unitarian type sects; or socialist, social gospel type churches that abandon true faith altogether. These reformed rationalists also lose the gospel and turn to salvation by works.
- In the centre lays the true Christian faith, that puts aside human reason and holds to the Word in its truth and purity. Christ, and Christ alone is heralded as the only God and saviour for poor lost sinners. It is for this reason that the Reformation was launched upon the principles: Scripture Alone, Grace Alone, Faith Alone. And we may justly add: Christ Alone.
@Fascisté français canadien ... Hi French Canadian.
Thanks for your comment. My Original comment was necessarily a an overview and a generalization in part.
There are in fact Christians among the Orthodox and very likely In Catholic churches, despite official doctrines, for the simple reason that the Gospel always is the power of God unto Salvation (Romans 1:16, 17). Moreover, Catholic churches still baptize children in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. And it is Christ that saves us in Baptism (Ephesians 5:25, 26; Ezekiel 36:25-27, 1 Peter 3:21), where God places his name upon us and comes to us and blesses us (Exodus 20:24; Numbers 6:22-27, Matthew 28:19). And Wherever the gospel is still present, and proclaimed and taught, in any church, it will produce new converts (1 Corinthians 1:18).
But we are also aware, that the official doctrines of Roman Catholicism censure and condemn all who hold to the simple Gospel alone in order to be justified freely by the grace of God through faith. We know this, for at the council of Trent (1545-1563), the Roman Catholic Church issued anathemas contrary to the Scriptural and ancient church father teaching of "Salvation by Grace Alone through Faith Alone". It is for this reason, along with others, that the Papacy was exposed and revealed and manifested at that time as the great Antichrist foretold in Scripture. And I can show that the famous church father Saint Ambrose taught salvation by grace through faith alone in full agreement with the words of the Apostle Paul.
(Remember also how that Ambrose was a mighty Trinitarian father, in a time of widespread Arianism, was very instrumental in the conversion of Saint Augustine). At Trent, the Roman Catholic Church began, being not a universal council of Christian churches, and certainly excluding the eastern Orthodox churches. And so the Lutheran Church which emerged as a continuation of the true Catholic Church due to necessity of reformation of doctrine, predates the Roman Catholic Church which began at Trent, by around 20 years. So we are not saying that there are no Christians in the Roman Catholic denomination, but we are saying that it is an environment where faith in Christ is quenched and suppressed. And it is for this reason that the Lord addresses his true people still within her saying:
"Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues."
(Revelation 18:4, 2 Corinthians 6:17)
But why do you say that I am lost ?? You need to give sound reasons. I am willing to hear you.
And if I am lost, what is your answer to me being lost? If you have genuine Christian concern then you must share the answers with people and not merely castigate them. You need to be willing to engage in some sort of genuine discussion. Have you ever read the New Testament and observed how Jesus preached, or how the Apostles or Stephen proclaimed Law and Gospel? Dis yo consider how Paul dealt with peoples in various cities, like for example the people upon Mars Hill, Athens?
I am ready to hear what you have to say and speak respectfully with you, but you need to defend what you say. It is not enough just to make claims. Likewise, I am willing to defend what I wrote, with evidence and with facts.
Or we can simply discuss salvation, seeing that you say "I am Lost".
I take the lostness of souls very seriously, as does The Lord Jesus Christ, and hope that all sinners may obtain salvation.
Wait for your timely and intelligent reply ...
Josefa Trio so you just change to any church just because you like it better but not because your looking for the truth?
Congratulations....I don't many fundi Baptists...but when gene kim says cats are from the devil and the earth inside is hollow.....beep beep....I'd be running full ahead
@@user-ew8tf3qp3o lol....no exactly the opposite...Luther was the original guy who advocated back to the roots back to the Bible...back to Christ....period...that's what a confessional Lutheran Church is all about. No add ons nothing scrapped...not perfect but better than anything else
Truth is far more important then comfort.
🎯This guy and his lutheranism is what will lead many straight to pit of hell
The real truth is Jesus, and He brings comfort to those who receive Him by faith.
WOW YOU HAVE OPENED MY EYE'S AND MIND TODAY..IT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE
Thanks Pastor, it is so easy to forget our assurances.
Lutherans are kind of WEIRD: Among the 4 branches of Christianity, Lutherans definitely stand out:
* Lutherans are Biblical but they are not Biblicists
* Lutherans are Confessional but are not fundamentalists
* Lutherans teach the functions of the Law but they are are not legalists
* Lutherans preach the Gospel but they are not liberals
* Lutherans love liturgy but they respect adiaphora
* Lutherans do not venerate saints but they are not iconoclasts
* Lutherans teach sanctification but they are not pietists
* Lutherans take catechism seriously but they are not cultic
* Lutherans are catholics but they are not Roman
* Lutherans are orthodox but they are not Eastern
* Lutherans are evangelicals but they are not generic Protestant
The 4 branches/streams/traditions being: Evangelical/Protestant,
Roman-Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and confessional Lutheran; all very
distinct from each other.
This is an incredible faith! Hi I'm Catholic and I really want to become a Lutheran. Videos like these have helped me out a lot in that decision! Everything you believe is what I THOUGHT Catholics believed (after 14 years of Catholic school), but it turns out we do not. Everything I disagree with in Catholicism is removed from Lutheranism, but it's such an understatement to say that Lutheranism is just 'free of Catholicism; you add so many other elements of your own into the faith!
If you don't have a video like this already, could you please make one on what makes Lutheranism different from Catholicism and why Catholics should join Lutheranism?
I'm not alone, I know of other disheartened Catholics that left and joined Protestantism and they'd really benefit from such a video! Thanks!
awakeningspirit20 -. It is good you are soul searching for Truth.
Please also look into Baptism. To what is understood in the Bible, one must hear the Word of God, Confess that Christ is the Son of God, and repent of their sins. Meaning you truly are remorseful for the sins in your past and choosing not to joyfully do them again. Then we are Baptized by being immersed in water.
Yes, we still sin, but we feel bad, guilty, and wrong. So we go to God in prayer and ask for forgiveness again and again and again. Thankfully Baptism is only once!!! 😊✝️. May our God be with you in your relationship with Jesus and may the Holy Spirit help you understand the scriptures!
so why do you think been a catholic is not for you
What don't you agree with in the Catholic Church?
@@Kitiwake agreed.
"There is no salvation outside...the Roman Catholic church..."
You realize that the Roman Catholic church hasn't taught this since before Vatican 2, right?
