Luther’s having doubts about the truth of the Eucharist while saying Mass, from Satan, reminds me of the conversion story of the late Dr. William Oddie. He was a very traditional Anglican priest, who was moving towards Catholicism in every way, except for actually “swimming the Tiber.” He believed in the Catholic sacramental economy, including the Eucharist. One day, while celebrating Anglican “mass,” while elevating the host, he received an inspiration along the lines of, “I agree with the Pope on practically everything; what if he is right that what I am now doing is a complete sham?” He converted forthwith, I believe never seeking ordination. He was a very good man.
Having listened to the behaviour modification of the Novus Ordo renewal, I can attest that every word written is spot on. Amazingly now I see, that what I could not perceive. Spending several decades listening to Luther’s lies in the Protestant church, after the conditioning of the Renewal, all I can say as I do penance, thank God for Archbishop Lefebvre. I pray that the eyes of many hearts will be enlightened to know the truth of authentic Traditional Catholicism. Thank you for this amazing report Kennedy. 🙏
Do you believe that people who attend mass in English are going to hell? I go to the new mass because I can understand it and I find it hard to follow along during the Latin mass. I enjoy both. I just here some Catholics say I’m going to hell now
Thank you for reading this article. I used to be a convinced "orthodox" Lutheran pastor but, thanks be to God, became Catholic with my wife and kids in 2005, and was guided into traditional Catholicism by the FSSP and now the ICKSP. It's funny but for the 40 odd years that I was Lutheran, I couldn't (or wouldn't) see it's many errors, but thanks be to God, I've been Catholic for nearly 20 years now and the errors of Luther are obvious. Good article!
Fun Fact _ St. Ignatius provides the details of his conversion from the Battle of Pamplona (1521) onward, but he specifically mentions that he was 26 years old when his life "given to the vanities of the world" began to change. That was the year 1517. Regarding Luther's talks with the devil, contrast them with St. Ignatius' recommended response to the enemy: "I did not begin this for your sake and I will not stop because you object." OMNIA AD MAIOREM DEI GLORIAM!
This history explains the founding charism of the Society of Jesus-- precisely to defend our holy faith! And why it is so important to pray for restoration of the Jesuit order today. SAINT FAUSTINA'S PRAYER FOR THE HOLY CHURCH AND PRIESTS O my Jesus, I beg Thee on behalf of the whole Church: Grant it love and the light of Thy Spirit, and give power to the words of priests so that hardened hearts might be brought to repentance and return to Thee, O Lord. Lord, give us holy priests; Thou Thyself maintain them in holiness. O Divine and Great High Priest, may the power of Thy mercy accompany them everywhere and protect them from the devil's traps and snares which are continually being set for the souls of priests. May the power of Thy mercy, O Lord, shatter and bring to naught all that might tarnish the sanctity of priests, for Thou canst do all things. (Diary 1052)
This was excellent Kennedy! I was raised Protestant and converted (Thanks be to God) after I married a Catholic. Even so, I never heard of “Reformation Day” or ever really heard anyone talk about Martin Luther in the positive way that seems to be trending now amidst Protestants. In fact I imagine my still Protestant mother has never considered any of this, she just clings to sola scriptura (though she doesn’t call it that) because that’s how she was raised from Bible Belt Baptists. I pray for her conversion and hope that someday she will take the time to investigate Church history and what Martin Luther actually believed, it’s what brought me around. She never wants to talk about any of it, but I pray God works on heart, mind, and soul. This may be a video I share with her. God bless you and yours! Happy All Saints Day!
I was raised Methodist and am now 68. I came wholeheartedly into the CC at age 49, Dec. 2004. Never looked back and no desire to ever leave the Church Jesus founded and gave us! I pray for my evangelical friends that they might at least acquire a 'holy curiosity' about the CC and seek the fullness of Truth. I don't remember any talk or celebration of Reformation Day either. That must have come about the last 20 years or so.
Angela-- Kennedy is reading from this article: "Martin Luther Admitted to Conversations with the Devil". On website: acatholiclife.blogspot... (Oct 13, 2016)
DANG….. I’m going to look up the source material not because I doubt you but because this is good information to fight against those deceived who rail against our Beautiful Catholic faith.
