Comments on: Ephesians 5:1–14 — The Why and Way of Obedience https://reformedforum.org/podcasts/pc41/ Reformed Theological Resources Wed, 18 Apr 2018 17:42:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Mark Jenkins https://reformedforum.org/podcasts/pc41/#comment-3540303 Wed, 18 Apr 2018 17:42:36 +0000 http://reformedforum.org/?p=9301#comment-3540303 In reply to Camden Bucey.

Not to initiate yet another online and in-house debate on these matters or be guilty of “arguing over words,” but for a few resources that might be helpful to show that the use of “Law and Gospel” language is both reformed and helpful (to some of us), see the following:
https://www.theaquilareport.com/where-is-the-lawgospel-distinction/

A slightly longer explanation:
https://www.wscal.edu/blog/basics-of-the-reformed-faith-the-law-and-the-gospel

Blessings!

]]> By: Camden Bucey https://reformedforum.org/podcasts/pc41/#comment-3540169 Sat, 14 Apr 2018 17:50:36 +0000 http://reformedforum.org/?p=9301#comment-3540169 Like Jim, I prefer the language of indicative and imperative to that of law and gospel. Law/gospel is confusing, because it’s used in several different ways. Sometimes theologians use it in a way similar to that of the indicative and imperative, but it is also employed to speak of the Mosaic economy and Old Covenant in relation to the New Covenant. That’s where some of the Reformed and Lutheran differences are in greater relief.

The Westminster Standards, for example, make quite clear that the Old Covenant is an administration of the Covenant of Grace. It is of the same substance. So in that sense, the Westminster tradition rejects a sharp distinction between law and gospel. The law is a redemptive-historical era that serves to guide the covenantal people to maturity in Christ. There is a difference between covenantal administrations, to be sure, but it is administrative and typological, and neither substantial nor antithetical.

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