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Potamopotos

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Feb 20

PIOUS PROSPER AGAINST THE SEMI-PELAGIANS

Consequently, they teach that no one is saved gratuitously but only in justice, because all men are able by natural means to discover the truth if they wish, and grace is given freely to all who beg for it.
This statement, not to speak

now of what is really meant by grace, may be able to show some sort of pretence in the case of adults who have the use of their free will. But for infants who lack altogether the merit of a will to do good and who, just like all other mortals, are wounded with original sin, they

can offer no explanation whatever. Why are some of them regenerated in baptism and saved, while others fail to be reborn and are lost? How can this happen in spite of the Providence and omnipotence of Him in whose hand is the soul of every living thing and the spirit of all flesh

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Potamopotos

@potamopotos

Feb 19

Since we're on a good king Christian the 4th streak then let me present Frederiksborg (Frederik's Castle (name after his father)) and the castle church.

Build in 1606–17 by our great Lutheran monarch

It was also in this church that our monarchs were anointed as kings

by the archbishop. To mention one example, king Frederik the 2nd was anointed by, yours truly, Jesper Brochmand, in 1648

Here's the Castle Church

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Potamopotos

@potamopotos

Jan 31

A THREAD ON WHETHER LAYPEOPLE CAN ABSOLVE SINS

Our Lutheran Confessions retain holy absolution for good reason, it is a means of grace and useful for comforting believers. Augsburg Conf XI “It is taught among us that private absolution should be retained and not allowed to fall

into disuse.”
And this holy absolution is nothing else than the usage of the power of the keys to bind and to absolve sins, “It is well known that we have so explained and extolled the blessing of absolution and the power of the keys that many troubled consciences have received

consolation from our teaching.” Apologia art XI.
Holy Absolution then is a sacrament of the church, ibid., which strengthens and builds up faith by the proclamation of the promises of God.
But not only does the Augsburg Confession restrict the administration of the sacraments

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Potamopotos

@potamopotos

Dec 20, 2021

A THREAD ON SAINT AUGUSTINE AND JUSTIFICATION

An evangelical understanding?

Augustine taught that man's justification, iustificari, consisted of man's inner renewal, that we are made more and more just ontologically. Yet he was also keenly aware that this righteousness would

never suffice. He wrote “To sum up generally and briefly the view which, so far as relates to holy living, I entertain concerning virtue,—virtue is the love with which that which ought to be loved is loved. This is in some greater, in others less, and there are men in whom it

does not exist at all; but in the absolute fulness which admits of no increase, it exists in no man while living on this earth; so long, however, as it admits of being increased there can be no doubt that, in so far as it is less than it ought to be,

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Potamopotos

@potamopotos

Dec 19, 2021

This one hits me hard 🥲

WHENEVER I meditate upon the suffering of my Lord, I cannot but venture a great deal in respect to the love of God and His forbearance toward my sins. He bends His head to kiss me; He extends His arms to embrace me;

He opens His hands to bestow gifts upon me; He opens His side that I may behold His heart glowing with love for me; He is lifted up from the earth that He may draw all men unto Himself (John 12:32); His wounds are livid with grief, yet gleaming with love

and in those open wounds we must seek for the secret of His heart. Truly with Him is plenteous redemption; for not a drop only, but streams of blood flowed from five parts of His body (...) Can Christ possibly forget in His life, those for whom He was willing to suffer death?

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