Friday, May 14, 2010

Reformer Martn Luther nailed his ideas to a Wittenberg church door. Did anyone do the same there since then?

Has any followed up by nailing more reformation suggestions like in 1517, MartinLuther's 92 theses, to the same church door, or anywhere else in Wittenberg?





The 95 Theses, a document written by Martin Luther in 1517, challenged the teachings of the Catholic Church on the nature of penance, the authority of the pope and the usefulness of indulgences. It sparked a theological debate that fueled the Reformation and subsequently resulted in the birth of Protestantism and the Lutheran, Reformed, and Anabaptist traditions within Christianity.





What theses would we post today?Reformer Martn Luther nailed his ideas to a Wittenberg church door. Did anyone do the same there since then?
Martin Luther was not quite the good guy he appeared to be. A lot of what he threw out from the Church he did so with the idea of attracting Jews to Christianity. When they did not convert in mass numbers, he turned against them and was rabidly anti-Semitic.





Besides, John Calvin and Hulrych Zwingli also left the church and formed their own groups -- Calvinism and some other group -- but they did not necessarily agree with each other or with Luther. All three were adamant in their belief that Mary remained a Virgin after Jesus' birth. All three had vastly different opinions, however, on the nature of man and the operation of grace. All 3 also differed on the nature of the Eucharist. Martin Luther held to the Real Presence but used ';consubstantiation'; rather than ';transubstantiation'; like us Catholics; Zwingli held to another opinion and Calvin still another opinion. Once you have two or more different opinions as such, error is necessarily present. God is Truth. Truth is One....not 3 opinions and certainly not 30,000+ different Protestant groupings which is a slap in the face to Jesus' prayer to the Father that they ';all be one';. If all were in accord with the Holy Spirit (who leads us to all Truth), then all of the people would come to the same conclusion 100% of the time. Thirty thousand-plus groupings are not of God but of Satan who wants nothing more than division.





PS...Luther posted 95 -- not 92 -- Theses. Nailing stuff to the Cathedral door was the common way of inviting clergy to a debate on whatever issues one wanted to. It was never done in an antagonistic way. Luther only wanted dialog. On his deathbed he repented and claimed that he never wanted things to go as far as they had. Even though he was strictly Sola Scriptura, he maintained a very deep devotion to Mary all his life. The door to his tomb has a large Latin inscription on it praising Mary -- that he himself penned before his death. So...if you follow the Reformers (and you do if you are Protestant), where is your great devotion to Mary? Luther also insisted that only the Devil could ever get people to interpret ';This IS my Body...this IS my Blood'; for ';this resembles/symbolizes my Body....my blood';. And why are you following mere men that even have their groups named after them...Lutheranism...Calvinism...Weslyan鈥?(Methodist church)...isn't this a bit narcissistic? Why not join the Church Jesus and the apostles established -- the Roman Catholic Church? It goes back to the year A.D. 33 -- not 1517 like Luther!





Reformer Martn Luther nailed his ideas to a Wittenberg church door. Did anyone do the same there since then?
A former Catholic priest named Matthew Fox stated he was going to nail his own 95 theses for a New Reformation a while back on the same church door. However, I think he was denied permission.





Here are Fox's, most of which are way out there and are more New Age:





http://www.matthewfox.org/sys-tmpl/theaw鈥?/a>
Post this: Martin Luther was a wolf in sheep's clothing!





Don't honor that man until you've read what he wrote about Jewish people. There is no excuse for some of his views. This is true of most if not all Church 'reformers'.
It would be hard to do. The original doors have been replaced with Bronze doors, with the 95 Theses cast into them. Duck tape would work though!





Mark

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