How often the comments sections of videos that promote Catholic truth, are bombarded by Protestants posting the same accusations that the devil made to Luther. But by now these false beliefs are so deeply ingrained that the Protestants who post them have no understanding of their true origin.
Thank you Kennedy.... I am a former Catholic, a former Baptist, now back into the HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH, .... , The Eucharist and The Mother of God, The Queen of Heaven, brought me back.... Martin Luther the greatest gift to the masons and to those who want to build and/or applaud the building of the Third Temple...
Thank you, Kennedy. Excellent video with facts that I needed to hear. I have Lutheran relatives when they go into our restroom. We have a shower curtain with the Blessed Mother on it that our daughter gave us Our Lady of Sorrows. He runs out of the house so fast and he's in his 80s that I can barely. Say goodbye to him, they still think there's something wrong with Catholics. We Catholics he has said, are most likely going to hell if we don't get out of this Church.. That Luther was great Holy man. This was very insightful! God Bless You and your family. always, you're in my prayers🙏
@MsDormy It was a gift from my daughter who loves the Blessed Mother very much. Would I have bought it no? She is lapsed Catholic now. And so I'm glad it is there. It is our Lady of Sorrows. So if you want to put me down that's fine. I love the Blessed Mother.. I am sorry that you lack charity I will pray for you..
We can rephrase it well like this , He was inspired by the devils from hell to revoke against Catholic church, simply he was brainwashed by devil from hell in charge of creating religions here on Earth, that's why the catastrophe caused Luther brought many religions till now
@@emmap1159 100.000 denominations and growing. Five or six new denominations each week. They'll end up having their own private denomination for each single one of them. So much for the Only and Blessed Real Church. Unless those nuts come back home at full speed to Our Holy Mother, Roman Catholic Church, they are doomed.
Imo also cultural appropriation as it’s a Middle Eastern religion that ignorant and worldly western mindsets have mutilated and made THEIR OWN, rather than asking and researching the ones who were given, then clarified and instituted the Faith.
The disturbing part of all this information is that Martin Luther has been “lionized” in so many Protestant circles that most Protestants have very little real knowledge “who” Luther really was or the terrible things he said., much less the spiritual influences in his life. His teaching is falsely “assumed” to be the Gospel. It is truly a false gospel. 😊😊😊
And sadly our pope has had a statue made of him, in St Peter's and also a Vatican stamp of Luther. PF is also being talked to by the devil and worse, he's listening to the Enemy and going along with the father of lies. But it is our chastisement. We deserve PF and ilk, but we must keep close to the sacraments, fight the good fight and not give up or leave the CC!
Great video. I just started reading Woodheads book “Considerations ….” Amazing! To show you how the influence continues I recently met a woman who told me her none Christian husband hates Catholicism and Catholic Christians six months after joining an Evangelical church. Whatever guided Luther is still guiding them.
Maybe Luther had major personal doubts that he had gone to far and perhaps thought the only way to lay off some of his guilt was to blame it all on the devil. Im sure he didn't forsee the damage he would do with wars and lives lost etc..
Don't think we should let the monster off the hook by saying...the devil made him do it.😉 I think we can blame his arrogance, ambition , lust and greed.
Great video. I also pity Luther. It’s known that he suffered from religious OCD(scruples) and quite likely a form of bipolar disorder. Mental illness is real and it’s a terrible cross to bear. We really don’t know how the Good Lord judged Luther. I pray he repented. The damage he caused was horrendous and it’s a terrible shame. I just think that his mental disorders played a big part in the decisions he made.
Martin Luther had a difficult time studying philosophy and as a result he decided to hate it instead of admitting that he had a problem with it. Just google the words Luther and Reason.
Kennedy, there's no space for rectification. The lies of Luther are so deeply engrained that no amount of prayer, penance and sacrifice can suffice reparation. Let's only trust in the Divine Mercy✝️
Don't speculate fact not fiction The truth about Luther was segregation of the people Known as divide an conquer A house divided easy to manipulate A house United solid as a ROCK🙌
Forget Luther!!! Paul says "Now a righteousness apart from the law has been made known" Romans 3:21 YOU have a righteousness that is not connected to your obedience to the law in any way. You have been justified by what Jesus has done on the cross for you. rejoice!!!
Hi Kennedy, Thank you for another great post on Luther. I would suggest to all subscribers and none to read ( The Devils Bagpipe) by James Laing it will open your eyes to this poor misinformed and disturbed man.
