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Let us also put this on the table:
Ordaining women and active homosexuals is merely a symptom of the profound theological errors that lead to such practices.
When a tree stops putting out green leaves in my neighborhood, the city comes and cuts it down and is always rotting from the inside out.
Ordaining women and active homosexuals is merely a symptom of the profound theological errors that lead to such practices.
When a tree stops putting out green leaves in my neighborhood, the city comes and cuts it down and is always rotting from the inside out.
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GJ - McCain only served one parish, for about two years, while he ran Al Berry's presidential campaign via Herman Otten (denying it, of course).
Instead of providing the apology he has demanded from so many of his friends and opponents, McCain closed down and hid his plagiarizing blog.
For this he earns almost $200,000 a year and his boss at CPH gets almost $300,000.
According to the Book of Concord, especially the Augsburg Confession, this is the core of the Gospel, sound doctrine -
Article V: Of the Ministry.
1] That we may obtain this faith, the Ministry of Teaching the Gospel and administering the Sacraments was instituted. For through the Word and Sacraments, as through instruments, 2] the Holy Ghost is given, who works faith; where and when it pleases God, in them that hear 3] the Gospel, to wit, that God, not for our own merits, but for Christ's sake, justifies those who believe that they are received into grace for Christ's sake.
4] They condemn the Anabaptists and others who think that the Holy Ghost comes to men without the external Word, through their own preparations and works.
McCain does not teach sound doctrine and actively opposes justification by faith. He does not comprehended Robert Preus' last book, Justification and Rome, where McCain's aping of the Romanist Ed Preuss is thoroughly and repeatedly repudiated.