Gideon - The Concordia St. Louis Professors Are Debating the Wrong Issues

Pastor,

Your post on Creation this morning was another very good post, if one takes the time to take it all in; you wrapped up the point very nicely at the end.  My take on it was simply this:  

"Guys (to the Concordia Profs) you're asking the wrong questions and debating the wrong issues.  If you are who you say you are.  If you believe what you confess, that is the the Inerrant Word and the Lutheran Confessions.  If the word is indeed efficacious then it would follow that creation account is exactly that what it says for God cannot lie.  Why all the crutches?  Why negotiate with liars?  God's Word will do exactly what God intends it to do (cf. Isaiah 55:8-11).  Did the prophets negotiate?  Did Jesus shrink and squirm before the Pharisees?  Peter?  Paul?  This stuff isn't negotiable."

I believe was Luther that said it best (I have no direct citation or quote, but it would be nice to track it down one day...), it is not our job to make people believe the Gospel.  That task belongs to the Holy Spirit.  Ours is to simply to proclaim the Word.  Scatter the seed.

Jackson Rose Farm, grown with Creation principles.

It is a ridiculous notion that belief is a decision anyway.  That is why Justification by Faith Alone is NOT fideism.  One cannot decide to believe this or that.  They either are convinced....or not.  I have believed 2 and 2 is 4 ever since I was convinced of that fact a young boy.  I can't disbelieve it now because I _KNOW_ it to be true.  Similarly the Gospel truth is a gift of knowledge of the Spirit.

What those Concordia profs are doing (negotiating) with creation is in itself an act of disbelief, not the action of God fearing men.  They may think they are doing God a favor, but where in the scripture has anyone, who thought they would go out on their own to do God a favor, has in that account gone well?  (King Saul comes to mind when he didn't wait for Samuel...)

SDG,

Gideon 

By Norma A. Boeckler

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From Alex Satin, Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry -
This one:
"It is a ridiculous notion that belief is a decision anyway. That is why Justification by Faith Alone is NOT fideism. One cannot decide to believe this or that. They either are convinced….or not. I have believed 2 and 2 is 4 ever since I was convinced of that fact a young boy. I can’t disbelieve it now because I KNOW it to be true. Similarly the Gospel truth is a gift of knowledge of the Spirit."

Never heard it presented so clearly. Well done Gideon!!!