Good friend and fellow pilgrim, Travis Hughey, recently wrote and sent this to me. So poignant considering I have been thinking of doing a series called ‘The (Not So) Quotable Church Fathers.’
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BLINDNESS TEST
Following quote from Martin Luther’s commentary on Galatians (page 108)
Can you see the contradiction (one of many)?
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VERSES 8, 9.
Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
This concludes Paul’s discourse on justification. From now to the end of the Epistle the Apostle writes mostly of Christian conduct. But before he follows up his doctrinal discourse with practical precepts he once more reproves the Galatians. He is deeply displeased with them for relinquishing their divine doctrine. He tells them: Continue reading “Blindness Test”
11:3 Restoration 