What the reformed see as blatant contradiction
we Lutherans see as Gods wonderful "''paradoxical truth's"'.

the reformed study of scripture has alway's been a "critical study of God's word."
The parts they see as contradictory they dress up with human rationalism to make them more platable to their intelect.

but All the articles of our Lutheran christian faith are so difficult and so high that no man can hold fast to them without the grace of the Holy Spirit . Take any article of our faith and hold fast to it with reason, and you will retain nothing of it . The Holy Ghost must be Master and Teacher, or nothing will come of it.
for reason twists Scripture according to its pleasure.

Our Lutheran christian faith however is much rather a stepping out into the darkness, where there is no “proof” in the ordinary sense of the term, but only a word of the Lord which is infinitely better and more certain than all the rational proofs in the world. Faith is something done to us rather than by us.

Gods blessing's

Last edited by packsaddle; Tue Nov 01, 2005 2:09 AM.
Chief of sinner's though I be, Jesus still died for me.