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Letters
May 13, 2008
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To
the Editor:
Earl Tilford agrees with Tom Hobson
that the church ought not follow the world. Well, and good!
Right on target! Then he contradicts that very position when
he says "Yes, we are all living in a sinful, flawed world
and we do the best we can." That is nothing but another
popular secular argument couched in religious language.
Disgusting are his attempts to trivialize waterboarding by
comparing it to enduring praise bands and repetitive votes
on 6.0106b. These to him are "torture" but waterboarding
is not. It is all subjective. The good old ends justify any
means "necessary" to preserve the Union. I cannot
help but think that the Third Reich of the 1930's and 40's
would have welcomed such an argument.
The Theological Declaration of Barmen responded to such argument
in the first of its "evangelical truths:"
"I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes
to the Father, but by me." (John 14:6). "Truly,
truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by
the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief
and a robber.... I am the door; if anyone enters by me, he
will be saved." (John 10:1, 9.)
Jesus Christ, as he is attested for us in Holy Scripture,
is the one Word of God which we have to hear and which we
have to trust and obey in life and in death.
We reject the false doctrine, as though the Church could and
would have to acknowledge as a source of its proclamation,
apart from and besides this one Word of God, still other events
and powers, figures and truths, as God's revelation.
Peace!
Neil D. Cowling, Pastor
Kirk of Our Savior
Westland, Michigan |
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