     Rev. David R. Boisclair (Drboisclair) Intermediate Member Username: Drboisclair Post Number: 485 Registered: 1-2002 |
The Calov quotation does not prove anything against the accurate ACLC critique. Calov simply distinguishes Christ's death from His resurrection, pointing out that Christ's work of atonement was completed on the cross when He said, "It is finished." The ELDoNA response obliges those who teach the biblical doctrine of Objective Justification by having Calov quote John Gerhard's declaration of the Easter Absolution of the world. Much is made of this quotation from Abraham Calov, which is found in Dr. Preus's Justification and Rome: Although Christ has acquired for us the remission of sins, justification, and sonship, God just the same does not justify us prior to our faith. Nor do we become God's children in Christ in such a way that justification in the mind of God takes place before we believe (Apodixis Articulorum Fidei, Lueneburg, 1684). It is touted as the definitive refutation of the doctrine of Objective Justification. However, you will note that Calov declares that Christ HAS ACQUIRED for us JUSTIFICATION. Did Christ do this when we came to faith or long before any of us ever existed? Calov can be read here to refute the error of Samuel Huber, who taught that all people are individually justified apart from faith with faith being totally superfluous. Calov is merely saying that justification is not received subjectively before or apart from faith. This is what those who teach the biblical doctrine of Objective Justification have been teaching all along. Calov does not reject the biblical doctrine of Objective Justification! |
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GJ - The person who rejects the Confessions will just as easily reject the Scriptures themselves.
