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To: SubMareener
Applicable? Not really. Just a long list of useless and boring sentences.

"The following propositions will be discussed at Wittenberg." Calvin and Joseph Smith already re-wrote their religions a hundred times.

"18. It seems unproved, either by reason or Scripture, that they are outside the state of merit, that is to say, of increasing love."

This is proof that some propositions in Wittenberg are non-Scriptural and illogical. Merit is not love.

The problems in the Catholic church involve forces that Protestants fail to distinguish and sadly become subsumed by the bad forces. Proof? Look at #18 again.
17 posted on 10/11/2015 1:37:53 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
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To: Falconspeed

Hey, I am not holding Luther or the Lutheran Church up as a good thing. Jesus said that the Reformation resulted in a Dead Church. Luther, himself, was a rabid anti-Semite.

This is the Church to which I want to belong:

Revelation 3
7 “To the angel of the church in Philadelphia, write this:

“‘The holy one, the true,
who holds the key of David,
who opens and no one shall close,
who closes and no one shall open,
says this:

8 “‘“I know your works (behold, I have left an open door before you, which no one can close). You have limited strength, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. 9 Behold, I will make those of the assembly of Satan who claim to be Jews and are not, but are lying, behold I will make them come and fall prostrate at your feet, and they will realize that I love you. 10 Because you have kept my message of endurance, I will keep you safe in the time of trial that is going to come to the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth. 11 I am coming quickly. Hold fast to what you have, so that no one may take your crown.

12 “‘“The victor I will make into a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will never leave it again. On him I will inscribe the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, as well as my new name.

13 “‘“Whoever has ears ought to hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”’

http://www.usccb.org/bible/revelation/3


18 posted on 10/11/2015 1:52:02 PM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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