Re: A Little Lenski on Faith

"gary" <biblicist@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> The following excerpt is taken from Lenski's commentary on Eph. 2:8.

> I think the sentence, " Now the simple fact is that even in human
> relations faith and confidence are produced in us by others, by what
> they are and what they do; we never produce it ourselves." Hits the
> proverbial nail on the head, so to speak. God convinces us through His
> word to trust Him. 

It's a nice excerpt, but it doesn't help your case.  The trouble
here isn't really what sentences we agree with, but with
your deviant definitions of some of the words.  Surely we all
agree that God grants faith and that the means of granting faith
is His Word.  But you add that man's intellect and agreement must
be added to God's Word for it to be efficacious.

Contrarily, most of us don't.  We trust God's Word to be God's
Word.  If God wants to attach the promise of His Word to 
water or wine or bread, then all the better.  His Word never
returns to Him void, so the Word given in Baptism is just
as efficacious for an infant as an adult.  

Intellectual assent is a work "of yourself".  See how your
deviant doctrine of works righteousness undermines the most
fundamental expression of the Gospel:  Infant Baptism.

Bart

-- 
Cheerfully resisting change since 1959.


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