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To: xone
Luther was a Catholic.

As were all "Protestants" before the Reformation. At the founding of Protestantism, all of the Marian devotion that this thread rejects, were fully embraced by your Founders.

p.s. the Bible is Catholic too.

450 posted on 12/15/2014 10:20:41 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Servant of the Cross

I guess you skipped over the fact that those opinions didn’t pass scriptural muster and were not included in Lutheran Confessional documents, or what Luther thought personally isn’t relevant to Lutherans when it is in conflict with the Word of God. We don’t worship or pray to other people.


454 posted on 12/15/2014 10:31:12 AM PST by xone
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To: Servant of the Cross
p.s. the Bible is Catholic too.

If so, you'd think they would read it once in awhile, would sure clear up the baloney doctrines of the OTC.

455 posted on 12/15/2014 10:32:51 AM PST by xone
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To: Servant of the Cross

“At the founding of Protestantism, all of the Marian devotion that this thread rejects, were fully embraced by your Founders.”

That the Reformers recovered the Gospel of Grace is more than one could hope for. To think they would set straight more than a thousand years of error in a brief lifetime is unrealistic.

They did work to make Scripture open and available to the common man and set off a reexamination to see what God revealed. In this sense, God used them to correct and recover.

No one claims they were perfect. No human is. For His own reasons, God uses flaw-ridden humans and an occasional donkey or fish.


458 posted on 12/15/2014 10:36:14 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion ( "I didn't leave the Central Oligarchy Party. It left me." - Ronaldus Maximus)
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