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A Letter - “While exploring King’s College, we found this old letter under a trap door in a closet on the fourth floor of the main building…” Read the letter and you’ll wish you knew how this story ended. (HT:Phil Johnson)
In the Footsteps of Luther - Here’s an interesting idea: commemorating Luther’s walk from Germany to Rome by following in his footsteps.
Knockoff Tennis Shoes - This is an interesting article about the knockoff tennis shoe industry. Kind of niche, I know, but still interesting.
One Thing Needful? - Another good article by Carl Trueman in which he asks what is most fundamental to evangelicals today.
How Can God Be Loving and Send People to Hell? - D.A. Carson explains.
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Trueman hits the nail on the head in his comments about why King’s College chose D’Souza. I’d add something else: he’s not white. That’s undoubtedly not the primary reason he was chosen, but it has to be considered a “bonus” for a college born out of a movement that is disproportionately white.
I don’t want to sound like an idiot, but what is the significance of the first link to a letter found at King’s College?
Regarding the Don Carson video clip: Oh, well good. Glad we’ve got that one settled. Now it’s all so clear… NOT!
The only explanation of the traditional/orthodox version of hell that can be cleanly and quickly argued is that a sovereign God sovereignly chooses, for His own inscrutable purposes, certain people to be damned. If you don’t accept that (AND I MOST CERTAINLY DO NOT) then don’t even attempt to get near the subject in a 5 minute video clip.
Sorry, just hit a nerve there.
Dan, I am interested to hear what your answer would have been?
“Read the letter and you’ll wish you knew how this story ended. (HT:Phil Johnson)”
Please - how did the story end?????
Yes - me too.
It appears that author of the article on Luther clearly doesn’t understand what he stood for: namely the truth of justification by faith in Christ alone. Suggesting that he would have accepted the minor reforms that Catholics have made recently dishonors his name and the very thing which he fought for.
As far as Biblical Christianity is concerned, Catholocism is heresy as long as they require you to complete the work of salvation, as long as they pray to saints to intercede with the Mediator, and as long as the pope has authority equal to that of Scripture. The only way out of heresy is to fully repent, not try to unite two that are polar opposites at the core.
My aim is not disunity, for unity amongst true brothers is a gift God has given the saints, such a precious gift in Christ by the Spirit. The issue is that unity is through the Gospel, and truth and falsehood can’t unit as long as they are opposed at the foundation. What unity can light have with darkness, or Christ with Belial?
Suggesting that he would have accepted the minor reforms that Catholics have made recently dishonors his name and the very thing which he fought for.
Actually, he probably would have accepted those if they had been made fast enough. Luther didn’t want to cause a major schism; he wanted to put an end to simony and bad teaching. It was the political aspects of the Protestant Reformation that put him in the position of a schismatic.
As it was, the Council of Trent corrected many of the abuses he was protesting. Unfortunately, it was too late by then and western Christendom was irretrievably split.
BenYour post reminds me of a video that I saw of RC Sproul at the 2010 T4G conference in which he said something to the affect of:” Reformed Christianity is not anti-Roman Catholicism; it is a call/protest for Roman Catholicism, to reform their ways and beliefs and return to the Bible.Now obviously that is from memory, so it isn’t the exact words RC Sproul used, but I hope it gave the gist of what Sproul said.By the way, I would recommend either listening or watching the 2010 T4G conference, for all Christians. It was a truly great conference that spoke about the unadulterated proclamation of the Gospel.For those who are interested here is one of many links to this conference:http://t4g.org/conference/t4g-2010/
Actually, I should correct that. it was a combination of the political situation and the Church’s slowness to respond that caused Luther to go from reformer to schismatic.