So explain why is there a statute of Martin Luther at the Vatican? Recent RCC scholars have spoken fondly of Martin Luther including a number of recent Popes.
LOL you're saying this like it's a good thing... Learn the Christian faith and retrace your steps. You'll see the church was corrupt in many respects and emboldened the "reformation" but the true faith was there in the church (the fact Luther said he could reject a "1000 St Augustines" really says it all...). 2nd, modernism and acceptance of worldliness in a modern sense today has been helped along by protestantism - it really has been the fall of the West. That corruption in modern times in the Catholic church has been a result of the influence of protestantism, not because prelates in the Church have been "too catholic."
SAINT FAUSTINA'S PRAYER FOR THE HOLY CHURCH AND PRIESTS O my Jesus, I beg Thee on behalf of the whole Church: Grant it love and the light of Thy Spirit, and give power to the words of priests so that hardened hearts might be brought to repentance and return to Thee, O Lord. Lord, give us holy priests; Thou Thyself maintain them in holiness. O Divine and Great High Priest, may the power of Thy mercy accompany them everywhere and protect them from the devil's traps and snares which are continually being set for the souls of priests. May the power of Thy mercy, O Lord, shatter and bring to naught all that might tarnish the sanctity of priests, for Thou canst do all things. (Diary 1052)
What’s scary is these are the exact new arguments that the protestants use against us. Especially when the devil told Luther . Show me where is that in scripture
Bad take and very arrogant. He's an OK apologist but somewhat weak and very willing to turn a blind eye, and abandon his principles, logic and sound reason to defend heresy within the church; pretend there is no modernist crisis. Of course Christ told us the gates of hell shall not prevail against it and we have no ultimate reason to worry, but we still cannot fiddle while Rome burns before our eyes.
26 Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. 28 God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things-and the things that are not-to nullify the things that are, 29 so that no one may boast before him. 30 It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God-that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. 31 Therefore, as it is written: “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.
Luther left the Catholic Church because satan convinced him that the Church was in error and that the Mass was idolatry. Francis has honored Luther in multiple ways including with a statue of Luther in the Vatican. In fact, Imbroglio loves all things Lutheran; and anyone who has followed events knows this. Will someone please tell Frankenpope and his explainers that the faithful have been on to his (Jorge's) heretical beliefs for at least seven years. Jorge wants the world to believe that tradtional Catholics are in schism; yet he and his followers are actually the ones in schism. The modernists are ushering in the church of satan under Imbroglio, and they are the ones who have left the one true Church.
The information was excellent. It might have been more effective had you not tried to rush through it, speaking so quickly that you overrun yourself; more or less like trying to put 10 lbs. into a 5 lbs bag. Slow down! Enjoy the words. Speed reading is fine for self-consumption, but not for presentation. So what if your video is three minutes longer?
"If you are not with us you are with the devil" - sounds familiar. 🙄 If you believe that conclusion applies to the Catholic Church post V2, if i held that belief i would get a far away from the Catholic Church as possible. Why would any sane person remain affiliated with something they believe is the product of the devil's influence?
That's not how Catholic Church works. First, remaining in the Catholic Church is the only way of salvation (dogma - you have to believe it yes or yes), because it's the Church founded by Our Savior and assisted by the Holy Ghost (if not, how did She manage to survive among so many storms for 20 centuries?). Second, our Holy Mother the Catholic Church is suffering Her Passion by hands of Her consecrated priests. You don't run away from your Mother when She is being tortured. You don't want to be like the Apostles abandoning Christ during His Passion. Third, you don't wish to commit Luther's sin, that is, disobedience to the Pope and the deposit of Faith. Obedience to the Papacy is another catholic dogma (but you don't need to obey if the Pope defends herecies, keep firm on Catholic Tradition and Sacred Scriptures, and you will be fine inside Peter's boat). Fourth, Catholic Church was built around Peter as the foundation stone. Its structure is similar to that of a traditional Family. There is a Father (the Pope), a Mother (the Church), and us as the children. Again, you don't run away from your Mother just because your Father is a scroundel at a particular moment. Even more, your father is still your father, even if he goes nuts or evil. You just don't listen to him. So, time to stick with the Church. Buckle your seatbelts! It's going to be a bumpy ride!
