Essential Christian confessions. "The Augsburg Confessions".

Lutheran's are big on "confessions." I've heard them say there's not a single thing in their confessions that don't come straight form the Bible. If that's the case, why not cut out the middle man and go straight to the source? I'll tell you why: Because men think they know better than God.

I'm a firm believer in the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Confessions create unnecessary mazes.

Lutheran's are big on "confessions." I've heard them say there's not a single thing in their confessions that don't come straight form the Bible. If that's the case, why not cut out the middle man and go straight to the source? I'll tell you why: Because men think they know better than God.

I'm a firm believer in the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Confessions create unnecessary mazes.

Article I. Of God.
1 Our Churches, with common consent, do teach that the decree of the Council of Nicaea concerning the Unity of the Divine Essence and concerning the Three Persons, is true and to be believed without any doubting; 2 that is to say, there is one Divine Essence which is called and which is God: eternal, without body, without parts, of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness, the Maker and Preserver of all things, visible and invisible; and 3 yet there are three Persons, of the same essence and power, who also are coeternal, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. And the term “person” 4 they use as the Fathers have used it, to signify, not a part or quality in another, but that which subsists of itself.

5 They condemn all heresies which have sprung up against this article, as the Manichaeans, who assumed two principles, one Good and the other Evil: also the Valentinians, Arians, Eunomians, Mohammedans, and all such. 6 They condemn also the Samosatenes, old and new, who, contending that there is but one Person, sophistically and impiously argue that the Word and the Holy Ghost are not distinct Persons, but that “Word” signifies a spoken word, and “Spirit” signifies motion created in things.

The golden calf of Christianity. Nothing about divine essence or persons in the Bible.

In the Bible, it is very simple, no need to be a professor or philosophy.

Jesus is the son of God the Father, and the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God.

Easy.

It's unfortunate that you are not blessed by confessions...which is their purpose.

I consider myself blessed never to have become enslaved to confessions. If you want to dabble in the mumbo-jumbo, go ahead, knock yourself out. I'll pass.

Confessions are little more than man's theology. I prefer the Holy Spirit's theology; the living water.

Personally, I shy away from anything that has to do with Luther. Luther was filled with hate for the Jews and his writings in "The Jews and Their Lies' became a lynchpin for Hitler's propaganda against the Jews. Luther was Hitler's theologian, albeit he lived centuries before Hitler. But Luther's hate lived beyond his lifetime: Anti-semitism: Martin Luther And Adolf Hitler - Free Essay Example - Edubirdie

You can tell a tree by it's fruit and Luther was filled with hate.

So you dont think the Holy Spirit lead the reformation? Or Philip Melanchthon to write these confessions to King Charles as he demanded and explanation.

I think the Holy Spirit led some aspects of the Reformation, but then men got involved and ruined it.

Personally, I shy away from anything that has to do with Luther. Luther was filled with hate for the Jews and his writings in "The Jews and Their Lies'

Please elaborate as to what parts were lead by The Holy Spirit and what was ruined by man. I know this is a tall order, so I understand if you use what ever brevity possible. I will gladly discuss this with you.

If I remember correctly, Luther originally liked the Jews that lived around him. Luther naively thought that Jews of his day just followed the Old Testament. But then, a Jewish apostate came to Luther and translated what the Talmud says. Luther was angry at those that followed the Talmud.

Read the Talmud for yourself, you'll understand why. He clearly wasn't talking about all Jews. The context in "Jews and their Lies" is about unrepentant Talmudic Jews that believe it is OK to withold wages, to not save nonJews from danger, and other detestable things that show up in the Talmud. The Talmud promotes a two-tier system where Jews are humans and nonJews are cattle.

I'm not a spokesman for Luther, he may have gone off the deep end, but context is important. It was the Talmud that triggered Luther, and it was the teachings in Talmudic synagogues that made him angry. If you study the Talmud and then look at Luther's beliefs, you will understand why he reacted the way he did. It wasn't an ethnicity thing it was because of the teachings of the Talmud.

1 Our Churches, with common consent, do teach that the decree of the Council of Nicaea concerning the Unity of the Divine Essence and concerning the Three Persons, is true and to be believed without any doubting; 2 that is to say, there is one Divine Essence which is called and which is God: eternal, without body, without parts, of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness, the Maker and Preserver of all things, visible and invisible; and 3 yet there are three Persons, of the same essence and power, who also are coeternal, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. And the term “person” 4 they use as the Fathers have used it, to signify, not a part or quality in another, but that which subsists of itself.

5 They condemn all heresies which have sprung up against this article, as the Manichaeans, who assumed two principles, one Good and the other Evil:

I consider myself blessed never to have become enslaved to confessions. If you want to dabble in the mumbo-jumbo, go ahead, knock yourself out. I'll pass.

Confessions are little more than man's theology. I prefer the Holy Spirit's theology; the living water.