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	Law and Gospel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The relationship between God's Law and the Gospel is a major topic in Lutheran and Reformed theology.
		In these traditions, the distinction between the doctrines of Law, which demands obedience to God's will and Gospel, which promises the forgiveness of sins for the sake of the sacrificial death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is critical.
		John Nelson Darby in The Law, and the Gospel of the Glory of Christ[2] wrote: "There is the greatest possible contrast between law and gospel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Law_and_Gospel (1253 words)

	HERMAN BAVINCK ON THE LAW-GOSPEL DISTINCTION AND PREACHING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Law and Gospel differed not in that the former only demands and the latter only promises, for both contained commands, threats and promises; musteria, promissiones, praecepta; res credendae, sperandae et faciendae; not only Moses, but also Christ was legislator.
		The law could not justify in the full sense of the word; it provided no richness of grace; it bestowed no eternal salvation; but the Gospel bestows in the sacrament the power of grace, which enables one to fulfill God’s commands and obtain eternal life.
		In one word: the law is the incomplete Gospel, the Gospel is the completed law; the Gospel was contained in the law as the tree is in the seed, as the full head of grain is in the seed [at this point Bavinck refers to vol.
	spindleworks.com /library/kloosterman/Law_Gospel_Bavinck.htm (2860 words)

	The Solid Declaration of the Formula of Concord -- Law and Gospel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		And lest repentance or the terrors of the Law turn into despair, the preaching of the Gospel must be added, that it may be a repentance unto salvation, 2 Cor.
		For the Gospel and Christ were never ordained and given for the purpose of terrifying and condemning, but of comforting and cheering those who are terrified and timid.
		Now, since the Gospel, which alone properly teaches and commands to believe in Christ, is God's Word, the Holy Ghost, through the office of the Law, also reproves unbelief, that men do not believe in Christ, although it is properly the Gospel alone which teaches concerning saving faith in Christ.
	www.bookofconcord.org /fc-sd/lawandgospel.html (1548 words)

	The Proper Distinction between Law and Gospel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For example, sharing the Gospel when the Law should be spoken, or demanding a life of holiness when a person hasn't been converted, or urging people to trust in Christ when they don't see themselves as sinners, or when people are taught that they must do good works before God will grant them grace.
		A fourth way in which Law and Gospel are confused and Scripture is misunderstood is when someone proclaims the Law to someone who is terrified by their sins, or the Gospel is given to someone who is unrepentant.
		A fifth way in which Law and Gospel are confused and Scripture is misunderstood is when people who are truly repentant are taught to find their comfort in prayer or in holy living, rather than in the promises of forgiveness and love found in the Word of God or in the sacraments.
	www.atonement.org /Beliefs/lg2_main.htm (1204 words)

	Law and Liberty, Law and Gospel
		The Gospel and The Law by G.B. Stevens
		The Law and the Gospel by by Lewis Berkhof
		The Saint and the Law by Horatius Bonar
	www.monergism.com /thethreshold/articles/topic/lawliberty.html (2470 words)

	Gospel Doctrine:The Law of Tithing and the Law of the Fast: Lesson 17
		For if a man keep all the law save one point, and he offend in that, he is a transgressor of the law, and he is not entitled to the fulness of the blessings of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
		But when a man keeps all the law that is revealed, according to his strength, his substance, and his ability, though what he does may be little, it is just as acceptable in the sight of God as if he were able to do a thousand times more.--Apr.
		The law of tithing is a test by which the people as individuals shall be proved.
	www.ldsmag.com /gospeldoctrine/dc/050412dc17.html (2446 words)

	Law and Gospel Bible Class Sheets
		This confounding of Law and Gospel, in the first place, is done by such as have arrived at the assurance of their state of grace only after much struggling and great anguish.
		Law and Gospel are confounded and perverted for the hearers of the Word, not only when the Law predominates in the preaching, but also when the Law and Gospel, as a rule, are equally balanced and the Gospel is not predominant in the preaching.
		The Gospel should be proclaimed till the hearers' hearts are melted, till they give up their resistance and confess that the Lord has been too strong for them, and from now on they wish to abide with Jesus.
	www.confessionallutherans.org /papers/landgout.htm (8938 words)

	The Chalcedon Foundation - Faith for All of Life
		The distinction between law and gospel is not a distinction between a false and a true way of salvation.
		In discussions of law and gospel, one commonly hears that it is important, not only to preach both law and gospel, but also to preach the law first and the gospel second.
		The “works of the law” against which Paul contends are not man's attempts to satisfy God's moral law, but the distinctions between Jews and Gentiles such as circumcision, food laws, and cleansings.
	www.chalcedon.edu /articles/0201/020104frame.php (4253 words)

