Mamaditto's Annual Memorial Day Tribute

I've always had a problem with peacenik protesters. Even as a teen during the crazy '60s and the war in Vietnam. There are two reasons for this. First is the objective criteria which defines a just war. The Lord Jesus Christ Himself was no pacifist, otherwise He would not have told His disciples to arm themselves. (Lk 22:36) The second is more personal. It's hearing the sound of Taps playing in my head as I type this and remember the remarkable men from my family who are listed below.

Uncles

Edward Kosinski (d. 2002) US Navy

Charles Schinnerer (d. 1983) US Marines

Lester Schinnerer (d. 1983) US Navy

Philip Schinnerer (d. 1977) US Army

Russell Schinnerer (d.1974) US Army

William Schinnerer (d. 1975) US Army Air Force

Martin Vareha (d. 1999) US Army

Cousin

Melvin Sorber (d. 2000) US Navy

Father

Thomas Vareha, Sr. ( d.1996) US Navy

I love you, Dad. I will never forget the trip we took to Wilmington, NC in 1995 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the end of WWII aboard the battleship USS North Carolina. http://www.battleshipnc.com/AbouttheShip/CrewRoster

Little did I know the Lord would call you home only a year later.

And now, to honor them all - http://www.crosscards.com/cards/patriotic/patriots-breast.html

Apology of the Augsburg Confession on Marriage

Revisiting a project I began many moons ago - refuting revisionist theology on homosexuality.

Looking now at the writings of Protestant Reformers,in order to learn how they preached on the subject of human sexuality.

 

Apology of the Augsburg Confession by Philip Melancthon was published in late  April or early May,1531.

 

Article 23 is titled "Of the Marriage of Priests." Here Melancthon debunks the requirement of a celibate Roman Catholic priesthood. Although not mentioning homosexuality per se, his exposition of God's design of male-female human sexuality leaves no room for any arrangement save one man with one woman.

 

23.7 - Gen. 1:28 teaches that ... one sex in a proper way should desire the other...this love of one sex for the other is truly a divine ordinance.

 

23.8 - Therefore, just as by human laws the nature of the earth cannot be changed...the nature of a human being can be changed neither by vows nor by human law.

 

23.9 - ...because this creation or divine ordinance in man is a natural right, jurists have accordingly said wisely and correctly that the union of male and female belongs to natural right...natural right is immutable... where nature does not change, that ordinance also with which God has endowed nature does not change, and cannot be removed by human laws.

 

23.11 - Therefore let this remain in the case which both Scripture teaches and the jurist says wisely, namely, that the union of male and female belongs to natural right.

 

23.12 - Moreover, a natural right is truly a divine right, because it is an ordinance divinely impressed upon nature...because the natural desire of sex for sex is an ordinance of God...otherwise, why would both sexes have been created?

 

http://bookofconcord.org/defense_22_marriage.php