Rev. Brandon Warr

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Papist: Muh, all the countries that embraced the Reformation are now godless. Muh. Me: You mean, unlike Spain, a country that just executed a gang rape victim and sold her organs?

I appreciate you answering from that perspective. One dividing point may be, not whether it is healing medicine, but whether that medicine cures us fully or not? The Scriptures and the Fathers seem to be on the side of it being a full cure, which would, if that is the case, still lead to Sola Fide.

If you see it as healing medicine, it makes more sense. Rather than a one time forensic justification, it’s a lifelong healing process of theosis beginning with baptism, even for infants who cannot think, choose, or act. The parents and godparents bring the child in faith, but Christ freely offers the sacraments as divine medicine that actually regenerates the infant and begins the healing right then, not an empty ritual. I know we probably disagree but I’m just trying to answer your question from an Orthodox perspective.

If justification is not by faith alone, then baptizing infants becomes unclear and even contradictory. What is Baptism in this scenario? If justification relies in any way on human choice, understanding, or effort, then an infant, who cannot think, choose, or act, would be excluded by definition. Baptism would either become an empty ritual, just a sign waiting for future significance, or it would be delayed until the child can meet the supposed requirements for justification. Infant Baptism only makes sense when justification is fully God’s work, where grace is not a reaction to human action but the source of faith itself. In this perspective, Baptism is not a symbolic act based on human qualifications, but a way for God to act: forgiving sins, giving the Holy Spirit, and creating faith when and where He chooses; even in infants. If you deny justification by faith alone, Baptism must change from being a divine gift to a human statement. Once that change occurs, infants no longer fit. However, if justification is truly by grace alone through faith alone, then infant Baptism is not just reasonable, it is a necessary and consistent affirmation that salvation belongs entirely to God, who gives His gifts freely, even to those who cannot contribute anything of their own.

By that logic, a wife doesn't need Communion since she is under the head of her Husband, according to 1 Corinthians 11. 👍

Nowhere in the New Testament is a Woman given Holy Communion. 👍

Oh, you’d definitely be the expert on double-speak—being a Baptist and all.

I'm not kidding.

That's a trick question.

Well. They're (cosplaying as) Roman Catholic. Those who accede to the imagined efficacy of works-based or ceremonial salvation will often find it better expressed in Islam. Luther called this 500 years ago.

"Bishop - Presbyter (Pastor) - Deacon" all operating under the divinely instituted office of the ministry. (See screenshot) This sure looks like a much simpler and biblically-sound structure than all the bickering and infighting and headaches we've brought on because of... 👇 Traditional Residential Route (RR) Pastor vs. Residential Alternative Route (RAR) Pastor vs. Special Ministry Pastor (SMP) Pastor vs. General Pastor Certificate (GPC) Pastor vs. Colloquy Pastor vs. Ethnic Immigrant Institute of Theology (EIIT) Pastor vs. Specific Ministry Pastor Español/English (SMP-EsE) Pastor vs. Cross-cultural Ministry (CMC) Pastor, plus...all the confusion over the exact duties, roles and authority bestowed upon not just the wide variety of Pastors but concerning our Elders and Deacons and Deaconesses and "lay leaders". 🫠🥴

I actually found an old portrait of Luther receiving the Papal Bull c. 1521. I think it may be an original Cranach... 😂😂

When the legacy media reveals their biblical illiteracy in stunning fashion.

@DarthHarryson Where's my follow, Bruder?

Just a reminder that I try to follow back all Confessional Lutherans! If you're a Confessional Lutheran, let's follow each other! If you're a CL already following me and I haven't followed back, let me know! ❤️ Remember:

“His name is Yeshua” Yes, and in Arabic it’s Yasou’, in Amharic it’s Iyesus, in Spanish it’s Jesús, in Russian it’s Isus. As the universal Saviour, every nation transliterates His name into their tongue. For us English speakers, it’s Jesus so stop with the silly “proper name” nonsense. His name isn’t a magic word or a secret password. When Scripture says “call upon His name,” it means call upon HIM the universal Saviour.

@ArtGuy313578051 I appreciate much of Dr. Gordon's research but his clickbait is something else. 🤣

Holy Clickbait batman

Martin Luther didn't remove any books. I don't know why this lie keeps being spread when it is very easy to fact check. They were removed from most protestant bibles in the early 19th century. If you want to talk about Canon texts vs non-Canon texts, that is one thing, but the Lutheran Bible contains these texts. Your framing is all wrong. They are not "removed." You can make your point without being a liar. Why would you want to discredit yourself with something so easily proven wrong?

"Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God." -Some guy. Probably not important.

The Festival of the Annunciation of our Lord Posted on March 25, 2026 Scripture: Isaiah 7:10-16 (NKJV) 7:10 Moreover the Lord spoke again to Ahaz, saying, 11 “Ask a sign for yourself from the Lord your God; ask it either in the depth or in the height above.” 12 But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, nor will I test the Lord!” 13 Then he said, “Hear now, O house of David! Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will you weary my God also? 14 Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel. 15 Curds and honey He shall eat, that He may know to refuse the evil and choose the good. 16 For before the Child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land that you dread will be forsaken by both her kings.” Devotion King Ahaz is not the only person to weary God in this passage. There are many Biblical “scholars” who weary Him with their false interpretation! They try to make the “virgin” prophesied in this passage into simply a “young woman” who conceived and bore a son in a natural way. But if that were so, this sign given to Ahaz wouldn’t be much of a sign, would it? We confess that this passage is a direct prophecy about Jesus Christ and His miraculous conception in the womb of the Virgin Mary. As our Nicene Creed says: “I believe…in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary…” Instead of testing the Lord our God, we believe His Word and we thank Him for providing Jesus as our salvation. Jesus is truly our Immanuel, “God with us,” since He is God present in human flesh. He came and lived humbly with us on this earth so that we might live in Him in His heavenly glory. He reconciled us to God through His suffering and death so that God might be with man and man would be forever with God in the life of the world to come. Collect: We beseech Thee, O Lord, pour Thy grace into our hearts; that as we have known the Incarnation of Thy Son Jesus Christ by the message of an angel, so by His Cross and Passion we may be brought unto the glory of His Resurrection; through the same Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever One God, world without end. Amen. Collect for Judica (Passion) Sunday We beseech Thee, Almighty God, mercifully to look upon Thy people, that by Thy great goodness they may be governed and preserved evermore, both in body and soul; through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever One God, world without end. Amen. Collect for the Season of Lent Almighty and Everlasting God, Who hatest nothing that Thou hast made, and dost forgive the sins of all those who are penitent: Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins, and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of Thee, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever One God, world without end. Amen. Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.