Reformation Doctrine (135)
  1. Torah! Torah! Torah! In this episode, we discuss the book, Reading Moses, Seeing Jesus: How the Torah (Law) Fulfills its Goal in Yeshua (Jesus). This time it’s all about how to read and exegete the Scriptures to reveal the purpose and goal of the Torah and what that means for us today.
  2. Who’s Running the Verbs of Grace? In this episode, we discuss Augustine’s defense of God’s grace against the Pelagians, with a healthy dose of Reformation theology added for seasoning.
  3. Divide by Two, but Add by One. In this episode, we discuss Nestorius’ sermon on whether Mary was Theotokos or not and what happens when one tries to comment on the two natures of God using Greek philosophy to exegete Scripture.
  4. Our value and our values, our life, our everything is from Jesus Christ given to us as a gift.
  5. At the heart of The Idiot is Dostoevsky's confession of faith and the confession of all Christians.
  6. The only solution to free will is the announcement from a preacher that the Father forgives us for Christ's sake.
  7. The point Luther made, again and again, was that distance between God and sinners is collapsed when the crucified Christ himself comes to sinners through a preacher.
  8. Theologians of glory searched for God everywhere except the Cross of Christ.
  9. For Luther, those who refuse Christ as a curse want their sin removed not in Christ but in themselves.
  10. Erasmus sought to find meaning behind the words of Scripture in order to make an ultimate claim. Luther, on the other hand, found the Gospel to be meaningless outside of Christ and his Cross.
  11. Luther understood when the Word of God came it did not offer sinners a choice.
  12. For Luther, Erasmus’ Christ-less, Spirit-less theological conclusions demonstrated that behind his supposed humanistic optimism lay a profound despair and pessimism.
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