The Holy Trinity and Bad Analogies from Lutheran Satire

We will confess the Athanasian Creed this Sunday since it is Holy Trinity Sunday.  

Here you can enjoy St. Patrick "explain" the Trinity to our favorite Irish Lutherans, Conall and Donall.  From Lutheran Satire.  Enjoy.

Lutheran Satire: Best Conspiracy Ever

If last week's post from Lutheran Satire (Ishtar Ruins Easter) was not enough for you, here is another installment of Lutheran Satire.  Entitled, "Best. Conspiracy. Ever.", it demonstrates that the people who claim men invented Christianity for their own personal gain are deluded.  

As for the claim that Christians seek to control others' lives, all the Christian Church does is proclaim what God says.  We also recognize that people who are determined to rebel against God's word are not to be forced to change their ways.  (Note: Those who present examples to the contrary should recognize that those examples are rare and not consistent with God's word.  Christians recognize that, too.)  Those who demand to live apart from God and his word will get their way.  To Christians, however, this is tragic because it means eternal separation from God who is the source of life, love, and blessing.  This is why Christians are persistent in their preaching and calling people to repent.  Our Lord desires all people to leave their wicked ways so that they can live.  Christians have been influenced by God to feel the same way.

In any case, here is a video from Lutheran Satire to show that the early Church did not concoct the story of Jesus' resurrection for personal gain.  Enjoy.

Lutheran Satire -- Ishtar Ruins Easter

We put up our Facebook ad to promote our Easter Journey for Kids (which was held Saturday, March 28).  That ad prompted a number of nasty responses.  To be charitable, I will say that the charges laid against us were misinformed.  Among the charges was the claim that we are celebrating a pagan holiday with our Easter services.

This charge resurfaces every Easter.  So, this retort from Lutheran Satire may have to make the rounds every Easter, too.  Share it as you please.

Feel free to look through Lutheran Satire for numerous "Horus" videos which also reply to baseless charges against the Christian faith.

Lutheran Satire: St. Patrick's Bad Analogies

How could we come to St. Patrick's Day and not enjoy our favorite Lutheran Irish folk, Connall and Donnall?  St. Patrick teaches about the Trinity.

Lutheran Reformation notes and stuff

October 31, 1517 marked the beginning of the Lutheran Reformation.  The years that followed continued efforts to restore the Church to a faithful proclamation and practice of the Gospel.  Entire books have been written on the topic, so I will limit my offerings to you here.

Luther Rose

          A seal or coat of arms is usually designed to commemorate an outstanding event or to express the hopes and ideals of the family or person who bears it. Each part of such an emblem has a special meaning. Martin Luther’s seal is no exception. As early as 1517, while Luther was professor at Wittenberg, he replaced his father’s seal with one that he himself designed. Composed of five parts, it suited him better than did the crossbow and two roses of Hans Luther.
          After Duke John Frederick had the seal cut in stone for a signet ring, Luther’s friend Spengler, the town clerk of Nuremberg, asked for an explanation of it. Luther wrote to him, in part:

          The first thing expressed in my seal is a cross, black, to put me in mind that Christ crucified saves us. “For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness.”
          Now, although the cross is black, mortified, and intended to cause pain, yet it does not change the color of the heart, does not destroy nature – that is, does not kill, but keeps alive. “For the just shall live by faith” – by faith in the Savior.
          The heart is fixed upon the center of a white rose, to show that faith causes joy, consolation, and peace….
          The rose, moreover, is fixed in a sky-colored field to denote that such joy of faith … is but an earnest and beginning of heavenly joy to come….
          And around this field is a golden ring, to signify that such joy in heaven is endless….

          Luther explained in detail his reasons for choosing certain colors and the significance of those colors. He also made comparisons between this life and the “bliss in heaven” which is “anticipated and held by hope, though not yet revealed.” But brushing aside the details, the gist of the letter was simply this: The coat of arms tells the story of what I believe and confess.
-- p 94, Martin Luther, Man of God by Morton A. Schroeder, Northwestern Publishing House: Milwaukee, WI. 1983.

Book of Concord -- The book which contains the confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church

Lutheran Satire: Diet of Worms, Mixtape Edition

Lutheran Satire: Reformation Piggybackers (noting people who used the Reformation to promote various different teachings)

Something from... Lutheran Satire on Angels

In honor of the Festival of St. Michael and All Angels today (this was to be posted on September 29, but I failed to get it done), I submit to you a short video from Lutheran Satire about angels.  Thanks to Rennaissance artists, they have been portrayed as cute, chubby little babies.  The Bible knows no such angels.  This sums it up nicely.

 

Lutheran Satire and the defense of Easter

It is that time of year when, once again, people will be saying that the Christian faith has spawned from pagan sources.  In this case, it is the alleged connection of Easter to Ishtar or some other nonsense.  While many have debunked all this with reasoned defenses, why not have some fun with it?  So, here is Lutheran Satire addressing this issue for us.

If you are curious about the whole "Horus" narrative, you will be interested in searching through the Lutheran Satire library and looking up the various Horus videos in it.

As a bonus, here is Lutheran Satire explaining how the Christian Church has duped the entire world in regard to Jesus' resurrection by concocting the "Best Conspiracy Ever."

Lutheran Satire -- St. Patrick's Day

It's that time once again when we celebrate the Christian missionary to Ireland, St. Patrick.  We also get to welcome back our favorite Irish farmers, Conall and Donall.  Enjoy!

Lutheran Satire: Angels

In honor of the Minor Festival, St. Michael and All Angels (September 29), here is a bit from Lutheran Satire about angels.  Angels are often depicted as cute, but Scripture gives us a far different image.  When the angels have to begin pretty much every encounter with the phrase, "Fear not," we ought to recognize that their holiness would strike terror in every one of us.

