Great Luther quote from Bondage of the Will
"omnipotence and foreknowledge of God, I repeat, utterly destroy the doctrine of 'free-will'...doubtless it gives the greatest possible offense to common sense or natural reason, that God, Who is proclaimed as being full of mercy and goodness, and so on, should of His own mere will abandon, harden and damn men, as though He delighted in the sins and great eternal torments of such poor wretches. it seems an iniquitous, cruel, intolerable thought to think of God; and it is this that has been such a stumbling block to so many great men down through the ages. And who would not stumble at it? I have stumbled at it myself more than once, down to the deepest pit of despair, so that I wished I had never been made a man. (That was before I knew how health-giving that despair was, and how close to grace.)"
---Luther BW pg. 217
3 comments:
It reveals how important the doctrine of predestination was to the reformers and their recovering of biblical truth....Augustinism... with the removal of Aristotle reasoning/theology that lead church theologians into error.
Absolutly, the doctrine of predestination was very important to them...now if we could only rid the planet of plagianism which continues to lead the current mainstream evangelical theologians into error.
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Dort was held for this very reason being predestination. The Aminians objected to othodox doctrine of Predestination held by the apostles, Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, etc. It not something that Calvin invented!
The Arminians attempted and still do their best to make human cooperation again crucial to salvation, whereas this was rejected by the Synod of Dort.
They the arminians said that doctrine of predestnation held that God alone elects eternal life to those whom he forsees responded by faith to the gospel.
Basically turning again to a pelagian form of heresy that strikes at the heart of the Reformation and the rediscovery of the Gospel being justification by faith alone.
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