02-09-2007, 04:58 AM
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On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:17:59 -0500, "R.H. Allen" <kkarie@hotmail.com>
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>Evidently they did, as apparently it was founded by former members of
>the Missouri Synod and explicitly accepts papal primacy and papal
>infallibility:
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangel...hurch-Lutheran
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>Of course, it's Wikipedia, but if you click through the sources on the
>church's own site I think you'll get pretty much the same picture
>painted by Wikipedia.
Look, I can join the ELCA and then leave and start a Church of
Demonology Today. That does NOT make it an offshoot of the ELCA. If a
group of disgruntled church members leave a church and start another,
then it is not a splinter of the prior church.
The only way to make it so is if they were a recognized splinter group
within the church and separated on clearly stated grounds. Generally
this assumes that they retain most of the teachings of the previous
church and have a clearly defined reason for leaving.
This is a group that for whatever reason decided to be Protestant
Roman Catholics. That ain't the Missouri Synod, which has one of the
most stringent non-ecumenical stands period. You either agree with
them or you don't.
Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...
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