Synod

When the two former churches came together in 1966, they'd established what was called the Thesis of Agreement, which is a very fine theological document, and that formed the foundation for their agreement, obviously.

I believe the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod has acknowledged that this is a very faithful, orthodox confession of faith, and that foundation really helped us to hang on to the truth of God's Word for all those years.

I guess you could also acknowledge there was a small group of faithful confessors who boldly contended for the truth, sometimes at very significant personal cost.

And so they were able to have an influence and keep the change at bay.

But I guess if you go back to 2000, when the first vote took place, the Synod was required to receive advice from the pastors conference on all matters of theology and the pastors were not in agreement.

They were split about 50 50 back in 2000 with respect to women's ordination and in the past that wouldn't have constituted advice and allowed the synod then to debate it and vote on it.

However that was permitted at the time and so the precedent was set and then subsequently The Synod was permitted to consider the question, even though the pastors' conference didn't really give advice, didn't come to one mind on the matter, and remained split over the next 30 years.

What is at stake in the issue of ordination of women?

As I mentioned in a previous podcast, The Foreign Mission Committee's involvement in the work began in 1996.

In 2001, Synod officially declared the Philippines as a mission field.

Then our first missionary there was Reverend Springsma from 2002 to 2007.

So he was there for five years as a missionary.

Not everybody gets to meet them.

I know we've had some visitors recently.

Reverend Ebay was just here for Synod, I believe.

Yep.

It's not to have co-responsibility of lay people governing the church and then to have a so-called movement of the spirit lead to doctrinal changes And that's certainly the case.

Why in the world was the Synod, for instance, concerned with this question of women deacons? You know, wait a minute.

The church has never ordained women deacons.

That claim has been refuted.

At least I don't think Lord's talked about warnings of punishments coming from heaven.

How openly and blatantly the Synodal Church is leading its members to hell is becoming increasingly disturbing by the day.

Even more concerning is that those being led astray are so numbered by their addiction to the comforts of their compromise with sin that they seem not to care.

Worse for them, they seem not to realize that to selectively believe in a God who is only love is not to believe at all.

It is nothing more than a practical, conscience-soothing atheism dressed up as Catholicism, or better put, what is known as the Synodal Religion, because one has a duty to know and study, at the very least, the fundamentals of the Catholic faith.

This type of chosen, convenient ignorance will not be a defense on Judgment Day.

Make no mistake, though, those who were entrusted to shepherd them and who instead have been feeding them this theological sewer juice would be judged even more harshly.

I am an enemy of apparitions that speak of God's punishment, he said, adding that God does not want to punish, as the Catechism of the Catholic Church states.

By the way, here is Dolinger, as we pointed out a couple weeks ago or a week ago on Twitter.

Papal theologian historian Ignaz von Dolinger, the most famous papal historian, theologian, canonist at the time of Vatican I, in two pages destroys the entire papal system by noting that Gregory, in his Synod in 1080, Pope Gregory of the Gregorian Reforms, first uses Matthew 16 to say that he has the ability to take your kingdoms at will.

Who actually believes that Matthew 16, that Jesus' intent was to give the Bishop of Rome the ability to steal kingdoms? This is so retarded.

We desire to show the world we can take away at our will kingdoms, duchies, earldoms, to possessions of all men because we bind and loose.

Pope Gregory VII, 1080, Roman Synod, reflecting what Dictatus Pape says.

If you believe that as Roman Catholic, you are officially retarded.

But that is what you're supposed to believe from this time period up until Vatican II.

No schools unless clerical ones became their motto.

All Russia wanted education, but even the ridiculously small sum of two million rubles included every year in the state budget for primary schools used not to be spent by the Ministry of Public Instruction, while nearly as much was given to the Synod as an aid for establishing schools under the village clergy, schools most of which existed and now exist on paper only.

All Russia wanted technical education, but the Ministry opened only classical gymnasia, because formidable courses of Latin and Greek were considered the best means of preventing the pupils from reading and thinking.

In these gymnasia only two or three percent of the pupils succeeded in completing an eight-year's course, all boys promising to become something and to show some independence of thought being carefully sifted out before they could reach the last form, and all sorts of measures were taken to reduce the number of pupils.