tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post624117003924909418..comments2024-03-29T04:31:15.219-05:00Comments on Pastoral Meanderings: The invitation to dialog. . .Pastor Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10653554256101480140noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-49768186263498620332018-10-17T14:55:22.438-05:002018-10-17T14:55:22.438-05:00Maybe they're dialoguing...
Pope Francis spea...Maybe they're dialoguing...<br /><br /><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DptQ1K1XoAA9A_3.jpg" rel="nofollow">Pope Francis speaks with leftist Michael Moore</a> at the end of the weekly general audience on October 17, 2018 at St. Peter's square in the Vatican.Carl Vehsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00348831096001668813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-9864331800352170682018-10-17T05:17:47.281-05:002018-10-17T05:17:47.281-05:00“When error is admitted into the Church, it will b...“When error is admitted into the Church, it will be found that the stages of its progress are always three. It begins by asking toleration. Its friends say to the majority: You need not be afraid of us; we are few, and weak; only let us alone; we shall not disturb the faith of the others. The Church has her standards of doctrine; of course we shall never interfere with them; we only ask for ourselves to be spared interference with our private opinions. Indulged in this for a time, error goes on to assert equal rights. Truth and error are two balancing forces. The Church shall do nothing which looks like deciding between them; that would be partiality. It is bigotry to assert any superior right for the truth. We are to agree to differ, and any favoring of the truth, because it is truth, is partisanship. What the friends of truth and error hold in common is fundamental. Anything on which they differ is ipso facto non-essential. Anybody who makes account of such a thing is a disturber of the peace of the church. Truth and error are two co-ordinate powers, and the great secret of church-statesmanship is to preserve the balance between them. From this point error soon goes on to its natural end, which is to assert supremacy. Truth started with tolerating; it comes to be merely tolerated, and then only for a time. Error claims a preference for its judgments on all disputed points. It puts men into positions, not as at first in spite of their departure from the Church’s faith, but in consequence of it. Their recommendation is that they repudiate the faith, and position is given them to teach others to repudiate it, and to make them skillful in combating it.”<br /><br />The Conservative Reformation and Its Theology<br />Charles Porterfield Krauth Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-22628747174872237852018-10-16T14:29:00.689-05:002018-10-16T14:29:00.689-05:00The ELCA is exhibit A for the method of talking un...The ELCA is exhibit A for the method of talking until you get<br />your own way. The decision of 2009 was the result of years <br />and years of talking about homosexuality until everyone was<br />really confused about bound-consciences. The vote for gay and<br />lesbian marriages as well as homosexual pastors culminated in<br />a mass exodus of ELCA members and parishes. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-9034648170295626082018-10-16T08:34:42.167-05:002018-10-16T08:34:42.167-05:00It is simply a passive-aggressive attempt in fact ...It is simply a passive-aggressive attempt in fact to shut down substantial conversation and reach a decision.<br /><br />"Let's keep talking" means actually, "I see you still hold to your stupid opinions, so because you won't change your mind and you keep telling me I'm wrong, we need to keep talking because eventually I will get my way. At which point, we will no longer discuss it since it is a settled issue."<br /><br />Just look at the idiotic nonsense in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, they talked homosexuality to death, until the leftists got their way, now...no more talking is permitted. It is now the work of the Holy Spirit which cannot be doubted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-28768544190471924432018-10-16T08:22:25.882-05:002018-10-16T08:22:25.882-05:00Luther finally told Zwingli at the Marburg Colloqu...Luther finally told Zwingli at the Marburg Colloquy that 'we are of a different Spirit.' End of discussion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com