Ping
Honestly, Martin Luther provided a most needed sanity check against the Catholic church’s wrongful practices and beliefs.
It still hasn’t learned, apparently.
Silly me. I read it as Martin Luther King.
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.
where was the “barf alert”??
“Enjoy your Pope.”
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?
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.