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To: Mom MD; marshmallow; NYer; Salvation
Having said that, the true Lutheran denominations would welcome reuniting with the RCs. As soon as they give up Mary worship, indulgences, praying to saints and the other 95 suggestions Luther made.

Have you actually read the 95 Theses? Because NONE of them addressed devotion to the Blessed Mother (though Luther did correctly call her the mother of God) or intercession of the saints. In fact, the 95 Theses never even condemned indulgences, but only their sale (which was never sanctioned by the Church) and other abuses surrounding them.

23 posted on 02/09/2016 1:04:51 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee; Mom MD

“Have you actually read the 95 Theses?”

You’re asking a Protestant who just falsely accused Catholics of “Mary worship” if she has actually read a historical document? The chances she has read it are pretty much zero.


26 posted on 02/09/2016 1:13:18 PM PST by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: wagglebee

Vlad:

Don’t go too far in your apologetics regarding evangelicals such as to make them afraid of the work of the HS in their life.

No ML did not deny Theotokos.
Yes, ML excoriated the practice of indulgence by payment
He also denied any should pray to the already dead.

That doesn’t mean that some should be “tossed-aside” in maintaining the purity of doctrine. That same purity of doctrine is what is required by our Pastors, not the flock...we are simply to believe.


29 posted on 02/09/2016 1:52:15 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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