Reflection paper 3

Fred Moseti Okemwa
THST 624 Protestant Theological Heritage.
Reflection paper 3.
The THST 624 class over the last week opened my wide understanding regarding the protestant reformation. The pioneers had to struggle with heavy scriptural issues as we do today. It is interesting that most of the doctrines that were discovered during the reformation are among the many modified doctrines of the Adventist church today. Through the study I have also noted that some of the doctrines that caused debate during the era of the reformation like the doctrine of the free will, Salvation and others are the same doctrine that we as Adventist we are struggling today with.
It was also amazing to note that during the reformation era, there were people who could interpret everything to extreme as it is today. The antinomian controversy-that denied the place of the law in the gospel of salvation can be equated to those who say that the law ended at the cross of Calvary and thus we are not under the law but under grace. It is true that even today we have the antinomianists around the world.
The fight between Melanchthon and john Agricola about faith and repentance which precedes the other I can compare it with the debate of universal justification on the Adventist church that is going on. Another interesting issue that I noted through the study is that all the controversies that came, the Lutheran church came up with the formula of concord in 1577 to address the issues that were raised by other reformers regarding Luther’s theology and through that formula of concord mitigation was done.
The presentation of different proposals from different students was also another interesting part of the class last week. I saw the students in the spirit of wanting to more in the various topics and that gave me the heart of proceeding with my research to know more about the topic which I had chosen about the concept of Paul on the doctrine of predestination on the book of Romans chapter 8:29-30.