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Errancy Causes Schisms
July 4, 2001 B Pastor Ronnie Wolfe - Lesson #9
Most notes taken from A Battle For The Bible@ by Harold Lindsell

  1. LUTHERANS B THE MISSOURI SYNOD SCHISM
    1. From Martin Luther=s times the Lutheran church believed in the divine inspiration and the infallibility of the scriptures.
    2. Lutherans use the Augsburg Confession of faith.
    3. This confession does not have a specific section dealing with the scriptures.
    4. Martin Luther did, however, strongly believe in Sola Scriptura, which means scripture alone.
    5. He also strongly taught Sola Fida, which means that man is saved by faith alone.
    6. From the founding of the Missouri Synod, it held to the teaching of innerant Scriptures.
    7. Then came the Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy.
    8. This had an influence on the Synod.
    9. In 1932 the Missouri Synod adopted a Brief Statement: A We teach that the Holy Scriptures differ from all other books in the world in that they are the Word of God ...@
    10. Paul G. Bretscher
      1. For one and one-half centuries the Missouri Synod has been claiming the infallibility of the scriptures.
      2. Book: After the Purifying
      3. The term word of God has two meanings
        1. All the Bible is the Word of God and all of it is without error.
        2. The word of God means the Spirit= s proclamation of grace in Christ to sinners, and the Scriptures as the fountain and norm of that Word.@
      4. He distinguishes between the gospel and the Scriptures.
        1. Not all Scripture has to do with the gospel ... those who apply the term A the Word of God@ to all of Scripture are mistaken.@
        2. In other words, those scriptures that do not have to do with the doctrine of salvation are subject to error.
        3. This leaves it up to those who hold this view to decide what parts of the Bible have to do with gospel and what parts do not.
        4. The arguments concludes, then, that whatever it is the individual wishes to disbelieve can be labeled as not part of the gospel.
    11. Walter E. Keller
      1. Chairman of the Dept. of Theology at Valporaiso,
      2. Wrote Cresset, saying,
      3. A I cannot say that the distinction between Law and the Gospel will answer the question as to whether Adam and Eve were historical, but that distinction releases me from the burden of having to say that Adam and Eve must have been historical. They may have been; from the viewpoint of the distinction between the Law and the Gospel the question of their historicity is an indifferent matter.@
    12. President Tietjen of Concordia Seminary
      1. He has stated that he affirms the facticity of what the Scripture intends to present as facts.
      2. He does not think A that Scripture intends to present as a fact what the clear sense of Scripture presents as a fact.@
    13. The Historical-Critical Method of Interpretation
      1. This method leads to a rejection of many of the miracles, the temptation story, and the details of the story of Jesus= baptism (including the descent of the dove and the voice of God from heaven).
      2. Exegetical theology can be proper with the use of this method.

  2. THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION
    1. A The Southern Baptists were not among those denominations that were seriously affected by the Modernist-Fundamentalist controversy earlier this century.@
    2. Outside influences were marginal for the convention, for their education was for the most part closed or contained within the convention itself.
    3. The year was 1925.
    4. The New Hampshire Confession of Faith was adopted. It had existed for nearly one hundred years.
    5. This confession stated well the doctrine of divine inspiration of the Bible and its infallibility.
    6. But the convention was infected with the error of fallibility of scripture
      1. Robert S. Alley - University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia
      2. Book: Revolt Against the Faithful

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