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Originally Posted by Backwoods Presbyterian  I have been having quite an argument on my blog concerning controversial statements I made about the Pope. Well some have criticized my stance by saying that JBFA should not be the "only thing that matters". Often citing any number of social/ethical issues as being equally important and then quoting from some part of ECT.
What say you? |
Luther:
"All heretics have continually failed in this point, that they do not rightly understand or know the article of justification. If we had not this article certain and clear, it were impossible we could criticize the Pope's false doctrine of indulgences and other abominable errors, much less be able to overcome greater spiritual errors and vexations."
Conversely, imo-- because we do have the article of justification "certain and clear" we are not bamboozled by popish mythologies or the wishful musings of ECT or FV or any of the other doctrinal deviations we have floating about us.
Thomas Watson in
A Body of Divinity wrote:
"It was a saying of Luther, that after his death the doctrine of justification would be corrupted."
Indeed the emphasis on social and ethical issues is part of that corruption.
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Sterling Harmon
Coventry, CT
PCA
Deacon
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