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  • The Mysteries of the Faith

    Pastor Randolph Schnack|Updated Jan 23, 2025

    Though many churches today no longer teach that the Holy Scriptures, as originally written are inerrant (without error). The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, the Southern Baptist Church, the Assemblies of God, and other conservative Churches still hold to this very important teaching of the Bible. In this article we explore both why this teaching is critical for the church, and the mystery of how the Bible can, at one and the same time, be the work of its many authors, and the very voice of God. There are three ways people...

  • Mysteries of the Faith – III. The Person of Christ

    Pastor Randolph Schnack, Platte Valley Lutheran Church|Updated Sep 5, 2024

    All Christian Churches teach and confess this paradoxical truth: That Jesus Christ is true God, begotten from the substance of the Father before all ages, and He is man, born of the substance of His mother in this age. Perfect God and perfect man, composed of a rational soul and human flesh. (quoted from the Athanasian Creed). According to logic, Jesus must be man, or God, or a mixture of the two, greater than man but less than God. But this is not what the Christian Church teaches. Rather, the Christian Church teaches that...