LUTHER 1527 The Arian Controversy down to the Council of Nicaea, 318-325.
LUTHER 1527
There lies the celebrated argument, now, that they slobber about the most, above all others, and on which they rely and insist most stubbornly, when they say that the two Scripture passages are contradictory: Christ is seated in heaven, and his body is in the Supper, though they do not prove it. But they do prove clearly that these two passages and their reason are contradictory. This, however, it would not have been necessary to prove; I could have told them just as well. What you say, that Scripture is contradictory, matters not at all. Who asks what you say? I would laud and honor them, however, if they would prove their assertion with Scripture or in some other way. But they must leave this undone, in order that this text may remain firm, “This is my body.”
The Arian Controversy down to the Council of Nicaea, 318-325.
The Arian controversy relates primarily to the deity of Christ, but in its course it touches also the deity of the Holy Ghost, and embraces therefore the whole mystery of the Holy Trinity and the incarnation of God, which is the very centre of the Christian revelation. The dogma of the Trinity came up not by itself in abstract form, but in inseparable connection with the doctrine of the deity of Christ and the Holy Ghost. If this latter doctrine is true, the Trinity follows by logical necessity, the biblical monotheism being presumed; in other words: If God is one, and if Christ and the Holy Ghost are distinct from the Father and yet participate in the divine substance, God must be triune. Though there are in the Holy Scriptures themselves few texts which directly prove the Trinity, and the name Trinity is wholly wanting in them, this doctrine is taught with all the greater force in a living form from Genesis to Revelation by the main facts of the revelation of God as Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier, besides being indirectly involved in the deity of Christ and the Holy Ghost.
HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH Schaff Volume 3 NICENE AND POST-NICENE CHRISTIANTY A.D. 311-600
(Page 618)
There lies the celebrated argument, now, that they slobber about the most, above all others, and on which they rely and insist most stubbornly, when they say that the two Scripture passages are contradictory: Christ is seated in heaven, and his body is in the Supper, though they do not prove it. But they do prove clearly that these two passages and their reason are contradictory. This, however, it would not have been necessary to prove; I could have told them just as well. What you say, that Scripture is contradictory, matters not at all. Who asks what you say? I would laud and honor them, however, if they would prove their assertion with Scripture or in some other way. But they must leave this undone, in order that this text may remain firm, “This is my body.”
The Arian Controversy down to the Council of Nicaea, 318-325.
The Arian controversy relates primarily to the deity of Christ, but in its course it touches also the deity of the Holy Ghost, and embraces therefore the whole mystery of the Holy Trinity and the incarnation of God, which is the very centre of the Christian revelation. The dogma of the Trinity came up not by itself in abstract form, but in inseparable connection with the doctrine of the deity of Christ and the Holy Ghost. If this latter doctrine is true, the Trinity follows by logical necessity, the biblical monotheism being presumed; in other words: If God is one, and if Christ and the Holy Ghost are distinct from the Father and yet participate in the divine substance, God must be triune. Though there are in the Holy Scriptures themselves few texts which directly prove the Trinity, and the name Trinity is wholly wanting in them, this doctrine is taught with all the greater force in a living form from Genesis to Revelation by the main facts of the revelation of God as Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier, besides being indirectly involved in the deity of Christ and the Holy Ghost.
HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH Schaff Volume 3 NICENE AND POST-NICENE CHRISTIANTY A.D. 311-600
(Page 618)
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