From Lutheran Satire: 

Lutheran Satire and the Holy Trinity

Once again, it is Holy Trinity Sunday.  Once again, our Irish friends Donall and Conall heed the words of St. Patrick regarding the Holy Trinity.  Enjoy.

Easter notes -- Where it did NOT originate by Lutheran Satire

Easter is pagan???  So claim many who despise the Christian faith.  Horus gets refuted again.  Enjoy!

A Lutheran Satire Christmas -- Updated

I suppose this is as close as it gets for a box set of Lutheran Satire Christmas.  Here is a string of Lutheran Satire videos which maintain a Christmas theme.  Two of them feature Horus, and the third one gives a nod to him.  

After Horus is shown that all efforts to discredit the veracity of the Christmas accounts in the Bible are based on lies, he is stunned to learn how many Christians have rejected the Biblical confession for the sake of diversity, inclusion, and equity.  Then you get to hear why Lutheran Christmas hymns are to be preferred to more shallow efforts (even if those shallow efforts have greater popularity).

NOTE: I concur with the plug for The Word Endures with Pastor Will Weedon.

I, regretfully, omitted this video about various Nativity sets.

Bonus material: Horus reads the internet.

St. Patrick's Day, Lutheran Satire style

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, we revisit our Irish friends, Conall and Donall, who learn about the Holy Trinity for the first time from St. Patrick, missionary to the Irish.  Come on, Patrick!  Enjoy!

Minor Festival -- St. Michael and All Angels

In recognition of a Minor Festival of the Church Year, please enjoy this brief video from Lutheran Satire about angels.  Praise God for these faithful ministers who live to serve God's people and who dwell in the glory of God's presence.

Prayer of the Day for St. Michael and All Angels

M:     Everlasting God, you have ordained and constituted in a wonderful order the ministries of angels and mortals.  Mercifully grant that, as your holy angels always serve and worship you in heaven, so by your direction they may help and defend us here on earth; through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

C:     Amen.

St. Patrick's Day with Lutheran Satire

In recognition of St. Patrick's Day, here are two segments from Lutheran Satire.  One tells the story of St. Patrick who, by the way, was not Irish!  He was a missionary to the Irish after having been enslaved there.  The second video is St. Patrick teaching the doctrine of the Trinity to Donall and Conall, two unschooled, unlearned Irishmen.  It is pure gold.  Enjoy!

Minor Festival -- St. Michael and All Angels (September 29, 2021)

In honor of the Festival of St. Michael and All Angels, I submit this brief video from Lutheran Satire.  Enjoy! 

Lutheran Satire: St. Patrick Musical

In honor of this day, here is the story of St. Patrick, set to music.  Done by Rev. Hans Fiene of Lutheran Satire.  Be prepared for one cringe-worthy part of the story.  Enjoy!

Something from ... Lutheran Satire on the origins of Christmas

It is that time of year again where the assertions are trotted out like eggnog to be consumed by people who are eager to disbelieve the Bible or to be smarter than God.  If you do not hear people telling you that the December 25 date of Christmas comes from pagan origins, consider yourself fortunate.  Some even state that the birth of Jesus itself is copied from pagan sources and used to oppress people.  How a message of forgiveness and life everlasting freely given can be used to oppress people remains a mystery to me, but the claims are out there.

Most people don't take the time to research all these bald-face assertions in order to debunk them.  And since these assertions don't get exposed for the lies that they are, they tend to gain traction.  Some Christians are deceived by these assertions.  Rather than research them to see where the truth lies, some just abandon the Christian faith because they are convinced they have been lied to all this time.  

Granted, no one wants to be played for a fool.  Just make sure you know who is actually fooling you!

Lutheran Satire to the rescue!  Rev. Hans Fiene produced this some years ago.  But repeated assertions against Jesus Christ will always need repeated rebuttals.  Here you go.  Enjoy!

Bible Matters -- Leftovers

In our Bible Matters discussion last evening, we were considering the Canon of Scripture: How can we be sure these books are the right books?

In our discussion, we brought up the point that there are two main ways to destroy the Christian faith and to leave it all in ruins.  One is to prove that the resurrection of Jesus is a fraud.  If that can be proven, then Christians are to be pitied more than all mankind since our entire faith and hope rest on Jesus Christ being risen from the dead.  St. Paul treats this in 1 Corinthians 15.

Speaking of St. Paul, the second method of destroying Christianity is to prove that the conversion of St. Paul to Christianity is a fraud.  If Paul's conversion is a sham, that means he infiltrated Christian leadership and, by his many epistles and founding of many Christian churches, commandeered and perverted the Gospel of Jesus to whatever Paul wanted it to be.

Is the resurrection of Jesus a sham?  Is the conversion of St. Paul a fake?  Do these theories make sense?

Lutheran Satire to the rescue!  In a short, humorous video, Rev. Hans Fiene does a nice job of explaining that St. Paul, St. Peter, and all the apostles stood nothing to gain by preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ crucified and risen from the dead.  Either Jesus is truly risen and St. Paul was truly converted, or the apostles concocted the "Best Conspiracy Ever."  

Certainly there are more thoughts to ponder regarding these matters, but this is a good place to start. 

Bible Matters will be suspended throughout Advent and will return in January.  Scheduled topics will be announced later.

Lutheran Satire -- St. Patrick's Bad Analogies and the Trinity

With Holy Trinity upon us this Sunday (June 7), it is time for a favorite from Lutheran Satire.

Enjoy!