[.45 Long Colt]

Believe what you want. Despite his Roman Catholic upbringing, education, and priesthood, God opened his eyes to see the futility of the Roman maze and he helped recover The Gospel, which is “the power of God unto salvation, “ (Romans 1:16). I have significant theological disagreements with Luther, but I recognize his monumental contributions.

Rome’s gospel cannot save, FRiend. Instead of worrying about what an Augustinian monk wrote nearly five centuries ago, perhaps you should worry about understanding how God saves sinners.

These sermons can help anyone who isn’t sure they know and understand both the true and false gospel.

The Gospel
http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=84151642388

Unmasking the False Gospel
http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=1010665821

[af_vet_1981]

I have significant theological disagreements with Luther, but I recognize his monumental contributions.

As do others; yet he is a false apostle; he should not be venerated or praised.

The acquiescence of the German Protestant churches in Nazi oppression and murder of Jews is well documented. In this book, Christopher J. Probst demonstrates that a significant number of German theologians and clergy made use of the sixteenth-century writings by Martin Luther on Jews and Judaism to reinforce the racial antisemitism and religious anti-Judaism already present among Protestants. Focusing on key figures, Probst’s study makes clear that a significant number of pastors, bishops, and theologians of varying theological and political persuasions employed Luther’s texts with considerable effectiveness in campaigning for the creation of a “de-Judaized” form of Christianity. Probst shows that even the church most critical of Luther’s anti-Jewish writings reaffirmed the antisemitic stereotyping that helped justify early Nazi measures against the Jews.