http://gnesiolutheran.com/sasse-on-the-theology-of-the-cross/ Lutheran Theology Mon, 21 May 2012 12:26:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://gnesiolutheran.com/sasse-on-the-theology-of-the-cross/comment-page-1/#comment-338 Tyler Andor Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:51:34 +0000 http://gnesiolutheran.com/?p=3668#comment-338 Do you really know "modern Lutherans" so well, or do you just enjoy bearing false witness against servants of Christ? Your remarks would have some value only if "taken seriously" meant committing the fallacy of assuming the consequent. You cannot and will not have anything like faith in "a gracious God" unless you look to and grasp God in the cross of Christ. Your use of the indefinite article is actually revealing. "The" gracious God is the only one who can save you. And this in no way denigrates the advent, healing, teaching and preaching, or the resurrection of Christ to the right hand of the power of God. In fact, only the cross can reveal these in their proper light. With the apostle Paul, we preach Christ and him crucified, and if we preach anything gospel, we are accursed. Do you really know “modern Lutherans” so well, or do you just enjoy bearing false witness against servants of Christ? Your remarks would have some value only if “taken seriously” meant committing the fallacy of assuming the consequent. You cannot and will not have anything like faith in “a gracious God” unless you look to and grasp God in the cross of Christ. Your use of the indefinite article is actually revealing. “The” gracious God is the only one who can save you. And this in no way denigrates the advent, healing, teaching and preaching, or the resurrection of Christ to the right hand of the power of God. In fact, only the cross can reveal these in their proper light. With the apostle Paul, we preach Christ and him crucified, and if we preach anything gospel, we are accursed.

]]> http://gnesiolutheran.com/sasse-on-the-theology-of-the-cross/comment-page-1/#comment-337 Avtattenai Mon, 05 Jul 2010 05:16:07 +0000 http://gnesiolutheran.com/?p=3668#comment-337 Since Sasse and Luther said this, no modern Lutheran will ever have the temerity to question it. But it's still horribly contradictory of the very essence of the biblical Gospel. Taken seriously, it means that God cannot be found in the Exodus, in the miracles of our Lord, or in His resurrection, among other places. It makes the thing which turns away the wrath of God the work of an obedient man (divinely incarnate, but still a man) instead of faith in a gracious God. And since His second advent won't involve any suffering for Him or His body, it's hard to see how any devotee of Sasse would ever recognize that it was in fact Christ's advent which had occurred. Since Sasse and Luther said this, no modern Lutheran will ever have the temerity to question it. But it's still horribly contradictory of the very essence of the biblical Gospel. Taken seriously, it means that God cannot be found in the Exodus, in the miracles of our Lord, or in His resurrection, among other places. It makes the thing which turns away the wrath of God the work of an obedient man (divinely incarnate, but still a man) instead of faith in a gracious God. And since His second advent won't involve any suffering for Him or His body, it's hard to see how any devotee of Sasse would ever recognize that it was in fact Christ's advent which had occurred.

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