So, why doesn't Scripture uniquely endorse a specific denomination ?

[Drich]

I note Martin Luther was able to cite Scripture copiously to support his contentions the Roman Catholic Church wasn't, as I like saying, "doing it right" and to use those same Scriptures to base his schismatic church upon.

-however-

as the centuries have passed since Luther's time, even his Lutheran Church has seen fit to 'adjust' Luther's take on things, even repudiating some of his contentions (yet while still maintaining the Lutheran trade mark!) and the Lutheran church itself has spawned numerous schisms of its own.

Is the fault with the people trying to implement Lutheranism, or is it something deeper, a fault, pernicious and saturating in Holy Scripture itself ??

A given person examining Luther's 93 thesis and the history of the church, and then studying the Bible would say, "Well, obviously! The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is the One True Faith!"  and yet another person, reviewing all the above information would say, "How about that!, Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod has NAILED IT !!! Praise Jesus!!"

Where does this come from?  Are my 2 hypothetical individuals screwing up?  Or did Luther screw up?


Or is it God ?

It's all really simple. Jesus explains this to us when He said that the whole law, and everything the prophets have to say can be summed up in two greatest commands. upon these two commands the whole of the bible is balanced. The first being Love your lord God with all of your Being, and love your neighbor as yourself.

Now how you might ask does this reconcile a million different denominations?

That can be found in the Love your lord God bit with all of your being IE: Heart, Mind Spirit and strength. Meaning when you worship God you must employ all 4 of these primary attributes into your worship service in accordance to how you've been blessed in these areas.

For example. My worship service may need to be Mind and Spirit heavy as I need to study and commune with God in order to feel as if I have given it my all. but to say someone who is not interested in church history or academics but wants to serve at or in a pantry or maybe another who have been given the ability to write song and sing, to each of us we MUST worship in accordance to the gifts we've been given. we must use what we have in the way of gifts and talents use what we have to our fullest abilities. For the song writer his time and talents are wasted in a faith only worship. to the servant, his church service could amount to nothing because his time is thrown away singing endlessless songs, while the singer could be worshiping God at his fullest.

Paul further's this principle when he speaks of one body where Jesus Christ is the head and each of us represents a different body part. One domination could represent a hand while another an eye. Now just because the hand does not function the same way the eye does not mean the hand ceases to serve the body. In essence we have each bee huned by God to serve a role in the church. Our denomination are designed to allow hands to worship one way, while eyes worship a different way. And so on and so fourth. Each body part has it own way of worshiping and serving God.

In short there is no one right way to worship God as we ALL have it wrong in one degree or another, but the awesome thing is we don't have to be worsiping 'the right way.' as that is not the measure being used to justify our righteousness before God.

We all are under grace. Meaning the same grace/atonement extended to us when we willfully sin is that much more avaible to us when we worship with all of our minds hearts sprit and stength and fail to 'get it right.'

What you people do not understand that the "bar" of God's righteousness is not set in stone. That is why Jesus died so we do not have to meet some arbutary or impossible standard of morality. Jesus died so our best became all that is required.