[HarleyD]

Someone recommended I post some history on this site. This is the first part of a twelve part series on the history of the Reformation. These articles are rather lenghty but then it's kind of hard to cram history into a few short pages.

[HarleyD]

Pinging you to the Protestant history series.

[nmh]

Good post!

Thank God for Luther and the Reformation!!!

[jo kus]

All one can say is that the "historian" of this article is biased, clearly shown by his sarcastic comments. True historians don't lead the reader to make a conclusion, but present the facts.

[Campion]

The Catholic Church instituted the sacrament of penance based upon a mistranslation of the Greek word “to repent”.

Now that's funny. Great humor, Harley, thanks.

I wonder what caused the Eastern Orthodox to instutite the sacrament of penance, since you can't really blame a translation error in translating the New Testament from Greek to ... uh ... Greek.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Someone recommended I post some history on this site.

You failed to include the caveat "selective history".

"I never approved of a schism, nor will I approve of it for all eternity....That the Roman Church is more honored by God than all others is not to be doubted. St. Peter and St. Paul, forty-six Popes, some hundreds of thousands of martyrs, have laid down their lives in its communion, having overcome Hell and the world; so that the eyes of God rest on the Roman church with special favor....It is not by separating from the Church that we can make her better."

Martin Luther to Pope Leo X, 6 January 1519

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Thanks for a great thread, Harley.

THE NECESSITY OF REFORMING THE CHURCH

"...the restoration of the church is the work of God, and no more depends on the hopes and opinions of men, than the resurrection of the dead, or any other miracle of that description. Here, therefore, we are not to wait for facility of action, either from the will of men, or the temper of the times, but must rush forward through the midst of despair. It is the will of our Master that his gospel be preached. Let us obey his command, and follow whithersoever he calls. What the success will be it is not ours to inquire. Our only duty is to wish for what is best, and beseech it of the Lord in prayer; to strive with all zeal, solicitude, and diligence, to bring about the desired result, and, at the same time, to submit with patience to whatever that result may be." -- John Calvin

[AlbionGirl]

Ping.

[annalex]

So Halloween is Reformation day? Live and learn...

[Lee N. Field]

Monergism.com has these available as audio here.

[bonfire]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1530818/posts


lol

[185JHP]

Thanks

[Calm_Cool_and_Elected]

Ping

[Cronos]

I don't think it was Christ, more like his opposite number