(Continued from Part 1) [2019-09-21: added quote from Dr. Hummel at bottom in red]
Dr. Samuel H. Nafzger (WayBk), in his locus "Holy Scripture" in the new LC-MS textbook Confessing the Gospel (to "update Pieper"), stated p. 686:
“The gospel has a power … independent of the Scriptures”
Nafzger's assertion is in direct opposition to Walther's (and the Lutheran Church's) teaching of sola Scriptura. Nafzger has taken the LC-MS denial of the Bible's natural history to its natural outcome: stripping the Gospel's power from it. (Isn't this actually the so-called “Gospel reductionism” all over again? Isn't Nafzger's teaching actually the same as that of the 1974 "Walkout"?) How is a Christian today, with Nafzger's teaching, to know for a certainty that Christ was raised so that his faith is not in vain, that he, as a Christian, is not yet in his sins? Matt. 28:6 reports: "He is not here: for he is risen, as he said." But according to Nafzger, where the Gospel is "independent of the Scriptures", we are forbidden from depending on Scripture for an assurance of faith, there is no "gospel power" in it. (Just try to reconcile Nafzger's assertion with Luther's teaching on the Sacrament and the Doctrine of Inspiration!)
Nevertheless, Walther held to the only certain proof that a Christian has today. He fought for the Bible for dear life, for his spiritual life – it was a matter of life and death. C.F.W. Walther held to an inerrant, inviolable Holy Scripture, all of it.
Nevertheless, Walther held to the only certain proof that a Christian has today. He fought for the Bible for dear life, for his spiritual life – it was a matter of life and death. C.F.W. Walther held to an inerrant, inviolable Holy Scripture, all of it.
===>>> Does the sun rise (Josh. 10:12-14)? Was Christ really raised (Matt. 28:6)?
It does, and He was. How do I know this? Because He said so, clear as the noonday sun. (Ps. 37:6) — With the ancient Church I confess:
He is Risen! He is risen indeed! The Bible tells me so!
That is my "Sunrise Service" for the day after Easter, 2019.
[A good antidote to Nafzger's teaching is Prof. Eugene Klug's 1975 Springfielder essay “Saving Faith and the Inerrancy of Scripture” - download here; text with hyperlinks here.]
[2019-09-21: Dr. Horace Hummel, "Are Law and Gospel a Valid Hermeneutical Principle?", CTQ 46-2, p. 188: “ to define 'Gospel' by an appeal to 'Gospel' without firm anchorage in an infallible Bible is simply to beg the question.”]
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