I don't think Luther is the best example of Christian behaviour.
He wrote a good book "Bondage of the Will" in which
he disproves the concept of "free will" and the act
of "accepting Jesus" as being human invention
rather than biblical truth but....
His personal behavior was deplorable to say the least.
That is my 2 mites worth on Luther.
Luther was wrong - Jews are no longer "enemies of Christ for our sake"
that ended in 70 AD and the Pope is not the anti-christ just another useless religious icon.
True anti-christ was alive when John wrote his epistles:
1 John 2:18 Little children, it is the last time:
and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come,
even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
Apostasy - the great falling away had already begun:
19 They went out from us, but they were not of us;
for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have
continued with us: but they went out, that they might be
made manifest that they were not all of us.
Jude also wrote of that apostasy as being witnessed:
JUde 1:17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken
before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
18 How that they told you there should be mockers in
the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
Luther had guts enough to go against the status quo but
he is not my hero at all - I suffer too much from the same sins
to ever look up to the guy.
Later
Brian |
