Happy Reformation Day!

What Reformation Day really is is this: The Reformed doctrine is a reformation of Satan's character. The Reformed doctrine asserts that Satan is under the direct micromanagerial control of Christ, that "the Devil is God's Devil and only does what God wants." Thus, by asserting that the devil does as God makes him, and that alone, the devil is Reformed into being an obedient puppet of God. In the process, however, God is Reformed into being as bad as the Devil. Thus, the Reformed (i.e. Calvinists) chose to place their holiday on October 31st to coincide with the Devil's holiday, which is Halloween. But Paul says that Christ has no concord with Belial (i.e. the Devil) in 2nd Corinthians 6:15. The Reformed position is a denial of this very important distinction between Christ and Belial and was invented by Belial specifically to convince men that he is nothing more than Christ's sock-puppet and thus Belial causes men to blaspheme Christ and go to hell.

Yay! Let's celebrate the man who wrote "On the Jews and Their Lies", which Hitler (Y"S) copied verbatim into Mein Kampf, and which were used as the basis of the Nuremberg Race Laws.

Yay Martin Luther!

My stand on the Reformation? No, I cannot do it in 25 words or less, because it is too full for that.

God is sovereign. I am saved, not because I am good but because God is good. There is nothing that I can do or say or buy that will gain me favor with God. The only thing that purchases me is the blood of Christ, shed on the cross as the once and forever sacrifice.

I didn't come from a Reformed background...I grew up with legalism, rules, constantly trying to be "good enough"...and when I realized that my goodness was more of a obstacle to my falling on the grace of God than my badness was, the extent of God's grace became more evident (not that it can be fully seen this side of the grave.)

Either it was finished on the cross, or it was not. Either I need to continue to work for my salvation, or Christ accomplished it. Either it is all of grace, or it is "mostly of grace and a little bit of me".

That is what my personal Reformation did - it made me come face to face with how incapable I am of accomplishing my own salvation, it made me look my sin full in the face and it sent me to my knees in front of Christ, the Son of the Living God.

It was Christ's blood that was shed, and it accomplishes salvation for those who believe.

:-)

IM is also in my blogfeed.

(I have way too many folders but I have one that I put a limit of 5 blogs at a time. It's labeled "I really like".

Of the 5 that are in there now, Internet Monk is one, somebody who has "two cents" in the title is another. On really busy days, I don't read the other blogs, but I read these without fail (mostly)