No Sir, the Reformers intention was not to destroy or break away from Rome. They wanted to Reformed the Church back to Scriptures; back to Christ. But when the corrupt Church did not want that. They parted ways. The false teaches of Rome is what the Reformers wanted gone, not the Church.
And the indulgences was a small part of it. The central debate was Justification by Faith; is was that the heart of Reformation. As the Reformers utilized the printing presses barely invented in the 1500's. They translated the Bible into the native language, so that everyone could read it. So that corrupt men could be expose for deceiving so many. Neo-Scholasticism on Steroids, I believe you do not understand the Reformed Faith at all, sorry o say. This assessment is not even in the same ball park.
I agree with most of this. Because when God promises (Covenant) to saved His people from their sins. We are saved in Christ. Its Christ who is the object of our Redemption/Salvation. He is our Redemption/Salvation.
Romans 8:
29For those whom he foreknew he also
predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
30And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
So we trust and believe in God and His word. That He justifies the ungodly!
Are you completely missing the whole point here. You make a quick rush to judgement about something you admit, you have no knowledge of. So you will caricature it, without clause, but with prejudice. I want to learn & understand what the EOC teaches. So that I do not caricature its beliefs.
So I will share with you with Love, not hate. The doctrine Paul is illustrating by appeal to the analogy of the condemnation and death proceeding from Adam is the doctrine that men are justified by the free grace of God on the basis of the righteousness and obedience of Christ. What Paul has been controverting in the earlier part of the epistle is that men are not justified by their own works. He is establishing the truth that men are justified and attain to life by what another has done, the One Man Jesus Christ (This Arsenios was at the heart of the Reformation).
Your prejudice blinds you here. Posited solidarity is a view of all falling together in unison; unity. Not atomistically; individually. Paul on at least 5 occasions in successive verses (15,16,17,18,19) refers the universal reign of condemnation and death to the ONE trespass of the ONE man Adam. This means that the sin referred to in verse 12, particularly in the last clause, must be that same sin that is defined in verse 18 as "the one trespass" and inverse 19as "the disobedience of the one man". And when we go back to the three preceding verses (15-17) and bear in mind the closely knit unity of the passage, we must conclude that the sin is in view in verses 15,17 where it is called the trespass of the one.
This sustained emphasis upon the "ONENESS" of the sin and of the righteousness is posited solidarity.
You are confounding what we are discussing here. You said, "Paul himself would not recognize this line of parallelism... ". Paul is making a contrast between these two Adams: Sin & Righteousness; Disobedience & Obedience; Condemnation & Justification; Death & Life. These are the parallelism Paul is making. How one bought sin, death & condemnation, and how another bought righteousness, justification & life. Paul is talking about Justification of the sinner in Christ.
I beg to differ. Paul says in verse 19, "so by the
one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous". It would be contradictory of Paul's doctrine of justification to suppose that the righteousness and obedience of Christ become our unto justification
because holiness is conveyed to us from Christ or that the righteousness of Christ is mediated to us through the holiness generated in us by regeneration.
Its by the WORKS of Christ that we are justified. Not in anything we do or will do.
I love Galatians. Before we get to this, lets see what Paul says.
The Law and the Promise
15To give a human example, brothers: even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it
once it has been ratified. 16Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, “And to offsprings,” referring to many,
but referring to one, “And to your offspring,”
who is Christ. 17This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.
18For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer
comes by promise; but God gave it to Abraham
by a promise.
Christ the Promised Seed sent by God who loves, freed us from sin, condemnation & death. Through His doing; His Obedience. We are made righteous because of HIS One righteous Act, not ours!
