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JesKlu -> RE: Lutheran Theology Chat Thread (7/18/2008 10:14:53 PM)
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ORIGINAL: PeterD
Hello Jessica my Lovely wife!
Lutheran Theology Chat Thread
What should we chat about in this Lutheran Theology of ours?
What is Lutheran Theology?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lutheran_theology
Does this site help explain what we are in?
PeterD
Hello Peter!
You asked me what I thought of this site. I thought it was intresting and informative. I'll still be reading. But some of the subjects did remind me of this site.
http://www.orthodoxresearchinstitute.org/articles/dogmatics/golubov_rags_of_mortality.htm
I disagree with a little bit of how they believe in original sin. I do agree with them on the basis that we inherit sin because at the Fall, sin is also of a generic nature, and we inherit original sin through genetics, our DNA.
But they as a whole, do not believe human nature is so corrupt that we do not excercise free will in the work of salvation. They believe we still free will in that area. Where St Augustine, and Luther who shared his views, do not believe we excercise free will in salvation, if anything it is impossible, because our will is bound to sin.
Original Sin
5] 1. And first, it is true that Christians should regard and recognize as sin not only the actual transgression of God's commandments; but also that the horrible, dreadful hereditary malady by which the entire nature is corrupted should above all things be regarded and recognized as sin indeed, yea, as the chief sin, which is a root and fountain-head of all actual sins. 6] And by Dr. Luther it is called a nature-sin or person-sin, thereby to indicate that, even though a person would think, speak, or do nothing evil (which, however, is impossible in this life, since the fall of our first parents), his nature and person are nevertheless sinful, that is, thoroughly and utterly infected and corrupted before God by original sin, as by a spiritual leprosy; and on account of this corruption and because of the fall of the first man the nature or person is accused or condemned by God's Law, so that we are by nature the children of wrath, death, and damnation, unless we are delivered therefrom by the merit of Christ.
7] 2. In the second place, this, too, is clear and true, as the Nineteenth Article of the Augsburg Confession teaches, that God is not a creator, author, or cause of sin, but by the instigation of the devil through one man sin (which is a work of the devil) has entered the world, Rom. 5, 12; 1 John 3, 7. And even at the present day, in this corruption [in this corruption of nature], God does not create and make sin in us, but with the nature which God at the present day still creates and makes in men original sin is propagated from sinful seed, through carnal conception and birth from father and mother.
11] 3. That original sin (in human nature) is not only this entire absence of all good in spiritual, divine things, but that, instead of the lost image of God in man, it is at the same time also a deep, wicked, horrible, fathomless, inscrutable, and unspeakable corruption of the entire nature and all its powers, especially of the highest, principal powers of the soul in the understanding, heart, and will, so that now, since the Fall, man inherits an inborn wicked disposition and inward impurity of heart, evil lust and propensity; 12] that we all by disposition and nature inherit from Adam such a heart, feeling, and thought as are, according to their highest powers and the light of reason, naturally inclined and disposed directly contrary to God and His chief commandments, yea, that they are enmity against God, especially as regards divine and spiritual things. For in other respects, as regards natural, external things which are subject to reason, man still has to a certain degree understanding, power, and ability, although very much weakened, all of which, however, has been so infected and contaminated by original sin that before God it is of no use.
http://www.bookofconcord.org/fc-sd/originalsin.html
Soli Deo Gloria!
Jessica
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