The parable of the wedding guest doesn’t say many are called but few have chosen… it says many are called but few are chosen . You flipped flopped from monergism to synergism .

Canons of Dort - Chapter 1 Article 5 The cause or guilt of this unbelief as well as of all other sins, is no wise in God, but in man himself; whereas faith in Jesus Christ, and salvation through him is the free gift of God, as it is written: "By grace ye are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God," (Eph 2:8). "And unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him," etc. (Phil 1:29).

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I like your guests explanation of regeneration, well done.

Evangelical Free Church grew out of Lutheranism and so did Swedish Covenantal Church in the midwest.

Come back to the PCA, our sacramental theology that is consistent with God's word. Consubstantiation is wrong, and conversation is necessary. TULIP.

Do not listen to these right wing so called Christians

Turn down the music

I am 65y old, been a Lutheran for about 2oy, raised as a Methodist. 🕊️ I am following your confirmation class, although being full, Lutheran confirmed years ago, these classes are DYNOMITE! 🎉 THANK YOU for the ability to refresh my soul, and clear some confusion. Thank you, thank you for the time and money, efforts it took for you bring these videos, to anyone that taps on your click. M. IL ❤

Lovely, i am a bit confused about this topic, and still fine that i wobble between each of these; one day i think i am Calvinism, the next day i think i am Lutheran, then i think i am just lost and it doesn't matter. Huh? M

I don't accept that the question of whether Catholicism teaches the true Gospel is in essence complicated. It's simply the case that it rejects justification through faith alone and therefore it follows that it doesn't teach the true Gospel. Catholicism teaches that salvation is to some degree dependent on a person's actions in that it's a person's own righteousness which plays a part in whether he's saved or not. That is a false gospel since it's only Christ’s righteousness credited to us through faith alone which justifies and saves a person. Also since Vatican 2 Catholicism has gone further in completely denying the Gospel. Whereas before they denied it was through faith alone in Christ, now in effect they're teaching it's also not through Christ alone because they accept that members of other religions like Islam and even atheists can be saved. This amounts to a complete rejection of Biblical Christianity since the Bible teaches that only those who consciously put their faith in Christ and openly declare their faith will be saved. So Luther was entirely correct in identifying the Papacy to be the Antichrist and the popes and bishops to be wolves in sheep’s clothing. Also since Catholics aren't taught that they're justified and saved through faith alone in Christ alone they've turned to Mary in a big way and look upon her as more approachable than Christ who is viewed more of as a judge than a Saviour. Mary's role in many Marian prayers is that she can intercede for a person before Christ and soften Him up. And then when one considers that Catholics have been deceived by demonic apparitions pretending to be Mary at Lourdes and other places one can see how Catholics are being led into idolatry because many of them go on pilgrimages to these Marian shrines and pray to her for miracles of healing etc. This amounts to trying to contact the dead which God said in Deuteronomy 18 is an abomination to Him. So Roman Catholicism is in reality a false religion which is only superficially Christian, and which has been designed by Satan to cause the damnation of the great majority of Catholics.

This is so interesting!

Nice discussion. I’m a Calvinist worshiping in a LCMS church for the last 13 years. There are no Reformed churches within 75 miles of our NC town. As the Catholics say, this is “mission territory.” We joined the Lutheran church because our granddaughter could be baptized there and the Lutheran doctrine of Baptism is close to theReformed than any other denomination. Reformed believers believe wholeheartedly in real presence in the Lord’s Supper which requires understanding that the elements are efficacious unto salvation. I favor closer communion between Bible believing Lutherans and Bible believing Calvinists. It hurts that LCMS members are unnecessarily indoctrinated against Calvinists. Calvinist students are taught to love Luther. Luther’s theology is constantly repeated in Reformed preaching. I wonder if conservative Calvinist theology isn’t closer to that of Luther than that of GnesioLutherans. I often refer to myself as a PaleoLutheran. I love Lutheran worship and spirituality, particularly music. But this music is to be found also in larger, more traditional Reformed churches. This past Easter we were traveling to Florida and worshipped in the First Presbyterian Church in Columbia SC, founded in 1795. What a glorious experience. Every believing Lutheran would have enjoyed that service.

