June 20th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
The Apology to the Augsburg Confession was written in response to the Confutation of the Augsburg Confession, where the Roman Catholics responded to the theological points of the original Augsburg Confession.
Pastor Weedon notes that one of the most neglected sessions of the Book of Concord is how the Apology treats affliction in the article on Confession and Satisfaction. It is a very human thing to wonder why bad things happen to humans even though humans strive to be good poeple. We are both sinner and saint, and though our sins are forgiven, we still deal with that sin in our lives.
Check out Pastor Weedon’s favorite sections and a cool discussion with Pastor McCain aboug giving comfort to people going through afflictions.
My favorite part from Pastor Weedon’s selections:
Job is excused that he was not afflicted on account of past evil deeds; therefore afflictions are not always punishments or signs of wrath. Yea, terrified consciences are to be taught that other ends of afflictions are more important [that they should learn to regard troubles far differently, namely, as signs of grace], lest they think that they are rejected by God when in afflictions they see nothing but God’s punishment and anger. The other more important ends are to be considered, namely, that God is doing His strange work so that He may be able to do His own work, etc., as Isaiah 28 teaches in a long discourse. (paragraph 61)
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