Posted on 10/27/2021 7:02:05 AM PDT by ebb tide
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Honestly, Martin Luther provided a most needed sanity check against the Catholic church’s wrongful practices and beliefs.
It still hasn’t learned, apparently.
Martin Luther’s work was one of history’s first significant Freedom of Speech landmarks.
Silly me. I read it as Martin Luther King.
Are you referring to “On the Jews and their lies”?
It is an automatic connection.
I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, as a Lutheran I evidently stand with Luther’s critique of the church’s doctrine as it was in the early 1500s, and would hope that one day Rome will recognize this. On the other hand, the German “Lutherans” who inhabited the Vatican are either all or almost all progressive useful idiots who don’t deserve to be called Lutherans, more heretical themselves than the church was back then. Francis standing with them places himself in greater divine jeopardy than if he had simply stuck with the old line and left Lutheranism alone.
Excellent to display Blessed Saint Martin Luther!
May Rome someday return to the Gospel of Grace.
You mean like when he told his followers to wash their hands in the Papists’ blood?
where was the “barf alert”??
Prayers up for Holy Mother Church.
“Enjoy your Pope.”
No. His publication of the Ninety-Five Theses, even after Pope Leo X told him NOT to do it. At that point in human history the Holy Roman Church represented the closest thing to a global government that has ever existed, before or since. It was nearly omnipotent.
Yet he still defied them and struck a blow for freedom.
Luther’s goal was to reform the church (hence the term “reformation”), not to split it or start a new one. The split occurred when he was excommunicated. Leo X btw was a head of the Medici family who ruled Florence and used the power of the Papal States to attack enemies of his family regime. He is best known for selling indulgences to raise money for the new St. Peter’s Basilica he was building. This practice was one which outraged Luther.
blasphemy?
While I believe Luther initially had the noblest intentions in reforming the Church, his opposition to the peasants during the Peasants Revolt shows his views on freedom.
Nothing like holding a statue of your enemy hostage.
Expect the Vatican to break it up and burn it and throw the ashes in the river, like they did with other Bible believers. (Hus)(See Fox’s “Book of Martyrs”).
Maybe they will try to get the Lutherans to pray to it. You know, like all the other images and gods they pray to.
Expect a few ELCA members to take them up on this, because since the ELCA has abandoned the Bible, and they now have active homosexuals pastoring their churches too, none of them seem to understand that they have become apostate as well.
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