I am currently unaffiliated anywhere but grew up in various denominations including some for my schooling. Catholic, Pentecostal, Baptist...I happened to type in Lutheranism into RUclips because of a Facebook quiz that stated because of my belief answers, I most likely am Lutheran. hahaha But, the reason I was unaffiliated is because of the beating up that can happen to us as believers when we make mistakes. it is almost like your accepted until you fall. This video was so encouraging to me. I have never heard anything that straight forward about forgiveness. It is said of course, but with ever present works and perfection in actions as the focus. I still believe faith without works is dead though. Thank you for the faith explanation about our sins...
Luther agreed that faith without works is dead. He was adamant that works do not contribute to our salvation or earn any points with God, but true saving faith is always an active faith which will produce good works. You might want to check out this video, which is a talk specifically aimed at people who have felt beat up by churches. ruclips.net/video/jj2bm5-PMAI/видео.html
Welcome to the Lutheran tradition/stream of Christianity. For further comforting and faith-strengthening videos check out Worldview Everlasting channel, the Lutheran Satire channel, and Jordan Cooper's Just and Sinner channel. While Lutherans believe in Faith Alone (being saved alone by Faith in Christ and for His merits), Faith is never alone ... but rather is followed by godly/good deeds. God bless you!
@@sarco64 I'm a Baptist and she preach that as well
@@ohiofisherofmen2194 she?
@@greglaprade7507 typo
I grew up Non Denominational/ Baptist. The organization of Lutherans and Methodists seems very comforting.
Wow! I'm a Baptist, and I thank you brother.. God bless Pastor George!
Lutherans are kind of WEIRD: Among the 4 branches of Christianity, Lutherans definitely stand out:
* Lutherans are Biblical but they are not Biblicists
* Lutherans are Confessional but are not fundamentalists
* Lutherans teach the functions of the Law but they are are not legalists
* Lutherans preach the Gospel but they are not liberals
* Lutherans love liturgy but they respect adiaphora
* Lutherans do not venerate saints but they are not iconoclasts
* Lutherans teach sanctification but they are not pietists
* Lutherans take catechism seriously but they are not cultic
* Lutherans are catholics but they are not Roman
* Lutherans are orthodox but they are not Eastern
* Lutherans are evangelicals but they are not generic Protestant
The 4 branches/streams/traditions being: Evangelical/Protestant,
Roman-Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and confessional Lutheran; all very
distinct from each other.
The LCMS, WELS, and ELS are not cultic, but I live near a community of Laestadian Lutherans, and all though I get along well with them, they get a little bit cultic. Just a little bi. (smile)
Laestadians are NOT Lutheran. They're pietists. Ask them if they hold to the Book of Concord. They only know of the Small Catechism.
Interesting. Thank you for your perspective.
Heresies! You have to stay away from sins or else if death takes you while not repented you loose all!
I am Lutheran and yet, my denomination doesn't save me. Jesus alone and my faith in Christ alone has saved me. You can be any legitimate Christian in any legitimate Christian denomination and be saved just as long as you truly have given your life to Christ and have been redeemed by the blood of Christ. Nobody can earn salvation. It's a free gift of God through Christ Jesus. The Works part of working out your salvation as Paul mentioned in the gospels comes after you are saved. Salvation=faith=good works=Heaven. Simple as that
I'm interested in this denomination and wold like to know, how can I be sure that god forgive me if I am not sure that I have enough faith?
Ben Middleton. "have given your life to Christ" is not in the bible. It's the other way around. God bless you.
if you belive in Scriptures so you must know what Iacov teaches..faith without works is dath..you say if we have faith we do good works but sorry alot of aatheists are doing good works so they don.t belive in God...return to orthodoxy
internetsurfer777
That’s so true! I’ve been saying that for so long. People have it backwards saying “I give my life to Christ”, he gave our lives to us and he gave his life for us.
@@internetsurfer777 yes and no. Accepting his life for mine implies my life for his. This is why he said "pick up your CROSS and follow me" he is saying "Pick up your death sentence in the flesh, and follow me to the spiritual kingdom"
Thank you for Law & Gospel!
Thank you for the message, Pastor. I needed to hear it.........
Thank you Pastor. Thank you LCMS for remaining Confessional
As a Baptist (a Calvinistic leaning reformed minded Baptist) I enjoyed this video immensely. Especially the LSU chair. Geaux Gospel!
I listened to this way back when my life was a mess. Looking back now I can see how God patiently brought me back to my baptism. After all the seeking and sin, he brought me back full circle to my family Lutheran Church. Moms and dads don't worry too much about your wayward children who have strayed from Christ's gifts. It took me 30 years by God's grace to come home again and find the peace and comfort of Christ's redeeming love. His goodness and mercy will pursue them all the days of their lives.
My Dad was raised Baptist and switched to Lutheran 50 years ago during the turbulent 60's. He always told me that what he liked about Lutherans was how they kept human interference and philosophy completely out and really solely on Scripture to back everything. My German Catholic mom never understood the American anti-alcohol and giving grape juice at the Lord's Supper. What I really like is how no heavy burdens are placed on Lutherans-just accept that grace and forgiveness is a free gift liberally given and won for you on the cross; believing this will produce 'fruits of the spirit' and trying to justify through 'good' actions is really just human vanity. I think truly good works are the ones you aren't aware of.
@@mpkropf5062 And when you put symbolism on one thing, it just opens the door to interpreting Scripture however one wants.
I was born into a Baptist family always attended the Baptist church. But recently have discovered my ancestors were of the Lutheran faith , my great-great grandfather was named Martin Luther Hitt and was one of the originial Germans in this country .
VERY COOL! :) Thank you for watching!
Hi Mary.
I spent time with the Baptists. And I remained a Baptist for 17 years of my adult life. But I was also a keen theological student. And I set about to prove and defend the Baptist doctrine point by point. And to make sure that the defence of the teaching and the proof texts were iron clad. I was as zealous as anyone could have been for Baptist teaching.
To that end, I Made extensive use of the original Greek New Testament and a wide variety of resources also.
However, as I diligently searched the Greek Text and the more I researched Lexicons, and Greek grammars, I found that one by one the Baptist arguments and proof texts fell away. I discovered that I could not defend a single Baptist argument from.tue Proof texts that I thought had taught the Baptist ideas .
This realisation was gradual, but it opened a vacuum which the Word of God, consistently taught, along with a grammatical approach to study, soon filled.
I discovered that the Orthodox Lutheran teaching on Baptism is not only soundly Scriptural, it is also the historic faith that was universally taught all through the early church.
I discovered that there are true gems in the Biblical concept of Baptism which are utterly missing in all Baptist teaching.
One of the Stumbling blocks that we had as Baptists was the incorrect notion that Baptism is a work, or an act of obedience that we do.
