Kenneth William

Thank you Jesus Christ for loving a lowly soul.
Christian | Confessional Lutheran

[Kenneth William @KennethVes50962]

A beautiful prayer by the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. It is my own translation so I apologize for not doing it proper justice.

«God, you loved us first, but we speak of you as if you only did so once in the past. But it is not like that. It is day by day, throughout our entire life, that you have loved us first.

When we wake up in the morning and turn our souls to you, there you are waiting – you loved us first.

If I get up before dawn and right away start praying to you, you are there before I am – you loved us first.

When I put behind everything that worries, and retreats within my soul to think of you, then you are still the first one there.

Forgive us, God. We are so unthankful. It was not only one time that you loved us first, you do so in every moment of life.»

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I love Lutheranism. As someone drawn to some aspects of Roman Catholicism but being ultimately unable to accept the whole, I find Lutheranism to be the perfect home. I also find it to be the church who gives most rest to the conscience, really focusing on the gospel. You should read the Book of Concord 😁 God bless you.

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@bonesforsales I've been through something similar and I know how bad it is, I'm sorry man. I really hope it works out in the end. Take care of yourself and God bless you 🙏

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@GringoPapist Lutherans do. Not all Protestants are baptists.

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@CFCMods I've seen enough

We are winning the league

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@redeemed_zoomer @IncredPapist_ He doesn't, it's wordplay – just like when Calvinists say they also believe in free will.

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Beautiful image of the Gospel by Saint John Chrysostom in one of his homilies on the book of Romans:

«For [the law] promised them crowns after toils, but [grace] crowned them first, and then led them to the contest.»

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@Problem_01011 @JayDyer @EcciusMaximus @AL_J82 So if I said: "You sound retarded" you would not get the impression I found you to be speaking in a retarded way? Come on, brother.

Btw I am not your enemy. Let's put aside the animosity and speak about ideas, like you said. That's much better.

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@Rusty459937 @JayDyer @EcciusMaximus @AL_J82 Squirting out ink like a octopus trying to escape, I see, but I have my claws in you already, sir.

Pleaae show me what grand library this humble scholar surely possesses.

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@darwintojesus Fake quote unfortunately. Still a good fake quote, tho.

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What is oddness but the extraordinary and unexpected. The world is odd, we have just become used to it.

An ear is extremely odd once you really look at it. The laying and hatching of eggs is very odd, the giraffe is odd, the ring of Saturn is odd, dreams are odd, thoughts are odd, to communicate them through letters and sounds is odd, quantum mechanics and special relativity are odd – existence itself is odd.

When God becomes man, expect oddness 😁

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I think it is interesting. I think it is an invitation to reflection.

What happens right after his baptism is that the Holy Spirit descends, and I am reminded of when God created the world in Genesis. Genesis 1:2: «The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.»

Now Christ goes into the water and the Spirit of God comes hovering above it once again, signalling to us a coming recreation or rebirth of the world.

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@EvangelicalDW Job was a Lutheran

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I have no clue. Even John the Baptist reacted reacted with disbelief at this, trying to prevent it, but Jesus wanted it done.

Matthew 3:13-15: «Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him. And John tried to prevent Him, saying: 'I need to be baptized by You, and are You coming to me?' But Jesus answered and said to him: 'Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.' Then he allowed Him.»

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Eating is an interesting thing, biblically speaking.

Sin and death entered the world through the eating of the forbidden fruit. When animals where sacrificed in the temple, they were eaten – we sometimes overlook this fact, as if the significance of the animal sacrifice only lied in the shedding of the blood. No, they had to eat it too. When Moses led the Israelites through the desert, God sustained them by giving them manna to eat. Then Christ came and sayd that he is the real manna that came down from heaven to be eaten.

Christ also came to be sacrificed as the lamb of God taking away the sins of the whole world, but like the animal sacrifices in the temple he gave his body and blood as food for us, to be eaten. It is the reversal of the eating of the forbidden tree, it removes sin and gives eternal life. Finally, after the atoning work of Christ, we can eat from the tree of life, the cross, where the fruit is none other than the life and resurrection himself, Christ Jesussssss.

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@ScottRoberts It is not either/or. The Church is Christ's body, and baptism is the putting on of Christ and the washing away of sins. It is all the work of Christ.

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@TumisangChosha1 @ScottRoberts Lmao 🤣🤣

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@ScottRoberts John Chrysostom in general has been a huge influence on me, and Augustine's Confessions.

In contemporary times, as a new believer, John Lennox was a great role model for me. I came to the faith through apologetics, so.

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@Rusty459937 @JayDyer @EcciusMaximus @AL_J82 Stop coping, let us see what your critical thinking abilities have been working with

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How am I coping? Also, I am engaging in conversation... with you... right now.

Also can we stop using this silly language lol? Coping, piety signalling, etc 😂

But sure, I think sitting down and have a talk over ideas is very productive. I'm down to have such a talk with you over ideas right now.