TOPIC INDEXReformation Doctrine (5)
  1. This is the fourth installment in our special series on Luther’s Heidelberg Disputation. Translation of Theses 5 and 6 by Caleb Keith.
  2. The folly of sinful man attempting to bridge such an infinite gap to God Who is holy becomes obvious.
  3. The devil is effective with this attack because it calls out all the things a Christian sinner experiences as simultaneous sinner and saint.
  4. When we explain away God’s Word, we jettison the reality of our ominous diagnosis in the “Thou shall/shall nots” of the law, and with it the sweet cure in the, “This is My body/blood” of the Gospel.
  5. This story is all-too-common, and illustrates a key dynamic driving the youth out of church.