Issues Etcetera guest Dr Rod Rosenblatt died on February 2nd, 2024.

In his memory we present this issues Etcetera encore. The Greetings and welcome to issues etc. I'm Todd Wilkin. Thanks for tuning us in.

Scripture is full of all sorts of teachings.

It would be, it would really take a lot of books

if one sat down to make a full, uh, complete catalog of everything that scripture teaches big and small.

It would be volumes and volumes.

Of course, it's all right there between the pages and in those 66 books, but is there any rhyme or reason to all of the things

that scripture teaches? Is there a teaching that is central, if you will, to which all of the other teachings are attached

and that gives some rhyme and reason to everything that scripture teaches.

Well Luther said there was. And he was not alone in saying that, of course. He

derived his teaching in the 16th century from scripture itself. He said it was the

teaching of justification that a man is declared righteous before God,

solely by God's grace, through faith for Christ's sake alone.

And what he meant by that was if this teaching goes wrong everything else

is in danger of going wrong. If this teaching is off, then everything else will be off.

He says it was the teaching upon with the church stands or falls.

But why did he say that?

We're going to answer that question right off here as we talk with Dr.

Rod Rosenblatt tonight on issues, etc. Dr. Rod Rosenblatt is a regular guest,

although I must say it's been quite some time since we talked with Rod he's professor of

systematic theology and Christian apologetics at Concordia University in Irvine

California co-host of the National Radio Program called the White Horse

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