Otis-Schlissel Debate

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Well I just went for a bicycle ride and listened to the Schlissel-Otis debate, and was gobsmacked with what I heard!

Schlissel kept saying that the standard Protestant position is that faith = bare mental assent. I'm amazed that he hasn't even grasped the the rudiments of the reformation: faith = trust.

And then he asks Otis where Justification by Faith Alone is taught outside Galatians and Romans: what about Phil. 3:8-9, 2 Cor. 5:21; Eph. 2:8-9; John 3:16; Luke 18:9ff. ... and the list could keep going on and on.

The FV debate is complicated by the fact that not all in the camp would agree with Schlissel on the above, Doug Wilson being one.
 
Well I just went for a bicycle ride and listened to the Schlissel-Otis debate, and was gobsmacked with what I heard!

Schlissel kept saying that the standard Protestant position is that faith = bare mental assent. I'm amazed that he hasn't even grasped the the rudiments of the reformation: faith = trust.

And then he asks Otis where Justification by Faith Alone is taught outside Galatians and Romans: what about Phil. 3:8-9, 2 Cor. 5:21; Eph. 2:8-9; John 3:16; Luke 18:9ff. ... and the list could keep going on and on.

The FV debate is complicated by the fact that not all in the camp would agree with Schlissel on the above, Doug Wilson being one.


Yes, what really annoyed me about what Steve Schlissel was saying (apart from the fact that he was teaching heresy) was that he kept misrepresenting the Protestant and Reformed view, then when John Otis tried to correct him, he would not listen. :mad:
 
Yes, one other thing that got me was that Schlissel doesn't seem to be aware that the word "justification" has a variety of meanings in the NT. Hence, when we read of the young man trying to "justify" himself in Luke 10 (to which Schlissel referred) and the use of "justification" in James 2:24 we're dealing with words that have a different meaning to those which Paul uses in Galatians, Romans, and Titus 3.

These are basic issues that one can't miss if they've read Calvin's exposition of justification in Institutes book 3 let alone any of the Protestant orthodox systems.
 
Yes, one other thing that got me was that Schlissel doesn't seem to be aware that the word "justification" has a variety of meanings in the NT. Hence, when we read of the young man trying to "justify" himself in Luke 10 (to which Schlissel referred) and the use of "justification" in James 2:24 we're dealing with words that have a different meaning to those which Paul uses in Galatians, Romans, and Titus 3.

These are basic issues that one can't miss if they've read Calvin's exposition of justification in Institutes book 3 let alone any of the Protestant orthodox systems.

:up: Fascinating, isn't it, that Luther and Calvin had to take great pains to explain that to the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.

This stretches credulity to think that Schlissel is unaware of this. If he embraced it at one point it is very telling that he would retreat to such a disingenuous stance knowing full well what the answer to such facile exegesis would be.
 
In that sense there is nothing new about the NPP. In reality, it's the OPP held by the RCC.

I'm not sure how many of you will get this musical connection from the early 90's:
"You down with OPP?"
"Yea, R-C-C"
 
In that sense there is nothing new about the NPP. In reality, it's the OPP held by the RCC.

I'm not sure how many of you will get this musical connection from the early 90's:
"You down with OPP?"
"Yea, R-C-C"

:applause: Well said, what Steve Schlissel was teaching in that debate was, in essence, Romanism. In fact, am I not right in saying that his is ecumenical and has had Papists and Eastern Orthodox priests speak at his church?

:luther:
 
The FV debate is complicated by the fact that not all in the camp would agree with Schlissel on the above, Doug Wilson being one.

While I agree with you on the above, others are well on their way (or if not they are being inconsistent). The FV system reduces everything to 'covenant' which includes either a sloppy definition of the term or one, in my opinion, that includes at least the seed of some of these ideas of Schlissel without having the courage to blossom forth the fruit.
 
One thing I noticed in the deabte, which would perhaps separate Steve Schlissel from Romanism, is that he does not believe the Protestant view of justificaton is - to quote the Council of Trent - "anathema" or a damnable heresy.

However I can't say that inspires much confidence.
 
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