Posted on 03/10/2018 7:56:46 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. ... But any who remain unaffected [by music] are clodhoppers indeed and are fit to hear only the words of dung-poets and the music of pigs.
As might be guessed, these are the words of Martin Luther, the reformer who didnt mince words. But in more ironic words before these, he said this about music:
"Looking at music itself, you will find that from the beginning of the world it has been instilled and implanted in all creatures, individually and collectively. ... Music is still more wonderful in living things, especially birds, so that David, most musical of all kings, and minstrel of God, in deepest wonder and spiritual exultation praised the astounding art and ease of the song of birds in Psalm 104. ... And yet, compared to the human voice, all this hardly deserves the name of music, so abundant and incomprehensible is here the munificence and wisdom of our most gracious Creator."
Luther was a music lover; he played the lute and flute, sang with a light tenor voice, and even put a hand to composing music. He was well acquainted with the music styles of his day, and he used his varied musical talents and interests to reform the religious and liturgical music of the emerging Lutheran church.
Weve just commemorated the 500th anniversary of Martin Luthers 95 Theses. The emphasis was understandably on Luthers theologysalvation by faith alone, the priesthood of all believers, the priority of Scripture, and so forth. Just as important historically are Luthers contributions to church music. Though there is no mention of music in the 95 Theses, Luthers influence on church music has been significant. Martin Luther might be considered with justification the father of Protestant music in Germany.
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You already had two of your hateful posts yanked off of this thread, ebby.
Are you trying to get yourself suspended from FR again?
I didn’t know I had posts pulled. I’ll no longer post on this thread.
Dang, ebb, youre pathetic in your hatred.
Seriously, does DWK know you're using his meme?
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There are Catholics, and there are ‘protesting’ catholics.
I grew up in a baptist church.
I now recognize that baptists (and other ‘protestants’) accept most of the gross doctrinal errors upon which the catholic church was founded.
Yeshua had no intention of creating any ‘church.’ He made that fact quite plain in the words reported in Matthew ch 5.
“Christianity” is just as man made as pharisaical Judaism, and differs only in the specific nature of the man made commandments it seeks to enforce.
Yeshua came to restore the covenant made at Sinai; not to add another fake religion to the already vast collection that had burdened his sheep.
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Memes are created to proliferate, are they not? :o)
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Which parts?
Can you elaborate?
Likewise; what do you think the word "pope" means?
The church that does NOTHING to dispell THIS kind of wors.. adoration??
When therefore we read in the writings of Saint Bernard, Saint Bernardine, Saint Bonaventure, and others that all in heaven and on earth, even God himself, is subject to the Blessed Virgin, they mean that the authority which God was pleased to give her is so great that she seems to have the same power as God. Her prayers and requests are so powerful with him that he accepts them as commands in the sense that he never resists his dear mothers prayer because it is always humble and conformed to his will.... St. Louis de Montfort, in Treatise on True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, #27, 246.
http://www.ewtn.com/library/Montfort/TRUEDEVO.HTM
I just HATE it when things like that are exposed!!
3 now...
And you think GOD can't answer our prayers because we do not channel them through Rome's Mary.
Seriously, does DWK know you’re using his meme?
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Totally unintentionally, I assure you!
Kinda fun to see Chrysalis on a religion thread, though.
But you DO know WHY; right??
Openly...
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