Comments on: Is the Reformation over? Not quite yet… http://www.harmonicminer.com/wordpress/2009/12/11/is-the-reformation-over-not-quite-yet/ Digging for golden resonance, and resonant gold Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:01:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: harmonicminer http://www.harmonicminer.com/wordpress/2009/12/11/is-the-reformation-over-not-quite-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-2740 harmonicminer Sat, 12 Dec 2009 03:31:18 +0000 http://www.harmonicminer.com/wordpress/2009/12/11/is-the-reformation-over-not-quite-yet/#comment-2740 Easier to state the essentials: The Trinity. Jesus' life/death/resurrection. The Scriptures are true. Salvation by grace via faith in Jesus' atonement. The church is real, and it is us. Maybe some combination of the Apostle's creed and a couple of other things for clarification. There are MANY points of agreement in all this between evangelicals and Roman Catholics. The points of disagreement are not things that the scripture discusses in great detail, or so it seems to me. Roughly speaking, evangelicals are in some danger of worshipping the Bible more than God/Jesus/Spirit, and Roman Catholics are in some danger of worshipping the Church and its traditions more than God/Jesus/Spirit. If each side could loosen its grip just a bit, there is a place in the middle to acknowledge that things which are not in scripture cannot be essential, and yet things which come down to us via long tradition have some value, as long as they don't conflict with scripture. But we have quite far to go yet. Easier to state the essentials:

The Trinity. Jesus’ life/death/resurrection. The Scriptures are true. Salvation by grace via faith in Jesus’ atonement. The church is real, and it is us.

Maybe some combination of the Apostle’s creed and a couple of other things for clarification.

There are MANY points of agreement in all this between evangelicals and Roman Catholics.

The points of disagreement are not things that the scripture discusses in great detail, or so it seems to me.

Roughly speaking, evangelicals are in some danger of worshipping the Bible more than God/Jesus/Spirit, and Roman Catholics are in some danger of worshipping the Church and its traditions more than God/Jesus/Spirit. If each side could loosen its grip just a bit, there is a place in the middle to acknowledge that things which are not in scripture cannot be essential, and yet things which come down to us via long tradition have some value, as long as they don’t conflict with scripture.

But we have quite far to go yet.

]]> By: Tom http://www.harmonicminer.com/wordpress/2009/12/11/is-the-reformation-over-not-quite-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-2738 Tom Sat, 12 Dec 2009 03:18:55 +0000 http://www.harmonicminer.com/wordpress/2009/12/11/is-the-reformation-over-not-quite-yet/#comment-2738 "Reformed view of Scripture errs in three respects: in its assumption about the canon of Scripture, in its view of the authority of Scripture, and in its view of the role of Sacred Scripture in the life of the Church." With comments like this, there is little chance of a reconciliation, IMHO. I am interested in hearing your opinion on what the non-essentials might be. “Reformed view of Scripture errs in three respects: in its assumption about the canon of Scripture, in its view of the authority of Scripture, and in its view of the role of Sacred Scripture in the life of the Church.”

With comments like this, there is little chance of a reconciliation, IMHO.

I am interested in hearing your opinion on what the non-essentials might be.

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