Anglo Methodist. Husband/Father Paleo-Orthodoxy advocate. Enjoyer of various bourbons and whiskeys.
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What does it mean to be justified before God? How does sanctification relate to our justification? What roles do faith, grace, and good works play in the Christian life?
Soon, I’ll be sitting down with @JesuitJunkrat on @Sacramentshow to discuss just that!
Details below!
We should be careful about taking later slogans and retroactively treating them as the self conscious organizing principles of the Reformers.
The problem is more than mere anachronism. This flattening has distorted Protestant theology and confused critics and defenders alike
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The result is confusion on all sides. Some Protestants defend incorrect slogans more zealously than their own confessions.
Some critics attack an oversimplified Protestantism that exists mainly in Internet apologetics. Neither is really engaging the strongest historical case.
A question for the Reformed Christians, who hold that any visual depiction of the divine, constitutes a 2CV.
If Humans were created in the imago Dei, how do you distinguish between the images of God that He Himself created and the visual representations that humans produce?
St. Peter makes it clear baptism is necessary for salvation: also an antitype to immersion which now saves you—not a putting away of the filth of flesh, but the question of a good conscience in regard to God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who is at the right hand of
John Calvin makes clear baptism is not necessary for salvation:
"How much evil has been caused by the dogma, ill expounded, that baptism is necessary to salvation.
For when the opinion prevails that all are lost who happen not to be dipped in water, our condition becomes worse than that of God's ancient people, as if his grace were more restrained than under the Law.
In that case, Christ will be thought to have come not to fulfil, but to abolish the promises, since the promise, which was then effectual in itself to confer salvation before the eighth day, would not now be effectual without the help of a sign."
- John Calvin, Institutes, Book IV, Ch. 15.