Contending for the true faith
Contending for the true faith may be very laudible but you are straining at straws, meanwhile you are swallowing a big Arab camel. The orginal thread was about a red herring in our midst saying how appealing Islam is. A poster with a similar name doing the same thing at Faithfreedom.org was at least found out and named as such by the astute that deal with this stuff daily.
Islam is a far more dangerous religion and you ignore that danger for deciding whether or not to rub elboes with Lutherans and what synod.
Bloody world out there getting bloodier.
And Seeker of Truth-Joshua made some very good points, that if Jesus Christ is your religion, you can't go far wrong.
A personal relationship with Jesus is essential. It makes me wonder if you guys could finish your mini debate and get on with the more serious issue at hand. Or have you never studied "Pilgrims Progress", old book with very astute observations that you can miss where you ought to be going and what you ought to be doing by drifting off path for the sake of being drawn into conversation with "Talkative", or for a stroll into "Vanity Fair".
Mormons are way off base it is true, but they aren't blowing themselves up to take over the planet, now are they!
The Church in general should be offering a unified face to the false doctrine of Islam, instead, they nit pic. All this doesn't really matter in th end. It is the doers of the Word, not the hearers who stand justified even now.
If we are called to contend once and for all for the unity of the faith, to contend with one another is pointless when those stand who deny Christ right from the get-go. Or haven't you noticed?
"There is only one god, Allah, Mohammad is his prophet and he HAS NO SON." "He who hath the Son has the Father, He who hath not the Son hath not the Father... to deny the Son is the SPIRIT OF ANTICHRIST."
It really isn't going to hurt anyone if the Lutherans or the Baptists have a convention in town now is it. But when the terrorist visit your home town, under what banner are they coming in? Not Jesus by any means.
We have been taught a watered down version of history and since 9/11 many have looked into what has gone on and have come to the same conclusion I have, that we are living in the last days, (excuse me Mormons) and that we like the Copts and Armenians will be having in our lifetime to make a much more serious "Declaration of Faith" if we expect to live or die.
And there is more at stake than a physical death here. I choose to live spiritually even if it results in my physical death.
Now is this less important than the difference with the Missouri synod to the rest?
I was raised Lutheran too however, I became a Christian in a Presbyterian Church because the Lutherans had gotten just as caught up in dogma as the Catholics and forgot all about how Martin Luther had rediscovered the truth in Romans.
Jesus is the only one who bridges the gap between man and God, all of our works, pre and post conversion, are as filthy rags to the incomparable worth of obtaining Jesus Christ.