What do Lutherns Belive?

Answer 1

they belive in jesus

Answer 2

I was raised Lutheran, though am now an atheist, but spending nearly 20 years as a Lutheran, heh, I think I'm a bit qualified to answer. ;)

I sort of refer to Lutheranism as "Catholic Lite". It's almost identical to a Catholic service, only shorter. I've had a few Catholic friends, and have attended a few Catholic services and there's not terribly much difference between the two. It's not a Catholic religion, it's a Protestant form of Christianity, just very very similar to Catholic services.

Some of the major differences that I can call off the top of my head is that at a Lutheran service, anyone who is baptized and believes can take Communion. For Catholics, ONLY Catholics may do so. Lutherans don't defer to the Pope and while Lutherans revere Mary, they don't do it quite as much as Catholics. She's holy, just Lutherans don't say the Holy Mary.

Rosaries are not said amongst Lutherans, nor is Confession a requirement. Lutheran churches don't have confessionals like Catholic ones, although I think Lutherans CAN privately confess to their minister. I never did so myself and I don't really know of anyone else that belongs to the church I once did that has done so.

Let's see...Lutherans don't cross themselves, they don't do any kneeling at a service, although they do a lot of standing. Standing and sitting, but no kneeling outside of when they're at the altar getting Communion. Also, if I'm not mistaken, I believe that the way Lutherans say the Lord's Prayer is different from Catholics. I think Lutherans have it a little bit longer by a line or two.

That's all I can think of off the top of my head, at least for regular services. Lutherans also don't have Mass or Saturday Mass. I may be wrong about that, Catholics having Saturday Mass, but I think they do around here, which is something Lutherans don't do.

Lutherans also don't have a First Communion. Lutherans have their first Communion after they're confirmed, but there's no special ceremony for it prior to confirmation.

Guess I'm still going a bit. To bring up weddings, I know that a Lutheran ceremony is shorter, about a half hour, give or take a little, while a Catholic ceremony is EASILY an hour. Catholic weddings also are apparently unable to be performed anywhere but within a church and are always religious in nature. Lutheran ceremonies will allow poems and secular readings and music. Catholic ones don't.

Lutherans also don't have nuns, far as I know, although I THINK Lutherans do have bishops. I unfortunately don't know how far the hierarchy works. All I ever knew of was the congregation, minister, and heads of congregation like the treasurer and secretary and the like. I didn't know about bishops until recent troubles with a minister in the church that nearly put the church under and had driven congregants away. Heard my mother mention bishops, but I unfortunately don't know anything further than that.

So that's pretty much it in a nutshell. To know what Lutherans believe, it really is "Catholic Lite", at least to me. Beliefs are virtually identical, save for the way we go about them. Although I don't know if Lutherans have the whole mortal sin sort of thing. Crud, it's late, so I know that's eluding me at the moment. I know there's something along the line of mortal sin that Catholic beliefs have and Lutherans don't.

Actually, I do think that Lutherans don't have the whole Seven Deadly Sins sort of thing. I also think Lutherans don't worship saints as much. They have saints, but don't deify them quite as much.

It's virtually the same, save for some little differences here and there. Otherwise, in my opinion, the beliefs and services are nearly identical. But I think the church I used to belong to was ELCA. There's Missouri Synod Lutheranism, and I honestly don't know how different that is compared to ELCA. Only thing I've heard from my mother and others is that Missouri Synod is a bit...different. I think Mom said Missouri Synod was stricter and one friend of mine said they were "whack", but I couldn't tell you the difference myself.

Only comment I could really have on the Missouri Synod form of Lutheranism is that they are apparently a bit stricter. Episcopalians are also apparently stricter, too, but the Lutheranism I was raised in was fairly liberal compared to faiths like Catholicism.

Hope it helps. I've had others ask me what Lutheranism was and would get a bit confused when I jokingly said; "Catholic Lite", but in a way, heh, it's true. Pretty much the same beliefs, just different hierarchies and means of going about our beliefs.

Answer 3

Well, they are Christians just like most other God fearing people. The Lutherian faith is based on war battle against the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church. As far as religious figures go, Martin Luthor is my favorite.

Answer 4

LUTHERNS?

I don't know. Never heard of them.

Answer 5

It's basically Catholicism without the guilt...

Answer 6

they believe in everything but we don't to the hail marry and that stuff we do stuff different . its based on Martian luther

Answer 7

The material principle of Lutheranism is the Lutheran doctrine of [[Justification: salvation by God's grace alone (Sola Gratia), through faith alone (Sola Fide) for the sake of Christ's merit alone (Solus Christus). Lutherans believe God made the world, humanity included, perfect, holy and sinless. However, Adam and Eve chose to disobey God, trusting in their own strength, knowledge and wisdom. Because of this Original Sin—the sin from which all other sins come—all descendents of Adam and Eve (thus, all humans) are born in sin and are sinners. For Lutherans, original sin could be characterized as the "chief sin, a root and fountainhead of all actual sins" (Formula of Concord).

Lutherans teach that sinners cannot do anything (i.e. "good works") to satisfy God's justice. Every human thought and deed is colored by sin and sinful motives. God has intervened in this world because He loves sinners and does not want them to be eternally damned and, by His grace alone — His free gift of mercy — a person is forgiven, adopted as a child of God, and given eternal salvation.

For this reason, Lutherans teach salvation is possible only because of the eternal sacrifice made manifest in the birth, perfect life of obedience, suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. In the person of Jesus Christ, Lutherans believe God and Man meet. Because He is God, He is sinless and so a worthy sacrifice, without spot or blemish. Because He is a man, He could die. In His death, death is destroyed (in an ultimate sense), our debt paid, and our sins forgiven.

Lutherans believe that individuals receive this gift of salvation by faith alone—a full and complete trust in God's promises to forgive and to save. Even faith itself is seen as a gift of God, created in the hearts of Christians by the work of the Holy Spirit through the means of God's grace, the Word and the Sacraments.

Lutherans generally speak of two sacraments: Holy Baptism and the Sacrament of the Altar, the Lord's Supper. The Lutheran catechism teaches that Holy Baptism is a work of God, founded on the word and promise of Christ; thus it is administered to both infants and adults. Lutherans believe that the bread and wine in the Lord's Supper are the true body and blood of Christ given to Christians to eat and drink, instituted by Christ Himself.

Lutherans believe that all who trust in Jesus alone can be sure of their salvation, for it is in Christ's work and his promises in which their surety lies. They teach that, at death, Christians are immediately taken into the presence of God in Heaven, where they await the resurrection of the body at the second coming of Christ. Lutherans do not believe in any sort of millennial kingdom of Christ either before, or after, his second coming on the last day.

Although Lutherans believe good works do not satisfy God's justice, this is not to say that good works play no role in the Christian life. Good works always and in every instance spring spontaneously from true faith, and have their true origin in God, not in the fallen human heart or in human striving; their complete absence would demonstrate that faith, too, is absent.