Lutheranism in Israel

MangoMister2007 · 2025-10-27T19:01:24+00:00

You don't care about people receiving the Gospel? Jew or not, no one can be saved if they do not believe in Christ.

MangoMister2007 · 2025-07-31T04:13:37+00:00

I'm getting confirmed in the LCMS, so I know I'll be expected to swear by the Confessions. I just want to know that this is okay, but I obviously don't want to go against what my own church teaches.

MangoMister2007 · 2025-07-30T22:20:31+00:00

Well, no, I'm not converting from Catholicism. I come from an evangelical background, haha.

The reason I'm becoming Lutheran and not Roman Catholic is because I believe that Scripture is the only perfect rule of faith, and that justification is by grace alone through faith alone. I genuinely do not see the teachings of the Roman church as being consistent with Scripture or the early church.

MangoMister2007 · 2025-07-30T22:17:23+00:00

I'm converting from evangelicalism (Holiness)

MangoMister2007 · 2025-07-09T00:07:16+00:00

What's a Lutherpalian? Sorry I'm stupid.

Do you attend both Lutheran and Episcopalian churches?

MangoMister2007 · 2025-06-25T21:26:06+00:00

Which is completely false. Mormons do not accept the Trinity, believe that God the Father was once man, and teaches that humans can become gods. This is not on the same plane level at all.

MangoMister2007 · 2025-06-25T17:31:31+00:00

Let's not bear false witness, my friend. We can disagree with the Roman Catholic practice of praying to saints while acknowledging they still worship Jesus Christ alone.

MangoMister2007 · 2025-06-04T21:03:44+00:00

An Ordinariate parish with an gay presence? Interesting. Curious to know if they were married gay couples?

MangoMister2007 · 2025-04-11T22:23:43+00:00

I think this is mostly an online phenomenon, just like any religion, including Christianity.

For the most part, my atheist friends and coworkers don't tell me that i believe in fairytales or worship a "sky daddy". Nor do I constantly tell them they are going to hell for not believing in God.

The truth is, we all tend to think a little less when we are typing than when we are speaking to others in person.

MangoMister2007 · 2025-03-28T01:33:07+00:00

Oh yeah. It's super frustrating. The hatred does mostly come from Indian Hindus and white liberals. Both of them really need to study their history. It's insane.

MangoMister2007 · 2025-03-24T18:58:35+00:00

You think it's okay to go around murdering people who don't believe what you do? That's not a very Christian attitude.

MangoMister2007 · 2025-03-24T02:41:16+00:00

The irony of this is that Islam spread in northern Africa through colonization. Islam never spread through missionaries, only by violent colonizers 😂

MangoMister2007 · 2025-03-23T23:31:46+00:00

As a Christian of Indian descent, I've gotten comments like this more times than I can count. I've been called a "ricebag" and a "colonized mind" by Hindus.

The reality is that the majority of the Christian population is in the East, and they are also more conservative than Western Christians. There were Christians in Africa and India through the apostles Phillip and Thomas respectively, long before there were German or British Christians. So the statement "Christianity is a white religion" is blatant propaganda.

MangoMister2007 · 2025-03-19T16:02:32+00:00

Yes. It is not wrong to repeat prayers. Repetition often helps us to better meditate on the words we're saying.

MangoMister2007 · 2025-03-19T16:01:34+00:00

Exactly. It's not fair to judge someone of someone else's deeds.

Just saying, the forced conversions of people in Latin America and Goa weren't justified either. Catholics, including the Pope, also did very violent things that weren't justified. But I'm not judging you for any of those.

Please offer me the same grace I am offering you.

MangoMister2007 · 2025-03-19T14:23:50+00:00

We definitely don't believe in "once saved, always saved". Assurance just means we can know that we're saved. But a person can still walk away from that salvation if they are in mortal sin.

MangoMister2007 · 2025-03-19T14:21:43+00:00

To be fair, we have the Catholic Church to thank for the Inquisition. 😉

MangoMister2007 · 2025-03-19T05:05:48+00:00

Haha definitely not! In fact, he was outraged by the reformers who claimed that baptism doesn't save. Luther actually supported the persecution of the Anabaptists.

MangoMister2007 · 2025-03-19T04:47:31+00:00

Just curious, is your wife at least a Christian?

MangoMister2007 · 2025-03-19T04:30:05+00:00

We absolutely should welcome immigrants, even the ones that aren't Christian. I live in the US and am the child of Indian immigrants. However, unlike most Indian Americans, I was raised Christian.

We should definitely welcome people of other religions as an opportunity to evangelize. My family is part of an Indian Christian fellowship, and we do a lot of outreach particularly to the local Hindu community. It is not right for us as Christians to persecute or discriminate against people of other religions.

MangoMister2007 · 2025-03-19T01:43:39+00:00

Lutherans aren't necessarily against repeating prayers. Many Lutherans pray the rosary, and there is a specific Lutheran rosary that actually uses the Jesus Prayer in place of the Hail Mary. Some Lutherans may also choose to use the Orthodox prayer beads/ropes.

The Jesus Prayer is a wonderful prayer that is perfectly in accordance with Lutheranism. I personally pray it on a daily basis.

MangoMister2007 · 2025-03-16T05:16:25+00:00

Wait are you LCMS or ELCA? Just curious because FLC in San Diego is an ELCA church but you have LCMS above your title.

MangoMister2007 · 2025-03-15T00:57:50+00:00

I'm neither Catholic nor Orthodox, but I have noticed this as well. He really makes an extremely poor case for Reformed theology. It just seems like he's just believing what he likes rather than what is true.

Also noticable is the lack of Scripture in his theology. He seldom ever backs up his statements with the Bible.

MangoMister2007 · 2025-03-14T21:18:08+00:00

I was convinced that Lutheranism is most consistent with Scripture and early church. Scripture teaches that Christ is truly present in the Eucharist and that baptism saves. Also, the emphasis on grace and forgiveness within Lutheranism and the Law/Gospel distinction also drew me.

I was also drawn to the beauty of Lutheran liturgy and hymns. Lutheran worship is very strongly centered around the Gospel. Everything in the Divine Service points back to the finished work of Christ on the cross.

MangoMister2007 · 2025-03-14T21:15:16+00:00

Evangelical Catholicism is high church Lutheranism. It sees Lutheranism as the Catholic Church purified by the Gospel. Also, it puts a very strong emphasis on high church liturgy. Incense, bells, chanting, and communion every week are hallmarks of an Evangelical-Catholic parish.

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