Corey J. Mahler — Comments

It occurs to me that I’ve never once seen an unbaptized Lutheran attempting to lecture people about Christianity. Unbaptized EO catechumens, on the other hand…

If you do not oppose pornography, then you are not a Christian.

Flood (∧ Red Sea) = type(s) of Baptism

Antitype > type

Flood saved from death.

∴ Baptism saves from eternal death.

Atheists do not deserve a response.

It is more important to defend the Church from the sodomites and their demon attendants than to attempt to evangelize them.

Those who still reject the Law will not hear the Gospel.

Apparently we need another reminder of what “the Church” is (and what she is not):

The Church is the congregation of all believers from all time — from Adam and Eve to the last man to have his name found in the Book of Life.

The Church is not any earthly institution, group, denomination, tradition, or sect.

If your ‘tradition’ holds higher and defends more vigorously a collection of personalities from its (perceived) past than the Scriptures themselves, then you aren’t in a Christian tradition — you’re in a cult.

We must, of course, give credit where credit is due:

(Conservative) Anglicans — Thirty-Nine Articles (1563).

(Conservative) Reformed — Westminster Confession of Faith (1646).

There is, quite literally, only one Christian tradition that has not changed its doctrine or its theology in the last five hundred years:

Lutheranism — the Augsburg Confession (1530).

You can affirm ‘modern’ conceptions of gender and sexuality or you can be a Christian.

Choose wisely.