Indeed.
Martin Luther smelled it first and dealt with it.
It was only a matter of time before Lutheranism degenerated into pluralism then agnosticism then atheism then post-modernism then nihilism.
To claim that any particular step along the descent toward hell was the correct one to perch on is whistling past the graveyard.
Indeed.
Martin Luther smelled it first and dealt with it.
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Got excommunicated for his trouble too!
But, as the Lord said in the 15th chapter of John: “18 “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. 21 But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me. “