Richard C. August wrote:
> Dear 9th Witch,
>
> In my denomination, the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod, you CANNOT
> be a pastor without a Seminary Education, even if it is Distance
> Education under the DELTO program. Our two Seminaries, in St.
> Louis, MO and Ft. Wayne, IN respectively, teach each and every
> graduate in Confessional Lutheran Christianity. This DEMANDS that
> all LCMS pastors know The Bible in English, Latin, Hebrew, and
> Greek, as well as learning some German, the history of the Bible,
> Liturgical History, and other pastoral studies.
>
> The LCMS's official position is that only men will enter Seminary or
> be Divinely Called to serve a congregation. This is under Biblical
> command found in 1 Timothy 2, 1 Corinthians 11 and 1 Corinthians 14.
> The LCMS will accept a pastoral vacancy before it will allow female
> clergy!!! Hallelujah for that!!!
>
> Concerning other denominations, I agree with you, many pastors are
> completely untrained. How unfortunate for their poor, confused
> congregations, who so easily fall into this spiritual mode or that,
> while ignoring the basic educative essence of Our Faith found only
> in the Holy Bible, in its original autographs. I had been involved
> in such churches, where the "pastors" believed they were "called to
> preach" by the "holy spirit" after a single prayer! These churches
> ended up led by EMOTIONS rather than COMMON SENSE, and ended up
> DISINTEGRATING because there was no proper teaching or doctrine.
>
> Really, a good pastor from a good, Godly denomination will be
> thoroughly trained at Seminary, and will be trained in historical
> Christian doctrine from the Bible's original languages plus Latin.
> Anything else is just a fake.
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And again, another fucked up religion moves spirituality away from the
people and into the hands of a select few male shovenist pigs with a
lust for power (whether they admit it or now). The call to be a preacher
can happen to anyone if your God is "just and kind and fair", but so far
you have only talked about your brand of "Christian" male shovenism
(which includes bashing other ethnic and religious groups). If that is
your religion, then keep it and begon with you.
