Immigration, Muslims, Freedom of Religion and Birthrates

[MoreCoffee]

He pointed the masses back to Jesus as Savior. It's a wonderful idea to read Luther.

Your remarks are not apropos the subject that was under discussion. Martin Luther may or may not have encouraged people to rely on the Lord Jesus Christ in some things that he wrote but the subject was the polemics he wrote about Muslims and Jews and Catholics. Nobody ought to take his advice on those matters.

 

[Rens]

Your remarks are not apropos the subject that was under discussion. Martin Luther may or may not have encouraged people to rely on the Lord Jesus Christ in some things that he wrote but the subject was the polemics he wrote about Muslims and Jews and Catholics. Nobody ought to take his advice on those matters.

Muslims and catholics too? I read some evil stuff he wrote on Jews. Hitler was inspired by it or maybe just used it to brainwash christians or they were brainwashed already, so they accepted him.

http://scholarship.rollins.edu/mls/20/

 

[MoreCoffee]

Muslims and catholics too? I read some evil stuff he wrote on Jews. Hitler was inspired by it or maybe just used it to brainwash christians or they were brainwashed already, so they accepted him.

http://scholarship.rollins.edu/mls/20/

He did write some things that the Nazis used in their propaganda. He also wrote against Muslims and Catholics. He was not very fond of Calvinists or Anabaptists either and wrote against Anabaptists. In his day polemics were common, he was not alone in writing harshly about his opponents. Some Catholic authors and some Anabaptist authors wrote against their opponents too.

 

[Lamb]

MC, in order to understand Luther's words we need to realize what was happening during that time period. It makes sense WHY Luther wrote what he did when history is understood properly.

 

[MoreCoffee]

MC, in order to understand Luther's words we need to realize what was happening during that time period. It makes sense WHY Luther wrote what he did when history is understood properly.

What Martin Luther wrote in his polemical works about Jews, Muslims, and Catholics was immoral regardless of the age in which it was written.

 

[Rens]

http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/in-the-line-of-fire/43161-a-deadly-anti-israel-theological-error

 

[Josiah]

What Martin Luther wrote in his polemical works about Jews, Muslims, and Catholics was immoral regardless of the age in which it was written.

MoreCoffee, my Catholic friend....


Docilic members of the RC Denomination are told by the RC Denomination that the leader of it itself individually may be "infallible" and when he speaks ergo God must agree. So your mindset is understandable. But it is not Protestant. We do not believe that Luther was infallible or the Mouth of God or an Authority (on anything) - we believe he was a sinful, mortal man who can be (and not infrequently was) wrong. Luther said some stupid, offensive, wrong things - they may have been very typical opinions of his day (ones shared by a lot of Catholics in his day, btw) and so historically/culturally not surprising - but stupid and wrong and offensive nonetheless. Lutherans are not disturbed by this.... Luther never claimed anything for himself, he pointed us to Christ and to Scripture - not to himself or any denomination. Luther demanded that he be fully accountable - and we take his advise. I know that's the antithesis of Catholicism and may be very hard (even impossible) for you to understand or appreciate, but it's the way it is.



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- Josiah