[Springfield Reformer]

“My God, what have I done? Even the milkmaids think they can interpret Scripture!” - Martin Luther.

At least he got that one right.

I doubt he ever said that.  Find the citation to something Luther said or wrote that matches those words and that sense, and I'll take it back.  Meanwhile, I'll keep looking.  Haven't found it yet. It has amazed me over the last year or so how many times an alleged Luther quote, supposedly designed to show him or his belief in a bad light, turns out to be one of those murky internet fabrications that gets mangled at some hard to trace source and passed around among RCs uncritically because it's an opportunity to bad mouth Luther.  And when he deserves it he deserves it. But if it's a misquote, we shouldn't be using it.

Peace,

SR

[BlueDragon]

But if it's a misquote, we shouldn't be using it.

It appears to me to be an out-of-context garbled quote from Tyndale, which after some careful editing was put into Luther's mouth...although if memory serves there was possibly some frustration expressed by Luther in some other manner in regards to some of the 'biblical' arguments which arose, after the great many had more direct access to the Scriptures, themselves.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“You should never believe everything you read on the Internet.”

Abraham Lincoln

[Cap'n Crunch]

Here’s one in the same vein you will have no trouble finding; Luther’s dealings with the Christians of Antwerp.

“The devil seeing that this sort of disturbance could not last, has devised a new one; and begins to rage in his members, I mean in the ungodly, through whom he makes his way in all sorts of chimerical follies and extravagant doctrines. This won’t have baptism, that denies the efficacy of the Lord’s supper; a third, puts a world between this and the last judgment ; others teach that Jesus Christ is not God ; some say this, others that ; and there are almost as many sects and beliefs as there are heads.”

I don’t know why he was so upset, folks were just doing what Luther said they could do; interpret Scripture as they saw fit. People are still doing it today. It’s the fruit of the protestant revolt.

[RnMomof7]

I doubt he ever said that. Find the citation to something Luther said or wrote that matches those words and that sense, and I'll take it back. Meanwhile, I'll keep looking. Haven't found it yet. It has amazed me over the last year or so how many times an alleged Luther quote, supposedly designed to show him or his belief in a bad light, turns out to be one of those murky internet fabrications that gets mangled at some hard to trace source and passed around among RCs uncritically because it's an opportunity to bad mouth Luther. And when he deserves it he deserves it. But if it's a misquote, we shouldn't be using it.

Did a search for context ...the only place it is found is on papist pages.. they make it up as they go along