Samuel 🕊️

Every Christian must embrace the Unaltered Augsburg Confession of 1530. It is the orthodox symbol of the catholic Church whereby the faithful are distinguished and set apart from heretics and sects alike. Although it was penned by men, the impulse came from God the Holy Spirit.

This is terrible advice that hurts Lutheran parishes. Let's start with some technical hurdles: Praise music requires a significant investment in sound equipment. You can easily spend $500k to $1m to get a functional sound system that can amplify your praise band.

“[I]n doctrine and ceremonies nothing has been received on our part against Scripture or the Church Catholic.” - Augsburg Confession (Conclusion)

“Nem tudo o que pertence à fé católica está contido nos livros canônicos, seja de modo claro ou de modo obscuro [neque aperte neque obscure], ... como os hereges — especialmente os luteranos — insistem...” – Domingo Bañez, Comm. In II-IIae D. Thomae, Q. 1, Art. 10.

And he was so real for that.

please make your denominational affiliation easily identifiable on your church’s website thanks, everyone

“There are crimes of which the motive is want; and for these Phaleas expects to find a cure in the equalization of property, which will take away from a man the temptation to be a highwayman, because he is hungry or cold. … [But] The fact is that the greatest crimes are caused…

This is actually a bad argument for sacramental eating because sacramental eating is not carnal and CAPERNAITIC.

i didn't get why sola scriptura was so bad until i saw this bowling analogy

The same way you can be righteous by another persons righteousness.

“If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich is not this unjust? … [I]f this is not injustice, pray what is?” - Aristotle, Politics (bk. III, pt. X)

“But a state exists for the sake of a good life, and not for the sake of life only: … Whence it may be further inferred that virtue must be the care of a state which is truly so called, and not merely enjoys the name:” - Aristotle, Politics (bk. III, pt. IX)

“For the real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.” - Aristotle, Politics (bk. III, pt. VIII)

“[T]he perversions [of the forms of government] are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy. For tyranny is a kind of monarchy which has in view the interest of the monarch only; oligarchy has in view the interest of the…

Anthony loves scandalizing Protestants more than he does Mary.

I love St. Augustine as much as the next guy, but, in principle, any Christian, even a Church father, can be corrected.