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All in Theology
"We should speculate soberly and with great moderation, cautiously guarding against allowing either our mind or our tongue to go a step beyond the confines of God’s word." - John Calvin
It is to Him and His Son that we must continue to look to receive knowledge of our sinfulness and the subsequent forgiveness of those sins.
Do not many of these Fathers point us to Scripture and Christ instead of their own words which merely evince Scripture?
It is clear from Paul's doctrine that God's spoken word (Rom. 3:1-2) and promises (Rom. 9:4) remain with the circumcised of Israel so that God may "justify the circumcised by faith" (Rom. 3:30).
During that final judgment, all our incorrect and correct theology will be stripped away. Faith in Christ alone will remain.
This is the fulfillment of the second great commandment that we live as those reconciled one to another.
In an alternate history, all but ten books of the current canon have been lost. You and you alone are responsible for determining what ten books the church will have to inform the entire life of the church.
That man's nature is not inherently corrupt and evil means that regeneration into the image of Christ is a restoration of the nature God gave us.
May this be our constant motivation to see the "them" in a way our Savior God would have us see them. Loved. Deeply.
So my question in the midst of talk about Reformed Scholasticism is thus: are we justified by precision alone?
Pertinent to Lutherans and Reformed communities, Cooper helpfully navigates the over extended law-gospel schema regularly depicted in its reductionist form.
There are many areas in which Reformed believers can learn from Luther and the passive/active two kinds of righteousness presented by Cooper.
erhaps, the biggest resonance of Luther's union with Christ language is how to changes our reflection on Christian obedience versus the "civic righteousness" of the non-believer.
His grace has crafted something new, something better, something good. And that something is you, in Jesus. And this new creation is not left without a purpose
There is a very real shift in our identity, a shift in who we are as people when God saves us through Christ. We are not what we once were. We are not who we once were. And that means something for our lives.
As such, I can't truly answer all the Barth related questions that many individuals have when they hear his name.
If you are seeking friends who point you to Christ, you could do a lot worse than Karl Barth. For me, he is and has been a dear friend.
Both the imputation of Christ and Christ's living in the believer is entirely passive to the believer. And yet, there remains a wealth of "active righteousness" for the Christian to pursue.
In short, Isaiah is about Jesus Christ, the God-man, who dwells in the midst of his people and transforms them into his bride. And the two will become one. Isaiah is about the marriage feast of the Lamb of God.
