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I know it is not by any works of our own that we get to heaven. From what I understand there are different "degrees" of glory in heaven depending on how you conducted yourself on e...
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I just received the following e-mail. Would you please comment on this?
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I participated in an Internet discussion board in which the comment was made, "Incidentally, Jesus was a Lutheran. A confessional Lutheran. There is really no doubt about it. I am ...
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My husband, three daughters, and I are members of a WELS church. Our oldest daughter and her husband are Presbyterians, who consider themselves among the "truly reformed" (their ph...
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I recently saw the movie "God's And Generals". A question arose between my boss and me of whether or not this was a just war. The underlying issue of freeing slaves was in my mind ...
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A little over two years ago, I became a WELS member. I was formerly a Catholic. I thank God every day for leading me to our church. I would like to study more deeply our doctrines ...
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I would like your comments on the book entitled The Dead Sea Scrolls DECEPTION: by Michael Baigent & Richard Leigh. In this book they collaborate on a wild and crazy the...
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I was approached with this statement: "God is supposed to be all caring, all knowledgable and all powerful. So if he is all caring he would want to stop the suffering in the world,...
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Was Mary born free of sin?
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My question is about sanctification. 2 Corinthians 3:18 says that we "are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory" and the confessions state that the work of...
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What is meant by the phrase "Wauwatosa"? How many clergy/professors/laypeople met there and in what year. How did this watershed event influence WELS for decades to come? Under who...
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A co-worker of mine recommended the book The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren. This Zondervan book was #1 on the New York Times' bestseller list. (Mr. Warren has also writ...
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According to the Lutheran Cyclopedia (Concordia, 1984, ed. Lueker), the "Hail Mary" (Ave Maria) originally read only: "Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; bles...
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Hey, I love the site, especially the Q&A. I have a girlfriend, we've been together for over a year and are pretty serious. The only thing that I could ever see that could preve...
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How do you describe what faith is? Is it a basic gift we all receive from God? Is Faithfulness what God desires most from us? What does that mean in our day to day life? How can we...
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Before becoming a member of a WELS church I took the Bible Information Class. This class covered the "main beliefs" so to speak, of the church. Could you recommend a book that expa...
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Does God answer the prayers of non-believers? Is it appropriate for a WELS church to pray for another person, not in fellowship with WELS, and thank God for answering that person's...
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My wife is Lutheran, I am Roman Catholic; in trying to identify which faith seems to understand Scripture as the early fathers did, I have asked several Lutheran pastors this quest...
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Recently I ran across an LCMS pastor who was teaching, or preaching, "secondary doctrines". I have spent some time looking for these "secondary doctrines" and could find nothing ab...
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I hope you might be able to comment on the following snip from a Swedish pastor who is a member of the LBK, which is a member of the CELC, in Gothenburg, Sweden:
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