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To: Read Write Repeat
You think I am completely missing the points of your posts??? That's funny because you keep missing MY points including the very FIRST one to you when you insisted Lutherans must change the name of their denomination because of some things Martin Luther said towards the end of his life about Jews that you didn't like. You also, wrongly, insisted that ALL of his theology was anti-Jewish and totally based on it. It showed how little you know about the man or his faith and the faith of Christians in general. I will continue to love the Jewish people and endeavor to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ at every opportunity. I won't apologize for it.

This writer says it well, I think:

    Notwithstanding Luther's unchristian cruelty in his attitude to the Jews - and the Anabaptists and peasants too, for that matter - we cannot but thank God for this man who clarified for the church the cardinal doctrine of justification by faith alone. There is, surely, a wise example to follow in Augustine's sage advice concerning Platonism, "separate these truths from their unfortunate associations, take them away, and put them to their proper use for the proclamation of the gospel."  Finally, let us not forget that any failure of ours to proclaim the gospel of justification by faith alone to the Jewish people of our time is a form of religious anti-Semitism as inherently evil as the philosophy of the Nazis. http://www.reformation21.org/articles/a-legacy-of-shame-luther-and-the-jews.php

54 posted on 12/02/2016 6:51:08 PM PST by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: boatbums
Everyone will distance themselves from Lucifer Luther real soon.
55 posted on 12/03/2016 7:49:18 PM PST by Read Write Repeat
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