I would like to see the evidence for Luther’s support of the Arminian teachings included in the Formula of Concord. Is there a significant difference in PaleoLutheran soteriology and that of GnesioLutherans?

The Bible does address who is in charge. It clearly places the husband in charge. The feminist cultural interpretation of the Bible that pretends the husband is not clearly given both the privilege and the burden of leadership is heresy.

I'm a recent Lutheran convert coming from an Arminian background. I stand with Luther, thus I'm a 5 point Calvinist Lutheran. I disagree with the contemporary Lutheran view that God predestined us for salvation but not for eternal salvation. Can anyone shed light as to how this Reformed/Arminian hybrid makes any sense?

Thank you very helpful

Love this! I can’t wait to watch more!

The music is TOO LOUD

Hello Nobody in scripture goes around preaching “God became a man” Jesus is the Messiah The Son of God The Son of David The Son of man The man God has chosen to be his anointed king The man God will judge the world through The man God raised from the dead Jesus will return and rule the nations with believers in the kingdom of God on the earth Jesus has a God There is no triune god in scripture Jesus said the Father is the only true God! John 17 3 And this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. - Acts 3 13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Servant Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied before the face of Pilate, when he had determined to release him. 14 But ye denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted unto you, 15 and killed the Prince of life; whom God raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses. Notice Jesus is NOT the God of Abraham 13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Servant Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied before the face of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.

How spread or customary was crucifixion as a death penalty within the Roman Empire. Was this a custom accepted in Palestine? Did Herod it as a punishment tool as well?

A priceless video. Pretty clarifying and helpful insights. Thank you! As for future entries, try to get the background music a bit lower. Thanks in advance.

I have definite respect for Biblical Lutherans...NON ELCA LCMS and WELS are ones I know of and respect, as a member of the OPC. We obviously have differences but I do believe that we are brothers. God bless.

a Calvinist would say that the Lutheran view limits the sovereignty of God in salvation.

Never outgrow great teaching. God's peace be with you all.

My issue with the Christian-Capitalist read on the Scriptures is that it operates with an unnecessarily "individualistic" approach to civic ethics. For e.g. seeing all teachings about what we should do for the poor in our midst being exclusively third-use of the law imperatives (for the individual Christian in their sanctification, forget the collective body of Christ) rather than having any corporate first-use of the law application for a societal covenant (as the context of Ancient Israel was; communitarian and collectivist). While I don't want to go so far as to say the Bible teaches socialism, I think it is safe to say that the principles of individualism inherent in modern, Western societies are simply alien to the Biblical context -- where the Laws of God (including economic obligations to those in need) were understood as equally binding on kings as peasants (in fact, more so).

I'm no cessationist -- I've seen all of these gifts utilized with my own eyes (in Lutheran congregations mind you) but neither am I a hard-core charismatic in that I see these gifts as normative. They happen, they haven't ceased and we shouldn't be afraid to seek after them; yet they are not an ordinary experience in salvation and don't imply a two-tiered Christianity or anything absurd like that.

