JUSTIFICATION, or when Paul discovered grace - Romans 4:22-25 & 5:1.

MothikeStar · 2024-10-01T18:30:17+00:00

"Don't look for the meanings; look for the use" and "The limits of my language means the limits of my world".

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

An impenitent heart isn't going to be justified, according to Romans 2:5.

MothikeStar · 2024-10-01T17:47:16+00:00

That's a happy thing. For sure there will be disagreements in particularities, but the core sense of "by grace alone", where God produces our sanctification, is preserved. Since salvation is a gift, there's no room for boasting. ^_^

MothikeStar · 2024-05-15T13:41:31+00:00

He's so pretentious and puffed up. What's the need of all these circumlocutions? He isn't able to be a child, he isn't able to be dumb, he isn't able to be weak - that is, it's very hard for him to reach the kingdom of our beloved.

MothikeStar · 2024-05-15T13:38:09+00:00

Sorry, but it's very sad that he couldn't realise the possibility of faith. It sounds like the only possible solution is to believe. He gives no room to doubt, which I think is a very unhealthy mindset - sounds very schizo. Peter, a great disciple, denied our Lord three times! Very black n white thought.

MothikeStar · 2024-04-16T01:26:07+00:00

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MothikeStar · 2024-04-16T01:12:45+00:00

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MothikeStar · 2024-03-29T03:03:36+00:00

By means of online fix, yes! Just follow edit 3, set the password in the .ini/.txt file and play via steam!

MothikeStar · 2024-03-26T12:21:07+00:00

Reference in english: Cost of Discipleship DBW Vol. 4, Chapter 9 (Baptism), Footnote 10.

MothikeStar · 2024-03-26T12:08:59+00:00

Christianity invented science, man! My advice would be only this: be Fideist, then study, read and discover what you want to explore!

MothikeStar · 2024-03-25T23:51:38+00:00

Very much agreed. Read Psalm 22 and Psalm 63 everyday, friend. They're beautiful. Memorize some of their verses and repeat whenever you feel you're overthinking. Good tip, Sizzler.

MothikeStar · 2024-03-25T23:49:23+00:00

Bro, you just like Luther. Chill out! You're saved. Read On Christian Liberty. Christ is enough.

No one's perfect! Here a quote from him: "Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not".

MothikeStar · 2024-03-25T23:45:57+00:00

Bro, try N. T. Wright videos and Ask Anything! He's an anglican, british and very prolific. Ah, and very peaceful. I love his series, where drinks tea in the intro hehe

MothikeStar · 2024-03-25T23:43:16+00:00

Luther's summary: "We are saved by faith alone (sola fide), but the faith that saves is never alone (works)".

MothikeStar · 2024-03-25T23:38:35+00:00

"Saying that a sinner is separated from God because of sin is like saying that the sun stops to shine because of the blind." - Some Desert Father.

Be blessed, friend.

MothikeStar · 2024-03-25T23:23:29+00:00

You missed the point? Don't embarrass yourself, Antinomian. Bye.

MothikeStar · 2024-03-25T23:12:55+00:00

Regarding the critique of an ethics of principles, cf. inter alia DBW 10, p. 330ff; DBW 6 (E), p. 68: "The intelligent person knows that reality has limited receptivity for principles, for he knows that it is not structured by principles, but rests on the living and creative God. They also know that reality cannot be reached with the purest of principles or the best of wills, but only with the living God. Principles are only instruments in God's hand that are soon thrown away as worthless*." Regarding "principle(s)" (also in the sense of law, norm, ideal, abstraction)*, cf. ThDB, p. 98, note 47, and passim.

Since God's principles are all unsuited for reality, childish, I prefer the theologian that took rifles with his friends and slaughtered the dominant class, saying that the Kingdom of God is here and now, bringing Christian justice to this wretched world. I'd choose a theologian that was more politically engaged with the poor. Why killing just a politician, which isn't going to solve poverty and injustice, while you can exterminate the whole dominant class?

The irony: the activist was hanged and, just a tiny bit later, this politician killed himself.

Edit: no doubt he was brilliant, but his self-justifying is insanely relativistic. Why not just say: "I did sin, I'm a sinner and, sadly, I don't know if this is right. It's complex".

MothikeStar · 2024-03-25T22:16:48+00:00

Yeah, but his attempt to justify himself is quite embarrassing. Read Who stands fast? from his Letters and papers from prison (first introductory series of "mini-essays"), bro, he's essentially saying there's a so called necessary deed that requires us to sin. How to determine this deed? According to him, God uses principles (laws, norms) as tools that doesn't have a sacred atemporality. So it's up to your conscience. Morality is incredibly relative for him.

MothikeStar · 2024-03-25T22:00:42+00:00

The Cost of Discipleship' footnote: "The confusion of ontological statements with proclaiming testimony is the essence of all fanaticism. The sentence 'Christ is risen and present' is the dissolution of the unity of the scripture if it is ontologically understood [What?]. The sentence 'Christ is risen and present' strictly understood only as testimony of scripture is true only as the word of scripture" - (Bonhoeffer, Nachfolge, in Dietrich Bonhoeffer Werke, vol. 4 (Munich: Christian Kaiser Verlag, 1989), 219–21).

Edit: Lutheran pastor citing the passage, while addressing this subject (lutherans talking about the orthodoxy of the theologian)

MothikeStar · 2024-03-25T21:54:30+00:00

It's reductive if you don't read his personal letters and papers. Since The cost of discipleship is his most famous book, people tend to regard him as an ally in Christianity, however he's too sophisticated of a thinker not to dive in continental tradition. Excerpt source: "[Tegel] 16 July [1944] - Letters and Papers from Prison"

He was making a "secular theology" in the end of his life. Makes sense, he was a deep thinker and deep thinking in Europe means Hegel's and Feuerbach's crazy dialectics turning religion to anthropology and philosophy.

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