Subject: ten commandments are they valid today |
Bible Note: Dear TWLAVISATA, Per Ephesians 4:29-32, I most certainly forgive you. Finding ways to write consistently with the character and righteousness of our Lord, truthfully and graciously is a continuing challenge for us all. You are quoting Martyn Lloyd-Jones, preaching on Romans 6. Immediately following that comment, he said "Nobody has ever brought this charge against the Church of Rome, but it was brought frequently against Martin Luther; indeed that was precisely what the Church of Rome said about the preaching of Martin Luther. They said, 'This man who was a priest has changed the doctrine in order to justify his own marriage and his own lust', and so on. 'This man', they said, 'is an Antinomian; and that is heresy.' That is the very charge they brought against him. It was also brought George Whitfield two hundred years ago. It is the charge that formal dead Christianity -- if there is such a thing -- has always brought against this startling, staggering message, that God 'justifies the ungodly.'" Charles H. Spurgeon, a Baptist, wrote, "Distinguish between the great Truth of God that salvation is all of God, and the great lie that men are not to be blamed if they are lost. Be well assured that salvation is of the Lord, but do not lay damnation at God's door! Be not ashamed if men call you a Calvinist, but hate with all your heart Antinomianism." I've written on the forum regarding Antinomianism and legalism. Both are to eschewed as utterly incompatible with sound doctrine. In Him, Doc |