Posted on 11/03/2011 7:39:32 AM PDT by fishtank
Is the Reformation Over?
by R.C. Sproul
Is the Reformation over? There have been several observations rendered on this subject by those I would call “erstwhile evangelicals.” One of them wrote, “Luther was right in the sixteenth century, but the question of justification is not an issue now.” A second self-confessed evangelical made a comment in a press conference I attended that “the sixteenth-century Reformation debate over justification by faith alone was a tempest in a teapot.” Still another noted European theologian has argued in print that the doctrine of justification by faith alone is no longer a significant issue in the church. We are faced with a host of people who are defined as Protestants but who have evidently forgotten altogether what it is they are protesting....
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"At the moment the Roman Catholic Church condemned the biblical doctrine of justification by faith alone, she denied the gospel and ceased to be a legitimate church, regardless of all the rest of her affirmations of Christian orthodoxy. To embrace her as an authentic church while she continues to repudiate the biblical doctrine of salvation is a fatal attribution. We’re living in a time where theological conflict is considered politically incorrect, but to declare peace when there is no peace is to betray the heart and soul of the gospel."
ping
Viva La Revolucion!
(I John 3:4). Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
Well said, R.C. Sproul.
R.C. Sproul: God Bless you.
I like listening to Sproll, he is intellectually challenging, learn a lot from him. But I also Love
J Vernon McGee
He lists the study guide in PDF version on website.
What constitutes "hate" speech is the collective message in statements that one hates the Catholic Church and why. When the message is hateful it is not necessary to characterize it as hate speech nor effective to deny it.
Sorta like “I would bury the Statue of Liberty in my yard to sell my house if I lived next to you”? Oh, wait I get what you’re saying..if it concerns the CATHOLIC CHURCH, it is “hate speech”. Everything else is open season?
That would be the "biblical doctrine" rejected in James 2:24?
he biblical doctrine of justification by faith alone
That would be the “biblical doctrine” rejected in James 2:24?
ME: that doesnt worry them, they just reinterpret james to fit the man-made faith alone doctrine.....come on, why do you think that luther tried to toss that book? even he knew...but since they would let him, they had to, and to this day, after to insist on a different interpretation of the plain obvious meaning of that text from James....
so the ‘reformation’ will continue as the next ‘pastor’ will grab his bible and insist his version of whatever vital doctrine is the correct one, despite the ‘pastor’ up the street with his bible saying the exact opposite on the same doctrine, etc, etc, etc, and then they will break off to another little ‘bible only ‘ church, and so it goes....
Just curious, of which tribe do you two belong?
Nonsense. Or, on the day you stand before the Lord, take a list of your ood works and personal works and tell him “James 2:24.” You want to take that chance?
Ask you neighbors. It has nothing to do with your church.
Interesting how that works.
“The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself” (Ezekiel 18:20
It would be the same James who accepted this "biblical doctrine" at the cousel of Jerusalem.
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