Did Jerry Falwell become a Lutheran?

"Good morning, Jerry.  Sorry to startle you, but I've come to take you home to heaven."

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"Yes, my friend, it's your time.  You've been a good and faithful servant!  I thank you for that.  You preached my Gospel well.  You stood your ground on moral principles, and as you matured you learned to do it with kindness and compassion, unlike some of my other children."

"What were you doing there before I interrupted?"

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"Preparing a sermon?  Well, let me take a look at it for a minute."

"Hmm... 'The Great Doctrines of the Faith'...nice title.  Let me see here...good...good...'For God so loved the world'...I like that verse too.  ...'Christ died for all men'...good, good.  I don't know where John Calvin got all that 'Limited Atonement' nonsense.

"Uh...this next part...I've wanted to talk to you about this, Jer:  'Make a decision for Christ'...you've got that backwards, Jerry.  The sinner doesn't make the decision.  I do.  That 'free will' business was an unfortunate invention of Erasmus.  Too bad you Baptists bought into it.  Not true, Jerry.  Not true. I straightened Erasmus out on that subject once he got to heaven."

"Hmm....'Baptism--Christ's command.'  That's good.  ...Let's see...Oh, no...Jer, I never said that...I never said that baptism is an adult public profession of faith.  That is your assumption.  Just because the few examples of named individuals in the New Testament who were baptized were all adults doesn't mean that when households were baptized that I didn't include their children.  I said to baptize all nations, Jer.  That includes the children.  Remember what I said about little children, Jer?"

"Ok...what else...'The Lord's Supper'...let's see if you got it right on this one...'A memorial service only'...when did I ever say that??  Read my lips Jer, 'is' means 'is'!  How much clearer do I need to be?  'This is my body.  This is my blood.'"

"Just because I said 'This do in remembrance of me' doesn't make my Supper a symbolic memorial service.  It is a memorial, but it is a memorial in which I return in person to commune with my disciples...you!  I return in person so that you can eat my flesh and drink my blood.  You don't have to understand exactly how that happens.  I know that sounds really freaky to you, but the Jews during my life on earth thought it was freaky too.  I lost some good disciples over it when I preached about it in the synagogue in Capernaum.  But it is true, Jer.  It really is true.  I am really present in my Supper.  Too bad you didn't realize that.  My Supper would have been much more meaningful to you."

"What else is here?....Hmm....'Believe, by faith, in Christ!'...There you go, Jer!  At least you got the beginning and the ending right!

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"Yes, Jerry.  Martin Luther's teachings on Scripture were correct.  You should have read them.  I don't know why the rest of you got my doctrines so messed up.  My truths are right there in my Word, clearly laid out, if you read it literally.  If you read my Word without trying to use too much adult reason and logic to explain away seeming contradictions.   Just believe me whether it makes sense or not.  Read my Word like a child would, accepting without question every word, every sentence that I say.  If you had done this, Jerry, you would have truly understood my doctrines."

"Speaking of Luther, he and his wife Kate are throwing a party this afternoon on the west side of heaven.  I should take you by to meet them.  Kate makes the best brats and kraut!"

"Let's go, Jer.  Take my hand."