[boatbums]

Are you unfamiliar with the use of "literary devices"? This account supposedly of a real experience Luther had with the devil is in fact NOT something he EVER said he had. From http://beggarsallreformation.blogspot.com/2011/02/helping-catholic-answers-with-luther.html:

In English, this treatise can be found in LW 38:147-215 entitled, "The Private Mass and the Consecration of Priests" (1533). The editors of Luther's Works explain, "The idea of a disputation with the devil occurred to Luther while he was working on this third draft. This verbal exchange with the devil does not reflect his personal experience but is employed as an effective literary device in the first part of the book. The fact that Luther’s plan for the book changed as he developed these three outlines in succession is reflected in the rather abrupt way in which he concluded his writing as well as the remark that the book had become longer than he had originally intended it to be" [LW 38:144].

Why does it seem many Roman Catholics are so gullible that they'll believe anything as long as it makes them look good and the Reformers bad?

[vladimir998]

“Are you unfamiliar with the use of “literary devices”? “

Nope. Apparently you never actually read what I linked to. That’s okay. I won’t read the rest of your post.

[CynicalBear]

>>Why does it seem many Roman Catholics are so gullible that they'll believe anything as long as it makes them look good and the Reformers bad?<<

Because it fits whithin the tactics of half truths which is Satan's way?

[Elsie]

Why does it seem many Roman Catholics are so gullible that they'll believe anything as long as it makes them look good and the Reformers bad?

Low self esteem?