But the Scriptures teach that Baptism is something that Christ does for us.
We also were taught that it is merely a symbol. Yet Baptists like the Famous Greek Scholar Dr Kenneth Wuest, correctly demonstrated that in Romans 6, Baptism is joining us to Christ literally. And this is precisely what the Greek grammar demands . Wuest was so sure of this, but so stubbornly Baptist, that he denied that the word " Baptism" really refers to Baptism in Romans 6. So whilst his grammatical explanation is correct, his Theology was distorted by his loyalty to his denomination.
Another famous Baptist, (Baptist in practise) was the famous Chinese teacher, Watchman Nee. When explaining Romans 6, Nee pointed out that in Baptism we are absolutely and utterly and really and truly joined to Christ, by God's working. And he correctly quotes 1 Corinthians 1:30 to show how this is effected in Baptism .
And these Baptist teachers are not alone. Even the highly sectarian Calvinistic Baptist preacher John . MacArthur Teaches from Romans 6 that real union with Christ is effected in the " Baptism" discussed in that chapter. Albeit, MacArthur, without a shred of evidence claims that "Baptism" is used metaphorically in Romans 6. And he follows Wuest in his denial of the connection to actual Baptisms.
But MacArthur's arguments are absurd. Not merely because they are utterly ungrammatical, but also because they ignore the verb used. Paul doesn't merely use the noun "Baptism" but he also uses the verb "Baptized" together with the thing indicated by the verb, namely "Baptism". He is describing a real event and naming it
Moreover, the Greek word βαπτισμα
(Baptisma = Baptism) does not exist in secular Greek prior to Christ. It first appears in the Baptism of John and of Jesus. Certainly the verb βαπτιζω existed , but it's corresponding noun was βαπτίσμος (Baptismos) .
The word βαπτισμα / Baptism was introduced by the Evangelists and Apostles to specify Christian BAPTISM, as instituted by God.
MacArthur and Wuest, whilst recognising the reality of what takes place in Baptism, namely union with Christ, deliberately attempt to obscure the Divinely inspired meaning of the word 8n order to defend their indefensible Baptist ideas. The Baptism described by Paul is no imaginary metaphor.
As a baptized and confirmed Lutheran throughout my life, I concur.
Once we know Jesus's promise we are FREE to serve one another. Not for merits, not out of fear of punishment, but out of actual Love how He has loved us
I hope to never be comfortable with my sin. Being numb to danger is not the way God designed us and for good reason.
Nobody is comfortable with sin, you missed the point.
@@bigniftydude No I didn't, he said it multiple times "Lutheranism Different From Every Other Denomination". Its literally the title of the video.
@@DocPicklez the point was is that it focuses on comforting the sinner. Comfort is not synonymous to numbness.
I am a lutheran, went to lutheran grade school and high school..so glad my parents sent me..
I think that's wonderful. I think also that we need to continue in his word, because his word is spirit and life. It's sanctifies us and keeps us from evil. It builds our faith and provides a shield in our spirit from the evil of this world. Assurance can grow through the word of God. Not that what you just said is null and void, as that is the complete Foundation and we should remain in that truth everyday. But the word and prayer and having a quiet time before God is the door that causes us to abide in that truth of the cross of Jesus Christ. And the love that he provided for us
Agree 100 % that assurance comes from God's word. The holy spirit reveals it. And the word of God and the bible nowhere tells every man that their sins are forgiven. This message is solely reserved for believers. David's sins were forgiven, Abraham sins were forgiven, Noah's sins were forgiven, but Cain's were not, Judas were not, King Saul were not.
I’m currently Anglican but i very interested in Lutheranism
Are you still an Anglican?
Donttttt..flee both
Lutheranism is Catholic lite..so many errros ..find a solid bible teaching church instead!
@@truthwins1426Actually Lutheranism and Anglicanism are probably the churches that teach the closest to scripture. Maybe you should see for yourself instead of dismissing it as "Catholic lite". Catholics are Christians too, you know.
@@truthwins1426 Lutheran are going to be one of your best Bible teaching churches out there
I agree with what you said. I don't really like church Denomination much, but I do believe that the actual "Church" is in different denominational groups scattered here and there. There is too much division in the church today due to titles. God knows. I pray we can have Unity in the church of Jesus and grow together in Jesus Name.
Thank you, pastor - I am a Lutheran going through a very difficult time.
Annabelle Rankin - Said a prayer for Annabelle! Praying that things will get better for you and God will help you through your struggles.
Sister in Christ! 💜✝️
Thank you so much, Bro in Christ!
(Some improvement since I posted btw.)
I am very grateful for your kindness and thoughtfulness - it truly means a lot.
Annabelle Rankin How are you doing now?
@@1920s Much better, lots of changes, thank you very much for the enquiry. Godspeed, my friend!
Hopefully you're doing better today 😊
I no longer recognize ELCA as Lutheran. They may as well be universalist.
We don’t go to Heaven just because we were baptized. We have to have repentance. We must repent before we can receive forgiveness.
Thank u brother..generation... jesus is a friend of mine..bless u
My protestant church brings comfort to guilty consciences by sharing God’s law and then sharing the Gospel ...how is that unique to Lutheranism?
Only to the elect, if you are Baptist. If not, enjoy hell.
we are saved by the blood of Jesus. we have to be Christians of action not words. as long as we accept Jesus and believe him. and repent. we follow Jesus not what religion
Bravo!
Amen!
Thank you so much... Well, it's 2023 and you did this video 7 years ago, I really hope you would still say the same. I have a University degree in Lutheran Theology and have received full training to be a pastor but my conscience would not allow me to do that job within the "lutheran church" of my country for a whole range of reasons. One very important reason was and is that they no longer believe the things that you state in the video. While one half no longer believes in salvation and therefore takes no comfort in it (so it is not possible to talk openly about the conditio humana including sin and death because they find it "depressing and causing feelings of guilt and shame" since there is no resurrection, no atonement, no forgiveness), the other half does not even believe we need to be saved at all as we are all fine just the way we happen to be. All we need to do is to be law-abiding citizens and respected (wealthy and educated) members of our local or national community. So thank you for reminding me of the gospel! Good News! 🙂
My favorite so for! Great explanation! The is why i came back to Lutheranism!
Confessional Lutheran? Good choice
But even as a committed Lutheran, I still have a troubled conscious because of adultery, divorce, abortions, and remarriage. Jesus' teaching on divorce and remarriage is the most difficult for me to understand. He was very clear.
He died for ALL your sins. Mock the devil who wants to rob Christ of his glory and tell him " I am baptised you cursed snake!"
@@adampetersen4795 Thank you, Brother. Even after all this time I still need to hear it.
