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I'm NOT so sure that God was using the defrocked Father Martin Luther so much ... as you can see the list of the thousands of DIFFERENT Protestant denominations that have come and gone over the last 475 years.
Do you really think it was God's plan to have such a HUGE splintering of the Christian faith started 2000 years ago?
AND Protestantism didn't even START until 1540 years after Christ's death and resurrection.
"blessed Luther"? How do YOU know that hundreds of millions have experienced eternal life because of him?
Do you have a special "in" with God about that?
“Do you really think it was God’s plan to have such a HUGE splintering of the Christian faith started 2000 years ago? “
Does God keep His people pure? Yes.
All true believers are united in one body and comprise His Church, regardless of denomination.
“AND Protestantism didn’t even START until 1540 years after Christ’s death and resurrection.”
Well, you are wrong. God has always had His people - especially in the darkest times. They emerged from syncretic paganism circa 1540.
“blessed Luther”? How do YOU know that hundreds of millions have experienced eternal life because of him?
We know because we can read God’s inspired a Word, as Luther did,
“Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.”
“Do you have a special “in” with God about that?”
Yes, as a recipient of His gracious gift, as a son, as a joint-heir with Christ and as one who has the in dwelling Spirit to illumine the Scriptures, I do have an “in” with God. The same way He has made salvation available to all who turn from their sin and attempts at self-righteousness and accept Christ’s sacrifice alone.
And Reaganism didn't start until 200 years after the American Revolution. Reagan was a Dem who became something else because of the bad direction the Dem party took in his life (I would say the Dems were always bad but Reagan thought they were good at one time). Luther was a Catholic experiencing the same thing (again, I would say Magus' church was always bad). Reagan went back to the values that this country was founded on, Luther went back to the values that Christianity was founded on. These values always existed in the two cases, the Constitution and the bible respectively.
I have experienced eternal life because of Luther I was taught Sone saving doctrine in the church he founded and live steadfast in my Savior with full assurance of my salvation You cannot say that about your church if you are a good catholic