Comments on: BALAAM’S ASS: Why the LCMS Will Ordain Women in My Lifetime http://dizzysound.net/blog/2006/01/19/balaams-ass-why-the-lcms-will-ordain-women-in-my-lifetime/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss Life, times, and musings of a seminarian & family Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:56:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Territorial Bloggings » Inevitability & the LCMS http://dizzysound.net/blog/2006/01/19/balaams-ass-why-the-lcms-will-ordain-women-in-my-lifetime/comment-page-1/#comment-470 Territorial Bloggings » Inevitability & the LCMS Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:33:38 +0000 http://dizzysound.net/blog/2006/01/19/balaams-ass-why-the-lcms-will-ordain-women-in-my-lifetime/#comment-470 [...] Tim, over at Balaam’s Ass, and Christopher, over at Outer Rim Territories, have made some nice comments & observations on this topic (Tim having started it all, while Christopher used Tim’s posting as a nice reason for commenting…). The comments are really nothing new — rather, they shouldn’t be seen as anything new — but given the dearth of orthodox (i.e., Lutheran) catechesis & discipline in today’s Ablaze!-ing (pat. pending, all rights reserved, the Purple Palace) LCMS, it wouldn’t surprise me that a great many folks would be aghast — aghast, I tell you! — that there are actually curmudgeonly troglodytes who would twist — twist, I tell you! — the Bible to subjugate — subjugate, I tell you! — women. [...] [...] Tim, over at Balaam’s Ass, and Christopher, over at Outer Rim Territories, have made some nice comments & observations on this topic (Tim having started it all, while Christopher used Tim’s posting as a nice reason for commenting…). The comments are really nothing new — rather, they shouldn’t be seen as anything new — but given the dearth of orthodox (i.e., Lutheran) catechesis & discipline in today’s Ablaze!-ing (pat. pending, all rights reserved, the Purple Palace) LCMS, it wouldn’t surprise me that a great many folks would be aghast — aghast, I tell you! — that there are actually curmudgeonly troglodytes who would twist — twist, I tell you! — the Bible to subjugate — subjugate, I tell you! — women. [...]

]]> By: Christopher Gillespie http://dizzysound.net/blog/2006/01/19/balaams-ass-why-the-lcms-will-ordain-women-in-my-lifetime/comment-page-1/#comment-453 Christopher Gillespie Fri, 20 Jan 2006 01:39:36 +0000 http://dizzysound.net/blog/2006/01/19/balaams-ass-why-the-lcms-will-ordain-women-in-my-lifetime/#comment-453 I have friends that are graduates or currently attending CSSL. I have no problem to state with that seminary or its attendees. One of my classmates from CURF was here at Symposia. He seemed okay, uncorrupted in a way. :) Tomorrow Dr. Dale Meyer will be preaching on campus. I understand he is a good preacher and if so that may give some confidence in their leadership on this campus. I too have alluded to order of creation in other posts. It seems silly to rehash here when there is a nice and tasty archive feature on this blog. it bears mentioning that I have spoken on this subject before but in a different context. Finally, UL I would suggest orthodoxy of the LC-MS has always been in question and will remain so. I don't consider myself LC-MS Lutheran, rather Christian of the Lutheran understanding. LC-MS just rings of social or country-club atmosphere to me. It actually seems a silly ecumenical organization which has divorced itself of its true purpose which is to join forces for the purpose of training pastors and teachers and sharing resources in missions. Today the Synod itself provides little financial support for the first and a pitiful amount to the latter. I don't locate my faith in this institution, the LC-MS. Rather I look for my congregations catholicity, adherence to Scriptures and the Confessions as the criteria. I know that the congregation will question its membership in the LC-MS if it is ceases to remain catholic. I hold no sentimentality to this broadly futile effort of unified denomination. Yes, this is a pessimistic view and will probably get me in trouble. Regardless, according to the LC-MS lawyers, individuals aren't members so I haven't denied myself anything. :) Chris I have friends that are graduates or currently attending CSSL. I have no problem to state with that seminary or its attendees. One of my classmates from CURF was here at Symposia. He seemed okay, uncorrupted in a way. :) Tomorrow Dr. Dale Meyer will be preaching on campus. I understand he is a good preacher and if so that may give some confidence in their leadership on this campus.

I too have alluded to order of creation in other posts. It seems silly to rehash here when there is a nice and tasty archive feature on this blog. it bears mentioning that I have spoken on this subject before but in a different context.

Finally, UL I would suggest orthodoxy of the LC-MS has always been in question and will remain so. I don’t consider myself LC-MS Lutheran, rather Christian of the Lutheran understanding. LC-MS just rings of social or country-club atmosphere to me.

It actually seems a silly ecumenical organization which has divorced itself of its true purpose which is to join forces for the purpose of training pastors and teachers and sharing resources in missions. Today the Synod itself provides little financial support for the first and a pitiful amount to the latter.

I don’t locate my faith in this institution, the LC-MS. Rather I look for my congregations catholicity, adherence to Scriptures and the Confessions as the criteria. I know that the congregation will question its membership in the LC-MS if it is ceases to remain catholic. I hold no sentimentality to this broadly futile effort of unified denomination.

Yes, this is a pessimistic view and will probably get me in trouble. Regardless, according to the LC-MS lawyers, individuals aren’t members so I haven’t denied myself anything. :)

Chris

]]> By: Uncle Larry http://dizzysound.net/blog/2006/01/19/balaams-ass-why-the-lcms-will-ordain-women-in-my-lifetime/comment-page-1/#comment-452 Uncle Larry Fri, 20 Jan 2006 01:28:40 +0000 http://dizzysound.net/blog/2006/01/19/balaams-ass-why-the-lcms-will-ordain-women-in-my-lifetime/#comment-452 If this happens, then we'll be moving to a WELS or ELS congregation. Regrettably, the closet one to us is 52 miles away! If this happens, then we’ll be moving to a WELS or ELS congregation. Regrettably, the closet one to us is 52 miles away!

]]> By: Glen Piper http://dizzysound.net/blog/2006/01/19/balaams-ass-why-the-lcms-will-ordain-women-in-my-lifetime/comment-page-1/#comment-451 Glen Piper Fri, 20 Jan 2006 01:25:59 +0000 http://dizzysound.net/blog/2006/01/19/balaams-ass-why-the-lcms-will-ordain-women-in-my-lifetime/#comment-451 Very nicely, and concisely, stated my good Seminarian! But are you sure you want to send the message that one of your peers at CSSL is that on the beam? ;^) By the way, I agree with you completely -- I could write a whole lot more in explanation, but it wouldn't amount to anything more that this: I completely agree with you. -ghp Very nicely, and concisely, stated my good Seminarian!

But are you sure you want to send the message that one of your peers at CSSL is that on the beam? ;^)

By the way, I agree with you completely — I could write a whole lot more in explanation, but it wouldn’t amount to anything more that this: I completely agree with you.

-ghp

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