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To: ebb tide
You have yet failed to even attempt to disprove the alleged “lies”.

I've done it PLENTY of times. I can't help it if you refuse to hear and be corrected. That you continue to paste negative things about Luther that have already been disproven, shows that. When I know you are honestly considering the answers, then perhaps I will.

Here, we'll run a little test for you.

Your post 11 says this about Martin Luther:

    Luther, an ordained priest and consecrated religious, wantonly broke his vow of celibacy to God, and married a nun, also under a vow of celibacy.

The truth?

Luther was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic church in 1520. In 1525, Luther married Katherine von Bora, a novice fifteen years younger than he who he had helped escape from a convent.  The couple had six children. Obviously, he was no longer a priest of the Roman Catholic church. He didn't even marry until FIVE years after his excommunication. So, no, he did not "wantonly" break his vow to God. His wife I learned recently, was not fully a nun but a novice who had been placed in a convent as a young girl by her peasant family. She had not taken vows.

But to show how duplicitous Catholics can be, both priests and nuns CAN choose to leave their vows and marry and remain Catholics. So, what's the big deal with Luther doing so? He didn't stop being a priest because he wanted to have a wife - he didn't expect he would ever be married, but God had other plans for him. They married and had a large family. Where was their sin??? You have POPES that had mistresses and gay boy toys IN the Vatican and some who promoted their own illegitimate children as bishops, cardinals and popes! Hypocritize much?

You can go here and look up pretty much every supposed statement Luther made that Catholics like to trot out to condemn him and all those non-Catholic Christians who came after him should you want to look up the other false accusations: http://beggarsallreformation.blogspot.com/p/luther-exposing-myth.html

50 posted on 08/18/2017 7:34:45 PM PDT by boatbums (The Law is a storm which wrecks your hopes of self-salvation, but washes you upon the Rock of Ages.)
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To: boatbums

Excommunication is not a “free-pass” for one to freely sin.


52 posted on 08/18/2017 7:38:13 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: boatbums
Have you ever heard of the music album Sola Scriptura by Neal Morse?

It's a prog-rock album about the life of Martin Luther...

Here are two songs. Prepare to have your head explode.

The Door

The Conflict

Incidentally, I'm Catholic.

122 posted on 08/19/2017 5:05:37 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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