Just getting around to reading posts on FR. Thank you for posting this. I will save it and keep for future reference as it is a very well researched paper.
Just be aware, that some on this forum will likely anathematize you for it and, if we still lived in the sixteenth century, would first torture you and then burn you at the stake thinking they were doing God’s work.
I thank the Lord every day for leading me out of the darkness of this religion and into the pure light of the Gospel.
“would first torture you and then burn you at the stake thinking they were doing God’s work.”
Thank goodness, we aren’t Lutherans.
You seem to think your hands are clean. Luther executed anabaptists for the heresy of denying Christian baptism.