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May 25, 2020
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The Old and the New
Perspectives
I was reading an
article that presents the conflicts between the so-called New Perspective in
contrast to the Old (actually Protestant) Perspective.
If the popular Old
Perspective of "justification by faith alone" is bad, the things
advocated by the New Perspective are even further from the truth. The Old is
deficient and inconsistent; the New is much worse, it repudiates the gospel
doctrine of imputation.
Having read, and
studied it over several times, I conclude with these few lines.
Two Perspectives, whether
the New or the Old;
Neither is as the
perspicuous Scriptures has it told!
Both the old
Protestants and the new Wrights;
Are in the ditches,
the Old in the left, the New right!
The new wrights
righting the wrongs of the Old,
End up drifting
further into the errors' fold.
What are your
thoughts?
I plan to write a
commentary on that article - pointing out the common errors of both
perspectives. Both have wrongly divided the word of truth. Correcting errors
with new-fangled ideas drive folks further into errors!!!
Essentially, they
are ignorant of :
1. The biblical
distinction between eternal salvation by the free and sovereign grace of God
alone and temporal salvation through the works of obedience by God's children.
2. They are
oblivious of the distinct aspects of justification. This explains the endless
confusion and inconsistencies and contradictions in both the Old Perspective
(Protestant) and the New Perspective (Wright).
