[MacDuff]

Learning from history can still be narrow, if one is learning from only a small portion of it.

Anaheim becoming the “new Rome” implies that the “old Rome” is dead. And in order to become a “new Rome” it would have to be more than just another Protestant denomination, which in fact the LC is.

The “One Publication Policy” is not so unusual. Lutherans will only go to the book of Concord and those writings that agree with it. Calvinists will only go to Calvin’s systematic theology and writings that conform to it. Wesleyans are biased toward Wesleyan writings. So also, the RCC has it’s own publications that it thinks promotes the mind of “the Church”. Since the LC can’t monitor what everyone in that community reads, but only what is written, it has the “One Publication Policy” that promotes the mind of that community that thinks of itself as “the Church”. Would you rather they used writings that promoted the RCC or some Protestant denomination? And cause as much confusion within that community as is in Protestantism?

The cry for truth and freedom can be taken too far and the idea very misunderstood. Take note of what is happening in America today, where secular Relativism is the order of the day, except when it has to do with Christian “truths” of one sort or another.

MacDuff