Posted on 10/08/2001 4:52:32 PM PDT by HapaxLegamenon
Let's play "Who said this?"... "It is a sweet and pious belief that the infusion of Mary's soul was effected without original sin; so that in the very infusion of her soul she was also purified from original sin and adorned with God's gifts, receiving a pure soul infused by God; thus from the first moment she began to live she was free from all sin" (Sermon: "On the Day of the Conception of the Mother of God," 1527). "She is full of grace, proclaimed to be entirely without sin- something exceedingly great. For God's grace fills her with everything good and makes her devoid of all evil. (Personal {"Little"} Prayer Book, 1522). "Whoever possesses a good (firm) faith, says the Hail Mary without danger! Whoever is weak in faith can utter no Hail Mary without danger to his salvation. (Sermon, March 11, 1523). "Our prayer should include the Mother of God . . . What the Hail Mary says is that all glory should be given to God, using these words: "Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus Christ. Amen!" You see that these words are not concerned with prayer but purely with giving praise and honor . . . We can use the Hail Mary as a meditation in which we recite what grace God has given her. Second, we should add a wish that everyone may know and respect her . . . He who has no faith is advised to refrain from saying the Hail Mary. (Personal Prayer Book, 1522). Well, if you haven't guessed by this point, the answer is Martin Luther......
A. He read his junk mail in his monk jail!
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CORRECTION - People WITH faith are advised to refrain from saying Hail Mary.
Right. Luther was a reformer, not the founder of Christianity.
Whether it be the errors of Luther or the errors of popes, threads like this serve no other purpose except to pit Catholics against Non-Catholics. Perhaps we should be looking at the glaring errors of Islam.
In fact, Dr. Luther drops by our house every October 31 to tell my kids about how he learned of the justifying grace and righteousness of God, how God used him to oppose a corrupt sect and to put the Bible in the language of the people.
But as I say, he's an elder brother from whom I can learn. Thank God I don't have some un-Biblical notion of an extra-Biblical line of authority, shackling me to repeat the errors of the past! I hope I can benefit the people I teach, but were I to die and go to be with the Lord and learn that they had decided to repeat my own mistakes, I'd be heartsick!
Thank God for the freedom of the Christian!
Dan
You failed to mention it was Luther's abridged version of the Bible.
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