Hi Friends,
In the mornings I've been reading small bits of Neve's (small) book
on the Augsburg Confession. In the third section of the book he
intersperses paragraphs of the Confession with questions and
answers. Somehow separating out these individual sections is
helping me to get more out of the Augsburg.
This morning in the first question in Article Two, Neve wrote this:
"1. What is to be said on the importance of this article?
"We keep in mind that Article IV on Justification is the central article of our Confession..."
Question for Greg, Jim and all of us in our little Bethany group:
Given that a Lutheran is someone who believes the Augsburg Confession is an accurate description of the Bible's teaching, isn't Neve saying here that anyone who de facto denies Justification by Faith (Article IV of the Augsburg), is in fact not Lutheran?
Follow up question, how in any way can "objective justification" be reconciled with Article IV? Or how can anyone who confesses the Augsburg hate and malign "justification by faith"?
[GJ - The LutherQueasies call us OJ-Deniers! Wahahahaha!]
Rhetorical questions for us to think about.
May the dear Lord continue to deliver us from sharks and wolves!
I took Christology under Heick at Waterloo Lutheran Seminary.
His two-volume book was based on Neve. The LCA canned it.
Christina and I went to lunch with Heick and visited him in the hospital.
