Great video! I very much liked your suggestions for books to read, including your comments about C.S. Lewis, whose net may have been somewhat crude, but that allowed it to be broad, and to "engage" many a fish and potential catch, who would not read blatantly religious work. May God bless you, your work and those you love.
If I have a gluten allergy and I take the body of christ, what will happen to me? Will the gluten in the wafer affect me or will the lord protect my insides?
@donutsndingleberries Chances are the gluten will be of such a small amount that you'll be fine, but I really don't know. It is possible to by "low gluten" bread specifically for this purpose. But remember, the bread is still bread, just as it is Christ.
@Revfiskj I wasn't sure anyone would actually respond to that question, though it is a legitimate one since I know some christians that have a gluten intolerance. I'm a former LCMSer but saw your response to the Jesus>Religion video and was compelled to check out some more. Though I wasn't always a non-believer, in fact I was quite devout in my younger days, I never fully understood why god would want us to eat his body and drink his blood. Is deiphagy a word?
I would love to have a beer with you sometime in talk about a lot of things... I don't live too far away... maybe at the next pastors conference... new favorite quote though... only through the feeling of guilt, by which man perceives himself as part of a fallen world, is it possible to comprehend that we have to speak contradictory terms and with statements that it is hard for the reason to understand if we would rightly perceive and possess the truth it is to make us free
That sounded really accusatory in the first part...not meant to be...I have no doubt to your correct distinction between these two doctrines...it was meant more as further explanation to your previous comment about righteousness
Ahhhh...sorry...innovation is to be cautioned...but C.P. Krauth commends conservative reformation...growing in a conservative understanding based on established doctrine.
@revfiskj...I have not looked much at his Paul stuff...but to your point about righteousness...how then or do you distinguish between being made right (justified) and living righteously (sanctification)...How is this different from your use of holiness or living a holy life...yes invovation
@revros91 I don't think you're quite following me. My point is that "living righteously" is not the way the Bible uses the term "sanctification." S- is reserved for literal, physical proximity to God. Living righteously is living "righteously" (which, interestingly, is the word "justification.") I distinguish between justification by grace alone, through faith, and the new obedience of righteous living before men.
I hope that sem is not the one I visited recently. Dorms need some remodeling, but great belltower and world class profs. Branching out into movie production too.
What do you think about N.T Wrights book on the resurrection??? Also, really intrigued by your brief comment on "The Quest for Holiness" and sanctification...if not new obedience...then what is it...match that with the two/three kinds of righteousness...curious to your unpacking of all that.
@revros91 Wright's book on the resurrection is awesome. Just don't read anything he writes about St. Paul. ....Sanctification is "holiness" not "righteousness." It's about proximity to God. While it is true that something holy cannot be unrighteous, we don't do ourselves any favors by confusing the two. As for the "3" kinds of righteousness, well...innovation in theology has never been good for the churches. pax
@Shiga37 All bodies will be raised-- dust, bodies of those who died at sea, those who were incinerated-- everyone. The benefit of simple burial, as historically practiced by Christians, is that it gives that clear picture of being "planted" in the ground and raised out again, or sleeping and waking. It's not a question of what God can or can't do, but of what kind of practice gives the best and clearest confession of faith.
@Revfiskj However, the substance of the answer is quite refreshing. It is indeed liberating to know that there are Christians who don't demonize people who support a two-state solution (for those not familiar in Israeli/American policy on Israel/Palestinian politics, there is Google and Wikipedia) and that I don't have to have the correct political perspective (according to them) to not be cursed by God.
Great video! I very much liked your suggestions for books to read, including your comments about C.S. Lewis, whose net may have been somewhat crude, but that allowed it to be broad, and to "engage" many a fish and potential catch, who would not read blatantly religious work. May God bless you, your work and those you love.
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If I have a gluten allergy and I take the body of christ, what will happen to me? Will the gluten in the wafer affect me or will the lord protect my insides?
donutsndingleberries 1 month ago
@donutsndingleberries Chances are the gluten will be of such a small amount that you'll be fine, but I really don't know. It is possible to by "low gluten" bread specifically for this purpose. But remember, the bread is still bread, just as it is Christ.
