It's just like what we do with the Law--walk all over the big things, such as in the 10 commandments, and worry about the other six hundred as the Pharisees did. Those we can keep. Makes us feel good.
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Showing posts with label Law / Gospel distinction. Show all posts
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Laws and laws.
It's just like what we do with the Law--walk all over the big things, such as in the 10 commandments, and worry about the other six hundred as the Pharisees did. Those we can keep. Makes us feel good.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Commenting on "Lex semper accusat."
Commenting here: http://turretinfan.blogspot.com/2011/04/lex-semper-accusat-does-law-always.html
I was just told that I am misunderstanding Paul. Romans 7 is something people can't deal with. Simul justus et peccator is the genius of Lutheran theology. It is also how I know myself to be.
I was just told that I am misunderstanding Paul. Romans 7 is something people can't deal with. Simul justus et peccator is the genius of Lutheran theology. It is also how I know myself to be.
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Lex semper accusat
Disputation Against Scolastic Theology #38.
Heidelberg Disputation #7:
Heidelberg Disputation #8
Heidelberg Disputation #11
Heidelberg Disputation #26
St. Paul:
The fact that the law always accuses is a necessary point towards realizing that we are free of the law. If we could be righteous through the law, we would have to put our trust in it.
Seeing my sin, always brings me before my Savior. And only there does the law no longer accuse.
There is no moral virtue without either pride or sorrow, that is, without sin.
Heidelberg Disputation #7:
The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God.
Heidelberg Disputation #8
By so much more are the works of man mortal sins when they are done without fear and in unadulterated, evil self-security.
Heidelberg Disputation #11
Arrogance cannot be avoided or true hope be present unless the judgment of condemnation is feared in every work.
Heidelberg Disputation #26
The law says, "do this", and it is never done. Grace says, "believe in this, " and everything is already done.
St. Paul:
So I find this law at work: "When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God's law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God--through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin. Romans 7: 21-25.
The fact that the law always accuses is a necessary point towards realizing that we are free of the law. If we could be righteous through the law, we would have to put our trust in it.
Seeing my sin, always brings me before my Savior. And only there does the law no longer accuse.
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