[Mad Dawg]

I wasn't saying one thing or another about Luther. I was talking about the understanding of his "Sin boldly."

[bornacatholic]

Me too...

[bornacatholic]

Look, Luther was a lunatic. Put otherwise, he was seriously mentally ill. He was whip-sawed from one extreme to another and his theology illustrated it. His theology was really his autobiography divinizsed

. At one time he, literally, wanted to kill anyone who would not submit to the Pope (not that there is anything wrong with that) while later he said the Pope was the AntiChrist...not exactly stable...

Less than a year before his revolt, he was publicly preaching in favor of indulgences...

he went from teaching the Church's exegesis on Scripture had to be followed, to declaring only HIS exegesis was to be followed.. to then teaching that when Scripture stated good works ought be done his students had to read it so Scripture read good works were forbidden

I mean, come on...

The poor man was savagely beaten by his parents and he never was stable for long periods of time after that

[bornacatholic]

Look, M D, Luther said you could not separate yourself from God even if you committed one hundred murders and one hundred adulteries daily.

That is simple and plain lunacy. It is contrary to Scripture. It is contrary to Common Sense. And it can not be defended or explained away as hyperbole.

He actually believed that, said that, taught that