Reformation ping
>>Do you think these five solas retain their importance today, five hundred years later? Are they still adequate for describing the gospel of Grace?
Yes.
Yes, they are the basis of Christianity.
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“...Do you think these five solas retain their importance today, five hundred years later? Are they still adequate for describing the gospel of Grace?”
YES!
Good works are necessary but not sufficient.
"Martin Luther ADDED words to the Bible that were not there. When he was confronted with this sin of adding to the Bible he replied: "Bacause Dr. Martin Luther will have it so!" This man was one ego-maniac with delusions of popehood." [Source]
"By September 1522, Luther had translated the New Testament into his version of the German Bible. It is to be noted that Luther taught a false doctrine that man was saved by faith alone, and upon his own recognizance and without any authority, he added the word "alone" to Romans 3:28, ... thereby ignoring all of the verses which admonish anyone not to add to or take away from, the Holy Word of GOD. He displayed his inflated ego and total arrogance, when he wrote the following regarding his addition:"If your Papist annoys you with the word (alone), tell him straightway, Dr. Martin Luther will have it so: Papist and ass are one and the same thing. Whoever will not have my translation, let him give it the go-by: the devil's thanks to him who censures it without my will and knowledge. Luther will have it so, and he is a doctor above all the doctors in Popedom."Amic. Discussion, 1, 127. Demonizing again! My My, tsk tsk, such language Dr Luther, and didn't he elevate himself above everyone on earth?This is the example set by the first Protestant, for his version of the command of Jesus Christ of, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" (Matthew 22:36-40)." [source]
"...Luther insists on his own (in effect) absolute infallibility. In defending his addition of the word "alone" to Romans 3:28 ("faith alone"), Luther railed: Thus I will have it, thus I order it, my will is reason enough . . . Dr. Luther will have it so, and . . . he is a Doctor above all Doctors in the whole of Popery. (O'Connor, 25; Letter to Wenceslaus Link in 1530)One wonders whether Luther uttered these absurd sentiments with a smile on his face, or with tongue in cheek. In any event, such boastful, essentially silly and foolish rhetoric is not uncommon in Luther's voluminous writings." [source]
An event happened even more important than Martin Luther at the same time. Gutten berg’s invention of the printing press put the Bible in everyone’s hands.
Previously, Bibles were hand copied by monks, a very slow process. Very few hand copied Bibles existed. Many churches and priests did not have a copy of the Bible. So how could they possibly read it? They were lucky to have even more than one complete book of the Bible. Usually they just had selected excerpts of special passages.
Why did Luther add the word "alone" to Romans 3:28, that a man is justified by faith [alone] apart from works?
This verse became the cornerstone of Protestantism.
Luther failed to take into consideration James 2:24 which says, "You see that a man is justified by works, and not by faith alone" or "Faith without works is dead." [James 2:20].
As St. Augustine said, "If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself."
Solus Christus—Christ alone
Yes, Jesus is sufficient. You don’t need to pray to Mary; in fact, praying to anyone other than the Lord is counterproductive.
Well, now that that’s been thoroughly discussed (after some 45 posts), how about discussing the Five Remonstances of Arminius and the Five Points of Calvinism as set forth in reply by the Synod of Dordt?
That should keep us off the streets for a while!
In answer to the question: YES!
Many thanks for posting this!