tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3422410239991902086.post539211130434102925..comments2024-03-26T00:19:08.753-07:00Comments on The World's Ruined: Magical-Mystical sanctification tour...Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18281378425270530573noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3422410239991902086.post-78657582422709375022014-11-20T15:51:06.681-08:002014-11-20T15:51:06.681-08:00Like the Galatian false teachers, the sanctificati...Like the Galatian false teachers, the sanctification by works teachers do not deny justification by imputation. But we live in a day when there is little antitheses between law and gospel. It is being taught that law and gospel are the same in some ways. In this way, you can say one thing, say another thing that contradicts the first thing, and then put them together as different “perspectives”.<br />Very often, no distinction is made between sanctification by Christ’s blood and sanctification by Christ’s Spirit. <br /><br />The Precisianist Strain: Disciplinary Religion and Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638 (Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia), by Theodore Dwight Bozeman, p 20:<br /><br />“Penitential teaching expressly echoed and bolstered moral priorities. In contrast, again, to Luther, whose penitential teaching stressed the rueful sinner’s attainment of peace through acknowledgment of fault and trust in unconditional pardon, many puritans include moral renewal. In unmistakable continuity with historic Catholic doctrine that tied ‘contrition, by definition, to the intention to amend,’ they required an actual change in the penitent. For them, a renewal of moral resolve was integral to the penitential experience, and a few included the manifest alteration of behavior. They agreed that moral will or effort cannot merit forgiveness, yet rang variations on the theme that repentance is ‘an inward sorrow . . . where unto is also added a . . . desire to frame our life in all points according to the holy will of God expressed in the divine scriptures.” However qualified by reference to the divine initiative and by denial of efficacy to human works, such teaching also adumbrated Puritan penitential and preparationist teaching of later decades.”<br /><br />Stoever, A Faire and Easy Way, explains that “John Cotton professed himself unable to believe it possible for a person to maintain that grace works a condition in him and still not trust in the work. Even if a person did not trust in the merit of the work, he still probably would not dare to trust a promise unless he could see a work…”<br /><br />“Grace and works (not only in the case of justification) but in the whole course of our salvation, are not subordinate to each other but opposite:as that whatsoever is of grace is not of works, and whatsoever is of works is not of grace.”Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06233995709579822605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3422410239991902086.post-8322227018105831762012-03-01T23:35:44.983-08:002012-03-01T23:35:44.983-08:00Good stuff, Dad. I want to hear more...Good stuff, Dad. I want to hear more...Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14785767772171855400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3422410239991902086.post-45779973081751427522012-02-29T17:58:36.225-08:002012-02-29T17:58:36.225-08:00Thanks, Charlie...Thanks, Charlie...Jack Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18281378425270530573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3422410239991902086.post-20862969909448215272012-02-29T15:35:19.034-08:002012-02-29T15:35:19.034-08:00Great article, Jack.Great article, Jack.Charlie J. Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18185331029930925967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3422410239991902086.post-20238557124875108512012-02-25T20:14:47.723-08:002012-02-25T20:14:47.723-08:00Thanks, Carrie...
Day is done....Thanks, Carrie...<br /><br />Day is done....Jack Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18281378425270530573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3422410239991902086.post-29627924399532801932012-02-25T19:58:09.546-08:002012-02-25T19:58:09.546-08:00Well said, Dad.Well said, Dad.us.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06265932912302167665noreply@blogger.com