The Reformation 500 Years, Oct 31st.

[Michelle420]

Very rarely do people get to celebrate the 500th anniversary of a major world event.

Millions of Christians around the world will get just such an opportunity in the coming days when they commemorate the start of the Protestant Reformation.

The event was sparked by Martin Luther, a one-time Roman Catholic monk, and professor who on Oct. 31, 1517, nailed his 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church in Germany. In so doing, Luther launched a breakaway movement from the Catholic church that quickly spread across Europe and eventually around the world.

Today, there are an estimated 900 million Protestants around the globe among the 2.4 billion Christians worldwide.

Hundreds expected to attend celebration of 500th anniversary of Protestant Reformation

Any Lutherans here celebrating?

 

[Lysistrata]

The Reformation: replacing stupidity with stupidity and then killing each other over it.

 

[Michelle420]

The Reformation: replacing stupidity with stupidity and then killing each other over it.

Please don't troll up here. Thanks.

 

[Marion Morrison]

Very rarely do people get to celebrate the 500th anniversary of a major world event.

Millions of Christians around the world will get just such an opportunity in the coming days when they commemorate the start of the Protestant Reformation.

The event was sparked by Martin Luther, a one-time Roman Catholic monk, and professor who on Oct. 31, 1517, nailed his 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church in Germany. In so doing, Luther launched a breakaway movement from the Catholic church that quickly spread across Europe and eventually around the world.

Today, there are an estimated 900 million Protestants around the globe among the 2.4 billion Christians worldwide.

Hundreds expected to attend celebration of 500th anniversary of Protestant Reformation

Any Lutherans here celebrating?

I guess it's a big deal this year aye? There's people going to Missouri and Iowa from what I hear.

 

[Lysistrata]

The Reformation: replacing stupidity with stupidity and then killing each other over it.

Please don't troll up here. Thanks.

It wasn't trolling. I was a history major. This period of European history was just plain ugly. I would have loved to somehow bang both sides' heads together.

 

[Michelle420]

The Reformation: replacing stupidity with stupidity and then killing each other over it.

Please don't troll up here. Thanks.

It wasn't trolling. I was a history major. This period of European history was just plain ugly. I would have loved to somehow bang both sides' heads together.

ok

 

[Michelle420]

Very rarely do people get to celebrate the 500th anniversary of a major world event.

Millions of Christians around the world will get just such an opportunity in the coming days when they commemorate the start of the Protestant Reformation.

The event was sparked by Martin Luther, a one-time Roman Catholic monk, and professor who on Oct. 31, 1517, nailed his 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church in Germany. In so doing, Luther launched a breakaway movement from the Catholic church that quickly spread across Europe and eventually around the world.

Today, there are an estimated 900 million Protestants around the globe among the 2.4 billion Christians worldwide.

Hundreds expected to attend celebration of 500th anniversary of Protestant Reformation

Any Lutherans here celebrating?

I guess it's a big deal this year aye? There's people going to Missouri and Iowa from what I hear.

Must be an interesting time for Lutherans.

 

[Michelle420]

The Reformation: replacing stupidity with stupidity and then killing each other over it.

Please don't troll up here. Thanks.

It wasn't trolling. I was a history major. This period of European history was just plain ugly. I would have loved to somehow bang both sides' heads together.

I don't know the history of it but was interested in reading how the Lutherans are celebrating and what they feel about it. 500 years is a big milestone.

 

[Lysistrata]

People seem to forget that when these religion-based squabbles arise and turn violent millions of innocent people who are just minding their own business get caught in the middle and get their lives ruined, all over disputes between theologians who get paid to sit around and guess. Think of all the poor people today, the majority of whom are Muslim, who are trapped between violent Sunni Muslims and violent Shia Muslims and who are in danger when all they want is a safe, normal life.
The Reformation, a squabble between factions in the Roman Church, in which the Orthodox Church played no role, caused a lot of destruction and death, and was not at all pleasant.
This is why I don't think that any religion-based fighting, whether between adherents of different faiths, or between factions of the same faith, should be supported or glorified. My view is "take it outside, fellas."

 

[miketx]

The Reformation: replacing stupidity with stupidity and then killing each other over it.

Please don't troll up here. Thanks.

It wasn't trolling. I was a history major. This period of European history was just plain ugly. I would have loved to somehow bang both sides' heads together.

The only problem I have today is that since it has been proven we have liars everywhere, it's really hard to believe everything we have been thought about history is really true.

I once read a science fiction story where an amazing device was invented that would let the user see back into time, and see what actually happened. No event was too small. Doris could see where her husband Bob was last Friday, etc, etc. It ended 30 days later in nuclear annihilation.

 

[HaShev]

The Reformation: replacing stupidity with stupidity and then killing each other over it.

Please don't troll up here. Thanks.

They are not trolling if it's truthful observation. Satanist arguing with Satanists over how to worship the forbidden fallen first messiah is indeed stupid.
The Judge will allow it into evidence.
For their faith itself teaches:
"And if Satan is casting out Satan, he is divided and fighting against himself. "
-Matthew 12:26
Checkmate!

 

[Avatar4321]

Luther's legacy is bringing the Bible to the people.

We can honor him best by studying the scriptures daily with our family

 

[HaShev]

Luther's legacy is bringing the Bible to the people.

We can honor him best by studying the scriptures daily with our family

And it says you are to grab the garb of a RABBI to ask questions, not a priest, not a pastor, not a harvest scam evangelist, nor an evangelist with dissociative disorder.

 

[Avatar4321]

Luther's legacy is bringing the Bible to the people.

We can honor him best by studying the scriptures daily with our family

And it says you are to grab the garb of a RABBI to ask questions, not a priest, not a pastor, not a harvest scam evangelist, nor an evangelist with dissociative disorder.

And that has what to do with studying the scriptures?

 

[HaShev]

Ask yourself,
Would you learn to fly a plane by going to a boating instructor? Then why go to a church borrowing Rome's slant of history & theology, influenced by pagan cultures & who basterdized the Judaic concepts & who changes words in the OT, instead of a Rabbi in learning the Tanakh?

 

[Avatar4321]

Ask yourself,
Would you learn to fly a plane by going to a boating instructor? Then why go to a church borrowing Rome's slant of history & theology, influenced by pagan cultures & who basterdized the Judaic concepts & who changes words in the OT, instead of a Rabbi in learning the Tanakh?

Why go to either when we can go to God and find out for ourselves?

 

[Blackrook]

My prediction is that 500 years from now, there will be no such thing as a Protestant.

 

[HaShev]

Ask yourself,
Would you learn to fly a plane by going to a boating instructor? Then why go to a church borrowing Rome's slant of history & theology, influenced by pagan cultures & who basterdized the Judaic concepts & who changes words in the OT, instead of a Rabbi in learning the Tanakh?

Why go to either when we can go to God and find out for ourselves?

God is an Essence, requiring a mediator to reveal /explain/ show you that Essence through reflection & manifestation of that Essence.
It's like that Essence of Flying can't be gone to directly, but the mediator of That Flight Essence can be gone to in order to learn about the nature of flight.
Your own text says grab a hold of a Rabbi to ask about our G0d, it doesn't say grab a priest or pastor.

Sources:
Isaiah 42:8 we can't pray to any image of anything physical- Exodus 20:3-7 and Deuteronomy 5:8-10
God is not a man nor form-(Isaiah 2:22, 14:13, I Samuel 15:29, Numbers 23:19, and Hosea 11:9, Deuteronomy 4:11-12 and the 13 major principles of the Jewish faith based on the Rambam's teaching of "ain lo demus haguf ve'ayno guf" -- that Hashem has no physical form.)