Lutherans and Other Denominations

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Lutherans and Other Denominations

• Ancient Traditions
• Eastern Orthodox
• Roman Catholic

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Lutherans and Other DenominationsAncient
Traditions

• Five Centers of the Early Church

Jerusalem Antioch Rome Constantinople Alexandria
J A R C A
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Lutherans and Other DenominationsAncient
Traditions - Eastern Orthodox

• History
• 313 Edict of Milan
• 330 Political capital moved to Byzantium
• 1017 Filioque added to Nicene Creed by Rome
• 1054 The Great Schism
• 1453 Muslims conquered Constantinople
• 1575 Augsburg Confession rejected by Patriarch

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Lutherans and Other DenominationsAncient
Traditions - Eastern Orthodox
According to a recent study of Orthodoxy in the
United States, the real membership in all Eastern
Christian Churches in the USA can be estimated at
about 1,200,000 persons.  This figure is
considerably less than the commonly accepted
estimations, which range as high as over four
million.The greatest disproportions between
"claimed" and actual memberships were found in
the two largest Orthodox jurisdictions The Greek
Orthodox Archdiocese (typically claimed
1,954,500 members versus 440,000 actual
adherents) and The Orthodox Church in America
(1,000,000 versus 115,000 actual adherents). The
most likely reason for this discrepancy is the
common practice of equating Church membership
with the total number of representatives of a
corresponding ethnic group including second and
third American generations of the original
immigrants, independent of these persons actual
relationship to the Orthodox Church.
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Lutherans and Other DenominationsAncient
Traditions - Eastern Orthodox

• Protestant Apocrypha
• 1 2 Esdras
• Tobit
• Judith
• Additions To Esther
• Wisdom of Solomon
• Ecclesiasticus
• Baruch
• Letter of Jeremiah
• Song of the Three Young Men
• Susanna
• Bel and the Dragon
• Prayer of Manasseh
• 1 2 Maccabees

Orthodox Canon 1 Esdras Tobit Judith Additions
To Esther Wisdom of Solomon Ecclesiasticus Baruch
Letter of Jeremiah Song of the Three Young
Men Susanna Bel and the Dragon Prayer of
Manasseh 1 2 Maccabees 3 4 Maccabees
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Lutherans and Other DenominationsAncient
Traditions - Eastern Orthodox

• Lutheran
• Salvation is by
• grace through faith,
• not by works
• Sacrament
• A sacred act ordained by God
• through which He brings grace to men
• through external means
• connected with His Word.

Orthodox Salvation is by faith and
works, works enabled by grace Mystery Rites
instituted by Christ to convey the grace of
God invisibly through visible signs and bring to
men the regenerating, justifying and sanctifying
grace.
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Lutherans and Other DenominationsAncient
Traditions - Eastern Orthodox

• Orthodox Mysteries

Baptism Chrism Eucharist Penance Holy
Orders Marriage Holy Unction
B C E P H M H
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Lutherans and Other DenominationsAncient
Traditions - Roman Catholic

• Protestant Apocrypha
• 1 2 Esdras
• Tobit
• Judith
• Additions To Esther
• Wisdom of Solomon
• Ecclesiasticus
• Baruch
• Letter of Jeremiah
• Song of the 3 Young Men
• Susanna
• Bel and the Dragon
• Prayer of Manasseh
• 1 2 Maccabees

Orthodox Canon 1 Esdras Tobit Judith Additions
To Esther Wisdom of Solomon Ecclesiasticus Baruch
Letter of Jeremiah Song of the 3 Young
Men Susanna Bel and the Dragon Prayer of
Manasseh 1 2 Maccabees 3 4 Maccabees
Roman Catholic Canon 1 2 Esdras Tobit Judith Ad
ditions To Esther Wisdom of Solomon Ecclesiasticus
Baruch Letter of Jeremiah Song of the 3 Young
Men Susanna Bel and the Dragon Prayer of
Manasseh 1 2 Maccabees
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Lutherans and Other DenominationsAncient
Traditions - Roman Catholic

• Lutheran
• Salvation is
• by grace through faith,
• not by works
• Sacrament
• A sacred act ordained by God
• through which He brings grace to men
• through external means
• connected with His Word.

Roman Catholic Salvation is received at
baptism may be lost by mortal sin regained by
penance Sacrament Outward signs of inward
grace instituted by Christ for our sanctification.
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Lutherans and Other DenominationsAncient
Traditions - Roman Catholic

• Roman Catholic Sacraments

Baptism Confirmation Eucharist Penance Holy
Orders Marriage Extreme Unction
B C E P H M E
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Lutherans and Other DenominationsAncient
Traditions - Roman Catholic

• Doctrinal Deviations
• 593 Purgatory
• 754 Temporal Power
• 1075 Mass clergy divorce forced
• 1100 Money for masses
• 1184 Inquisition
• 1190 Sale of indulgences
• 1215 Transsubstantiation
• 1226 Adoration of the host
• 1229 Bible is a Forbidden Book

1302 Supreme power of pope 1415 Cup denied to
laymen 1545 Tradition equal to Bible 1545 Not
justified by faith alone 1600 Scapulars
1854 Immaculate conception (Mary) 1864 Sep of
churchstate condemn 1870 Papal
infallibility 1950 Assumption of Mary
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