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keeth
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Yes, and now any and every village idiot can start his own church and teach people a lot of crap according to their own fallible interpretation of the Word. A lot like these forums, in fact.
Yea, that is the terrible price of freedom, which God Himself has always allowed for by the way. Perhaps you would prefer a united church and state again which would burn dissenters at the stake. Then you wouldn't have to be tolerant and patient anymore having to reason with people to convince them of truth, you could just force it upon them.
This he said shortly before his death, actually..
. . . "I confess, that I am much more negligent, than I was under the Pope, and there is now nowhere such an amount of earnestness under the Gospel, as was formerly seen among Monks and Priests."
"After the dominion and power of the Pope has ceased . . . the people, while despising the true doctrine, are now changed into mere irrational animals and beasts"
"Who would have begun to preach, if we had known beforehand that so much unhappiness, tumult, scandal, blasphemy, ingratitude, and wickedness would have been the result?" [Walch. VIII. 564]
And he goes on and on and on about his disgust over the reformation/reformers..
Sorry that his own words do not support your own argument for him, keeth. In the end though Martin Luther did not think too highly of your reformation, and neither did he think very highly of you reformers.
I wouldn't and was not arguing the same.