[Mr. Lucky]

OK, which one supports the claim made in your post #21?

[B-Chan]

I never used his theses as support for my claim. I support my clam with his own words. "Not for a thousand years has God bestowed such great gifts on any bishop as He has on me" (Luther's Works, Erlangen ed., 61:422).

Yet even mighty Luther had his doubts."With how much pain and labor did I scarcely justify my conscience that I alone should proceed against the Pope, hold him for Antichrist, and the bishops for his apostles. How often did my heart punish me and reproach me with this strong argument: 'Art thou alone wise? Could all the others err and have erred for a long time? How if thou errest and leadest into error so many people who would all be damned forever?'"(Luther, "Letter to the Augustinians in Wittenberg", Nov. 25, 1521: De Wette, 2. 107, cited in O'Hare p. 195)