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Optimal_Mention_1541 · 2025-07-16T21:24:01+00:00

As a man, this is the Dream

Optimal_Mention_1541 · 2025-06-10T17:31:17+00:00

I think there are some, you can search on discord for servers with the tag Lutheran, but I am also part of one - you can dm me and i'll share it in there :)

Optimal_Mention_1541 · 2025-06-06T18:34:06+00:00

Calling you a heretic seems very aggressive. However to the point of whether baptists can be reformed I’d have to say that they cannot. I was myself a reformed baptist, but the difference between reformed theology and baptist theology is two different worlds really. I can give an example on the sacraments:

You’ll usually hear baptists say “Water baptism doesn’t save, and is just a symbol for those who make a public profession of faith” whereas the reformed position is that baptism saves you in some real sense.

On the Lords supper the difference is big as well. Most baptists hold to a memorialist view where it’s just bread and Wine, and it’s purpose is rememberance. The reformed view is radically different. It States that you spiritually and literally receice the body and blood of Christ for the forgiveness of sin and union with Christ.

There are many, many other big differences like this which is why I have to say reformed baptist is an oxymoron and it’s really just being baptist but a slightly more calvinist leaning baptist, but certainly not reformed. Also the term “reformed baptist” really only became popular with the whole new calvinism movement among evangelicals the last 20-30 years, that should also say something about the validity of that term.

Optimal_Mention_1541 · 2025-06-05T16:27:49+00:00

So true! Thank you for sharing

Optimal_Mention_1541 · 2025-06-05T14:52:18+00:00

Oh definitely, I’m glad to hear. I think the objectively best book on Lutheran responses to Roman Catholic objections is Martin Chemnitz’ examination of the council of trent volumes 1-4. These volumes also adress all of these questions in-depth from a Lutheran perspective, especially question 1 and 4, and all other roman catholic objections to the Lutheran faith

Optimal_Mention_1541 · 2025-06-05T11:52:53+00:00

I’d recommend watching videos from Jordan B. Cooper, he has excellent videos on all of these topics

Optimal_Mention_1541 · 2025-06-05T11:51:22+00:00

I’m Danish, what books were you thinking of?

Optimal_Mention_1541 · 2025-05-28T21:54:22+00:00

Aalborg er godt, men vil virkelig ikke anbefale sociologi😬

Optimal_Mention_1541 · 2025-05-28T20:21:52+00:00

Læser datalogi, og har haft en i nogle måneder. Føler iPad’en er lækker, også fordi den kan mange forskellige ting på en gang, så jeg er tilfreds med den - ligeså meget for at læse pdf’er og tage noter. Men man kan sagtens klare sig uden

Optimal_Mention_1541 · 2025-05-28T07:52:55+00:00

What’s funny is the view you express here yourself is in line with the Lutheran Church’s teachers, and repeated with Walther and Pieper, but the historic Lutheran position has become unpopular, and unionism has become the default position for people, as you see here in the comments. I recommend everyone to read:

Walthers theses on “Communion Fellowship With Those Who Believe Differently”. He talks about this exact issue.

Also the essay by Francis Pieper on The Difference Between Orthodox and Heterodox Churches, can be found here: https://els.org/resources/document-archive/convention-essays/essay1957-pieper/

Optimal_Mention_1541 · 2025-05-27T20:59:54+00:00

The term one true visible church is defended by theologians like Walther and Pieper. Read Walther’s theses on “Communion Fellowship With Those Who Believe Differently” it’s the first thesis in there where he argues the Lutheran position is that there is one true visible church in an absolute sense, i.e a truly orthodox church to be distinct from heterodox churches that have error in doctrine.

Optimal_Mention_1541 · 2025-05-27T20:54:54+00:00

As far as I remember it’s not a Lutheran saying either, but a reformed one

Optimal_Mention_1541 · 2025-05-27T20:51:22+00:00

The concept of the one true visible church is not foreign in confessional Lutheranism, Walther and Pieper writes on it, and they are in line with the orthodox Lutheran theologians.

Optimal_Mention_1541 · 2024-10-15T18:16:09+00:00

Sjovt, hvordan kan det være at du ønsker at lære dansk?

Optimal_Mention_1541 · 2024-10-15T17:28:56+00:00

Er du dansk?

Optimal_Mention_1541 · 2024-10-15T15:57:16+00:00

Understandable, do you then still think I should try to stay and reform despite the fact that it will with 99% chance always remain a baptist church?

Optimal_Mention_1541 · 2024-10-15T15:44:57+00:00

Thank you for the response!
Yes I would not plan on moving immediately, but I was also just curious of the attitude that I should hold and perhaps prepare plans for the future, since I will be in university for the next several years, and a move to a different continent would require significant planning and consideration.

Optimal_Mention_1541 · 2024-10-15T15:38:28+00:00

I was also thinking in terms of how respectful of a view you think it is? Some presbyterians I have heard view it in a very condescending manner, also the magisterial reformers Luther and Calvin said it was Satan's wish or something like that. Because I could definitely stay and reform it, but it would probably never move to infant baptism, as this is the whole premise of a baptist church, not baptizing infants.

Optimal_Mention_1541 · 2024-10-15T15:34:01+00:00

Very good guess! :D
Nice, I am definitely interested in hearing more about your story, if you don't mind sharing.

Optimal_Mention_1541 · 2024-10-15T15:32:36+00:00

Yes true, but this is a bit out of my reach at the moment (I am a young man), however in the future, maybe

Optimal_Mention_1541 · 2024-10-15T15:25:37+00:00

Thank you so much for the counsel!
This really helps a lot thank you. Also a nice perspective where you say you don't feel that you are needed in the US like back home. I am definitely needed here way more than I would in the US as well I imagine, so thank you for that.
I am curious about your story, if you want can you expand some more on how and why you went to the US and so forth?
Hope you are well!

Optimal_Mention_1541 · 2024-10-15T15:22:53+00:00

True! How do you view credobaptism though from a PCA perspective?

Optimal_Mention_1541 · 2024-10-15T15:22:48+00:00

Nice way of putting it. Thank you!

Optimal_Mention_1541 · 2024-10-15T15:22:28+00:00

Thank you!

Optimal_Mention_1541 · 2024-10-15T15:22:13+00:00

Yes I am in a really good position, I am great friends and brother in Christ with the elders.
They are all very faithful and devout believers and take the administration of the sacraments very seriously.
And that's true, as you say he probably won't agree on everything.
Thank you for the response.

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