For many centuries it had to safeguard doctrine from all sorts of heresies.

Of course it's not only faith

But if you lead a good life and have faith you will be saved

Even if you're not in church

Many would-be popes attempted rigorousness only as a means of gate keeping because they did not win the papacy.

According to Wels Lutheran salvation is a gift from God freely given and if we have faith and accept the gift it is ours. Doing good works is our thanks for the gift of salvation, but works won't save us, according to the Lutheran doctrine.

Correct, but again, *not works, nor faith, alone*

the keyword being alone,

it takes both.

And in order to be a decent Christian, you must do both.

As I was about to say, it is a rather large criticism of the church that it does too many earthly works and not enough spiritual, or that it lacks personal connection with God.

A personal connection is entirely up to the person worshipping.

The church is there to act as an authority,

a governing body.

It is no fault of theirs if a man turns away from God, if a man does not pursue him.

It is their duty to bring them to God, but what might they do if they're simply rebuffed?

The majority of rigor, and legalism as well as long held tradition within the church, is to prevent such a thing from happening.

The ceremonies, the sacraments, the traditions,

they must be actively pursued in order to help cultivate not only the idea, but in this earthly prison of ours, *a visage* of Christ.

Protestantism seems nice, it seems good, and to a large degree it is within the traditions of northern Europeans, as well as Americans to partake in it. However we have seen the subsequent death of our own spirituality,

and protestants themselves have fallen to chaos,

and they have become mild.

There was a poem written by a man where Christ comes back, and is in a Victorian era city,

and he was so overcome with woe at the lack of spirituality,

that he longed to die and suffer again.

I think we're there today.

And I think the Catholic faith is the only means of saving us from such a miserable existence.

I am going to a Wels Lutheran church because they are traditional. They don't even allow women preachers or women in any authority at all, LOL. The preachers have to go to 8 years of college and learn Hebrew and Greek. They work to stay true to the word. I grew up in the Southern Baptist and that is literally like a pop up church - the worst of protestantism. I don't think they even have to be formally educated to start a baptist church.

Yes that sounds significantly better than most.

There are 4 types of Lutheran, from traditional, to totally gay.

I am in the most traditional (and smallest) group.

That is mildly depressing.

What're their views on contraception?

Yes, everyone goes to the gay one.

That's a good question. I don't know as it is not relevant to me. I am old 😃 I will look it up though.

I appreciate it.

https://wels.net/faq/birth-control-sinful/

http://www.christianliferesources.com/category/beginning-of-life/birth-control-6

I will see if I can find a formal statement.

I can't find anything more on the topic right now.

It's fine. I appreciate the dedication.

I saw some post by Fox News on instagram about dog petting for comfort at some “prayer” group for the Florida shooting. What a joke

I’ve been to their services too. The heresy is too much

how is dog petting heresy

@Broseph <:bigguy:402401397892710411>

Two different posts pal

Their services are

The dog petting just shows what a joke they are

literally nothing wrong with dog petting

stop being so angry

I

Hate

Prots

😡

😤

No meat today fellas

Fellas, I’m volunteering with the KoC tonight at the fish fry. I’m only one under 50

We NEED young men to get involved at our churches

@Broseph I tried to join the knights of colombus but they were diffucult and I never got told the time of when I was to join and I missed it

I might try to join a branch at another parish

@🎭🎵 same happened to me actually. You just gotta pressure them I guess. I’m gonna talk to my Grand Knight tonight about it cuz he missed my email 2 months ago and I was busy when he finally responded

Good group if you can find an active circle

Grand Knight reminds me of a grand wizard

Grand cyclops is peak optics

If any of you live in NW Indiana there are a ton of very active KoC groups

And even more active beer gardens

DONT MESS WITH JAMES HELL CALL U A CHRIST CUCK

*14/83*

@Thomas I'll take note of that

I'm in a group of goys putting together a hard-right ChristSoc gang

http://themindcircle.com/vertical-panoramic-churches/

14/83 and 14/76 boys

HC

Hail Christ

The Law of the Seal of Confession
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13649b.htm

Is anyone in here “Christian Identity?” Do any non-CI believe in the two seed line theory, or that the Jews of today are from Esau’s line or some line other than the one they pretend to be from? And I’m not talking about the Khazar theory. I’m talking about the split between brothers Jacob and Esau and who their descendants are today. I’d like to know if anyone here has really studied this stuff. Is Jesus a “Hebrew” but not a “Jew?” Was Jesus a Galilean descended from caucasians? There are so many crackpot theories out there and I don’t know what to believe, but I do want to be able to say credibly that Jesus was not a Jew and here’s why. I’m all ears 👂.

Jesus was a Jew,

a Jew in the traditional sense.

They weren't always deceptive, and abhorrent in the eyes of God.

They were a decent people once.

Before their exile from their home into Babylon.

Even today their "star of David" is actually the star that God cursed in Deuteronomy.

It is a Babylonian symbol of the occult.

The Talmud Torah originated out of this place as well. The same as the worship of Jupiter.

Today they aren't even true descendants of the entirety of the Jewish people. Rather a single tribe which ran into Europe during their scattering.

I read that he was a Hebrew, which was a distinction in that the Jews are also Hebrews but not all Hebrews are Jews. Also I read that the word “Jew” didn’t even exist until after the time of Christ. Don’t ask me for citations. I didn’t write them down. 😩

@Thomas definitely can get behind 1483

Yeah I love that shit.

Thank the ADL. Wouldn't have been able to know about it without them.

https://youtu.be/9e7slbAugBQ

@Thomas what does the 83 stand for again?

Hail Christ

@NickTheGreek

nice

*Mein Gott dieser Bücher sind alt.*

I countersignal German speak when it applies to our actual political movement. We don't need German ideas, we're a British culture.

And we're they're offspring.

Cope with it.