John 18:36: “Pilate said to him, ‘What is truth?’”
“And he did not stay for an answer.” (Swinburne)
At least the Ten Commandments are God’s revelation, aren’t they? – 4 (Hopman, Mattes, Nestingen, and Paulson vs. Luther and Forde)
The LGBTQ agenda is wreaking havoc on the modern world, undermining the father-mother family, the basic unit of society. What do we Lutherans have in our arsenal to fight this agenda? A word from the Lord? A definitive, divine answer? Something that puts us above the fray of public debate? Perhaps the ten commandments? Are they God’s eternal law?
Among Lutherans there are some who “have misused the law/gospel distinction to promote an allegedly more liberated sexual ethic,” write Albert Collver III, James Nestingen, and John Pless in their preface to The Necessary Distinction. A Continuing Conversation on Law and Gospel, which reports on the official discussions among the Lutheran Church-Canada (LCC), the North American Lutheran Church (NALC), and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LC-MS). These Lutherans are seeking unity and a common hermeneutic with which to fight the LGBTQ agenda.
If antinomianism is the disease, is inerrancy the cure? Read more here
Eric Crump analyzes Melanchthon’s hermeneutic in the Apology
“In the realm of theology, shallowness is treason.” With this quote from Abraham Joshua Heschel as a jumping off point, Eric Crump takes a deep dive into the Apology and comes up with insights that endure.
Bishops should throw away their mitres – Ian Paul
Writing on David Virtue’s web site, Ian Paul calls for Anglican bishops to discard their mitres. In addition to making the obvious complaint about their ridiculous appearance, Paul objects because mitres signal in a powerful way that bishops are a group set apart. Read more here.
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