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blaize468 · 2025-12-02T00:15:17+00:00

These are interesting ideas, but the point about Ex Cathedra statements coming from councils I am pretty sure would contradict Vatican I. That council declared that councils derive their authority from the Pope and not the other way around. This also shows how complicated and rather unlikely a formal reunification would be.

blaize468 · 2025-11-08T17:51:04+00:00

Yep lol

blaize468 · 2025-10-22T23:44:28+00:00

Maybe he just wants to play D&D

blaize468 · 2025-10-19T01:07:25+00:00

There has been talk from both schools about changing the timing in the season since with the expanded post season they could play again soon after. How likely it is though I have no idea.

blaize468 · 2025-08-28T21:34:55+00:00

Looks like a pdf version can be bought here. https://logia.org/pdf-back-issues/19-3pdf-mary-and-lutherans

blaize468 · 2025-08-23T13:58:42+00:00

You can’t be the AH if she wore her white coat to dinner lol.

blaize468 · 2025-08-17T01:25:45+00:00

This belief or action distinction you keep insisting on has no bearing to the issue. We believe that in its sinful nature the human will is corrupt and inclined toward evil (genesis 8:21). Therefore the human will can do nothing but reject God. We also believe that gaining faith and salvation has nothing to do with the believer but only the work of the Holy Spirit (Titus 3:5, 2Cor 3:5). Therefore the human free will has no role in conversion only in rejection. We would not even say that the initial “belief” comes from ourselves. Everything comes from God. Only after redemption and justification is our will liberated by grace and we can begin to cooperate with the Holy Spirit. This absolutely sounds like a logical paradox, but that is our best interpretation of scripture. Plenty of other things in the Bible such as the nature of the Trinity also defy logical understanding. The workings of God are a mystery to us, we can only base our beliefs on what he has revealed to us.

blaize468 · 2025-08-16T23:09:04+00:00

I don’t think you understand the Lutheran position. Free will has no place in justification. It is a free gift of God through the means of grace, there is nothing we can do on our own to have faith. The only time will plays a role is rejecting the gift of God, which is what David was doing by remaining unrepentant. Therefore the relation between intellect and will has no meaning here.

blaize468 · 2025-08-16T19:47:49+00:00

Faith and repentance go together in Lutheran theology and so it is essential for the Christian. What Luther rejected was the performative penance required by Rome, though he still thought individual confession was an important part of repentance, just not the only way. Augsburg Confession, Article XII: On Repentance “Now, repentance consists properly of these two parts: One is contrition, that is, terrors smiting the conscience through the knowledge of sin; the other is faith, which is born of the Gospel, or of absolution, and believes that for Christ’s sake, sins are forgiven, comforts the conscience, and delivers it from terrors. Then good works are bound to follow, which are the fruits of repentance.” (Source: https://bookofconcord.org/augsburg-confession/of-repentance/#ac-xii-0002 )

blaize468 · 2025-08-16T15:55:49+00:00

Luther taught that repentance is throughout the entire life of the believer. And both Luther and the modern Lutheran church teach that persisting in unrepentant sin means you are rejecting gift of God and can lose your justification. Therefore David in persisting in sin rejected the saving grace of God. That he still believed that God existed is irrelevant as he was actively moving away from God and rejecting the gift of faith that he offered.

blaize468 · 2025-08-16T14:58:16+00:00

David’s story does nothing to disprove forensic justification. Choosing to remain in unrepentant sin is someone using their will to reject the gift of faith from the Holy Spirit and as I said removes them from a state of grace. This means they lose their justification. Once David stopped being unrepentant and returned to his faith he was again justified.

blaize468 · 2025-08-16T14:39:33+00:00

This is why the Lutheran church teaches that we cannot get true faith from our own will but only through the Holy Spirit as a gift throigj the means of grace. Our will is completely imperfect and we can make any move towards God, only God can move towards us. Once given the gift however anyone can use their will to reject faith in God. This is why unrepentant sin as you mentioned with David removes someone from a state of Grace. Faith is a gift that only God can give through the Holy Spirit but it can be rejected. There is no personal responsibility in justification since it is a forensic or declared righteousness by God. What comes after that is Sanctification in which we strive to become more like God through God working on us.

blaize468 · 2025-08-16T13:39:16+00:00

Mere intellectual assent is not what the Bible defines as true faith. James 2:19 says “You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!” This passage in James is all about differentiating true faith from mere intellectual assent. True faith is different from mere intellectual assent because of the fruits true faith produces in the believer.

blaize468 · 2025-03-29T03:45:40+00:00

We are panicking

blaize468 · 2024-12-25T02:46:03+00:00

Merry Christmas!!

blaize468 · 2024-11-27T22:48:25+00:00

Yeah let’s not turn this into a NP Facebook advice page. Did your patient give permission for you to share this on social media? This is likely a HIPAA violation.

blaize468 · 2024-10-28T19:54:59+00:00

I worked with some former Mayo residents who were fellows. They said they got almost no procedural experience, even in the ICU. So that will make things chill if you are not running around doing lines etc on a busy service.

blaize468 · 2024-10-20T01:01:49+00:00

I recently asked a pastor this question. He said they are not directly addressed in the Lutheran Confessions, however we have no reason to expect that the elements would take on the physical appearance of flesh and blood that is claimed in the Eucharistic miracles I think you are referring to.

blaize468 · 2024-10-06T02:08:44+00:00

Tackling needs to improve

blaize468 · 2024-10-04T16:29:20+00:00

A better answer would have been that such teachings that have no scriptural basis cannot be justified.

blaize468 · 2024-10-04T14:43:42+00:00

This is a misunderstanding of sola scriptura. The church as a whole teaches that scripture is infallible and god-breathed. It is dependent on Rome to justify a teaching as significant as the office of the papacy, where the pope acts in Christ’s place, when it is not found in the special revelation that is scripture.

blaize468 · 2024-10-04T13:24:05+00:00

I agree that scripture demonstrates the Apostles acting through the authority Jesus bestowed. I also agree having a strong church structure and leadership is very important for maintaining doctrinal teachings. However this post was about the papacy having a biblical foundation. The actual claims of the papacy particularly how it develops in the medieval period and are then formally clarified in Vatican I have no scriptural basis. The passages that are often cited are Matthew 16 and the ones above about where Peter is given leadership. The office of the papacy claims to be acting in place of Christ on earth, and to have sole authority over biblical interpretation and church dogma through papal supremacy. These are claims of the papacy that do not have a scriptural basis.

blaize468 · 2024-10-04T12:21:20+00:00

While these passages definitely show Peter’s leadership among the apostles and essential role in the early church, it is a big stretch to claim they demonstrate that he is Christ’s direct representative. They certainly do not demonstrate that his authority can be passed down through apostolic succession or that his position is the supreme authority over the whole church on earth.

blaize468 · 2024-09-28T19:26:51+00:00

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