Why am I not surprised to see a Catholic surprised that a Christian is judged on Christ's merit. Or for that matter that prayer for a man dead can't change his salvatory state. This passage rules now, for Luther has died:
Heb 9 (ironically) But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27 And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, 28 so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
With a denomination named after him, I should not be shocked at that.
Well, he wasn't a Catholic when he died so he wouldn't get special treatment where sin is only for the non-catholic. Not really surprised that a Catholic would get Matt 25 wrong, but those parable and the judgments in there are after the 2nd Coming of the Lord. Luther has been judged already, surely you've been notified.
Are you asking for prayer to avoid Luther's false teaching ?
If you refer to TJATL, that isn't a part of Lutheran teaching in the Book of Concord, it seems that the Catholics picked up the slack then and ran with it. I'm still waiting for you to date the time the Catholic church ceased their AS activities, but I digress. Instead I praise God for sending ML and for guiding his work in re-illuminating scripture. I praise God even though He used such a vessel as ML. I know from his writing, that ML did as well. I further praise God for His redemption of me, a vessel flawed as ML or worse, because of the faith He gave me as a gift by His Grace. I too one day will stand before God and be judged on the merits of Christ for my salvation.