tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19795707.post9143988712517154730..comments2024-03-22T16:09:48.895-04:00Comments on Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: Lutherans Coined the term "Calvinism"?James Swanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16136781934797867593noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19795707.post-2601048560264025862014-02-13T19:14:41.818-05:002014-02-13T19:14:41.818-05:00James, i came across a couple Luther quotes and wo...James, i came across a couple Luther quotes and wondered if you can affirm they are genuine, and maybe comment on how it squares with some of his other teaching:<br /><br />Listen! You want to be a Christian and at the same time remain an adulterer, a whoremonger, a drunken swine, arrogant, covetous, a usurer, envious, vindictive, malicious, etc.! ...<br /><br />Christ did not earn only gratia, grace, for us, but also donum, “the gift of the Holy Spirit,” so that we might have not only forgiveness of, but also cessation of, sin. Now he who does not abstain fro sin, but persists in his evil life, must have a different Christ, that of the Antinomians; the real Christ is not there, even if all the angels would cry, “Christ! Christ!” He must be damned with this, his new Christ.<br /><br />(Martin Luther, On the Council and the Church, Luther’s Works, 41:113-114).<br />- -http://cyberbrethren.com/2012/05/01/daily-luther-fine-easter-preachers-but-very-poor-pentecost-preachers)<br /><br />"There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow." (no reference found) <br /><br />PeaceByJesushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08754948549904895669noreply@blogger.com