May 20, 2007
And Another Bites . . . And Another One Bites . . .
Another one bites the dust!
Do you find his argumentation persuasive—not to the extent that you would pack your confessional bags but that you understand why he did? Or is it so much rhetorical slight of hand, playing texts off one another so that one is left with no other recourse than to cry "Ultimate Authority!" and "Development of Doctrine!" no matter how absurd the doctrines are that are developed? Is he right about justification by faith alone—or is this no more than one more attempt to prescind from what it means to be saved solely by the merits of Jesus Christ, which would preclude so much of what Rome teaches dogmatically?
I say it is time we either set up some kind of conference in which we address forthrightly these defections, or we simply set up a travel agency on the LC-MS website: "See Rome and Die."
Do you find his argumentation persuasive—not to the extent that you would pack your confessional bags but that you understand why he did? Or is it so much rhetorical slight of hand, playing texts off one another so that one is left with no other recourse than to cry "Ultimate Authority!" and "Development of Doctrine!" no matter how absurd the doctrines are that are developed? Is he right about justification by faith alone—or is this no more than one more attempt to prescind from what it means to be saved solely by the merits of Jesus Christ, which would preclude so much of what Rome teaches dogmatically?
I say it is time we either set up some kind of conference in which we address forthrightly these defections, or we simply set up a travel agency on the LC-MS website: "See Rome and Die."
