Dear Lutheran:

Dear Lutheran:

Thanks for mentioning my blog in your story, but I really need to comment on something. The writer defined "antinomianism” as "the belief that faith alone is necessary to salvation". Well, actually that is how Luther would have defined Lutheranism! Antinomianism means as the word implies, "against law" i.e., lawlessness, law has no meaning. That is what is being taught today to many in our pews, because apparently that is what is being taught in the ELCA seminaries.

A good question for us in the ELCA today is whether God's law has any value than to point us to the need for a saving faith. Can the law also serve as a guide for how the justified should live, as a mirror for each of us to see how we are doing, or as a curb to immoral behavior?