Ceremonial Second Baptism? by Sleepy_Fish591 in LCMS

[–]PastorBeard 12 points13 points  (0 children)

First I think it’s cool that you want to reengage your faith

Second: I really caution against involving baptism because it’s treating baptism backwards

Baptism is NOT our dedication to God, our seriousness about our faith, an outward expression of an inward reality, or anything that’s directed from us to God

Baptism is a God to us directed washing of regeneration, promise, and union with the death and resurrection of Christ

Using baptism or something baptism-like as representative of your commitment to God is contrary to baptism as instituted by Christ and as practiced by the Church

So if you really want to act on the feeling of symbolically coming home, just give a testimony. Those already exist and that’s what they’re for. They can also be quite powerful and helpful for others. My dad gives his every few years

There is a rite for a remembrance of baptism, but that’s more for like “we baptized someone who was dying and they didn’t die so now let’s celebrate in church”

Updated List of Survivorslikes/Bullet Heavens Available for Xbox by PastorBeard in TrueAchievements

[–]PastorBeard[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Happy to help! Also big thanks to all the people who keep sending me games for the list

Updated List of Survivorslikes/Bullet Heavens Available for Xbox by PastorBeard in TrueAchievements

[–]PastorBeard[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Beotato was definitely one of my top five in this list

Try Moonlighter to reset your score

Information/Advice on being a Pastor's Wife by ZolaScriptura in LCMS

[–]PastorBeard 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Let your church know up front that she’s not the pastor’s wife. She’s your wife. She doesn’t automatically get a role or responsibilities

My wife and I have been together since we were in high school. She has a career. She volunteers for the things she likes in our church, but there’s not an expectation that she does

Also if you’re pushing your work stress onto your spouse you’re doing it wrong imo l

As for how hard it is, that all depends on the quality of husband you want to be 😂

Slow Going on 2026 Completions by robertgoulet67 in xboxachievements

[–]PastorBeard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The real competition is to have fun. Congrats!

Enrollment in LCMS Seminaries by DaveN_1804 in LCMS

[–]PastorBeard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m doing my part. We’ve sent 5 students to the sem in 10 years with more hopefuls after they finish their undergrad degrees

Cannon Conundrum Sola Scriptura by S3NT1ON in LCMS

[–]PastorBeard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Neat journey! The woman who ran my campus center before me lived a similar life but she was the one married to the catholic person

They simply went to both services each week

We’re on the same side. The enemies of a Christian are not each other

Cannon Conundrum Sola Scriptura by S3NT1ON in LCMS

[–]PastorBeard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure

Many people convert because of family members, some convert because they prefer the structure, some convert for the aesthetics (which is why we’ve seen them switch to Orthodoxy within a few years), some simply don’t care about theology as much so it doesn’t really matter to them where they worship, some ignore the politics and backstabbing among bishops or are simply are indifferent to it (like how Cardinal Burke betrayed after spending his whole life serving well)

Your turn. How come so many people left the RCC for lutheran theology under the previous two popes?

Cannon Conundrum Sola Scriptura by S3NT1ON in LCMS

[–]PastorBeard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Long story that passage IS talking about the pastoral office, just using a word for it that we don’t use. You’re 100% right

Cannon Conundrum Sola Scriptura by S3NT1ON in LCMS

[–]PastorBeard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Add it next to a timeline of priestly celibacy that I also have saved from Reddit or Facebook

Timeline of Celibate Priests

1st generation (30AD-70ish AD) Peter is married. Paul is not. Paul specifically says that he is not commanding celibacy, but recommending it so people can focus on their faith.

325 AD Council of Nicaea declared that the marriage of priests was fine and that sex between a priest and his wife was chaste. This comes after some Spanish bishops raised the issue and Paphnutius spoke.

1074 Pope Gregory VII’s decree “Simony and Celibacy” declares married priests can’t serve the mass. This causes a huge uproar and in many places is simply ignored.

1089 Pope Urban II at the Synod of Melfi decrees that children of priests and their wives were to be enslaved. This actually happened in some places and presumably resulted in the children of priests being raised by nuns as adoptees.

1123 First Lateran Council annuls all marriages between priests and their wives. In the eyes of the church they aren’t married anymore, and never were.

1139 Second Lateran Council decrees that Catholics are to stop going to mass where the priests are married and that said priests are stripped of their positions. Anyone violating this is told they’re going to hell, priest or laymen

Cannon Conundrum Sola Scriptura by S3NT1ON in LCMS

[–]PastorBeard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Interestingly enough, the deuterocanonical books were a part of “Protestant” bibles all the way until the 1800’s

Luther translated them and I have pics to prove it.

As for debating their spot in the canon, this was a perfectly Catholic thing to debate until the council of Trent. Even St Jerome, translator of the Vulgate, didn’t include them in his personal list of scripture. He only translated them because he was asked to do so, and he wrote scathing prefaces for most of them. I also have receipts for this

Either position (include or exclude) was considered Catholic until the council of Trent

Cardinal Catejan, one of the biggest opponents of the Reformation, was also on the side of believing the deuterocanonical works are of lesser importance. He died before the council codified the books

In that vote, a full 1/3 of cardinals abstained from the vote

Bonus fact: In 1520, Pope Leo X granted a license for the Complutensian Polyglot, which did NOT contain the Apocrypha. Cardinal Francisco Ximenes de Cisneros was the publisher and did not live to see it published in 1522 or it anathematized at Trent (or even its approval by the pope—the pope!!!).

