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for 1,500 years the church pretty much did O.K. with the teachings if the

You're right, the church did but NOT God's children. God used Luther to set His children free. "So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed!"

You keep your man-made teachings - no one wants them. God's children hear and obey HIS Holy Spirit inspired WORD.

[terycarl]

. God used Luther to set His children free. "So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed!"

Yup, he set them free to divorce and remarry, skip the Sacrament of Reconciliation, freed them from the restriction to attend Mass EVERY Sunday and Holy day of obligation, freed them from praying for their deceased loved ones, freed them from believing that the Eucharist is the body, blood, soul and divinity of our lord. Wow, we can believe that Christianity is sort of a social club....kind of a community center which mentions Jesus once in a while. And if we don't like this denomination, we can jump over to one of the other 20,000 groups, all of which swear that they are the true church......sorry, it doesn't work that way...remember that Christ promised, at the inception of His church, that the gates of hell would not prevail against her.......they haven't!!!