Zone1 After a perusal of Martin Luther's 95 Thesis, I have learned...

[surada]

Luther was a mere grassroots critical priesthood of Roman Catholicism until the church's reactions to the theses.

Luther was so pissed at the Catholic Church he started teaching that Rome was the Whore of Babylon.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

That was not an overnight decision, Surada. It took some time and stupid institutional reactions to get him so riled up.

 

[Batcat]

you don't seem to fully grasp how evil certain sins are and how much DAMAGE they do to frail human beings. Jesus cannot fully restore a person to the pre-mortal-sin state unless that person is very, very INTO Jesus...

Luther? Yeh, right...

I would think that dividing the ONE Church would be a big sin with massive repercussions... arrogating to yourself your own "papacy" when Christ established ONE human head of the Church (St Peter and all the popes who followed him [legitimate popes, that is])

There is only one unforgivable sin.

”Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the children of man, and whatever blasphemies they utter, but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin” — for they were saying, ‘He has an unclean spirit.’” (Mark 3:28–30)

You Asked: What Is the Unforgivable Sin?

We posed the question, “I’ve wrestled with this for a long time: what is the unforgivable sin that Jesus talks about?” to Jonathan Pennington.

www.thegospelcoalition.org

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So what does the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit really mean, and how does it apply to us today? In short, I suggest it’s a specific, active, and final choice to declare the person and work of Jesus as being demonic in origin. The specificity of this charge is clearest in the most detailed version of the event we have, retold by Matthew (12:22-37). There it’s clear that, after a contracted series of interactions with Jesus, the Pharisees have made a final, declarative decision that Jesus is not from God and must be killed (12:14 is the turning point of Matthew’s narrative on this score). As a result, they have no choice but to openly interpret Jesus’ good works of healing and teaching as Satanic in origin. Jesus, in a showing of his incredible wisdom, reveals the terrible inconsistency of their logic (12:25-29). Instead, he argues, these godly works come from God’s Spirit. Therefore, to call the Spirit’s work through Jesus demonic is the greatest, unforgivable sin (12:31-32).

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

1miseryindex said every single day on USMB blasphemes against the Spirit of the Holy Ghost.

 

[surada]

That was not an overnight decision, Surada. It took some time and stupid institutional reactions to get him so riled up.

He must have been a barn burner. The Reformation would have happened eventually, but maybe slower without so much bloodshed. Who knows?

 

[Libby von H]

Luther was a mere grassroots critical priesthood of Roman Catholicism until the church's reactions to the theses.

NO, he was a member of the Augustinians.

 

[Zebra]

I learned that Luther was "very" Catholic in 1521 when he wrote that document!

A lot of what he says is exactly what the Catholic Church teaches! Who knew?

Well, I had read a few of the items on this Thesis before but recently read nearly the entire thing... was very surprised to see what a Catholic document it was/is. Yes, there were some heresies there also, and the Church noted those and anathematized them. And later, Luther was excommunicated.

I read The Facts About Luther some years ago and he definitely, definitely devolved away from his Catholicity! He called priests and others horrible names when they disagreed with him and said obscene things I cannot write out here... at least R rated..

In other words, he let himself go to hell, probably literally.

(That's one reason, by the way, that the Catholic Church does not canonize --or name a building after--anyone until that person is gone and there is evidence the person is in Heaven. )

surprising!

 

[Zebra]

Luther was so pissed at the Catholic Church he started teaching that Rome was the Whore of Babylon.

Baptists think Rome is the Anti.Christ?