Monday, April 29, 2019

Upcoming Books - Martin Chemnitz Press.
Scaer - Moses and Paul Were Synergists!

 According to David Scaer, Moses was a synergist, because he described Justification by Faith. No Objective Justification! Not only that, lacking OJ, nothing is left but sanctification. Moses was a Romanist too.

Volume 2 of Luther's House Postils is at Amazon and requires a little tinkering.

Volume 3 is read to upload there this week.

The Path to Understanding Justification is almost done, rough draft.

The next two titles will be:

The Ichabod Lutheran Dictionary

American Lutheran Doctrinal History










Logically, the phrase subjective justification can only have meaning if there is objective or some other kind of prior justification. Remove “objective” from the justification equation, then subjective justification becomes nothing other than sanctification, God’s work within the sinner to make him a believer. That is the Roman Catholic position. If subjective justification completely defines God’s justification of the sinner, then Christ can be seen as the cause of justification, but not the one who completes it. This can only be done by faith. If this is so, all theology is not Christology.
Scaer, David P. Surviving the Storms: Memoirs of David P. Scaer (Kindle Locations 5575-5580). Luther Academy. Kindle Edition.

I Missed the Part in the Middle

Jack Kilcrease explains his gospel to poor Alice, who subsequently enrolled at Fuller Seminary and became a seminary professor.



The Great Tangle, Mixing OJ and SJ with the Chief Article


Logically, the phrase subjective justification can only have meaning if there is objective or some other kind of prior justification. Remove “objective” from the justification equation, then subjective justification becomes nothing other than sanctification, God’s work within the sinner to make him a believer. That is the Roman Catholic position. If subjective justification completely defines God’s justification of the sinner, then Christ can be seen as the cause of justification, but not the one who completes it. This can only be done by faith. If this is so, all theology is not Christology.
Scaer, David P. Surviving the Storms: Memoirs of David P. Scaer (Kindle Locations 5575-5580). Luther Academy. Kindle Edition.

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GJ -

Justification by Faith is a mystery of the Christian Faith, revealed by the Holy Spirit in the Word, not an exercise in logic, especially when the terms are man-made, toxic, and misleading. Is it any wonder that David Scaer publishes in partnership with Jack Kilcrease, born in a WELS parsonage, educated at an ELCA college (Luther) and seminary (Luther)? Kilcrease teaches at a Roman Catholic college and an ELCA online theology school, where Jay Webber earned his STM recently.


The Faith of Jesus - From The Path to Understanding Justification




By Faith of Jesus – Translators Abandon the KJV


Every student of the Bible will have this experience – seeing a familiar passage in a new light, and finding relatively few acknowledge the issue, even fewer address it. What I find intriguing is this – Paul definitely teaches that forgiveness of sin comes to us through our faith, but also that our faith rests upon the faith of Jesus, the faith that belongs to Him. “From faith to faith” in Romans 1 is not mysterious, but clear and worth repeating. The Gospel of John, which stresses the righteousness of faith in Jesus, emphasizes in the sermons of Jesus that He trusts completely in the will, the work, and the teaching of the Father. The historic Christian Church has always taught the Two Natures in Christ, divine and human. Are we so impoverished that we return to Monophysite Christianity, with Christ having only one nature – divine? Paul does not teach one or the other nature, but both, and this explains, better than any – “From faith to faith.”

Romans 1:16-17

16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
17 For this is how the righteousness of God is revealed, from the faith of Jesus to our faith; as it is recorded – The justified will live by faith. (Jackson Paraphrase)

Romans 3:22

22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe:
22 δικαιοσυνη δε θεου δια πιστεως ιησου χριστου εις παντας και επι παντας τους πιστευοντας ου γαρ εστιν διαστολη
NIV – faith in Jesus Christ, or (footnote) faithfulness of Jesus Christ
ESV – faith in Jesus Christ

Galatians 2:16

16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
16 ειδοτες οτι ου δικαιουται ανθρωπος εξ εργων νομου εαν μη δια πιστεως ιησου χριστου και ημεις εις χριστον ιησουν επιστευσαμεν ινα δικαιωθωμεν εκ πιστεως χριστου και ουκ εξ εργων νομου διοτι ου δικαιωθησεται εξ εργων νομου πασα σαρξ
NIV – faith in, or (footnote) - through the faithfulness of…justified based on the faithfulness of
ESV – by faith in Christ

Philippians 3:8-9

8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, 9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
αλλα μενουνγε και ηγουμαι παντα ζημιαν ειναι δια το υπερεχον της γνωσεως χριστου ιησου του κυριου μου δι ον τα παντα εζημιωθην και ηγουμαι σκυβαλα ειναι ινα χριστον κερδησω
και ευρεθω εν αυτω μη εχων εμην δικαιοσυνην την εκ νομου αλλα την δια πιστεως χριστου την εκ θεου δικαιοσυνην επι τη πιστει

NIV – faith in, or (footnote) – through the faithfulness so
ESV – faith in
(to be completed)