These words from the Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope (25) lay out one of the central exegetical arguments of the Lutheran confessors against the claims of the Roman pontiff — that the rock upon the church is built is not St. Peter himself, but his confession: that Jesus is “the Christ, the Son of the living God.” This is still one of the texts on which claims to papal supremacy rest, and the identification of St. Peter himself — rather than his confession — as the rock upon which the Church is built is often painted by Roman apologists as the unanimous (or nearly unanimous) consensus of the church in all times and places.

Which is patently absurd.

Lex Orandi Lex Credendi, or the principle that style and substance are related and feed into one another, doesn’t need to be proven. It is axiomatic. It is self-evident. There are incongruities that are not a matter simple of cultural diversity.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s presiding bishop offered a take on the Dobbs decision in which the Bible is not quoted a single time, but rather their social statement on abortion is many times. Eaton is unable to call those with child, women, but rather “pregnant persons”.