{"id":873,"date":"2010-06-09T17:32:29","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T00:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=873"},"modified":"2010-06-27T14:04:05","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T21:04:05","slug":"forde-got-out-of-biblicism-you-can-too-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=873","title":{"rendered":"Forde got out of Biblicism; you can, too (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAt the same time, a theology seduced by nomism (all too often the case in the church) is ill equipped to do battle with antinomianism. <strong>Since it has already compromised the eschatological gospel, it can fight only from the position of law<\/strong> and charge its opponents with the \u2018terrible heresy\u2019 of being anti-law. Thus, the term \u2018antinomian.\u2019 One gets the impression that whereas other heresies are relatively mild, being antinomian is about the worst thing one could be! At any rate, to defend itself, nomism appeals to already given anti-gospel sentiments, compounding the confusion. <strong>So the general victory of nomism over antinomianism in the church is hardly cause for celebration.<\/strong> Nothing is solved. No insight into the nature of the problem is gained. The war of words is only inflated and the issues obscured.\u201d <a href=\"#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cTake Christ out of the Scriptures and what will you find left in them?<\/em>\u201d (<em>LW <\/em>33:26).<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIn our deliberations, the wisdom of Scripture and the tradition cannot be cited as \u2018God\u2019s answer\u2019 to the matter, but neither ought that wisdom be summarily dismissed as irrelevant or outdated.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn2\"><strong>[2]<\/strong><\/a> <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"dot_clear.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"8\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"#_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a>Forde, \u201cFake Theology: Reflections on Antinomians Past and Present,\u201d dialog 22 [1983] 246-51.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a>Don Juel, \u201cHomosexuality and Church Tradition,\u201d <em>Word &amp; World<\/em> 10:2 (Spring 1990) 168-69.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAt the same time, a theology seduced by nomism (all too often the case in the church) is ill equipped to do battle with antinomianism. Since it has already compromised the eschatological gospel, it can fight only from the position of law and charge its opponents with the \u2018terrible heresy\u2019 of being anti-law. Thus, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":875,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}