Ten commandments or twelve commandments? The Ten Commandments are found in Exodus 20:1-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21. But in Deuteronomy 27:9-26 Moses gives twelve commandments. The Lord commanded Moses to give these twelve commandments in the covenant with Israel in the land of Moab (Deut. 29:1). These biblical law codes, both the ten commandments and the twelve commandments, date from about 1450 BC. They are similar to other law codes of the ancient Near East. This is not surprising because these ancient communities were generally in contact with one another and developed similar cultures. Read more here.
At least the Ten Commandments are God’s revelation, aren’t they? (1)
Both Luther and Forde sometimes speak of the Ten Commandments as divine revelation – laws sent from heaven above to earth below.
At the same time they both also refer to the Ten Commandments as human codes that are not absolute or divine. These statements, some of which are given below, are not flippant or erratic. Rather, they are important clarifications relating to the larger questions: What is revelation? What is election?
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The Order of Deacon: Stepping stone to being ordained a pastor – 1
| Episcopal Church: | “You will serve as a deacon for at least 6 months before being ordained a priest.” |
| The ELCA: | “You will serve as a deacon for at least 6 months before being ordained a pastor.” |
Is this true? Not yet, but it will be soon. Read more here.
Post-liberal theology, no; post-liberal Lutheranism, yes!
Who is that “shadowy, if not menacing, figure on the contemporary scene, perhaps not yet clearly defined, often a puzzle to both friend and foe, usually mistaken simply for a hard-line conservative confessionalist or orthodoxist”? Why it’s Gerhard Forde – a post-liberal Lutheran!
The Book of Concord’s Key to Itself
What do Lutherans believe?; Some Lutherans say that they simply hold to the Bible and Confessions. Yet in the 1970’s Lutherans in this country split over how to use the Bible as the “only rule and norm.” Thus to say one simply holds to the Bible and Confessions is to fail to engage the dilemma of hermeneutics over which Lutherans are split. Read more here.