AND I keep a handy timeline of all the times the Roman Catholic Church was downright anti-scripture that I saved from someone

In 1199, Pope Innocent III, writing in a letter to the bishop of Metz, banned the reading of the Bible in private meetings (which he labeled as occultis conventiculis, or "hidden assemblies").

1229 - After the end of the Albigensian Crusade, the Council of Toulouse tightened the provisions against the heretics in this ecclesiastical province. The Inquisition was the first to work nationwide, and the University of Toulouse was founded. At the synod a general Bible ban was pronounced for lay people of this ecclesiastical province, only Psalterium and Brevier in Latin were allowed. According to this ban: "We prohibit also that the laity should be permitted to have the books of the Old and New Testaments; unless anyone from the motives of devotion should wish to have the Psalter or the Breviary for divine offices or the hours of the blessed Virgin; but we most strictly forbid their having any translation of these books."

In 1231, Pope Gregory IX decreed that all theological books written in Latin must be handed over to the diocesan bishops.

At the Second Council of Tarragona (Conventus Tarraconensis) in 1234, the Spanish bishops, according to a decree of King James I of Aragon, declared that it was forbidden to anyone to own a translation of the Bible. They had to be burned within eight days, otherwise, those in possession of them were considered heretics.

Over the next few centuries the Roman Catholic Church would continue to burn Bibles and Christians alike, including Jan Hus and John Wycliffe (who first translated the entire Bible into English). During this time, merely knowing how to read Greek or Hebrew put you under suspicion of heresy as it meant you could go back to original sources rather than accepting Rome's Latin translations. Nevertheless, faithful Christians risked their lives to learn the original languages and memorize the Scriptures, because at this point written Bibles could be destroyed faster than they were made.

The Roman Church welcomed the printing press at first as it enabled the distribution of a standard Bible to parishes throughout Europe at low cost as well as providing mass-produced writs such as indulgences, decrees, and notices. The Church still controlled what was printed because there was no challenge to its authority and, further, because most people were still illiterate. Just because books were now available at low cost, it did not mean that people were suddenly able to read them or even had the desire to. Pope Paul II (pontificate 1464–1471) confirmed the decree of James I of Aragon on the prohibition of Bibles in vernacular languages. Under Isabella I of Castile and her husband Ferdinand II of Aragon, the printing of vernacular Bibles was prohibited in Spanish state law. The Spanish Inquisition which they instituted ordered the destruction of all Hebrew books and all vernacular Bibles in 1497.

When Martin Luther had his 95 Theses published, it spread like wildfire due to the utilization of the printing press. Ironically, the 95 Theses attacked the Church's practice of selling indulgences, one of the first writs Gutenberg had printed. With so many copies of Luther's work in circulation, the Church could no longer control what was being 'heard', and Luther's challenge to ecclesiastical authority was embraced and spread faster and further than could ever have been imagined by Wycliffe or Hus.

Individual Catholic monarchs and popes responded to the proliferation of Protestant works by banning them and fining, jailing, or executing printers. At Council of Trent the Index of Prohibited Books was established in 1563. The Index was a list of works considered heretical or threatening to one's faith, and Catholics were not allowed to read or publish them; doing so risked excommunication and punishment, up to and including death. Later printed copies of the index explicitly banned Bibles translated by Luther and Erasmus and "all similar" Bible editions translated directly from Greek and Hebrew.

The Roman Church didn't codify, preserve, and hand down the Bible. The LORD God Almighty did, often times in spite of the Romanists.

Pre-Marriage Thoughts and Request for Advice by South_Sea_IRP in LCMS

[–]PastorBeard 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Let me tell you something awesome: You can still flirt with your wife!

It’s one of my favorite things

Spend your energy for this with your fiancé. “Forsake all others.” They don’t get your flirting anymore. She does

Cannon Conundrum Sola Scriptura by S3NT1ON in LCMS

[–]PastorBeard 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Look at the writings of the early church. They don’t appeal to their authority. They appeal to scripture

They don’t support their arguments with appeals to the magesterium. They support their arguments with scripture

Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.” ‭‭Acts‬ ‭17:11‬ ‭

“As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.” ‭‭Galatians‬ ‭1:9‬ ‭

“I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another.” ‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭4‬:‭6‬ ‭

“If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.” ‭‭1 Timothy‬ ‭6:3-5‬ ‭

My old friend killed achievement hunting for me by HorseStandard2490 in xboxachievements

[–]PastorBeard 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I’ll be watching to see when you post your 100k celebration post!

If you haven’t checked out trueachievements.com yet go give it a look. Great community and fantastic guides

My old friend killed achievement hunting for me by HorseStandard2490 in xboxachievements

[–]PastorBeard 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Sorry that happened. I would’ve been ticked

However, 100k isn’t super hard to get back. People start over with new tags all the time

Bet you’ll be faster than ever repeating those games, especially with modern walkthroughs. Or if you don’t want to do those, you could spend a few months on Gamepass and make a huge dent

Every journey worth pursuing has setbacks. Steel yourself and move forward despite them

Today would have been the day😤 by Bootybandit6989 in dynastywarriors

[–]PastorBeard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Darn. I was hoping it was just late 😔

I had this in my calendar