Jesus (GOD) came to Earth, & gave us perfect Religion. Over time Human Opinion degraded and changed God's perfect teachings. Human Opinion is now mixed with the theology of both the Catholic & Baptist/Calvinist doctrines. Maybe it's not quite perfect but Lutheran'ism' is, at least on paper, the closest thing you will find to True Apostolic Religion. God Bless, We (Lutherans) love you all!!
I've been baptized twice once as a Catholic as a baby and again when I was 8 as a mormon to become Lutheran do I need to become baptized again? (Edited for grammar)
The one you had as a baby was sufficient. :)
If you were baptized once in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit (your RCC Baptism) you are Baptized. It does not matter if the person who Baptized you had bad doctrine, Baptism is an act of God.
Mormon baptism is Pagan, they worship a false god.
I tried to place that chair and pillow. The colors could have been Minnesota Vikings; it's certainly Lutheran territory up there. But glimpses of the pillow convinced me that it's probably Northwestern University.
I honestly don't mean to offend and it's not my intention to praise my faith instead of yours. I respect the Lutheran history and the gateway it opened, but it's sad to see that most Lutheran churches are just about a tradition (Mark 7), their members barely know what to believe and the teachings (sermons) are so wishy-washy, watered down... Lutherans have been shrinking for years and I believe it's because they forgot the very core of their foundation. Anyhow, may God find place among them for them to be restored to living faith instead of living traditions (that are dying as well). Bless you!
Catechesis across denominations has suffered for a few generations now. Higher Things is trying to help pastors, parents, and congregations change that trend!
Sin is forgiven as we cease sinning - that's what Jesus taught.
But as a human being you will sin. So how do you rectify that?
@@abc-jq4hi you repent ..this ain’t rocket science..unlike demonic luther who taught you can kill n commit adultery many times a day and still get to heaven..hogwashhhhh!
I’m orthodox Christian and curious how this truly differs. We believe in the sacrament of confession where we are set free from sin. Do you not do confession? Thanks
There is guidance on how to make and receive confession for the penitent and pastor in Luther's Small Catechism. The Apology of the Augsberg Confession calls Holy Absolution the third sacrament and Martin Luther also referred to it in this way in the Large Catechism.
@@templarknight4980 what a joke..sorry only God can forgive not mere man!
@@truthwins1426 we're literally commanded to forgive our neighbors as the Lord forgives us. It's clear that God is doing all of the work in baptism and the Lord's supper as well.
As a Baptist leaning on non denominational I have found I do enjoy certain traditions from the Catholic Church. The few times I’ve been to one. Anything mirroring scripture like what we read in the Torah sprinkling water is like the sprinkling of blood on the alter. Actually singing Psalms etc..
My main sticking point is the hierarchy of Mariam and the saints and the various Idols of these things these relics. I highly respect Martin Luther for trying to reform the CC from within but they would not have him. I’d like to try a service or 2 my bros fiancé is a Lutheran.
I'll address the issue of idols, icons, and Christian imagery. We are not Muslims; we worship a triune God. The second person of that trinity spent 30+ years on earth giving everyone a very good representation of God (John 14:9). He *may* have in fact left us a 100% accurate image of himself at his resurrection in the Veil of Manopello (John 20:7). So to use the commandment against idolatry as a blunt force instrument to ban all Christian imagery is to fall into the error of the iconoclasts.
I’m fine with images existing of Jesus/Yeshua. Bowing down to the iconography is where I draw a line. I’d rather light candles like a Jew. I’m fine with Watching Passion of the Christ and other films to do with Jesus and seeing the West’s and any others ethic interpretation.
As for Mary and the Saints. I highly respect them but even in the saints life time they told gentiles not to bow to them this power comes from the Messiah. The saints used any body of water to baptize even the seemingly random stranger trying to figure out a passage in Isaiah.
Also don’t pretend Jesus wasn’t Hellenized. Even his name was changed over the years from Yeshua to Jesus. The cloth could be Him but the thing is it’s not confirmed we don’t know.
I guesstimate the Iconography was used originally to get the illiterate members of the Church to help them understand people’s and concepts
We’re likely not going to agree on all this but God bless you.
I’m not source if I’m talking to a Lutheran, Catholic, or Eastern Orthodox Christian Right now.
@@ProJatior Lutherans bow to the altar almost universally during the Liturgy including the processional cross. We are reverencing Christ, not an image.
@@ProJatior same difference..all heresy
Born and raised Lutheran and this is what I was taught growing up. I do have questions though. Can a Lutheran sinner who doesn't forgive someone that wronged them that dies in that state, go to heaven?
On the one hand, you have "forgive us as we forgive those who trespass against us" and on the other we know the only unforgiveable sin is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. We do know that those who reject the salavation Jesus offers don't (John 3:18), and those who reject God's moral law which requires that salvation to begin with also do not. (1 Corinthians 6:9-10). Beyond that, such determinations are well above my pay grade.
Failing to forgive is a sin just like every other sin. Sins are forgiven.
Despite his piousness, Luther struggled with severe guilt. It’s no surprise this (much needed), emphasis on comforting consciouses would define the Lutheran tradition.
Well no kiddin the guy took pleasure in killing peansants and hating the Jews like pigs..even hitler loved n quoted him..luther lies by Jesus is my saviour and the Dark side of Luther video will show u all u need to know of that sadistic murderer to fleeeeeee lutheranism
Only Jesus and an encounter with him can save you
Not the religion that you are in will save you
In the church that I attend in, what makes us different is the presence of Jesus himself that can change and transform you going with manifested miracles and power of the holy spirit
Forgive my ignorance, but if my sins are 'automatically' forgiven as you say, what is then the purpose of asking God for forgiveness and repentance? Does Grace allow for continuous sin? When Christ talks about the narrow path and being lukewarm he talks about 'Christians' who run the risk of losing their salvation.. blessing.
Sins are not automatically forgiven. You must confess your sins to Christ and pray for forgiveness. If you stop sinning ( which is impossible because you are human) then you can stop praying. You must ask for forgiveness knowing you don’t deserve it. He more means that you are entirely confident that you are forgiven when you repent and confess.
Please I have a sincere question brother.
Why Lutheran Church does not keep the Sabbath on Saturday?
Sincere question, please don't be offended.
Because we're not Jewish. Christ Himself is our Sabbath rest (Matt 12:8; Col 2:16-17; Heb 4:9-10). Christians are not commanded to gather on any particular day of the week but generally do so on Sundays in celebration of Christ's resurrection which occurred on a Sunday, and have done so since the beginning (Acts 20:7).
i'm wondering if there's scripture that says we should comfort ourselves. if so what is it? here's scripture about comfort:
Praise to the God of All Comfort
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 5 For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. 6 If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. 7 And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.
