The Magisterial Protestant

  Here I will outline 4 points of considerations in the Christology debate. Firstly: In the transfiguration it seems to me that Christ's divine nature permeates through his human nature, I believe this is the reading of the fathers. Christ's human body is transfigured before the the 3 disciples which seems to be in some sense communicating the glory of the divine nature but not other attributes like omni-presence. So it does not seem implausible to me that Christ in his person can communicate the attribute of omni-presence to his human nature to make his flesh appear spiritually on altars for only the occasion of the Lord's Supper. Saying that how can a human body be omni-present is like saying how can a human body be transfigured. They can't, it is a communication of a divine attribute for a specific purpose Secondly, Lutherans don't say that Christ's divine nature is completely locally confined in his earthly human body and ceases to rule the world and be o...

Apostolic succession, is the doctrine that for a church to be considered a true church, that is, one with true and saving sacraments. The sacraments need to be administered by a pastor who has been ordained by a bishop that can trace his ordination back to someone ordained by the Apostles. Essentially apostles like Paul, ordained bishops like Timothy and eventually Timothy ordained other men and those men ordained other men and so on and so forth. This forms an unbroken and physical line of laying on of hands. The present day Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Assyrian, Oriental and Anglican churches all claim that they can list the ordinations of their bishops back to one of the original Apostles ordained by Jesus Christ our Lord. I will be presenting the case that Lutherans, the Reformed and other protestants have a type of presbyteral succession which should also be seen as valid. Should you even care? Lets quickly read what some of the early church fathers thought:  Saint Clement, bisho...