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| A typical LQ response emotes but does not illuminate. |
I seem to be living in the thoughts and painful nightmares of the LutherQuagmire. Someone needs to wake them and give them back their favorite edition of Calvin's Institutes.
It would be fun to debate with them, if they could focus on an argument and substantiate it with actual research. They sound like the locker room team that lost by 30 points, "because those guys were cheating all the time and refs were blind."
Arguing the correct translation of minor figures only serves as a figleaf to cover their shame.
They cannot understand, teach, or confess Justification by Faith, which is clearly taught in Genesis 15:6, with Abraham as the example. He believed in the Promises of the Messianic Kingdom first of all. Secondly, he believed that everlasting and ever-growing kingdom would start with him and his wife. Believing was counted as forgiveness, salvation for Abraham.
Genesis 15:5 And He brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and He said unto him, So shall thy seed be. 6 And he believed in the Lord; and He counted it to him for righteousness.
This same statement is the theme of the New Testament -
Romans 4:4 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? 2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. 3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
Moreover, Jesus always taught the righteousness of faith, that the foundational sin is unbelief.
John 16:7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send Him unto you. 8 And when He is come, He will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: 9 Of sin, because they believe not on Me; 10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see Me no more; 11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.
I realize the LutherQuackers are stuck in the Slough of Despond, so I am showing them the steps to get out (The Pilgrim's Progress).
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| Part II, Christiana's Story, makes the point that churchmen were supposed to help improve the Slough. |
"She perceived, also, that notwithstanding the command of the King to make this place for pilgrims good, yet it was rather worse than formerly. So I asked if that were true. Yes, said the old gentleman, too true; for that many there be that pretend to be the King’s laborers, and that say they are for mending the King’s highway, that bring dirt and dung instead of stones, and so mar instead of mending."
