언제부턴가 우리 교회 청년들과 꼭 한번 같이 공부하고 싶었던 주제였는데,
'성경 문답'을 통해서 '편하게' 설명해 주셔서 감사합니다.
구원과 관련하여 생각할 때,
사람의 행위와 무관하게 택하신 하나님의 예정은 '부당한 행위'로 잘못 인식되어져 온 것이 사실입니다.
그래서 인간과 하나님의 편에서 좀 더 논리적(사실이 예정이 가장 논리적이긴 하지만..)인 설명을 하기 위한 노력으로 나온 것이 '자유의지'인 것 같습니다. 하지만 이러한 논리(?)가 인간에겐 얼마나 위험한 것인지 마틴 루터는 그의 책 'The Bondage of the Will'에서 고백하고 있다.
좋은 글 같아서 '좋은 책 좋은 글'란에 올리려서 했는데... 제 아이디로는 글쓰기가 안되는 것 같네요 ^_^;;;
"I Don't Want Free Will" by Martin Luther
“I frankly confess that, for myself, even if it could be, I should not want ‘free-will’ to be given me, nor anything to be left in my own hands to enable me to endeavour after salvation; not merely because in face of so many dangers, and adversities and assaults of devils, I could not stand my ground …; but because even were there no dangers … I should still be forced to labour with no guarantee of success … But now that God has taken my salvation out of the control of my own will, and put it under the control of His, and promised to save me, not according to my working or running, but according to His own grace and mercy, I have the comfortable certainty that He is faithful and will not lie to me, and that He is also great and powerful, so that no devils or opposition can break Him or pluck me from Him........ Furthermore, I have the comfortable certainty that I please God, not by reason of the merit of my works, but by reason of His merciful favour promised to me; so that, if I work too little, or badly, He does not impute it to me, but with fatherly compassion pardons me and makes me better. This is the glorying of all the saints in their God”
- Martin Luther, The Bondage of the Will (Grand Rapids: Revell, 1957), 313-314
* 참고로 이 글은 'Henderson Christian Seminary in New York Campus' 홈 페이지에서 퍼온 글 입니다.
'www.hendersonny.org'.
