[steve8714]

Oddly, the only Church that can trace its roots back to Jesus himself seems to be one of your targets. You know better than Paul?

[maddogtiger]

impeach obama

[Biggirl]

These are much more hidden attacks that is all.

[fishtank]

Hi. If you are speaking of the church of Rome, I’d recommend they apply Paul’s “letter to the Romans”.

The Roman church has STILL not learned the lesson of justification by grace through faith alone.

Not to mention, the Roman church, along with the prematurely-labeled “Reformed theologians”, have not applied or learned the lessons in Romans chapters 9 though 11 about GOd’s future plans for the nation of Israel.

[cloudmountain]

Oddly, the only Church that can trace its roots back to Jesus himself seems to be one of your targets. You know better than Paul?

He's just "fishing" for a response. Faith and good works go hand in hand. Faith alone is useless unless it brings about good works. PRAYER is considered a good work too. If we can't DO, we CAN pray.

St. Paul...what a story. God certainly does work in mysterious ways, doesn't He?

[cloudmountain]

From Google;
Luther came to understand justification as entirely the work of God. When God's righteousness is mentioned in the gospel, it is God's action of declaring righteous the unrighteous sinner who has faith in Jesus Christ.

QUESTION: Does one become righteous through NO action of his/her own? And does the righteousness continue even when people continue to sin? Does one NOT have to lead a good and righteous life for God to justify him/her? I'm asking because I am NOT a Lutheran and don't know the answers to these questions and am curious.

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Ah yes, Martin Luther, the defrocked-Catholic priest who decided that HE was right and the 1500-year old Catholic Church was wrong.
He was an amazing man, wasn't he? Now he even has a Protestant faith named after him. Nothing left for Protestants to protest, is there?

I visited the castle where he was staying and the famous "INK BLOT" wall where he threw his ink pot at the devil. No one can doubt his fire and passion for our Catholic faith. I certainly don't!

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The Reformation WAS a good thing for the Catholic Church and its sinful practices that he deprecated. The Church DID reform.

I wonder if Luther would say TODAY that formation of "Protestantism" and the ensuing 30,000 (Catholic Church numbers) to 40,000 (Protestant numbers) different denominations of Protestants was a GOOD thing and well worth it.