The first sentence is incorrect. The first perversion of God’s word was the serpent in the Garden of Eden. Well before Luther, it was perverted by members of the Catholic an Jewish hierarchies. Bringing up the idea that the Scriptures were intended for the common man did not bring us to this state.
Hierarchies? :) That’s an irony zinger.
“This whole perversion of the Word of God began when Luther said each person should interpret the Bible for themselves. “
Yes because only a Priest led by the Global Warming activist known as the Pope is qualified to tell us what the Bible means.
We should go back to the time when the Catholic Church prohibited people from even having a bible in a language they could understand.
It certainly couldn’t be the decades of silence on such issues as abortion, divorce, homosexuality, promiscuity, adultery, foul language or the multitude of other sinful behavior.
Good point. As one Catholic FReeper loves to quote, “To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant”. Actually, to be deep in history is to realize that every dead religion springs from THE Lie whispered in Eden: YOU SHALL BE AS GOD, KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL.
Correct - excellent point & ditto & thumbs up here. These threads are becoming tiresome. Don’t tell me to not open them as I don’t for the most part. I’m just of the opinion that this is not a place where conservatives ought to expend energy or electrons.
NIV 2 Corinthians 1:13
For we do not write you anything you cannot read or understand.