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Does Martin Luther's teachings against the Catholic Church lead to pride?
One of the tenets of Martin Luther's beliefs is that people can be their own priests, so they should study the Bible on their own. Sure this is good for everyone, but...
Does this lead to the delusion of pride, that one's beliefs can be more truthful than others, i.e., when people ignore scientific evidence of global warming, or when parents teach their kids to hate other ethnic groups for imagined slights? How about parents who think they're above the law and interpret the Bible in misleading ways to manipulate their children or their peers?
There are tons of reasons I can think up, but I'll leave it to your imagination.
Global warming is long past the debating level. It's been proven over and over again.
Also, I understand what was wrong with the Catholic Church at the time of Martin Luther, but this isn't about the Church itself, but rather the fallout from Martin Luther.
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
You have a misconception about the Lutheran Church. We believe in the priesthood of all believers, but that does *not* mean any one person can just go off studying the Bible on his own and making his own interpretations. The priesthood has nothing to do with establishing doctrine in that sense; neither individual Catholic priests nor individual Lutherans have that privilege.
- www.peacebyjesusLv 51 decade ago
Your reasoning is imaginative, as holding AND obeying the Bible as the ultimate authority would prevent sinful pride, as well as hating ethnic groups, or not caring for the earth. However global warming needs more study, and can be a zealous religion in itself, as can science be, which has many times produced frauds. And yet the Bible supports scientific methods, while promoting the moral precepts and powers that would ensure it be used rightly, if obeyed.
All that Luther did was not Biblical, but his essential objections overall were. It was because Rome exalts herself over the Bible, as every cult does, that they could execute the atrocities of the Crusades and Inquisitions, which the New Testament very clearly disalllows.
Scripturally, the RC assumption of a papacy is not Biblical, and is patterned more after the manner of the autocratic Roman empire. Taking on the form of the empire in which it was found, it became a vast an autocratic (answerable to no one) institution, with it's own Caesario-papacy, that adds to the Bible and effectively it makes it a second class authority (after the "Teaching Magisterium"). Thus were unScriptural doctrines like indulgences and novenas and prayers to saints adopted, and the Bible was effectively bound from the common people for hundreds of years.
Finally, the ultimate error of Rome is that of fostering dependence upon her supposed powers, as well as one's own merits, for salvation, rather than coming before God as sinners, destitute of any merit whereby they may escape Hell and gain Heaven, and thus cast all their faith upon Christ and His blood for justification and regeneration (Rm. 3:9 - 5:8; Eph. 1:13; Titus 3:5). And having turned from sin to Him, be baptized under water (Acts 8:37) and walk in newness of life (Rm. 6). And so glorify God alone!!
