@HansFiene Pr. Wendorf helped a woman divorce her husband without any justification, then issued her a call as a DCE after she was excommunicated from her home congregation. He refused to speak to her husband. He was just re-elected as Area C VP of the Texas District.
We can just do things. Spineless cucks in elected office won't because they are too worried about their next election.
Pro tip: elect people who don't care about the consequences of doing what is right. That is what voters demand.
It’s amazing how much you will see marital conflict diminish if you will learn to stop taking the first invitation to offense—and choose instead to cover it with mercy.
Then the second. And third.
God is more merciful to you even than this, by the way.
@RogueCenturion I don’t think this argument follows. It has never been (mechanically) difficult to kill an infant, and child sacrifice has existed since antiquity. Yet societies regularly concerned themselves with maintaining a legacy through their children. I don’t see how BC changes this.
@ChrisRojas4081@AquinasApologia@RazorFist@MetzUAC1530@Brynsbeaver@StChad_1517 I don’t see any warrant to believe, contrary to Paul in Romans 3, that it is truly possible.
Would you agree to the following statement?
As a theoretical proposition it is possible, but the reality of sin and human nature is such that it cannot happen in reality.
@bonesforsales This is fine, but 1) I think it is more epistemically clear to acknowledge that God’s Word teaches this in itself rather than working backwards from justification, and 2) this is a different argument than what you said in the OP.
@bonesforsales 1) The doctrine of SS is not about what does/not justify, but that the Scriptures are the only final, infallible rule and norm for faith and life.
2) Your argument as laid out here is not that SS depends on the *doctrine* of justification, but on the *fact* of justification.
@ChrisRojas4081@AquinasApologia@RazorFist@MetzUAC1530@Brynsbeaver@StChad_1517 You asked for a definition of justification, which I gave as “being righteous before God.”
You now say that works do not effect justification at first, but they do once it has already been established.
So your position is that works do effect justification.
There’s a disturbing idea that things you don’t necessarily remember clearly won’t change anything about you as well, which is obviously false. How we treat children from a young age shapes the rest of their lives. This is one of many reasons why daycare is so damaging.
@bonesforsales The doctrine of Justification is in our confessions, but the argument that the doctrine of Sola Scriptura is based upon it is not. That’s the whole point.