Large Catechism: Sixth Petition of the Lord’s Prayer
To feel temptation is a far different thing from consenting or yielding to it.
To feel temptation is a far different thing from consenting or yielding to it.
If you will not raise your child for this office, what will become of the spiritual office and estate?
This academic disputation from 1518—but only rediscovered about a century ago—is the principal source for the “theology of the cross.”
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To be baptized in the name of God is to be baptized not by human beings but by God Himself.
Since both the water and the Word are one Baptism, therefore body and soul must be saved and live forever.
We bring the child and pray that God may grant it faith, but we baptize solely upon the command of God.
If we look at mankind in all its conditions, it is nothing but a vast, wide stable full of great thieves.
Honor and good name are easily taken away, but not easily restored.
How can water, eating and drinking do such great things?