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Child Study According To The Bible, P. E. Kretzmann

Concordia Theological Monthly

The attitude of the Lutheran Church, specifically of our branch of the Lutheran Church, toward the Bible, is one which finds little appreciation in the world to-day. Wherever we turn, we find opposition. The Church of Rome has added to its mutilated Bible the vagaries of tradition and the claims of an "infallible" Pope. Most Protestant denominations have set aside the inspiration of the Bible or so modified the meaning of inspiration as to make the word meaningless.

Divorce And Malcious Desertion, Theo. Laetsch

Concordia Theological Monthly

Divorce, Except It Be for Fornication.

Is there anything besides death that severs the marriage bond? In the opinion of the Pharisees there were quite a number of reasons for which a man might put away his wife. In answer to Christ’s apodictic statement they ask: "Why did Moses, then, command to give a writing of divorcement and to put her away? How dare you, they mean to say, put yourself in opposition to Moses? Are you more than Moses? Christ answers: Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, suffered you to put away your wives; but from the …

Divorce And Malcious Desertion, Theo. Laetsch

Concordia Theological Monthly

Divorce is one of the most pernicious and at the same time most prevalent evils of our day. With the exception of Russia our own country has the sorrowful distinction of lending the nations of the world in divorces per capita of population. This extreme disregard of the sanctity and indissolubility of wedlock, which like a deadly poison has already ruined thousands of homes and is threatening to undermine the very foundation of our Union, is slowly, but surely invading our congregations also, there to exercise its baneful influence. During the past decade divorces, almost unknown in our circles twenty …