Why does anyone continue to believe the delusional rantings of a bipolar 16th century German monk?
>>1949250
All is hersy beside Orthodoxy
>>1949261
>Implying Orthodoxy isn't the most heretical of all.
>>1949250
>>1949267
Contantine is a trans, he isn't orthodox but a degenerate, he is the direct produce of protestantism's liberty of conscience, he has nothing to do with Orthodoxy.
>people are still cucklicks
Do you guys actually believe in any of this stuff or is this just a copy and paste thread?
>>1949250
Oh and notices the jpg title is Luther-"ism" it turns out Luther didn't like this term, and this term was used to mock him. Luther actually preferred the term Evangelism.
>>1949349
It's not "mocking" because it reflects what Lutheranism is.
>>1949370
What is it?
>>1949380
Following the teachings of Luther.
>>1949383
Following what Luther teaches instead of what the Romans taught.
>>1949388
No one disputes the term ROMAN Catholicism.
>>1949391
Luther did.
>>1949393
He disputed Roman Catholicism was Roman?
>>1949250
>bipolar
Changing your beliefd to better suit the whims of people who are keeping the inquisition away from your ass isn't bipolar anon, it's perfectly rational.
Cowardly maybe, but certainly not bipolar.
>>1949398
He disputed against the Roman church.
>>1949401
He disputed the doctrines, not the name.
>>1949409
So what is the big deal?
>>1949409
And why do people still follow his proven false teachings?
>>1949423
Convenience.
>>1949423
How were they proven false?
>>1949335
It's a meme thread, I don't know if any of the people who post on here are actually Christian
>>1949250
the reformation was a mistake, protestants are pathetic losers who are bitter because other churches actually succeeded in their life
>>1949439
Is there a source for this?
>>1949432
Adding to scripture to suit your ideology for one.
>>1949445
Everyone adds to scripture. Every sect of any religion can be accused of "adding" and "subtracting" from scripture.
>>1949443
>i can't build any [spoiler]actually beautiful[/spoiler] churches so i'm just gonna prohibit it.
>i'm so fucking poor but at least i am pure!
truth is that the catholic and the orthodox are laughing at protestants, protestants are literally the most pathetic church to ever exist
>>1949452
Catholics and Orthodox decided what was canon and had subsequent grand councils to interoperate doctrine. Far different from Luther arbitrarily adding "alone" after faith to compensate for his lack of Biblical justification of Sola Fide.
Everything martin luther rejected were impurities added to make christianity more appealing to pagans. Protestantism is the most pure and undiluted form of christianity.
>>1949478
>What really matters is how we read it for ourselves, as opposed to letting a specific sect choose for you how to interpret it.
So you think any random joe can interpret the Bible with the same validity of an ancient continuous Church who's documented the tradition and elaborated upon Christian theology for over 2000 years?
>>1949502
Yes.
At that point, it's like, you find a Bible in 2016, you might as well trust in God to help guide you where you should go.
There is a Catholic church across the street from an Orthodox church, both very expensive buildings, right across the street from each other, very close in walking distance talking like 2 and a half minutes.
If these people who "decided how to Bible should be read" according to their "councils" way later than the original times of Christianity, why are they not joined together? Because clearly, they have different ideas.
It isn't about denomination. There is no one to better interpret the Bible for you than yourself, and help comes when God shows us the way Wisdom isn't exclusive to a specific religion or a specific sect of religion, we literally can learn from anybody
>>1949524
Lacking a tradition to back up the word gives you idiocy like Biblical literalism. Made even worse when Protestantism's founder unabashedly altered scripture.
>>1949538
Disagreed.
Reminder that....
The papal states based its secular power on a lie ((Donation of Constantine))
Started wars out of greed for secular power
Destroyed the authority of the Holy Roman Emperor when it out of Greed contested their authority over Italy and ruined their system of administrating Bishops.
Used excommunication, a spiritual measure, to get secular power
Betrayed its allies in war ((Remember War of the League of Cambrai? The Papal states was the first ones to switch side))
Let the corruption in its church grow so vast that a violent reformation soon became inevitable
Had a cardinal, one of the very people responsible for electing a new pope, funding both Muslim Ottomans and Protestant Swedes to kill his fellow Catholics ((Cardinal Richelieu))
Used it's own Monks to perfect different methods of torture. May sound like a minor thing, but don't quite sound like the ideal things for men supposed to live like Jesus to spend their time on.
>>1949547
Why do you disagree?
>>1949559
The first disciples were never associated with any particular denomination, and they were left to contemplate the deeper meanings of what is taught to them.
>>1949597
And they left us with such deeply meaningful principals like Sola fide and predestination right? How exactly is this better than the Christianity of St. Augustus, St. Aquinas, St. Bernard and Dante?
>>1949615
Every sola is just a quality being pointed out. All five are equally important, and each one is emphasized for various reasons. These five Solas are inventions to help us interpret scripture but not specifically mentioned in scripture.
Same with predestination. It is a concept, which has the opposite extreme, free will. Both of these are not as contradictory as they seem.
These ideas though are outside of the scriptures themselves. The scriptures themselves would be the best thing to reference when asking these questions.