“Luther’s devilish “sin boldly” statement makes a mockery of God and His forgiveness”
“Indeed”
Amazing that without even reading the letter to Melenchthon you judge Luther based on a spurious phrase. For your edification, here is the paragraph from the letter from which the slander is made. The site for the entire letter is enclosed.
“If you are a preacher of mercy, do not preach an imaginary but the true mercy. If the mercy is true, you must therefore bear the true, not an imaginary sin. God does not save those who are only maginary sinners. Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world. We will commit sins while we are here, for this life is not a place where justice resides. We, however, says Peter (2. Peter 3:13) are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth where justice will reign. It suffices that through God’s glory we have recognized the Lamb who takes away the sin of the world. No sin can separate us from Him, even if we were to kill or commit adultery thousands of times each day. Do you think such an exalted Lamb paid merely a small price with a meager sacrifice for our sins? Pray hard for you are quite a sinner.
On the day of the Feast of St. Peter the Apostle, 1521
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/luther/letsinsbe.txt
If sin doesn't separate us from God, what does? Yup, you just confoirmed what sfassisi said. Only the devil would want us to believe that sin doesn't spearate us from God, so that we may commit adultery "thousands of times each day" and still be "saved."