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Pastimes : Ask God
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (28320)12/4/1999 12:24:00 AM
From: Jamey  Read Replies (1) of 39621
 
It pretty well tells us that they were quite hostile to any other opinions. I wished I was a scholar on Church history. I do understand that they were quick to burn at the stake anyone disagreeing with Catholicism and Luther was one step ahead of the heresy hunters.

"In the translator's introduction to this work it is said that Luther "saw Erasmus as an enemy of God and the Christian religion, an Epicurean and a serpent, and he was not afraid to say so."

I think Luther would see the great threat to the church today in terms of Pelagianism because of what transpired after the Reformation. Historians have said that though Luther won the battle with Erasmus in the sixteenth century he lost it in the seventeenth century and was demolished in the eighteenth century by the conquest achieved by the Pelagianism of the Enlightenment. He would see the church today as being in the grasp of Pelagianism with this adversary of the faith having a stranglehold on us."

Luther was responsible for causing a deep split within the Church because of his stand that we are saved by faith alone. I will stand up on his side based on that belief alone. You have to admit that it was people like him that brought more "democracy" to the Church and the common man.
(fire brands at 10 yards, anyone?)grin

Santiago
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