Bondage of the Will (35)
  1. This is an excerpt from Broken Bonds: A Novel of the Reformation by Amy Mantravadi (1517 Publishing, 2024), pgs. 24-27
  2. Our faith is precisely where Paul puts it, namely, in the blood of Christ.
  3. More certain than death or taxes and more certain than “anything else in all creation” is the fact that God loves you.
  4. Erasmus and the Unintended Reformation
  5. This is an excerpt is from Chapter 1 of Let the Bird Fly: Life in a World Given Back to Us written by Wade Johnston (1517 Publishing, 2019).
  6. In that moment of greatest despair, we find the antidote for all our fears. We know we are beloved of God and there is salvation in Christ’s atoning death.
  7. It’s not our eloquence or persuasive rhetoric that changes hearts, but the Word of God that pierces through the hardened shells of unbelief and breathes life into the dead bones of sinners.
  8. Jesus makes David’s words his own, because David’s words were Christ’s to begin with.
  9. The only solution to free will is the announcement from a preacher that the Father forgives us for Christ's sake.
  10. Erasmus sought to find meaning behind the words of Scripture in order to make an ultimate claim. Luther, on the other hand, found the Gospel to be meaningless outside of Christ and his Cross.
  11. Luther understood when the Word of God came it did not offer sinners a choice.
  12. For Luther, Erasmus’ Christ-less, Spirit-less theological conclusions demonstrated that behind his supposed humanistic optimism lay a profound despair and pessimism.
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