Sample Contents
1. How it all started for Forde.
3. Back to Rome. Back to the Bible. Two authoritarian options.
16. We have no access to eternal law.
22. Natural law: You can’t live with it; you can’t live without it.
25. Reason – you are free to use your head in the battles of life.
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Ten commandments or twelve commandments? The Ten Commandments are found in Exodus 20:1-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21. But in Deuteronomy 27:9-26 Moses gives twelve commandments. The Lord commanded Moses to give these twelve commandments in the covenant with Israel in the land of Moab (Deut. 29:1). These biblical law codes, both the ten commandments and the twelve commandments, date from about 1450 BC. They are similar to other law codes of the ancient Near East. This is not surprising because these ancient communities were generally in contact with one another and developed similar cultures. Read more here.
Who is that “shadowy, if not menacing, figure on the contemporary scene, perhaps not yet clearly defined, often a puzzle to both friend and foe, usually mistaken simply for a hard-line conservative confessionalist or orthodoxist”? Why it’s Gerhard Forde – a post-liberal Lutheran!
What do Lutherans believe?; Some Lutherans say that they simply hold to the Bible and Confessions. Yet in the 1970’s Lutherans in this country split over how to use the Bible as the “only rule and norm.” Thus to say one simply holds to the Bible and Confessions is to fail to engage the dilemma of hermeneutics over which Lutherans are split. Read more here.
This paper juxtaposes excerpts from Steven Paulson and Gerhard Forde on 24 issues, showing the contradictions between their theologies. These contradictions are important because, as Forde wrote (see p. 3), the gospel itself is at stake in the battle over the proper use of scripture. The first seven issues are as follows:
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