Reasonable Trout ✝️ ❤️️ 🦬
@ReasonableTrout
LCMS Lutheran - self employed software engineer - can't figure out music theory
Do we, as children of God made in His image, carry within ourselves any likeness of the Trinity? Are we in any sense mini trinities?
I had an AI create a distance based similarity graph for how it sees various denominations. I think it pretty much nailed it!
The Orthodox were Protestant before it was cool
I'm convinced the only reason anyone uses Linux is because they actually enjoy troubleshooting 12 hours a day every day instead of getting something done
The question: "If God has already forgiven the sins of all people, why aren't all saved?" We respond. We have to distinguish two things. God's objective work in Christ, and individual benefit from that work. Theologians sometimes call this objective and subjective…
Things Protestants don't believe: - The Reformers were prophets - Schism is good - Protestant theology is new - Sin is permissible - Authority doesn't matter - Private interpretation is truth - The HS stopped guiding the Church Anything else?
The idea that babies *all* go to heaven or hell is inherently Calvinist
The only way anyone can convince you to hold to a new authority as the highest is by assuring you it's possible for two authorities to be completely equal.
Did infants cross the Red Sea when God divided it for them, or were they told to wait until they can explain why they don't want to be enslaved by the Egyptians?
2% of my followers are pastors. This is approximately 4x more than the percentage of Lutherans that are pastors. I don't know why I'm telling you this but now you know it.
I think we forget too often that the option to not sin *is* available to us... we're just *definitely* jerks.
1. Yes 2. Probably 3. Probably not 4. ..Probably?
4 Marian Dogmas of the Catholic Church: 1) Mary is Theotokos or Mother of God the Son at the Incarnation 2) Mary is Ever-Virgin before, during, and after giving birth to Christ 3) Mary was conceived without original sin or concupiscence by merits of Christ 4) Mary’s body was…
Why don’t more churches go through various apostolic father writings in Sunday school? I think a lot of people would benefit from that.
“I get all that if I become Lutheran?” No, you’ve already got it. Christ just is. He doesn’t change based on what you believe. He isn’t like us. He just is. Baptism just is. The Sacrament just is. The Word just is. The bonus of right belief is holy comfort, joy in the…
Can Lutherans and Catholics agree here? "The bread and wine turn into Christ's physical body and blood, with no known aspect of the bread and wine remaining other than every aspect we can know about, interact with, or include in a definition."
The Lutheran gospel is the superior gospel. None offer you as much.
Anyone notice when people really have things figured out they tend to keep to themselves more? That needs to stop.
Good News for this guy, his sin is both way more severe and way less impactful than his church tells him.