Behold! The Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world! | Immanuel LCMS, Chino, CA: Oktoberfest 2008

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On Divine Revelation and human folly

"the human mind hates to limit itself to the bounds of Divine Revelation and to be forced within such narrow confines. For it either longs to wander beyond these well-marked boundaries and to seek and investigate more than is revealed in the Word, or it takes to itself opinions agreeable to reason and then tries to twist and turn also the teachings of Scripture regarding this mystery to conform to these preconceived notions

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“just as the devil in the early ages of the church spread almost countless heretical ideas in the church to corrupt the saving purity of this mystery and destroy its simplicity, so the Son of Man, who sits at the right hand of the Father, also stirred by His Spirit many men of proven and outstanding learning and true piety, who have clearly and accurately shown from the true and apostolic meaning of the statements of Scripture exactly which ideas are to be shunned, avoided, and detested as false, dangerous, and impious . . . ."

Martin Chemnitz, The Two Natures in Christ

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Oktoberfest 2008