07-12-2012, 10:06 PM
ScorpioSniper2 Wrote:Martin Luther was a great theologian who I believe who God used to get His people out of the Catholic church, but he was still only a man.
Shlama Akhi SS2:
Wouldn't it have been more profitable to fulfill his first love of reforming from within the Roman Catholic Church? I believe that this is Alaha's will always. Then there would not be division, splinter groups, denominations, lost Christians and all of the abominations that ensue from such a gross division. No, Luther was just more verbal about the situation at hand than many Christians who saw the same that he saw. Didn't James say faith without works is dead. Martin Luther hated the Book of James and wanted to remove it from the New Testament Canon. He quoted "the just shall live by faith alone when the text does not use the word alone. Works must accompany faith as the Apostle James said. It is for this reason that the Reformers had no clear solution. They have been splintering into smaller and smaller denominations since Luther's 95 thesesis were made public. Yes, of course he was correct in his condemnation against indulgences but it would have been much more fruitful to affect change from the inside of the Church rather than to split the Holy, Apostolic Catholic Church. Who on earth wants to be called a rebel/protestant, rather than a holy member of the Apostolic Catholic Church. The Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East has always kept reforms within the Church family, rather than airing its dirty laundry. May our gracious MarYah Alaha bless you and keep you in the centre of His Holy will SS2.
Shlama,
Stephen Silver
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