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QUIA SUBSCRIPTION = because
We subscribe to the Confessions because they agree with Scripture.
QUATENUS SUBSCRIPTION = as far as
We do not subscribe to the Confessions with reservations. When people subscribe to the Confessions as far as they agree with Scripture, they are insisting that Scripture does not have clarity and that you can never know and interpret the Scriptures.
Quia extends to all doctrinal matters. (Content does not extend to every application and illustration.)
We subscribe to the Confessions because they agree with Scripture.
QUATENUS SUBSCRIPTION = as far as
We do not subscribe to the Confessions with reservations. When people subscribe to the Confessions as far as they agree with Scripture, they are insisting that Scripture does not have clarity and that you can never know and interpret the Scriptures.
Quia extends to all doctrinal matters. (Content does not extend to every application and illustration.)
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BrugConcord.pdf
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Why Bible-Believing Lutherans Subscribe to the Book of Concord
By John F. Brug
By John F. Brug
LimpertConfessional.pdf
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BEING A CONFESSIONAL LUTHERAN TODAY AND BEYOND
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Should we invoke the saints in heaven in our prayers?
I think not and there's why ⬇️
When the disciples asked Jesus "how are we to pray?" our Lord said, "This, then, is how you should pray, "our Father, who art in Heaven..."
We therefore address only God in prayer, and we can address the Son and the Holy Spirit along with the Father because they are of one substance.
Now when many of the fathers wrote on the nature of the Our Father prayer they noted how all other prayer are elaborations or meditations on one of its petitions.
This most sublime and divine of all prayers should be our measuring stick for all other prayer.
We can affirm that the saints in heaven do indeed pray for us, but it is unwarranted to pray to them or to invoke them. We have no promise that they can hear us.
We have no promise and no revealed word on which to base this practice, therefore it cannot be done in faith which rests on revealed truth, and therefore it should be piously avoided. For whatever is not of faith is sin, Romans 14:23
This is not analogous to asking the saints on earth to pray for us, for here we have a divine word and promise for the practice and you ask them in a manner wherein you are certain that they will hear you.
Compare either calling or writing me to pray for you, would this be the same as kneeling in church next Sunday with folded hands saying, "Saint Michael [my first name] pray for me now and for ...." while I was in Denmark?
No, and it is a false equivocation to equate these two different things.
Paint by the Danish Lutheran Carl Bloch, "Bjergprædikenen"
I think not and there's why ⬇️
When the disciples asked Jesus "how are we to pray?" our Lord said, "This, then, is how you should pray, "our Father, who art in Heaven..."
We therefore address only God in prayer, and we can address the Son and the Holy Spirit along with the Father because they are of one substance.
Now when many of the fathers wrote on the nature of the Our Father prayer they noted how all other prayer are elaborations or meditations on one of its petitions.
This most sublime and divine of all prayers should be our measuring stick for all other prayer.
We can affirm that the saints in heaven do indeed pray for us, but it is unwarranted to pray to them or to invoke them. We have no promise that they can hear us.
We have no promise and no revealed word on which to base this practice, therefore it cannot be done in faith which rests on revealed truth, and therefore it should be piously avoided. For whatever is not of faith is sin, Romans 14:23
This is not analogous to asking the saints on earth to pray for us, for here we have a divine word and promise for the practice and you ask them in a manner wherein you are certain that they will hear you.
Compare either calling or writing me to pray for you, would this be the same as kneeling in church next Sunday with folded hands saying, "Saint Michael [my first name] pray for me now and for ...." while I was in Denmark?
No, and it is a false equivocation to equate these two different things.
Paint by the Danish Lutheran Carl Bloch, "Bjergprædikenen"
From Cradle Catholic to Lutheran Pastor (w/ Dr. John Bombaro)
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“2 Cor. 5:6: ‘While we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord’; v. 7: ‘for we walk by faith, not by sight.’ The apostle infers in this way: we are absent from the Lord, we are not yet present with him, because we walk by faith. The adversaries infer in the opposite way: we walk [that is, eat] by faith [in the Supper]. Therefore, we are present with the Lord.” - Johann Gerhard, De Sacra Coena, ch. 11, §107
“2 Cor. 5:6: ‘While we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord’; v. 7: ‘for we walk by faith, not by sight.’ The apostle infers in this way: we are absent from the Lord, we are not yet present with him, because we walk by faith. The adversaries infer in the opposite way: we walk [that is, eat] by faith [in the Supper]. Therefore, we are present with the Lord.” - Johann Gerhard, De Sacra Coena, ch. 11, §107
"Abraham himself before receiving circumcision had been declared righteous on the score of faith alone: before circumcision, the text says, 'Abraham believed God, and credit for it brought him to righteousness.' Why then, O Jew, do you place great store by circumcision? Learn that before it many people proved themselves good. Abel, for instance, made his offering from faith, as Paul also says: 'Through faith Abel made a greater offering to God than Cain'; Enoch was taken away, Noe escaped that dreadful flood on the score of great goodness, and Abraham before this was commended for his faith in God. Thus right from the very beginning the human race gained salvation on the. basis of faith. The reason, of course, that the loving Lord permitted sacrifices to be offered to him was that, when our nature was still in an imperfect condition, it might be able to express its gratitude and at the same time completely avoid the harmful practice of worshipping idols." - St. John Chrysostom (Hom. 27 on Genesis)
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Tractatus Philosophico-Theologicus.pdf
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