Friday, October 31, 2008

Happy Reformation Day

We had dinner with another Christian brother of "non-Reformed' persuasion and he was telling about this TV preacher he ice fishes with occasionally. He told us that he had told this guy about me and my Calvinist beliefs. The preacher said something along the lines of, "We'll pray for healing." My response was, "Well, ______________, it's a big burden still being one the few people who thinks Martin Luther was right, but that's a burden I'm willing to bear." All he did was laugh.

Is that not the case, though? On the essentials of the Reformation - especially as Luther himself considered them essential - most "Protestants" would say (if we were to dig deep) that Luther was dead wrong on the theological issues of the Reformation with regard to salvation. See especially the Erasmus vs. Luther discourse on the will of man.

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