Comments on: Happy Reformation Day

By: Roderick

Roderick — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:31:36 +0000

View this 3 minute video that humorously presents the history of the Reformation set to a "polka": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU0f_qJLkLg Read a line-by-line explanation of the video: http://thekingdomcome.com/explaining_refpolka Listen to a 30 minute podcast with the singer of the song: http://thekingdomcome.com/ref_and_ren For more Christian videos: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=thekingdomcomedotcom&view=videos

By: Tom R

Tom R — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 05:00:21 +0000

> “allows divorce and re-marriage be true in light of the inerrant word of God”
As opposed to, allowing divorce and remarriage after a panel of priests decrees that (eg) a 20-year-long marriage “was never really valid in the first place” because a couple of 25-year-olds “were not really mature enough” at the time to understand what they were getting into.
What’s wrong with Jesus’ and St Paul’s grounds for allowing divorce and remarriage — if your spouse commits adultery, or a non-Christian spouse abandons you?
cmatt — Protestants have a judge, too, Who will settle these questions, and His docket too seems to move very slowly; but on the other hand, once He settles these questions, they’ll stay settled — it won’t be “extra eccclesiam nullus salvus” in those centuries when the Papacy has a respectable army, but “Ut Unumm Sint” in the centuries when it doesn’t.

By: Sarah Angeline

Sarah Angeline — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 00:34:54 +0000

Just a quick comment before I have to leave for class:
John,
Prove to me that saved people go to purgatory using scripture from the Bible. Show me.
Only people who are saved go to purgatory (or more properly, undergo purgation). Just because you are saved doesn’t mean you’re perfect
“…that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved” (Romans 10:9).
And no one answered my question- don’t you think that the sale of indulgences is pretty heretical?

By: John J. Simmins

John J. Simmins — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 16:34:17 +0000

Sarah: You need to see what the Catholic Church teaches and has always taught about purgatory and indulgences. You have misconceptions. Indulgences were never meant to buy one’s way out of hell. Only people who are saved go to purgatory (or more properly, undergo purgation). Just because you are saved doesn’t mean you’re perfect: “But nothing unclean shall enter it [heaven] . . .” (Rev. 21:27). Unless you die perfect, you’ll need purgation.

By: Foltz

Foltz — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 16:24:55 +0000

How could any religion that allows divorce and re-marriage be true in light of the inerrant word of God?
I don’t know, but a religion that says you can buy your way into heaven certainly warrants a split.

By: John J. Simmins

John J. Simmins — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 16:22:33 +0000

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By: John J. Simmins

John J. Simmins — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 15:43:16 +0000

“Dr. Luther’s role was analogous to the OT prophets who rebuked Israel when it strayed.” Only none of the Old Testament prophets suggested that a bunch of them go off and form a new, improved Israel. Who gave him the authority to create a new church?
How could any religion that allows divorce and re-marriage be true in light of the inerrant word of God?
Luke 16:18: “Every one who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.
Mathew 5:32: “But I say to you that every one who divorces his wife, except on the ground of unchastity, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Mathew 19:9: “And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for unchastity, and marries another, commits adultery.”
Mark 10: 11: And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another, commits adultery against her;”
1 Corinthian 7: 10-13: To the married I give charge, not I but the Lord, that the wife should not separate from her husband (but if she does, let her remain single or else be reconciled to her husband) — and that the husband should not divorce his wife. To the rest I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him.
Luther and his imitators introduced man made traditions that nullified the word of God.

By: Scrappy

Scrappy — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 15:34:48 +0000

You mean like Catholics do?
No, like Catholicism does.

By: David

David — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 15:28:05 +0000

“We might still have a Christianity that universally dissaproves of artificial contraception, divorce, homosexual acts, abortion”
You mean like Catholics do?

By: c matt

c matt — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 14:27:07 +0000

Were it not for Martin Luther and the brave men and women who prepared the way for the Reformation… Who knows?
Who knows, indeed. We might still have a Christianity that universally dissaproves of artificial contraception, divorce, homosexual acts, abortion, ….