Evan Scamman

Lutheran Pastor

[Evan Scamman @ScammanEvan]

If Ellen is a dead-name, then Eliot should be charged with murder.

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“Open communion is ecclesiastical polyamory.”

https://t.co/8XUH3Tnx3H

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@SonOfJesse__ Seriously. You should read the Augsburg Confession. It only takes about 15 minutes. And if it is also your confession, then you know where you belong.

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@sola_chad There are zero Eskimos baptized in the Bible.

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@Natha_Pee Salvation IS inherited by all who are born again though Holy Baptism.

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@a_eman24 Demonic

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@SwordMasterPub @Young_Anglican What action did the lost sheep do to repent?

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@SwordMasterPub @Young_Anglican Repentance is the gift of God. Of course, He can give this gift to an infant. Read Luke 15:1–10 for Jesus’ definition of repentance. HINT: It’s not a work of man, otherwise salvation comes by our work.

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@churchtalkative If I pray before I commit mass murder, does that make it ok?

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@chris_paavola @brownmp We have a laity shortage, not a pastoral shortage. The bulk of unfilled calls each year are from congregations that don’t have enough members to support a pastor.

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@WmWeedon @wrowclif @shebringsjoy You are not wrong. We’ll be releasing the newly translated/restored collects for the Sundays of the temporal calendar to our field testing congregations in time for Advent. That puts us one step closer to completion, but we still have a lot of work to do.

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@toddwilken You’re equating permitted with ideal. No one said slavery was ideal.

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@YourCalvinist Pretty good! But “must be understood spiritually” sounds like Calvin, not Luther. We don’t object to “substance,” we object to using Aristotelian terms to define the supper. Jesus said: “This IS.” We believe it. We don’t need to know how. Let Jesus, not Aristotle, sort that out.

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@PLT2022 @NJBeisner The Bible uses the language of birth, adoption, and circumcision to speak of baptism - all things that happen exclusively or primarily to infants.

Baptism is God’s choice about you, not your choice about Him.

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@YahwehGraced @SocratesTheChad @sola_chad Exactly. As if God was surprised when the creation of the Sun resulted in 24-hour days on earth.

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@sola_chad Yes. The real miracle of Genesis 1 is that God created out of nothing. That He did it in six days is small potatoes in comparison.

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@penitentus Does this mean that Rome will retract the slur “Lutheran”?

Both Lutheran and papist are a derogatory term. One of them happens to be true.

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@Elohim_Gadol All sin is equaling damning (apart from forgiveness in Christ), but all sin is not equally damaging (in this life).

Hating my neighbor in my heart is not as damaging as actually offing him. Lust in the heart is less destructive to a marriage than physically committing adultery.

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@TrevorSheatz You’d be right if baptism were our work. But it’s not. It is the work of God, and a means by which He connects us to Christ and the salvation He purchased on the cross.