1 corinthians 1:3-7
Shout out to the CLC!!!!
Are you required to go to the confession Box in lutheran belief?
Nope, no requirement. Lutherans kept individual/private confession and absolution for the purpose of providing comfort to sinners. We don't need to list out every single sin we ever commit in private confession, but it's there for the ones that continue to bother us and that we doubt are truly forgiven. When we confess that nagging sin, we get to hear that THAT sin is forgiven. So when the devil brings it up to us again, we can be sure that it HAS been forgiven no matter what. :)
Good as I believe Christ sets at the right hand of the father in assisting for us
@@HTgospel4all That's something that I always had wondered about. How can you speak to God in prayer, but can't confess to him in it?
@@bungscrung3337 You can confess to God in prayer too. But you won't hear absolution for that sin in prayer. That's the reason Lutherans retained private confession and absolution - for the sake of the absolution. It's not required for anyone to use, but when you have a sin that's troubling you, the external word of hearing forgiveness pronounced by the man the Lord has put in your life to give you His Word...it can be very effective and comforting.
Did Joseph Luther write any books?
Who is Joseph Luther?
Is fasting required in Lutheranism?
The Classic USA no, not required. You are free to fast or not to fast.
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What makes Lutheranism different from other protestant denominations is the importance and power of Communion. And living in faith. "The righteous shall live by faith." Romans 1:17 Lutherans base their theology on living by FAITH ALONE and not by works. Faith brings righteousness Galatians chap 3. RUclips has provided excellent sources and films about Martin Luther.
Being is Lutheran is not an ism, go back and study. He that believes and is baptized shall be saved. We live by faith and we are given the ability from the Holly Spirit to believe so that we do not boast that we in part played a key roll in our salvation. If you add the ism it is man trying to save himself.
Lutherans are kind of WEIRD: Among the 4 branches of Christianity, Lutherans definitely stand out:
* Lutherans are Biblical but they are not Biblicists
* Lutherans are Confessional but are not fundamentalists
* Lutherans teach the functions of the Law but they are are not legalists
* Lutherans preach the Gospel but they are not liberals
* Lutherans love liturgy but they respect adiaphora
* Lutherans do not venerate saints but they are not iconoclasts
* Lutherans teach sanctification but they are not pietists
* Lutherans take catechism seriously but they are not cultic
* Lutherans are catholics but they are not Roman
* Lutherans are orthodox but they are not Eastern
* Lutherans are evangelicals but they are not generic Protestant
The 4 branches/streams/traditions being: Evangelical/Protestant,
Roman-Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and confessional Lutheran; all very
distinct from each other.
what part "The just shall live by faith" is weird? Considering all that you have pointed out why are there 4 branches of Christianity, why not 5?
I absolutely agree with everything written here, RomGabe. (IS ''Rom'' for Romanian? I am Greek)
RJ D And who told that to whom, that you believe and be baptized? It sure wasn't any gentile. That was for the Jew! People study the Word of God, don't just merely read it. Geeze, c'mon people!
@@dianeowens6272 It's in the bible John the Baptist was filled with the holy Spirit before birth.
This guy sounds like a Baptist Preacher! I love it
@@mpkropf5062 independent sure, glad I'm Reformed
I am not a Lutheran but I am open to understand what you believe. You say we are saved by faith without works. Grace alone. Christ alone. But how do you reconcile your beliefs about Communion and Baptism? Every Luthetan I have ever meet believes that they must be baptised to be saved. They even tell me that if a baby isn't baptised and dies it goes to hell. I am confused by the way you explain Lutherans and what actual Lutherans tell me. Can you clarify? Also how many different Lutherans are there? I understand they all believe differently.
Colossians 2:12 says that baptism is God's work, not yours.
Lutheranism believes babies need baptism for salvation..it’s another gospel’s
I still don’t see what the difference is between this and what the Catholic Church teaches. As a Catholic I agreed with everything he said
Media Bias Catholics believe you are not saved and going to heaven by default. If you commit mortal sin in Catholicism and die without confession, you go to hell.
Lutheranism is diet Catholicism.
The differences would be no purgatory or need for atonement. You ARE justified and reconciled.
Then you may just be Lutheran. Take baptism. Catholics hold it that it's the second most important thing for salvation. Lutherans on the other hand, believe that only through faith and true contrition for your sins can you be saved.
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your sins are forgiven is something the holy spirit reveals to the elect. it is not for the pastor to go and tell everybody their sins are forgiven, Luther would be turning in his grave if he heard this type of preaching. There certainly is forgiveness of sins in Christ, and when a sinner turns away from self righteousness and gives up on every effort to justify himself, and instead turns to Christ's righteousness freely offered in the gospel he / she receives forgiveness of sins. But to tell somebody your sins have been forgiven is not the gospel, instead people need to be told to turn to Christ and embrace his righteousness because righteousness and justification (he is just and the justifier of him who has faith) is found in Christ. Totally different gospel message. Nowhere in the book of Acts we see the Apostles announcing "your sins are forgiven". Instead the message is to repent, to believe, to be baptized (we are baptized for the remission of sins and not because our sins were forgiven, if my sins were forgiven I wouldn't need to repent, I would not need to believe, I would not need to be baptized). I was told for many years my sins were forgiven, but no conscience can believe this, and this message far from converting exasperated me. I don't know what is worse, giving somebody the law or telling them their sins are forgiven. It was only when the holy spirit revealed to me that my righteousness was in Jesus Christ, and not in my own works, then I instantly I knew I was forgiven because God accepted Christ's righteousness and obedience as if it were mine. Big difference, to cheaply proclaim your sins are forgiven will convert nobody, it never converted me for sure and actually came across as cheap grace or easy believism. Because it is the preaching of a lie to tell somebody that his sins are forgiven when the person stating this has no clue if somebody is a believer or not, instead we need to tell people to come to Christ where there is righteousness and to give up on their own righteousness. True peace with God can only come when we know that we are under grace and not under the law, when we know that the righteous requirements of the Law have been fulfilled by Christ as our substitute, since we could never obey the law perfectly. But just saying your sins are forgiven is not accurate, unless we also say that God is just and has forgiven us solely based on Christ's perfect obedience credited to us and his death on the cross when all my sins were laid on Him.
Read the Large Catechism. The office of the keys is here. The forgiveness comes through the faith in absolution
In our services, we come together and repent - but this is also between God and I.
