tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8261814012053869943.post8217880682951628167..comments2023-10-09T03:39:02.388-06:00Comments on Expository Lutheran: Good Trees bear Good Fruit. Bror Ericksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913133289813136695noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8261814012053869943.post-32242980536541553862012-08-26T08:29:20.169-06:002012-08-26T08:29:20.169-06:00Scottydog,
The one place my mentor, Rod Rosenbladt...Scottydog,<br />The one place my mentor, Rod Rosenbladt, and Bonhoefer had agreement, was on Bonhoeffer's take on the impossibility of ethics. <br />That said, I don't think Lutherans have been near as unfair to Bonhoeffer as he was to Luther in <br />The Cost of Discipleship." You might guess, I'm on the side critical of his "Lutheranism." He was much too much the disciple of Barth for my taste, signing the Barmen Decloration even after Sasse pointed out how this would destroy Lutheranism in Germany. <br />But to this day, I can't make it through "The Cost of Discipleship." It is too painful. Bror Ericksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06913133289813136695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8261814012053869943.post-57536987331093549342012-08-24T18:46:38.264-06:002012-08-24T18:46:38.264-06:00Man has a difficult time accepting something not e...Man has a difficult time accepting something not earned. "Salvation for free? Really?"<br /><br />Thanks for explaining the real origin of good works and their reason.<br /><br />[Reblogged on Compendium of Christian Blogs<br />www.compendum.wordpress.com]<br /><br />Sue J. in NJUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10491997829289548114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8261814012053869943.post-45869477858588865962012-08-24T15:14:43.338-06:002012-08-24T15:14:43.338-06:00Dietrich Bonhoeffer has somewhat fallen out of fav...Dietrich Bonhoeffer has somewhat fallen out of favor with conservative Lutherans (and I think unfairly), but in his work "Ethics," (which I hold to be his best work) he very effectively argues your point about our inability to really determine good and evil. Bonhoeffer points out that the question of good and evil is inherently relativistic to the point of view of the one "judging" and absent relationship with God, which was severed in Genesis chapter 3, is a hopeless attempt to measure a line in from a shifting platform of relativism (my analogy - not his). Therefore Satan's promise that we will know good and evil is a lie like everything else he says, although we, as flawed humans out of relationship with God, still believe we are able to judge good and evil. Not that I nor Bonhoeffer are arguing for relativism nor situational ethics, but illustrating that we cannot possibly be sure of our judgments. Bonhoeffer does a much better job of explaining this than me. See Chapter one of his book. C.S. Lewis makes a related observation in "Mere Christianity," that evil is not really the opposite of good, but the absence of good or a perverted sense of good, because all evil is done in an attempt to achieve a "good" ends, rather than for the sake of evil itself. <br /><br />Anyway, sorry to blog on your blog, but it's a fascinating subject. Good job!Scottydognoreply@blogger.com