“I have read them”
Yet you act surprised when expressing the knowledge “at one point Luther believed in Purgatory”. If you read, or at least remembered, them then you’d know the whole point is a given.
“yet you seem to pick and choose Luther’s writings that you choose to either accept or reject.”
Given your increasingly apparent inability to comprehend what I’m writing (contending I’ve said what I took pains to say I’m not), I’m not surprised at what you “seem” to observe.
...and that being the case, I think the fun of this is getting pretty well drained out.
So to summarize what you may have misunderstood (how I have no idea):
- Luther believed in Purgatory, and thought the RCC was heretical about how residents thereof could get out
- Luther did, in later writings, discover that Purgatory is a heretical concept itself
- I absolutely reject the notion of Purgatory existing, because if it does it contravenes the existence of Hell (there being no Biblical reason why someone would go to one over the other)
- I _did_ read your four links
- and if you can’t even remember the relevance of Purgatory to the content of Luther’s 95 Theses, then there really isn’t any point whatsoever to continuing this discussion (on top of the fact you can’t seem to grasp what I’ve simply & plainly written).
‘twas fun. Cheers!
May I safely say assume you won’t be praying for the Holy Souls this Thursday?