{"id":968,"date":"2010-07-10T16:50:04","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T23:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=968"},"modified":"2010-07-10T16:50:04","modified_gmt":"2010-07-10T23:50:04","slug":"forde-got-out-of-biblicism-you-can-too-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=968","title":{"rendered":"Forde got out of Biblicism; you can, too (8)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cUnable to rhyme Matt. 5:17-18 with Rom. 10:4, the dogmatic tradition has experienced nothing but trouble over the law\u2026. Paul and Matthew are at irreconcilable odds<\/span>. [The tradition tried to arrive at a compromise.] The result was the idea that in Christ the ceremonial laws of the Old Testament were abrogated\u2026.while the \u2018moral\u2019 law was not\u2026.But that is patent nonsense\u2026. Neither Testament makes that kind of distinction between ceremonial and moral law.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026 The outcome of such confusion was, in general, that natural law [understood as an eternal order of law] became the arbiter. Natural law decides what is moral and what is not. But therewith the fate of the church\u2019s understanding of law was sealed<\/span>, as well as of its eschatological outlook. Natural law became the structural backbone of the theological system, displacing eschatology.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce the eschatological outlook has been displaced by an eternal order of law<\/span>, antinomianism is the attempt to remedy the situation with a false and realized eschatology.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce justification had again been reasserted in radical fashion, it was natural that heavy pressure would be brought to bear on the received understanding of law<\/span>. John Agricola rightly sensed that justification by faith could not simply be combined with the older idea of law as an eternal order<\/span>, still evident in some of Philip Melanchthon\u2019s theological constructions.\u201d [1]<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cWe do not believe there is a single heavenly code which religious people know better than others. \u2018Natural law,\u2019 through which God ordains order, is embodied in human codes \u2013 some better, some worse.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cIn the realm of the law, reason and not revelation is primary. God has not revealed any specified code for life. Yet God wills order for our well-being, and we are given the gift of reason and common sense<\/span> to derive laws to that end. The question to ask is if there are good reasons<\/span> to make rules limiting the right to sexual expression. If so, given the public character of pastoral ministry and the exemplary nature of that office, we would be obliged to insist that pastors abide by such rules and that the church do nothing to undermine them for the rest of society.\u201d[2]<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\n[1]<\/a>Forde, \u201cJustification and This World,\u201d Christian Dogmatics<\/em> Vol. 2 [1984] 447.<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Don Juel, \u201cHomosexuality and Church Tradition,\u201d Word & World<\/em> 10:2 (Spring 1990) 167.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cUnable to rhyme Matt. 5:17-18 with Rom. 10:4, the dogmatic tradition has experienced nothing but trouble over the law\u2026. Paul and Matthew are at irreconcilable odds. [The tradition tried to arrive at a compromise.] The result was the idea that in Christ the ceremonial laws of the Old Testament were abrogated\u2026.while the \u2018moral\u2019 law was […]<\/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-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","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=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}