Seeing that it took Protestant lives burning at the stake to print the Bible in english and distribute it to the masses, one now wonders if the Word shows that the same Protestants should now convert to the Roman Catholic Church?
Um...I’l pass. I grew up Catholic and it was the Protestant church that showed me what salvation was. The Catholic church only offered ritual.
Then there was ....That ole Martin Luther...never read the New Testament until he was preparing for his Doctorate in Theology....not that church either...
Well what church....the one in 2009? Must be that one cause the other churches are a bit flawed....I should have said charred.
You wrote:
“Seeing that it took Protestant lives burning at the stake to print the Bible in english and distribute it to the masses, one now wonders if the Word shows that the same Protestants should now convert to the Roman Catholic Church?”
1) No Protestant was ever burned at the stake by Catholics for printing Bibles and distributing them to the masses.
2) Catholics mass produced Bibles IN THE VERNACULAR NO LESS on the moveable type presses before Protestantism was even invented.
“Um...I’l pass. I grew up Catholic and it was the Protestant church that showed me what salvation was. The Catholic church only offered ritual.”
And if that is your belief, then it shows you never paid attention during any of those rituals.
“Then there was ....That ole Martin Luther...never read the New Testament until he was preparing for his Doctorate in Theology....not that church either...”
(sigh) Luther read the scriptures since he was a child as all literate children did.
1) Children in schools were taught scripture when they studied Latin.
2) He would have had to read all of scripture when he was an undergraduate and master’s student in theology to say the least.
3) As a cleric, and especially as a deacon, he would have read scripture at Mass.
This nutty idea you’re putting forward is based upon the false claims of Luther. You are apparently even mistating even those claims. If I am not mistaken, Luther claimed he saw his first Bible (perhaps meaning a one volume great Bible) when he was at Erfurt. He would have been age 20 and not studying for his doctorate.
And if you actually read the works of Luther himself, you would know that he claimed years later that he was given a Bible in his first year in the monastery - as a novice - and YEARS BEFORE HE STARTED HIS DOCTORAL WORK - and that was apparently standard practice to give a Bible to EVERY NOVICE.
Read Luther’s Works, volume 54 if you don’t believe me. That’s why the Lutherans admit: “Luther’s most intensive early exposure to the biblical text came after he was accepted as a novice by the Augustinian monastery in Erfurt, Germany. In a strict monastery life, the whole Psalter would be prayed in the course of every week. In penitential seasons Bible reading was a regular part of an Augustinian friar’s personal devotion. We know that as a novice, Luther enjoyed the rare luxury (for his time) of having a Bible just for his own.”
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I’m sorry you were led astray. Christ is waiting for you to come back.