[malakhi]

I didn't say that Luther was a rabbinical scholar, only that he limited Christianity to what he could find in the Bible. That is what he had left after he repudiated pope, council and bishops. To him, as to the Jew and Muslims, Christianity became a religion of the Book.

You do realize that Judaism has an entire body of "oral Torah"?

[RobbyS]

The Reformation was primarily a rejection of the sacerdotal authority of the Catholic priesthood and the long discussion that had been carried on under their government. It began an entirely new discussion based on a new theory of grace and centering on the text of the Bible. Their clerics were no longer priests but scribes, expounders of a book that could now physically be put into the hands of any believer literate in his own language. In their temples, the pulpit takes the place of the altar, and the Bible becomes the central icon.

[RobbyS]

You do realize that Judaism has an entire body of "oral Torah"? Yes.

[ksen]

You do realize that Judaism has an entire body of "oral Torah"?

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