Category: Confessional Corner

Predestination, or God’s eternal election, covers only the godly, beloved children of God. It is a cause of their salvation, which He also provides. He plans what belongs to it as well. Our salvation is founded so firmly on it that the gates of Hell cannot overcome it (John 10:28; Matthew 16:18). (Ep XI 5)

We believe, teach, and confess that the community of God (in every place and at every time according to its circumstances) has the power to change such worship ceremonies in a way that may be most useful and edifying to the community of God. (Ep X 4)

This article has also been disputed among some theologians who have subscribed to the Augsburg Confession: When and in what manner did the Lord Christ, according to our simple Christian faith, descend to Hell? Was this done before or after His death? Did this happen only to His soul, only to the divinity, or with…

There is and remains in Christ only one divine omnipotence, power, majesty, and glory, which is peculiar to the divine nature alone. But it shines, manifests, and exercises itself fully–yet voluntarily–in, with, and through the received, exalted human nature in Christ. In glowing iron there are not two kinds of power to shine and burn.…

In fulfilling Christ’s office, the person does not act and work in, with, through, or according to only one nature. It works in, according to, with, and through both natures. As the Council of Chalcedon expresses it, one nature works in communion with the other what is a property of each. Therefore, Christ is our…

We believe, teach, and confess that now, since the Incarnation, each nature in Christ does not exist by itself so that each is, or makes up, a separate person. These two natures are so united that they make up one single person, in which the divine and the received human nature are and exist at…

The Sacramentarians have asserted that the divine and human natures in Christ are united personally in such a way that neither has real communion. This means (in deed and truth) that they do not share with the other nature what is unique to either nature. They share nothing more than the name alone. For they…

There are many teachings among Christians that are false and divide Christians from being able to truly have Communion together. This week, we look at the listing of them from the Roman Church and the Sacramentarians. Almost all of these are still readily taught today.