The Smalcald Articles – part 16
The force of Luther’s writing up to this point is that the German reformers and the church in Rome held to the same basic, credal beliefs.
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The force of Luther’s writing up to this point is that the German reformers and the church in Rome held to the same basic, credal beliefs.
When we confess that we “believe in God,” we are saying that we believe in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
With the Nicene Creed, Luther confessed that God the Father is eternal, that the Son is eternally begotten of the Father, and that the Holy Spirit proceeds from both the Father ...
Luther begins with the beginning: that God is that One God, the Only God, who has created everything. This beginning includes the great mystery of the Christian faith...
Oh! the dawn of that glorious Day! When Jesus returns, what need will there be of Councils? Every knee will bow before him and his word will be enough for all.
We busy ourselves with a kind of mundane yet exuberant piety, the machinations of religion, so that we might deceive ourselves (and others, I suppose) into thinking we are holy ...