PneumaPsucheSoma
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Greetings again PneumaPsucheSoma, I would be interested in how you view the Little Horn of Daniel 7. I equate this with the Papacy, the Antichrist. You seem to endorse the Papacy and the established Church in its earlier days at least.
The Pope (the office) is antichrist. So once again you demonstrate how little you know about me or about Luther himself and Lutheranism (or anything historical, for that matter).
The only book that I have read on Luther is Here I Stand – A Life of Martin Luther by Roland H Bainton 1950. I visit book sales and second hand bookshops and have also The Life and Times of Martin Luther by JH Merle D’Aubigne 1846, but I have not read this as yet. On the back cover it says “Written in the 1840s, this book has been recognised as the finest biography of Martin Luther available.”
I was interested in Bainton’s book in the chapter on The Middle Way, he says on page 200 “He rejected likewise infant baptism”. He also speaks of his contact with Muntzer who believed in direct Spirit revelation or guidance. Bainton says on page 202, “The real menace of Muntzer in Luther’s eyes was that he destroyed the uniqueness of Christian revelation in the past by his elevation of revelation in the present. Luther for himself had had absolutely no experience of any contemporary revelation, and in times of despondency the advice to rely upon the spirit was for him a counsel of despair, since within he could find only utter blackness. ... Luther freely avowed his weakness and his need of historic revelation. Therefore he would not listen to Muntzer ... At this point lies much of the difference not only between Muntzer and Luther, but between modern liberal Protestantism and the religion of the founders”. I do not know if modern Lutherism has moved away from these two commendable features.
Kind regards
Trevor
More ridiculous misrepresentation of Luther and history. Why don’t you read Luther if you want to determine anything about Luther? Wouldn’t that make more sense?
But of course there’s really not much about your theological or historical pursuits that seems to make sense. This is the mark of someone with an unrenewed mind attempting to pursue false cultic beliefs in place of the authentic historical orthodox Christian faith once delivered to the saints. Your entire ideology is contorted.