@@devinlawson2208 what a joke..no fallible man , pastor can forgive my sins..only Jesus. What the hell you are like catholic priest ..haaa
I was raised in the Lutheran church and at the age of 30 God gave me a great desire to read His Word for myself. After around 5 years of study God revealed many things that the Lutherans simply have wrong. What they have right is justification by faith alone. What they have wrong is how a person becomes justified or shall we say saved. The problem is they simply kept a few things from the Catholics and that all begins with infant baptism be a means of salvation. This creates major problems in that one tends to believe they are ok and a Christian because they were baptized. Anyway this all gets too deep. Read the New Testament for yourself and you will see many things that have to do with justification, being born again is how Jesus put it, that Lutherans gloss over and explain away improperly. It all begins with God created everything to display his perfection and glory. Don’t follow any brand. Go to the source and discover the complete gospel of Jesus
Which form of Lutheranism are you speaking of Pastor? Are you Missouri Synod or the liberal ELCA?
And how in practice is Lutheranism different from Eternal Security that Calvinism and many Baptists profess!
In this denomination can you go to heaven without accepting christ but by just being a good person? Someone told me this and I want to know if it's true. No judgment. i just want to know.
Are you a good person? Most who call themselves Christian also consider themselves to be a good person. They even claim to follow "the red letters" of Jesus Christ, yet they totally ignore what he said about those who think of themselves as being good. In Matthew 19-16, a man came and said to Jesus "good master..." and in the very next verse, Jesus asked him why he called him good. Then he told the man, there's none good, but one, that is, God. Jesus said "be perfect as your father in heaven is perfect." Now having knowledge of this should make any person in the dispensation of grace very grateful for grace. There is not one good one, no, not even one.
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I don’t get it, it’s the same as being evangelical Christian, right?
Nope..these guys are Catholic lite..flee both
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16. And on Sunday mornings, you, Catholics, Protestants, evangelicalsand Branhamists, you spend your time listening to what is not the Word of God and that’s what takes you away from God. The Jewish priests and rabbis spent their time preaching falsitiesin the synagogues. They were saying, "The Roman soldiers that you see, you will no longer see them. What Moses showed the soldiers of Pharaoh cannot be compared to what the Messiah will show the Roman soldiers… ". They were saying, "The Messiah will do this, the Messiah will do that", and Jews were believing that whereas those are not prophet messengers.
ezekiel 33 explains it
no other denomination believe Jesus saved us from sin, Catholic's, Baptists, Protestant...they don't believe / teach the forgiveness of sin?
Do Lutherans believe they can inherit the Kingdom of God without baptism? I believe I can pray directly to God myself and repent for my sins, I am not sure I believe that I need to be baptized or else kinda thing.
Correct I finally clarified this last night with my Pastor. He said it's good to be baptized but it's not like you're going to hell if you don't. Some teach this though >
What does the Bible teach?Why would you despise baptism, God's means of Grace to you?
CHECK OUT these AWESOME benefits & gifts of God: holy Baptism is always "water with Word" (Eph. 5:26), "puts on Christ, baptized into Christ (Gal. 3:27, Romans 6:3), "washing of regeneration" (Titus 3:5-8), sealing/gives with Holy Spirit (Acts 2:38-39, Holy Gospel John 3:5, Titus 3:5-8), "spiritual circumcision" (Col 2:11) "faith" (Eph 2:8-10), membership in Church - "Christ's body" (1 Cor 12:13), belonging to God's Kingdom (Holy Gospel John 3:5-6), "burial into Christ's death and made alive to a new life in Christ" (Rom 6:4, Col 2:11-12), receiving the name of the triune God (Holy Gospel Matthew 28:19), "salvation/saves" (1 Peter 3:21, Gospel of Mark 16:16), "forgiveness of sins" (Acts 2:38-39). I hope this helps.Baptism benefits
Ma'am, just as your justification comes from outside of yourself in the death of Christ Jesus on the cross, so does your sanctification come from outside of you-- it is the work of the Holy Spirit. As David prayed, "Create in me a clean heart, Oh God, and renew a right spirit within me." Luther said that every Christian is only one day old-- that we have to drown the our Old Adam every day, and when we sin, we are to turn again from sin and ask for and receive His forgiveness, and no matter how hard you try or don't try, all the credit is His. You were born in trespasses and sins; in other words, you were born DEAD. It is He who makes you ALIVE, He washes you clean, He clothes you with His robe of righteousness, and He puts His ring on your finger, honoring you as His adopted son or daughter. Who loves God with all of their heart, soul, mind and strength, and their neighbor as themselves, every moment of everyday, or even comes close? The power to sustain the fight comes from receptivity: hearing the Pastor speak Jesus' words of forgiveness, and by eating and drinking the body and blood of Jesus Christ, again for the forgiveness of our sins. He promised it, and if you believe it, it IS yours-- now that's comforting! Any progress you make will be complements of God the Holy Spirit, and not you.
Lutherans are kind of WEIRD: Among the 4 branches of Christianity, Lutherans definitely stand out:* Lutherans are Biblical but they are not Biblicists
* Lutherans are Confessional but are not fundamentalists
* Lutherans teach the functions of the Law but they are are not legalists
* Lutherans preach the Gospel but they are not liberals
* Lutherans love liturgy but they respect adiaphora
* Lutherans do not venerate saints but they are not iconoclasts
* Lutherans teach sanctification but they are not pietists
* Lutherans take catechism seriously but they are not cultic
* Lutherans are catholics but they are not Roman
* Lutherans are orthodox but they are not Eastern
* Lutherans are evangelicals but they are not generic Protestant The 4 branches/streams/traditions being: Evangelical/Protestant,
Roman-Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and confessional Lutheran; all very
distinct from each other.
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than going to McDonald's doesn't make you a hamburger.
Didn't the Ottomans help lutheranism?
gospel , love god and love your neighbor as yourself
-ism , i do not want any -ism at all . if be another man's name (i.e Luther ) it be
another man's church , gospel preaching any one?
"Love God and love your neighbor as yourself" is not the Gospel. It's the Law. The Gospel is "In spite of the fact that you have not perfectly loved God and your neighbor as yourself, you are forgiven." Jesus perfectly loved God and neighbor, and when we are united with Jesus through faith, he takes our sin, our failure to love, as if it were his own sin, and he gives us his perfect righteous as if it were our own righteousness. This is the Gospel.
So your claiming that Lutherans have faith and know that their sins are forgiven, but not other denominations? This would mean that Lutherans are the only ones with real faith and that no one else is saved, as faith in the finished work of Christ is our gate to grace. If someone doesn’t have the comfort of knowing that their sins are forgiven then they have not faith and without faith they are still dead in their sin.
