Lutheran

Aid Association of Lutherans was created in 1902.

"For by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is a gift from God not of works, lest anyone should boast."- Ephesians 2:8-9 Basically, we cannot earn our salvation, but we recieve it as a gift when we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior (Romans 10:9)

The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod is based in Milwaukee. It has approximately 1,270 congregations in all 50 states, with a membership of about 400,000. It is the third largest Lutheran church body in the United States. It also supports foreign mission in more than a dozen countries around the world, including Japan, Taiwan, India, Zambia, Malawi, Cameroon, Brazil, Mexico, Grenada, Antiqua, St. Lucia, Russia, Bulgaria, and Nigeria.

No, Martin Luther king was an American Baptist minister.

Martin Luther was German and led the Protestant Reformation during the early 1500s. His teachings became the creation of the Lutheran church.

California Lutheran University's main campus is in Thousand Oaks, CA. You can find a map to it here: http://www.callutheran.edu/about/campuses.php

This would primarily be up to the pastor and the parents, as well as the potential godparents. However, there are enough serious doctrinal disagreements regarding baptism between the Lutheran Churches and the Baptist Churches that such an arrangement could be problematic and perhaps not even possible if all parties were to remain faithful to their tradition. If the potential godparent were to subscribe only to Believer Baptism as opposed to Infant Baptism, then they could not really believe in the effectiveness of an infant's baptism. In the tradition of Believer's baptism, the child would have to be baptized again at an older age, when said child would be able to come to Christ and come to terms with their faith. Now, to a Lutheran, the concept of someone being baptized again would seem to be unnecessary at best, heretical in all cases, and at worst an insult to baptism. Article IX of the Augsburg Confession states that baptism should come to children, as it entrusts them to God, and Luther's Large Catechism lines 47-86 declare that Baptism should be given to children, and can only come once. For a Lutheran, baptism can only occur once, the free showing and showering of God's love and grace through the action of the Holy Spirit, permanently and not dependent on the child, but on a God who loves. A second baptism, or any belief that the infant's baptism is not the true baptism, would seem to Lutherans to possibly cast doubt on this. With this in mind, one must question if a Baptist would even want to become a godparent to a Lutheran child, if said child's very baptism is questionable to the Baptist. One would also question whether a baptized child would be brought up well as a Lutheran Christian if said child is being taught about Christianity and within Christianity, baptism, by one who ascribes to a vision that could potentially doubt the veracity of the child's baptism.

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Yes. Luther taught that faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the path to salvation. However he also belived by "Faith alone, by Grace alone, by Christ alone- there lies our Salvation. Lutheran's also believe that Christ's Sacraments- Baptism and Holy Communion are a "Means of Grace"- where Jesus Christ is attached through Water, Bread and Wine-The True Body and Blood of our Lord.

Not in the Catholic sense. Ash Wednesday is observed as the beginning of lent, but not in the ritual sense you imply. It goes without saying statuary is generally not used in Lutheran churches either, excepting some monumentally royal ones in Scandinavia, some which date pre-reformation and have valuable art, tombs etc.

because at the time, the catholic church took more from the lower class peasants than they had

for examples, indulgences were documents that released you from your sins, so everyone paid for indulgences which were made up

the church also had simony's-where they would sell church offices

Martin Luther believed it was uneccessary to pay the church anything

as long as you prayed and believed, it would be enough for you to go to heaven

^^^^^peasants liked martin Luther's idea better

and so lutheranism began and spread througout Europe

A baptismal sponsor is the same thing as a Godparent. The Godparent approaches the Church together with the catechumen (the one who is to be baptized) as a spiritual support and patron. If the one to be baptized cannot answer for him/her, such as a baby, the sponsor answers in their name and takes the responsibility of catechizing them in the faith in conjunction with the legal guardians of the child.

The Ten Commandments represent the law given by God to his people by way of Moses. In addition to defining God's idea of perfection, they provide a moral code for governing our lives. Most of us believe we are able to keep these commandments, but the truth is-none of us can. God's standards are so high, they are impossible to perfectly meet.

No, since they believe there is one mediator between God and men, and also that neither Mary nor the Saints have any divinely sanctioned authority to help. They see them as having lived Godly lives and having done many things worthy of admiration and in some cases emulation. But they are only regarded as human, whereas Jesus is divine and sits currently at the right hand of the Father.

The first is to have faith in Jesus, not good works, brings salvation. The second is that The Bible is the final source for the truth about God, not a church or its priests. Finally Lutheranism said that the church was made up of believers , not just the clergy.

1. sola fide- justification by faith alone

2. priestood of all believers-both clergy and non-clergy can take both types of communion (bread+wine at mass) which in catholic church at the time, was reserved for clergy members only

its was in the the 1500's were Martin Luther was convinced that catholics were wrong about peoples indulgence and so he wrote the ninety-five theses to say prove that Christianity is better. it was an attempt to reform the Catholic Church.

Frayed cables/wires can cause fires.

lutherans can be baptized at any age in life. i was baptized as a baby. but i know people who were baptized as adults. lutherans can be baptized at any age in life. i was baptized as a baby. but i know people who were baptized as adults.

Yes. But as in nearly every Christian denomination, you will likely get many different answers of what and who the devil actually is and how he manifests himself. In any case, he is the source of things which are polar to the will of God.

Luther was opposed to Monasticism, and in fact married a former Nun. It should be noted some Lutheran hospitals have what are called Deaconesses- who might loosely be styled Lutheran ( Nuns). they are not normally cloistered ( do not live in special quarters such as Convents) and are not necessarily bound to cellibacy. they do wear Religious costumes on duty- mainly in hospitals and similar institutions such as the Lutheran Home, which as staffed by a Sister Patricia at one time. They are referred to as Sisters, but are not Nuns in the Roman Catholic sense. It is stretching things to call them nuns. The Episcopalian church has orders of both celibate monks ( the Cowley Fathers) and nuns ( various congregations ) this is in the Anglo-Catholic branch of the Anglican church.

Catholics believe the pope is the vicar of Christ on earth, Lutherans do not.

Catholics believe they are saved by faith and good works. Lutherans believe they are saved by faith alone.

Catholics believe in Purgatory, Lutherans do not.