Subject: Disease or Bad Personal Choice?? |
Bible Note: ...the grace obtained in Confession comes from the merits obtained by Jesus whom we encounter there and not from the confession of the sins themselves." Dear Emmaus, You left out the merits gained by Mary and Joseph and John and paul and peter and matthew and augustine and etc. etc, In fact Rome has a vast treasury of grace available to those who will bow down to it's interpretation of Scripture. In fact they've even made it available for purchase from time to time. "Luther issued a public call for theological debate on the sale of indulgences by posting ninety-five theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg on the eve of All Saints' Day, October 31, 1517. Printers distributed copies without Luther's knowledge and permission. Within a few weeks, Martin Luther was known everywhere as the voice of renewal." "Although Rome wanted to silence Luther, powerful German princes, led by Elector Frederick of Saxony, Luther's benefactor, secured freedom of speech for him. He debated with Cardinal Cajetan and the Dominican John Eck at Augsburg and Leipzig in 1519; he stated his case before Emperor Charles V at Worms in 1521 (where, standing before empire and church he said, "Here I stand. I cannot do otherwise. God help me." and he published numerous proposals for reform from 1520 on. Nevertheless, Luther was excommunicated as a heretic and condemned as a traitor by pope and emperor in 1521." Been there, done that. Thank God there are catholics whose faith is a lot better than their church's theology. John |