tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23841849.post115871150886295321..comments2023-04-16T05:50:10.251-05:00Comments on Cleaving the Darkness: Ft. Wayne Professor Passes...VirginiaLutheranshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01102531413899821654noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23841849.post-1159149466504775742006-09-24T20:57:00.000-05:002006-09-24T20:57:00.000-05:00Anonymous,I have checked out those areas you sugge...Anonymous,<BR/><BR/>I have checked out those areas you suggested and will be posting a large post in the next couple days. I must apologize for the delay in an answer. My time only allows for so much study, posting, and other necessary acts. I will post as soon as I am able.<BR/><BR/>I am sorry if you thought I intended to sully the good reputation and name of Prof. Marquart. Please be assured I respect the man, and that is due to his reputation and the respect others I know have of him. I am both sorrowed and cheered by his passing. (Sorrow due to his leaving us and cheer over his arrival in Paradise.) <BR/><BR/>I also want to ask you read and consider my future post. I am a layman. I have no theological training, and it is obvious you have had part of, if not completed, at least one theological course of study. I will do my best to answer, but I hope we can fix this together. I am just now discovering and acquiring the wonderful books that are available from Lutheran writers and I have much to read. I hope we can have useful dialoge that allows myself to grow in the faith, and possibly some of the others who read this post. That has been my desire all along- to defend the faith and to grow in it.VirginiaLutheranshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01102531413899821654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23841849.post-1158803227618620492006-09-20T20:47:00.000-05:002006-09-20T20:47:00.000-05:00You should read a little more before you speak on ...You should read a little more before you speak on such matters. Are the law and the gospel really "one and the same"? That is something no Lutheran could ever say. Is the law opus alienum, or opus proprium? Once you've answered that question, you may wish to publish a retraction.<BR/><BR/>You also have this problem, namely, the Lutheran Confessions in fact teach us to honor the saints, and imitate them. Before you are so quick to judge those who would honor this great servant of God, perhaps you might want to consider whether you yourself in fact have a full and complete grasp of the teachings of the Book of Concord. You might start with CA XXI and Ap XXI. Prof. Marquart was a very humble man, and did nothing for his own honor. But it is not right for you to teach such un-Lutheran ideas in a post about him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23841849.post-1158728643344167072006-09-20T00:04:00.000-05:002006-09-20T00:04:00.000-05:00I heard a Lutheran pastor say recently, "Do you wa...I heard a Lutheran pastor say recently, "Do you want to be close to loved ones who haved died in the faith, go to the Lord's Supper!"Steven G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05333100501666545305noreply@blogger.com