tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post1979244175039293037..comments2024-03-27T15:47:46.091-05:00Comments on Pastoral Meanderings: Roman Catholics Interested in LutherPastor Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10653554256101480140noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-47169916184139683022013-03-26T12:45:57.014-05:002013-03-26T12:45:57.014-05:00With the comment about St. Bernard, it almost soun...With the comment about St. Bernard, it almost sounds like he's echoing Franz Possett. Natehttp://evangelicalcatholicblog.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-89483526378751777542013-03-24T20:45:25.355-05:002013-03-24T20:45:25.355-05:00Yes those very masters of deceit, the Jesuits!
We ...Yes those very masters of deceit, the Jesuits!<br />We can only hope that the new bishop of Rome, now removed from under the chain of command of the Black Pope, will finally release Elvis from that underground bunker in Wernersville, Pa where the Jesuits have him hostage! tubbshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07272003035464034763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-61178835482570768142013-03-24T13:51:59.144-05:002013-03-24T13:51:59.144-05:00Ah those Jesuits! They’ll talk you into paying fo...Ah those Jesuits! They’ll talk you into paying for the rope for your own hanging, and then they’ll convince you that it is a privilege. According to Luther, what is known as his “Tower Experience”, when he became fully aware of the meaning of God’s justice and how it is relates to faith, took place some time in 1519*. Therefore it is not surprising that Roman Catholics will praise him for what he wrote before then; as, for instance, The 95 Theses. At that point he is one of them. Only after he discovered the true meaning of the Gospel did they begin to hate him.<br /><br />*An Excerpt From: Preface to the Complete Edition of Luther's Latin Works (1545) by Dr. Martin Luther, 1483-1546 Translated by Bro. Andrew Thornton, OSB from the "Vorrede zu Band I der Opera Latina der Wittenberger Ausgabe. 1545" in vol. 4 of _Luthers Werke in Auswahl_, ed. Otto Clemen, 6th ed., (Berlin: de Gruyter. 1967). pp. 421-428. <br />(c)1983 by Saint Anselm Abbey. This translation may be used freely with proper attribution. You may distribute, copy or print this text, providing you retain the author and copyright statements. <br /><br />“Meanwhile in that same year, 1519, I had begun interpreting the Psalms once again. I felt confident that I was now more experienced, since I had dealt in university courses with St. Paul's Letters to the Romans, to the Galatians, and the Letter to the Hebrews. ….<br /><br />I meditated night and day on those words until at last, by the mercy of God, I paid attention to their context: "The justice of God is revealed in it, as it is written: 'The just person lives by faith.'" I began to understand that in this verse the justice of God is that by which the just person lives by a gift of God, that is by faith. I began to understand that this verse means that the justice of God is revealed through the Gospel, but it is a passive justice, i.e. that by which the merciful God justifies us by faith, as it is written: "The just person lives by faith." All at once I felt that I had been born again and entered into paradise itself through open gates.”<br /><br />The fact that there was a shift, in 1518, so that “the pen¬i¬ten¬tial life con¬tin¬ues to unfold in daily self-denial” only confirms that Luther was still struggling with his own justification. But from 1519 on, it is no acci¬dent that the “certain-making word resounds in its vari¬ant expres¬sions”. For Luther the entire life of the believer was no longer repentance (Thesis 1 of 95), but, Gal. 5:22, “By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control.” <br /><br />Peace and Joy!<br />George A. MarquartAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com