tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16818808.post1873350341739487270..comments2023-10-16T05:20:27.672-05:00Comments on the Contender: Tornado in Minneapolis: Boyd & Piper Could Both Tweak their ResponsesEJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10885830096757444438noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16818808.post-87232347820723464332009-12-09T16:48:20.280-06:002009-12-09T16:48:20.280-06:00Hey MAC - not sure what your angle is by the refor...Hey MAC - not sure what your angle is by the reformation question...<br /><br />If you mean the continued fight to defend the gospel of Christ and the doctrines taught in Scripture like Substitutionary atonement, penal substitution, salvation by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone for the glory of God alone based on the Scriptures alone, imputed righteousness as opposed to infused righteousness, the sufficiency of Scripture, the doctrine of the Trinity, the eternality of a conscious torment for those who die in their sins not having come through Christ by faith in the one True God of Scripture...<br /><br />or<br /><br />do you mean reformation in that we need to change things and embrace anonymous Christianity, a refusal to call sin what it is (the issue of homosexuality as was the topic of the vote), or something along the lines of people like Greg Boyd (openness), Doug Pagitt, Tony Jones, Brian Mclaren, Rob Bell (I see you like/recommend “Sex God” on your blog), Phyllis Tickle, and others like them?<br /><br />If you are referring to the continued effort to proclaim and defend the doctrines of Scripture that are so often under attack and yet essential for salvation and true discipleship…then I think that whether or not that was God’s intention with the tornado – it is a just and good cause to be part of.<br /><br />If you were referring to the second section – the efforts of corrupting the gospel and transforming it into…well… something other than what the Scriptures clearly lay out – then I think that there is no way that God was saying that, for God would have to be contradictory. <br /><br />But if you were saying something else all together…then I don’t have any idea what you might have meant.<br /><br />Grace and Peace.EJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10885830096757444438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16818808.post-24397688242068969522009-12-09T16:10:55.616-06:002009-12-09T16:10:55.616-06:00Hi Eric,
Perhaps the purpose was to makes us awar...Hi Eric,<br /><br />Perhaps the purpose was to makes us aware or think of the true purpose of Jesus Christ.<br /><br />Did God send Jesus Christ to the earth to start a new religion called Christianity? <br /><br />Or is the current church trend just a continuation of what the reformers found wrong with the Roman Catholic church system?M.A.C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11883500451608060177noreply@blogger.com