Errors abound when readers of Scripture confuse law and gospel. Dr. Lane G. Tipton describes the uses of the law and the wonderful news that Jesus Christ has accomplished salvation for his people apart from their own works.
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Dr. Tipton gave a wonderful walkthrough of the three uses of the Law. I wasn’t expecting that, since your introductory paragraph reads like a Lutheran, TWO uses of the Law paragraph, leaving out the third.
“Errors abound when readers of Scripture confuse law and gospel. Dr. Lane G. Tipton describes the uses of the law and the wonderful news that Jesus Christ has accomplished salvation for his people apart from their own works.”
I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them. For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naïve.
(Romans 16:17-18)
Dr. Tipton gave a wonderful walkthrough of the three uses of the Law. I wasn’t expecting that, since your introductory paragraph reads like a Lutheran, TWO uses of the Law paragraph, leaving out the third.
“Errors abound when readers of Scripture confuse law and gospel. Dr. Lane G. Tipton describes the uses of the law and the wonderful news that Jesus Christ has accomplished salvation for his people apart from their own works.”