Lutheranism is another gospel..fleeeee
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Sounds like man centered rather than God centered. How is this biblical? Did you make this up yourself?
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Good video! My personal religious beliefs lean more towards Calvinism, with elements of Lutheranism.
I like how Lutherans celebrate Holy Communion, with the Eucharist wafers, and how they view Christ being physically present in the bread and wine, but not being literally transformed, as the Catholics believe. The excessive liturgy can come across as rather impersonal sometimes to me.
While I do not respect Martin Luther's controversial and sacreligious statements that he made in his life, or his later blatant anti-Semitism, I have much respect for him for standing up to the Catholic Church and calling them out on their lies and misuse of religious power as a fundraiser to rebuild and rennovate St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
I think ALL Protestants, not just Lutherans, should know why we split off from the Catholic Church, and I think ALL Protestant should know about the Five Solas of the Protestant Reformation. Those Five Solas place sovereignty back in its rightful place- in God's hands, and what He has revealed to us through the Bible, NOT the traditions of men, NOT ecumenical councils to determine what everyone believes, and NOT through the pope.
I'm cool with most Biblical Protestant denominations- Lutherans, Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Pentecostals, Non denominationals. I consider Seventh-day Adventists deviant from the Bible, and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses to be straight up cults.
I would say I'm somewhere between Lutheran and Baptist. I like Baptist sermons, but I like Lutheran Holy Communion. I'm a Butheran.
Lutherans recognize that while Martin Luther was a brilliant theologian, he was, like the rest of us, a flawed and sinful human. He recognized this himself, and it was never his wish to have a religious denomination named after him. His preference was evangelical, or evangelical catholic, but his detractors derisively referred to his followers as Lutherans, and the name stuck. Many Lutheran denominations have publicly repudiated and apologized for his anti-Jewish writings.
So you're an Anglican lol
Go back to baptist or anything else but lutherism aka Catholic lite
what is your opinion on homosexuality and same sex marriage.
Here's an older video on the subject. ruclips.net/video/eRklLMIB7I8/видео.html
A Lutheran pastor from a very 'gay' city stated- In from of God you are not black, white, male or female. The soul has no gender.....for me this demonstrates that none of us are perfect before God - we are all loved equally, forgiven equally and will all go to heaven together. Straight, gay, young old, black, white, gender - he loves us all. God does not pick and choose from the vast numbers of believers - we are all saved. Children, poor, lepers, widows, prostitutes - he loves all equally in the bible. God is love and luckily he loves me and will never stop loving me, forgiving me, I am straight white female - but no better or worse than everyone in the world. Love is love and God is love.
Thank you. But...Lutheran believe that justifying grace can be lost. Would any understood Luthean please care to comment? Thank you.
Saved By_Grace You've definetely gotten Lutheranism mixed up with Calvinism.
We are assured salvation so long as we have faith in Christ (John 3:16 :), also 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 I think). Of course if we choose to reject Christ, we are not saved.
@@benmiddleton9984 Thank you for your response Ben. I don't know if you truly understood my question or...I've read Lutheran theology ( Missouri Synod Webpage) and even asked one a pastor who belongs to it. It and he have both stated that Salvation can be lost.
As a Calvinist, this is the reason I can't be a Lutheran. If justification is by faith alone in Christ, how can one who has faith in Christ lose his or her salvation?
1 Corinthians 15:1, 2 most definitely teaches we are saved through the Gospel .... IF .... we hold fast what was preached. Note: The KJV is usually the best translation, but here it handles the Greek text poorly. KJV says "If ye keep in memory", but the picture word means "to hold fast".
Remember there are many warnings in scripture to continue by faith and not to live in complacent unrepentance:
"... You stand by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not you. Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off."
Romans 11:20-22.
The book of Hebrews, for example, has wonderful exhortations and also terrifying warnings. For example, Hebrews chapters 2, 3 4, 6 and 10 contain warnings. And yet Hebrews abounds with assurances also, like Hebrews 7:25, Hebrews 10 and 11.
μαθητη Mathete that’s why it’s better that wicked people like us just try to follow the law and when we fail repent and seek grace, both faith and works produce the least chance of being cut off or cast into hell
This fellow hasn't attended a Lutheran worship service and listened to the Sermon preaching the Gospel...
i heard ill never be saved since i live with my bf
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Tell the truth, You have to repent and believe as Jesus said in the Bible, you are just not saved by baby Baptism. Jesus said you must be born again to enter the kingdom of heaven. They don't have the whole truth. In the new testament you will see these things and more that they don't talk about.
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Some is in orthodox...you are forgived if you see your sins and you drink and eat the wine and bread the body of Christ
Have you ever heard the Syriac Orthodox pastor called Fr. Estaphanos Issa?
He preaches just like a true Lutheran in his sermon "Thirsty Soul" ....
ruclips.net/video/N59ZkuY3p8k/видео.html
about the woman of Samaria. He knows to present Christ alone as our only Saviour for sinners. and he handles the right division of Law and Gospel admirably in this particular sermon.
But the true body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ which is received in holy communion is a visible guarantee of the redemption purchased for us upon the cross. We place our faith in Christ alone, and even this faith is not of ourselves, it is worked in our hearts through the power of the Holy Spirit working through the Gospel.
So for Lutherans, is the only way to go to hell is not to be Baptized?
No, that's not what Pastor said...
But long before Jesus died on a cross the psalmists and prophets were proclaiming that whoever turns to God with a "humble and contrite heart" will be forgiven. "When the wicked man turns away from the wickedness that he has committed, and does what is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive"[Ezek.18:27]. The only thing necessary for the forgiveness of sins is true repentance from the heart, not Jesus' death on the cross.And I'm not a Jew or a Muslim.
are lutherans Christians or Catholics?
Lutherans and Catholics are both Christians, as are Baptists, Presbyterians, Methodists, etc. All of these denominations differ from each other in terms of how they interpret the Bible to arrive at specific doctrinal beliefs. For example, some believe that only adults can be baptized, while others believe that infants should be baptized. Some believe that Christ is physically present in the bread and wine of communion, some believe that he is only spiritually present, and some believe that he is only symbolically present.
How can a Catholic be a Christian.
The bible warns his people to come out of her (Catholic Church) in Revelation 17.
The Catholic Church commits blasphemy by forgiving sin. Which the bible identifies that ONLY Jesus Christ can do.
The 8th King is Pope Francis.
I pray that you wake up their is only one denomination and that is being a disciple of Jesus Christ. To build a personal relationship with him and not the Church or Church leaders!