What Dr Cooper failed to mention is that confessional Lutheranism disagrees with Luther's position in The Bondage of the Will. Although Luther held that Christ died for the sins of the whole world, he didn't hold that the Holy Spirit is efficacious in the Word to all who hear it. Luther held that the Scriptures teach double predestination, and that God wills to damn some from eternity. I agree with Luther. For instance Paul's analogy of the potter who makes vessels of honour and dishonour in Romans 9 wouldn't be apropos if indeed Paul didn't hold that God predestines people to both heaven and hell. If Paul had been confessional Lutheran in theology he wouldn't have the potter making vessels of dishonour (e.g. chamber pots), but only vessels of honour (e.g. vases). With regards to the confessional Lutheran doctrine of the universal operation of the Holy Spirit in the means of grace (Word and sacraments), Luther rejected this in The Bondage of the Will. He distinguished between the outer drawing of the Gospel which goes out to everyone but which doesn't have the power to regenerate, and the inner drawing by the Holy Spirit through the Gospel which irresistibly regenerates those whom the Father wills. Luther wrote: Now take the saying of Christ in John 6 [:44]: "No one comes to me unless my Father draws him." What does this leave to free choice? For he says that everyone needs to hear and learn from the Father himself, and that all must be taught by God. He plainly teaches here, not only that the works and efforts of free choice are fruitless, but that even the message of the gospel itself (which is what this passage is about) is heard in vain unless the Father himself speaks, teaches, and draws inwardly…. But the ungodly does not come even when he hears the Word unless the Father draws and teaches him inwardly, which He does by pouring out the Spirit. There is then another "drawing" than the one that takes place outwardly; for then Christ is set forth by the light of the Spirit, so that a man rapt away to Christ with the sweetest rapture, and rather yields passively to God's speaking, teaching, and drawing than seeks and runs himself. (p.285,286, Vol. 33, Luther's Works) Confessional Lutherans don't accept this distinction between an inner and an outer drawing, and believe that the Holy Spirit is always efficacious in the Word towards everyone, and that the reason why people are damned is because they resist the Holy Spirit. Luther on the other hand rejected this and held that people are damned because God doesn't will to regenerate them through the Holy Spirit but rather to leave them in their sins so that they're damned. Luther addressed the seeming injustice of God in doing so by explaining that God's justice can't be comprehended in this life but will be understood in the next. Confessional Lutherans wrongly conclude from the fact that God through Christ desires to save everyone that it must follow that He hasn't predestined anyone to be damned. However this is a false deduction. The Scriptures teach both and it's wrong to pit one against the other and conclude that the Scriptures only teach single predestination. Simple logic also dictates that if people are saved only because God has elected to save them in eternity that the reason why people are damned is because God didn't elect or will to save them in eternity. It's not possible that predestination to heaven can exist on its own without it being accompanied by predestination to hell. Confessional Lutherans should have stayed with Luther's Scriptural doctrine of predestination instead of adopting Chemnitz's heretical doctrine. By the way, I'm not a Calvinist. I agree with the documents contained in the Book of Concord that were in existence during Luther's lifetime. It's only the Formula of Concord, which was produced after Luther's death, that I take issue with.

Universal salvation is not the same thing as universal regeneration.

Jesus does not give Peter the keys in Matthew 16. He only promises to give the keys. The keys to forgive and retain sins are finally given in John 20 - and Jesus gives them to all the disciples at that time. The keys are not literal, obviously. The keys are the right to forgive sins in the Name of Jesus Christ.

When you accept the objective dual reality, the two views are not even close.

Reformed guy here. Very fair analysis.

One of the areas of disunity that should be eliminated immediately is the refusal to take the Lord’s Supper or Holy Communion together. Both the Reformed and Lutherans believe what the Word says, “This is my body broken for you, this is my blood shed for you”, and both even recite the Scripture every time before taking communion- as in fact do the Evangelicals as well. That should be unity enough, without trying to nitpick down to some level of disagreement. The fact that we do not commune together at the table is a very poor witness to those outside the Body.

I can ask you to pray for me, same with the blessed mother. FYI, when you lose something St Anthony never disappoints. In all respect and love, and my background leaves me with a broad sense of religion and a twisted but necessary sense of humor

Great video, pastors. Being a lutheropailian,.from birth (1956), I'm in the middle. Love God's church and I still love the mass

Cradle Lutheran here

love the video, but some constructive criticism, please cut/fade the music out a lot sooner (preferably right as Dr. Cooper begins talking)

Loved these past 3 videos. Thank you and God's Peace be with you all.

As a Calvinist, looking forward to the Calvinism episode.

Another great video. God's Peace be with you.

Great video. God's Peace be with you all.

New Lutheran learning a lot from your channel! Thank you!