Posted on 08/12/2016 3:59:59 PM PDT by ebb tide
During the Reformation, Luther did not abandon the rosary, though he shortened the Ave Maria to this form: Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou and the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. In this way he eliminated the plea for Mary to pray for the supplicant. He advised his followers to use the rosary as an aid to meditation.
https://liturgical.wordpress.com/2007/09/29/new-books-what-martin-luther-thought-about-prayer-beads/
I prefer the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church to your “church of me”.
Projection.
You choose to believe pagan things that are never found in Scripture - purely for personal preference. That seems like the Church of Ebb Tide.
That's on you bro. Eternity is a long time to think about how useless a Chinese scapular or beads or hexagrams were.
Yet, only you are keeping you from turning to Christ instead.
I guess you made it to yourself, congrats.
You appear to ignore scripture’s teachings such as John 20:23. I’m sorry I can’t convince you otherwise. That’s why I’ll say rosaries for you while wearing my scapular.
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Oh, I forgave you every time you insulted me. I don't hold it against you at all.
That’s why I’ll say rosaries for you while wearing my scapular.
Good one!
You would get as much benefit from wearing a brown recluse as from wearing the brown scapular.
You'd only risk your life wearing the brown recluse. If you put your trust in the brown scapular, you will lose eternal life with God.
See post #146 and then tell me if Luther believed in “pagan things” that are never found in “scripture.
He advised his followers to use the rosary as an aid to meditation.
Not surprising since he was catholic, old habits die hard no pun intended. Never heard of its use since in Lutheran circles. While the Magnificat and Gabriel's greeting to the Virgin are read and the Magnificat sung during the season, the emphasis is on Christ as her Savior as Mary intended in response to her cousin's greeting.
OF COURSE HE DID!
Thank God for Blessed Father Luther - an imperfect man, like every other man God uses - who was used to recover the Glorious Gospel of Grace!
I know prots don't pray for the dead, but do they pray for other living prots, or non-prots, or do they just rely on their own personal ticket to "heaven"?
Cursed be his name and his face. Get behind me.
Have you ever or do you now pray Luther's "rosary"?
Of course I pray for others. Especially, that God would open their eyes to the glorious Gospel of grace. That includes you, bro.
Ebb, I think you've just been patronized.
I didn’t think so. Lucia said she heard Mary ask that these words be said after each decade of the rosary:
O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, and lead all souls to heaven, especially those who most need your mercy.
Whatever else one might think of Fatima, this is a wonderful prayer.
Yes, I think so too. :)
But you do agree that Lutherans are very quiet on what Martin Luther wrote about Mary being ever virgin, don’t you?
There are no examples of praying to or for the dead in the New Testament or the OT.
Nor are there any commands issued to rely upon a piece of cloth to avoid the hell-fire in the New Testament as idol worship is forbidden.
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