Lutherans are Catholic lite..flee both
Not to argue the issue, but when Jesus told the people" unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you have no life in you." And during the Last Supper, He told the Apostles when He had given thanks and broke the bread, " take this and eat all of you, this is My body given for you." And when He had blessed the cup, He told them to take this and drink, for it is My blood, she'd for you for the remission of sins. Do this in rememberence of Me." He never said that they were merely symbols. Why not? If He meant what He said, shouldn't we as His church follow the commands of our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ? I don't understand why all the denominations except the Catholic and the Orthodox, fail to follow His instructions!
Jesus didn’t rip a chunk out of his calf for the Apostles to nom on and he didn’t bleed into a cup and say it was his blood. Jesus himself used the bread and wine as symbols. But as a Catholic it’s cool if you literally want to cannibalize the dude who died of the sins of the world, hey, knock yourself out.
This almost comes across a satirical skit. The over the top enthusiastic presentation is problematic for me. I am a believer and follower of Jesus Christ and it is Jesus Alone that is worthy of promotion.
Yes. Lutheranism is supposed to be more solemn, dreary... That's its appeal.
You should watch more of our videos. That's just the way he is! ;)
voidremoved My bad, I can see where my comment came across as a stick in the mud. A couple of things, my perception might be a bit off. I just had surgery and on Rx’s and I have just extracted myself from a large church that catered to the unsaved and promoted the “church” more than the Glory of God and Jesus. Self promotion of and exalting of the inner circle of brotherhood of the clone-like skinny jean pastors makes me a.bit hypersensitive. 🥴
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11. When a prophet messenger is sent on earth, it’s because there is no more truth on earth and his Message is the only truth of his time. He is the depositary of the truth. He is the legislator of the Word of God in his time. You see? When Noah was preaching, no one could be saved unless by the Message of Noah. When Jeremiah was preaching, no one could be saved unless by the Message of Jeremiah. When Elijah was preaching, no one could be saved unless by the Message of Elijah. When the Lord Jesus was preaching there in the streets of Jerusalem, no one could be saved unless by the Message of the Lord Jesus. He said: "No one comes to the Father unless by me". You see? When Martin Luther was preaching there in Germany, no one could be saved unless by the Message of Martin Luther. When John Wesley was preaching, no one could be saved on the whole face of the earth unless by the Message of John Wesley. When William Branham was preaching there in America, no one could be saved on the whole face of the earth unless by the Message of William Branham. And today, you cannot be saved but by the Message of Prophet Kacou Philippe. If you were a child of God in their time, you would believe in them and it is the same today. [Ed: The congregation says, “Amen!”]
WE SHOULD DO ALLLLLL OF THE 10 COMMANDMENTS & WE SHOULD REPENT DAILY FOR OUR SINS........NOT ONCE SAVED, ALWAYS SAVED. WE HAVE TO BE PURE FOR OUR BRIDEGROOM
SAY IT HOW IT IS 777 As it is written in Romans 10:9: That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
We should, but we cannot. Through the law there is knowledge of sin. Christ has done all the 10 commandments for us, so that we who cannot do them can escape God's just condemnation. Christ's obedience has obtained what are disobedience never could have.
Bill K doesn’t doing both give you a cleaner conscience so you don’t have to worry you are neglecting faith by doing works or neglecting works by relying only on faith?
“Faith without works is dead”
That’s my issue, why not both works and faith? Rely on faith where you fall short in works and repent where you fall short.
Haha dumb livestock.
Have fun presenting your works on the day of Judgement, of course we should stive for our precious master.. with Gods help, you are saved by Christ.
...''Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.'' Rom 8:30
As a Catholic, everything this guy said is what is practiced at my Catholic Church. The reality is that there are good leaders and bad ones across all of the earth. This man seems like he’s a good leader and I would trust him to lead people to Jesus. But Lutheranism is just Catholic Lite.
Thanks, Brendan, I think... :) Thanks for watching :)
🎯🎯That’s exactly what I call it..flee both
But there are Lutheran bodies that accept same sex marriage and ordination of women priests.
There are. Sadly, they've reasoned away the authoritative Word of God, especially when it comes to "unpopular" doctrines. Pray for them.
Dont confuse ELCA with us PLEASE!
This guy speaks really really weird lol
Did he say Baptism saves? If I hear that correctly, what he is saying is false. Baptism is a showing of our faith, it is not what saves us. It is a declaration of our faith, salvation isn’t declared upon baptism, salvation was given in grace, by faith, and the action of being baptized is the action of a faithful Christian that was/is saved by grace.
Maybe I didn’t hear him correctly. If I heard that incorrectly, I apologize. If I did hear that correctly, and he did say that, then what he says is heresy and blasphemous, and it makes baptism their god.
Lutheranism is demonic fleeeee
For Lutherans is just reading bible (their version of it thanks to Martin Luther) and come up with their 20k interpretations of it.
@Silvertenzio ... what an ignorant comment. A Lutheran is one who subscribes to the Book of Concord - The Lutheran Confessions. There IS only ONE interpretation for Lutherans.
Lutherans are kind of WEIRD: Among the 4 branches of Christianity, Lutherans definitely stand out:
* Lutherans are Biblical but they are not Biblicists
* Lutherans are Confessional but are not fundamentalists
* Lutherans teach the functions of the Law but they are are not legalists
* Lutherans preach the Gospel but they are not liberals
* Lutherans love liturgy but they respect adiaphora
* Lutherans do not venerate saints but they are not iconoclasts
* Lutherans teach sanctification but they are not pietists
* Lutherans take catechism seriously but they are not cultic
* Lutherans are catholics but they are not Roman
* Lutherans are orthodox but they are not Eastern
* Lutherans are evangelicals but they are not generic Protestant
The 4 branches/streams/traditions being: Evangelical/Protestant,
Roman-Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and confessional Lutheran; all very
distinct from each other.
Orthodox venerate icons. We do not worship them as some assume. It is giving reverence to this individual, just like we do when we look at old photos of relatives who’ve passed on.
RomGabe - think you mean clear-headed, not weird!
Annabelle Rankin ... sure I also meant that. As a lutheran, I think their theology is very clear-headed. Among other CHristians we still stand out.
Something that had always bothered me about most Christian denominations was the way that they all proclaimed that baptism was an absolute requirement. I always took issue with this because it is repeated in the Bible that ONLY through true faith can someone be saved. It makes no sense to say that you need to be baptized as a requirement to get into Heaven when it's stated that the key is Faith. Not to say that baptism is useless, it's not. It's just that I wouldn't worry of you had an unbaptized relative who died, God would not turn his back on you simply for not being dunked in some water.
Wow "dunked in some water" smh Have you even read what Jesus and the apostles have said about baptism? Maybe start with Acts 2:38 and 1 Peter 3:21