The answer?
None.
We count their Baptism as valid, but they don't think it washes away future sins.
Our Baptism washes away all sins, past, present, future, and original.
Their Eucharist is their own doing, their own "sacrifice" offered for the living and the dead.
Our Eucharist is pure Gospel, with Christ coming down to us, giving Himself to us for the forgiveness of sins.
Their Absolution is dependent upon works of contrition, and upon supposedly reciting every sin one has committed.
Our Absolution is pure Gospel. It is impossible to remember every sin we have committed, and sinful desires (concupiscence) are indeed sin. Absolution for us is God's kind and gracious disposition toward us in Christ, forgiving us.
Their Holy Orders is based on supposed "apostolic succession," and leaves an "indelible mark" whether one has pure doctrine or not.
Our Holy Orders is purely based on the Gospel. Our priests are connected to the Gospel, and our apostolic succession is purely in the Gospel.
We do not consider Confirmation to be a Sacrament at all, but simply a rite. Rome considers it a sacrament because they see the sacraments as fuel for holy living.
We see the Sacraments as pure forgiveness. Not law, but pure Gospel.
Everything in Lutheranism is about the Gospel.
Our Baptism washes away all sins, past, present, future, and original.
Their Eucharist is their own doing, their own "sacrifice" offered for the living and the dead.
Our Eucharist is pure Gospel, with Christ coming down to us, giving Himself to us for the forgiveness of sins.
Their Absolution is dependent upon works of contrition, and upon supposedly reciting every sin one has committed.
Our Absolution is pure Gospel. It is impossible to remember every sin we have committed, and sinful desires (concupiscence) are indeed sin. Absolution for us is God's kind and gracious disposition toward us in Christ, forgiving us.
Their Holy Orders is based on supposed "apostolic succession," and leaves an "indelible mark" whether one has pure doctrine or not.
Our Holy Orders is purely based on the Gospel. Our priests are connected to the Gospel, and our apostolic succession is purely in the Gospel.
We do not consider Confirmation to be a Sacrament at all, but simply a rite. Rome considers it a sacrament because they see the sacraments as fuel for holy living.
We see the Sacraments as pure forgiveness. Not law, but pure Gospel.
Everything in Lutheranism is about the Gospel.
I agree with everything, but th point of holy orders! There is a real apostolic succession and many lutheran are restoring it by the episcopal and historical orders...
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