[Cronos]

Actually, quite a difference -- because The Church allowed and allows for certain differences of opinion as long as it doesn't touch core dogma. That's because the Church was always a community of different people with different opinions

Luther's problem is that he was not curtailed. He was smart, but one man in the 1500s couldn't read through all the wisdom of the accumulated 1500 years

THAT, compounded with his tendency to fly into rage and curse all at the first sign he was being disagreed with (see his diatribes against Catholics, Zwingli, Jews etc.) is linked to what I wrote to AmPU that the premise of the original article is flawed considering that various denominations agree on practically nothing (especially if you include Oneness Pentecostals who deny the Trinity)

[Elsie]

Actually, quite a difference -- because The Church allowed and allows for certain differences of opinion as long as it doesn't touch core dogma.

Is a perpetually sinless and unpenetrated Mary 'core' or opinion?

[Elsie]

THAT, compounded with his tendency to fly into rage and curse all at the first sign he was being disagreed with...

Golly!

I wonder what his screenname is here?