Message from @Georges_Cross
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"We find many who pray, fast, establish endowments, do this or that, lead a good life before men, and yet if you should ask them whether they are sure that what they do pleases God, they say, "No"; they do not know, or they doubt. And there are some very learned men, who mislead them, and say that it is not necessary to be sure of this; and yet, on the other hand, these same men do nothing else but teach good works. Now all these works are done outside of faith, therefore they are nothing and altogether dead. For as their conscience stands toward God and as it believes, so also are the works which grow out of it. Now they have no faith, no good conscience toward God, therefore the works lack their head, and all their life and goodness is nothing. Hence it comes that when I exalt faith and reject such works done without faith, they accuse me of forbidding good works, when in truth I am trying hard to teach real good works of faith."
-Martin Luther
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The real purity test to know if one is in Christ:
"By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another."
John 13:35
@MartinLutherMan Martin Luther caused the greatest division in the church he has the blood of so many on his hands. He may of had a case for a moral reformation but his assault against church doctrine and his rejection of the line of st Peter has a direct link to the great secular evils of modern day. Martin Luther was a heretic and the confusion he brought upon fellow christians is the work of lucifer. Sola Scriptura has lead to the acceptance of sodomy, the implementation of western contraception, abortion and a horrendous level of schism between just protestant sects. The only good martin luther brang was the reaction to his poor teaching the Catholic counter reformation.
Corinthians 14:33 “For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.”
The current Pope says the Catholic church now agrees with Protestants on justification (the main issue of the reformation), do you disagree that salvation is through faith alone? There is no competent exegesis of the Biblical canon that edorses any of the things you listed. Your Catholic church would kill real Christians for simply having a copy of the Lord's prayer in English. It was never about truth, it was about control. Christ teaches us that if we want to be great to become the servant of all, the Catholic church did the exact opposite and elevated a priestly class above the common people and hid God's Word from them. It shoved a false gospel of works down their throats and robbed them of the peace of their salvations. One of the most vile and debauch insitutions man has ever created. The devils sold indulgences to poor and naive peasants promising them salvation if they only make the coffers of the church a little fatter. They didn't even stop there, theu then taught that you needed to buy indulgences to get your dead loved ones out of purgatory. A literal fraud being conducted by the representatives of Christ on earth. Sick.
James 2:24 You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.
The Catholic church isn't even just wrong, it's demonic.
Martin luther rejects scripture he is one with satan
You misunderstand the passage. James is saying that He proves his faith by his works.
Have you read James 2 in context?
Yes without faith there is no salvation. But not on faith alone are you saved. Yes I have read James
"Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law."
-Romans 3:28
John 20:23, Jesus tells His disciples, “If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven."
^ the scriptural justification of confession
If you have saving faith, your heart is transformed and you have works, but works cannot save someone. Faith alone saves. This is why the just live by faith (Romans 1:17)
Living by faith results in good work for by their fruits you shall know them
Teaching to forgive isn't justification for confession. There's actually a passage in 1 John that literally says if we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive us, but even that isn't saying to confess to a man who is elevated to an authority.
If you are not in communion with the church or the sacraments you have no faith
Church is a spiritual body of followers of Christ, not a demonic institution claiming to be it.
Lutherans schism is of the lack of believe in church authority the sacraments and the ability for God to keep the church from error
Your error is thinking than organization was/ever will be the church.
Peter is the rock of the church
you have built your church on sand
Peter would rebuke the entire concept of the Catholic church.
You have no Apostolic succession, no authority, no love, no fruit, and no truth.
what would he rebuke
no you have no apostolic succession
The Catholic church is carnality dressed up like Spirituality.
15th century
where is the link with the saints
1500 years of God's church being wrong
do you not have faith in God to remove confusion
Apostolic succession as you understand it isn't Biblical.
Well how did saul become a apostle of christ
by authority of peter
The Catholic church was wrong (objectively) on many things. Do you support the selling of indulgences?
The selling of indulgences were abused but morally the concept is not wrong
There was always a real church. They were the ones your demonic organization was burning alive for having the Bible in their language.