tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post7401384892012126215..comments2024-03-11T13:16:19.098-04:00Comments on Ad Orientem: The LCMS Calls a Post a PostUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-42454932501706606102015-07-23T11:59:12.919-04:002015-07-23T11:59:12.919-04:00"The LCMS is not a Reformed denomination"..."The LCMS is not a Reformed denomination"<br /><br />Some from the Orthodox perspective may consider any denomination from "The Reformation" as being reformed for that reason, not necessarily due to particular theology regarding free-will, predestination, etc.Patrick Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09841521887066909045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-9872225089330805062015-07-23T08:02:55.167-04:002015-07-23T08:02:55.167-04:00I read a story recently about a church in Georgia ...I read a story recently about a church in Georgia that was promoting sodomy and it was attacked by Christians who vandalized the site, similar to the overturning of the money-changers tables.<br /><br />Recognizing now that there is no political victory attainable, the victory should be to decapitate the weakest head of the hydra, that of 'Liberal Christianity'. This kind of Christianity, is heresy. How dare they use the name of the Holy Faith to spread the ideas of the political left! It is time to clean house, and drive out Liberal Christianity for good.Clear Watershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01067495451323861530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-65197181941153345632015-07-22T15:15:56.362-04:002015-07-22T15:15:56.362-04:00Thanks for giving us in the LCMS this notice, John...Thanks for giving us in the LCMS this notice, John.<br /><br />Forgive me for quibbling, however, with this:<br /><br /><i>welcome news from our Reformed brothers and sisters</i><br /><br />The LCMS is not a Reformed denomination, but a Lutheran one, and we Lutherans are at pains to distance ourselves from the Reformed branch (the heirs of Zwingli, Bullinger, and Calvin) of the Reformation. Such confusion between Lutheran and Reformed is (in the words of Orthodox Fr Gregory Roeber) "enough to set any confessional Lutheran's teeth on edge for a long, long time."<br /><br />If Pastor Becker's errors were not related to women's ordination and Scriptural inerrancy, but instead consisted of agreement with the Reformed, his expulsion for heresy might well have come much more quickly.Chris Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03220498656377282715noreply@blogger.com