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But Luther does believe that the law has a positive impact on the Christian life.

I don't think that's going too far.

Just read as catechisms, where you've got the law

as the very first portion of the catechism. The Ten Commandments lay out what life should be. We should do this and we shouldn't do that. And then he says, if you read the large catechism, he says, and because it's impossible for us to keep this law perfectly, we have the creed to show us how we are righteous on account of Christ

Jesus and his work for us and what God does for us to keep this law perfectly, we have the creed to show us how we are righteous on account

of Christ Jesus and his work for us and what God does for us then to aid us in keeping the law

he's given us. And then we get the Lord's prayer is the third part of the creed, or the third part

of the catechism, which is given to us so that we can pray for God's help to keep the law.

So Luther does have this positive

view of the law, even in our own confessional documents. So these accusations of antinomianism

are really coming from a perspective that sees the law as having a, and the gospel is having

different roles. For Luther, the gospel is always predominant.

It's always the main word.

The goal of the law is the gospel.

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