	The Old And New Law
		The Old Law (summed up in the Ten Commandments) is the first stage of revealed law and is the foundation for man’s vocation.
		It is, therefore, a “law of bondage.” This Law “discloses sin”; (concupiscence in the human heart).
		The Law of the Gospel (expressed by Christ in the Sermon on the Mount) perfects divine law, natural and revealed.
	www.catholicity.com /catechism/the_old_and_new_law.html (650 words)

	Classical Covenant Theology: On Law and Gospel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The exposition of this question is necessary for a variety of considerations, and especially that we may have a proper understanding of the law and the gospel, to which a knowledge of that in which they differ greatly contributes.
		According to the definition of the law, which says, that it promises rewards to those who render perfect obedience; and that it promises them freely, inasmuch as no obedience can be meritorious in the sight of God, it would seem that it does not differ from the gospel, which also promises eternal life freely.
		The law teaches what we ought to be in order that we may be saved: the gospel teaches in addition to this, how we may become such as this law requires, viz: by faith in Christ.
	public.csusm.edu /public/guests/rsclark/LawGospel.html (1547 words)

	The Law & The Gospel: A Reformation Sampler
		We believe, teach, and confess that the distinction of the Law and of the Gospel, as a most excellently clear light, is to be retained with special diligence in the Church of God, in order that the Word of God, agreeably to the admonition of St. Paul, may be rightly divided.
		This distinction between the Law and the Gospel, which is so clearly taught in Holy Scripture, the Christian must conscientiously observe and neither weaken the condemning force of the Law nor diminish the saving comfort of the Gospel.
		Unless the Law and the Gospel are thus preached...the Christian religion is deprived of its distinct content, is paganized by the introduction of work-righteousness as a cause of salvation, and is therefore rendered incapable of saving sinners.
	homepage.mac.com /shanerosenthal/reformationink/lawgospel.htm (1430 words)

	God Works Through Law & Gospel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		By understanding how God works with you through Law and Gospel, you will be strengthened to work with others in these same two ways: leading them to repentance through the Law and encouraging them through the Gospel.
		Law and Gospel differ in a number of ways, but chiefly 1) the Law proclaims that God condemns us for our sin and 2) the Gospel proclaims that God forgives our sin and saves us.
		While the Law still instructs a Christian and daily leads him to repentance, the apostle Paul teaches that a Christian is not dominated by the Law (Romans 10:4).
	www.mtio.com /articles/bissar83.htm (2164 words)

	Bible Readings for the Home - Chapter 79 - Law and Gospel
		Had man never transgressed the law, he would not have needed Christ; if the law could have been done away, after man had broken it, he would not then have needed Christ; for it is the law, and that only, which condemns him to death.
		When one applies to Christ to save him, he virtually acknowledges the power of the law to slay him, and thus the law is "established." The law must exist with the gospel; otherwise the gospel were a nullity.
		If there is no law, the letter of which kills, there can be no lost condition from which to save one, and hence there would be no necessity for the gospel.
	www.projectrestore.com /library/biblereadings/br079.htm (1459 words)

	Law and Gospel
		Paul says that his gospel preaching is, to those who perish, “a fragrance from death to death” and, to those who believe, “a fragrance from life to life” (2 Cor.
		The problem is that the two-kingdom doctrine claims a duality, not only between law and gospel as such, but also in God’s standards, his norms.
		The church is subject primarily to the gospel, but in a secondary sense (as we have seen above) subject to both law and gospel, the whole content of the word of God.
	www.frame-poythress.org /frame_articles/2002Law.htm (4208 words)

	The Twofold Use of the Law and Gospel: Letter and Spirit
		For it is impossible to keep the Law without Christ, though man may, for the sake of honor or property, or from fear of punishment, feign outward holiness.
		Human nature fumes and rages against the Law; offenses appear in the heart, the fruit of hate and enmity against the Law; and presently human nature flees before God and is incensed at God's judgment.
		They merely push him deeper into death, since he is without the solace of the Gospel, while others, such as the thief on the cross and the publican, grasp the comfort of the Gospel, the forgiveness of sins in Christ.
	www.piney.com /LutherLawGospel.html (7419 words)

	What is Law and Gospel? -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The LAW can be defined as any saying, prophesy or teaching that reveals God's anger over something, or that demands that you do something to make God happy, or that accuses you of doing something against God's will.
		It is a condemning passage of law, not a promise of the gospel.
		Lutherans believe that maintaining a clear distinction between law and gospel is an especially brilliant light which serves the purpose of rightly dividing the Word of God and allows the writings of the holy prophets and apostles to be correctly explained and understood.
	www.atonement.org /Beliefs/lg1_main.htm (693 words)