Revfiskj 1 month ago
@Revfiskj I wasn't sure anyone would actually respond to that question, though it is a legitimate one since I know some christians that have a gluten intolerance. I'm a former LCMSer but saw your response to the Jesus>Religion video and was compelled to check out some more. Though I wasn't always a non-believer, in fact I was quite devout in my younger days, I never fully understood why god would want us to eat his body and drink his blood. Is deiphagy a word?
donutsndingleberries 1 month ago
@donutsndingleberries It's more about connecting dying humanity to the new, everlasting humanity. "There is life in the blood."
Revfiskj 1 month ago
I would love to have a beer with you sometime in talk about a lot of things... I don't live too far away... maybe at the next pastors conference... new favorite quote though... only through the feeling of guilt, by which man perceives himself as part of a fallen world, is it possible to comprehend that we have to speak contradictory terms and with statements that it is hard for the reason to understand if we would rightly perceive and possess the truth it is to make us free
revros91 1 month ago
That sounded really accusatory in the first part...not meant to be...I have no doubt to your correct distinction between these two doctrines...it was meant more as further explanation to your previous comment about righteousness
revros91 1 month ago
Ahhhh...sorry...innovation is to be cautioned...but C.P. Krauth commends conservative reformation...growing in a conservative understanding based on established doctrine.
revros91 1 month ago
@revfiskj...I have not looked much at his Paul stuff...but to your point about righteousness...how then or do you distinguish between being made right (justified) and living righteously (sanctification)...How is this different from your use of holiness or living a holy life...yes invovation
revros91 1 month ago
@revros91 I don't think you're quite following me. My point is that "living righteously" is not the way the Bible uses the term "sanctification." S- is reserved for literal, physical proximity to God. Living righteously is living "righteously" (which, interestingly, is the word "justification.") I distinguish between justification by grace alone, through faith, and the new obedience of righteous living before men.
Revfiskj 1 month ago
@Revros91 Lutheran tradition sometimes calls the latter "S-"but I use S- to refer the proximity we have to God (by grace alone) in Christ.
If this is still unclear, by me a beer sometime and we'll hash it out. It's more about semantics and narrow exegesis than anything else.
Revfiskj 1 month ago
I hope that sem is not the one I visited recently. Dorms need some remodeling, but great belltower and world class profs. Branching out into movie production too.
agrams13 2 months ago
@agrams13 I'd encourage you to give a real, hard look at the "other" one before you sign on any dotted lines...and I say that as an alum.
Revfiskj 1 month ago
What do you think about N.T Wrights book on the resurrection??? Also, really intrigued by your brief comment on "The Quest for Holiness" and sanctification...if not new obedience...then what is it...match that with the two/three kinds of righteousness...curious to your unpacking of all that.
revros91 2 months ago
@revros91 Wright's book on the resurrection is awesome. Just don't read anything he writes about St. Paul. ....Sanctification is "holiness" not "righteousness." It's about proximity to God. While it is true that something holy cannot be unrighteous, we don't do ourselves any favors by confusing the two. As for the "3" kinds of righteousness, well...innovation in theology has never been good for the churches. pax
Revfiskj 1 month ago
Cremation in one day does what nature does in one hundred years. God puts it all together, whether it is dust from nature, or from the furnace.
jnota1 2 months ago
What will happen to those who are Christians and have been cremated then, since our bodies will be raised?
Shiga37 2 months ago
@Shiga37 All bodies will be raised-- dust, bodies of those who died at sea, those who were incinerated-- everyone. The benefit of simple burial, as historically practiced by Christians, is that it gives that clear picture of being "planted" in the ground and raised out again, or sleeping and waking. It's not a question of what God can or can't do, but of what kind of practice gives the best and clearest confession of faith.
augsburg101 2 months ago 2
@augsburg101 Thank you! That makes a lot of sense.
Shiga37 2 months ago
@Shiga37 They will be put back together. :D
Revfiskj 2 months ago 3
Not 1969, but 1947 (U.N. Mandate) or 1948 (Declaration of Independence)
neacej1 2 months ago
@neacej1 Thanks. Silly me.
Revfiskj 2 months ago
@Revfiskj However, the substance of the answer is quite refreshing. It is indeed liberating to know that there are Christians who don't demonize people who support a two-state solution (for those not familiar in Israeli/American policy on Israel/Palestinian politics, there is Google and Wikipedia) and that I don't have to have the correct political perspective (according to them) to not be cursed by God.
neacej1 2 months ago
@WyldKnyght Hermann Sasse.
gklazyvideo 2 months ago
Can't see book spines, please put the names of the authors in the description! Very interested in Herman (insert last name here)!
WyldKnyght 2 months ago