	Rightly Dividing - Every Thought Captive 3.2 - Highlands Study Center
		I must keep the law, for it is the law of God.
		To the legalist the law is the stench of death, to the redeemed in Christ the savor of life.
		But faith established the law because being reborn we believe that His law is ours, the way of the life that Christ has already won for us.
	highlands.gospelcom.net /ETC/Volume_Three/Issue_Two/RightlyDividing.php (862 words)

	Law and Gospel by C.F.W. Walther
		Rightly distinguishing the Law and the Gospel is the most difficult and the highest art of Christians in general and of theologians in particular.
		The true knowledge of the distinction between the Law and the Gospel is not only a glorious light, affording the correct understanding of the entire Holy Scriptures, but without this knowledge Scripture is and remains a sealed book.
		In the second place, the Word of God is not rightly divided when the Law is not preached in its full sternness and the Gospel not in its full sweetness, when, on the contrary, Gospel elements are mingled with the Law and Law elements with the Gospel.
	www.issuesetc.org /resource/archives/cfwwalther.htm (822 words)

	Law & Gospel: Preaching Christ Through a Rightly Divided Word, by Shane Rosenthal
		The gospel is not a new and unrelated form of salvation, but rather, is the substance of what was previously hinted at in the shadows.
		In all of these selections from the Reformers, the recurring theme is that the distinction of Law and Gospel is extremely crucial to the life and health of the church, as well as of the individual believer.
		The law is with us by nature but the gospel message is totally foreign to us This is why the gospel must be preached to us from the outside, because it is a message that is completely contrary to the world as we know it.
	homepage.mac.com /shanerosenthal/reformationink/srlawgospel.htm (4055 words)

	Walther, Law and Gospel, and . . .
		Walther’s teaching on the subject of Law and Gospel was presented in a series of 39 lectures given on Friday evenings, beginning September 12, 1884 and ending November 6, 1885.
		Thus, law and Gospel must both be preached but Walther notes in his final thesis, "the word of God is not rightly divided when the person teaching it does not allow the Gospel to have a general predominance in his teaching."
		No preacher has the right to withhold the law from his messages for in so doing, he will undermine his own purpose to preach the Gospel most effectively because only sinners aware of their condition and hopelessness in and of themselves in the face of a righteous God will desire grace.
	www.confessionallutherans.org /papers/lawgospl.html (10990 words)

	Proper Interpretation between Law & Gospel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rather than clearly distinguishing between Law and Gospel, Roman Catholic theology confuses the two when it speaks of the "Law of the Gospel." Mixing the Law with the Gospel is like adding water to an automobile gas tank.
		Finally, they said, "In order that both doctrines, Law and Gospel, may not be mingled together and confused (so that what belongs to one doctrine is ascribed to the other), it is necessary to urge and to maintain with all diligence the true and proper distinction between Law and Gospel.
		Even though Lutherans have the clearest official position on the necessity of distinguishing Law and Gospel, many Lutheran Christians either do not understand this Biblical teaching, or they are indifferent to it.
	www.mtio.com /articles/bissar85.htm (1094 words)

	Law and Gospel
		The essence of Rome's error was to confuse the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit in the heart with justification by the imputed righteousness of Christ; or to put it another way, to propose that the new birth is the basis of acceptance with God.
		The disposition to denounce those who err from correct doctrine as cut off from salvation, is contrary to the spirit of the gospel.
		Legalism has its roots in sinful ignorance — ignorance of the exalted holiness of God's law on the one hand, and ignorance of the defiled and radical corruption of human nature on the other hand.
	www.presenttruthmag.com /archive/VII/7-2p1.htm (2174 words)

	The John Warwick Montgomery Website
		His legal speciality is the international and comparative law of human rights and he regularly pleads religious freedom cases before the European Court of Human Rights.
		He holds ten earned degrees, Including a Master of Philosophy in Law from the University of Essex, England, a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, a Doctorate of the University in Protestant Theology from the University of Strasbourg, France, and the higher doctorate (LL.D.) from Cardiff University, Wales.
		Law and Gospel, Christian Legal Society,1978; second edition, Canadian Institute for Law, Theology and Public Policy.
	www.jwm.christendom.co.uk (2081 words)

	Law and Gospel by Timothy J. Wengert
		In Law and Gospel, Timothy J. Wengert explores the relationship between penance and law in Melanchthon's theology during the time Melanchthon was opposed by another one of Luther's disciples, John Agricola of Eisleben.
		For those interested in the transition between the first and second generation of the Reformation, this book should be required reading.
		Martin I. Klauber, Journal of Evangelical Theological SocietyTimothy Wengert, one of the leading Reformation scholars specializing in the writings of Philip Melanchton,,has produced a most insightful study for the understanding a significant development in nascent Lutheranism, particularly as it became a characteristic doctrine among Lutherans, the distinguishing of Law and Gospel.
	www.monergismbooks.com /lawgospel1588.html (293 words)

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