@AsturGalicia your second point trumps every other point you assert. If you believe a church (any church) is suffering under the intentional mishandling by its leadership you have three choices, 1. change the leadership, 2. leave, or 3. face reality and admit you accept what is being done by which your continued presence is silent approval regardless as to how strongly you try to convince yourself otherwise. Not my place to tell you what to believe or what to do in light of your assessment of the situation. But there is a term in the military called "cut sling load" and when you cannot accept such things which are being done, when you have no say in any decision to correct the condition, and when you see no remedy to end this or prevent it from occurring again; it becomes time to man up and make a decision. And believing you can't leave coming from the same people you regard as the source of corruption - wrong answer.
Let's not forget Luther's anti-Semitic treatise "On the Jews and their Lies" where he recommended Jewish synagogues and schools to be set on fire. The man was clearly evil. On a side note, Paul (Saul) never called himself a Christian, but referred to himself as a Jew (Acts 22:3). I'm guessing Luther hated Paul and his writings for being a Jew; perhaps even Jesus who was also a Jew.
Zitate Martin Luthers Über Gott „Ein solcher lebendiger und wahrer Gott aber liegt in seiner Freiheit und Notwendigkeit auf.“ (WA 18, 618 f.) „Tyrannisch handelt Gott, kein Vater ist er, sondern Gegner.“ (WA 56, 368, 26.29) „… dass der freie Wille des Menschen durch die Allmacht und Praescietiae Gottes wie ein Blitzschlag niedergestreckt sei.“ (WA 18, 618 f.) „So widersinnig mächtig,“ „dass er (Gott) das Gute und das Böse, zwei unvereinbare Dinge, auf die Einheit seiner ewigen Natur zurückführt.“ (WA 18, 618 f.) „Nicht der arme Mensch, sondern der ungerechte Gott ist schuldig.“ (WA 18, 785) „Wie Christus wahrhaft Fels genannt wird, der Fels aber war Christus, so ist Christus wahrhaft Sünde.“ (WA 3, 156, 12) „Christus selbst ist wahrhaft Sünde“ (WA 8, 87, 13 f) „Die Propheten haben das schon vorausgesehen, dass der kommende Christus der allergrößte Räuber, Gotteslästerer, Tempelschänder, Dieb sein werde, weil er nicht mehr in seiner eigenen Person wandelt.“ (WA 40 I, 433, 7 f) (Darum ist Christus) „des Teufels Sohne und verlassen.“ (WA 45, 371, 5-10) “ Christus ist nicht meine Liebe“, „da er mich verzehrt.“ (WA 40 I, 240) “ Darum, mein lieber Bruder, lerne zu sagen, du, Herr Jesu, bist meine Gerechtigkeit, ich aber bin deine Sünde.“ (WA Br 1, 35) „Die Ratio folgt nur den sichtbaren Dingen“ “ Diese aber muss hier getötet werden, damit das Wort und der Glaube Platz haben. Die Ratio aber kann nicht anders getötet werden als durch Verzweiflung, Misstrauen, Hass und Murren gegen Gott.“ (WA 43, 395) „Sowohl das Licht der Natur wie das Licht der Gnade lehren, dass nicht der arme Mensch, sondern der ungerechte Gott schuldig ist an der Verurteilung und Verdammung des Menschen.“ (WA 18, 785) „Summa, Gott kann nicht Gott sein, er muss zuvor ein Teufel werden.“ (WA 31 I, 249) „Unser einziger Name aber ist Sünde, Lüge.“ (WA 2, 490, 13-15) (Die Sache selbst, um die es Luther geht, ist der Nachweis), „dass der freie Wille eine reine Lüge sei.“ (De servo arbitrio, WA 18, 786) „Weil ja Gott alles in allem schafft und wirkt, schafft er notwendiger Weise auch im Satan und im Gottlosen.“ (WA 18, 709) „Wenn dir gefällt, dass Gott die, welche kein Verdienst haben, krönt, so darf dir auch nicht mißfallen, dass er die, welche es nicht verdient haben, verdammt.“ (WA 18, 731) „Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt menschlich Natur und Wesen.“ (Es ist eine) „tiefe Verkrümmtheit und Verderbtheit und Bosheit in unserer Natur, ja sie ist selbst eine verwundete und von der Bosheit ganz durchsäuerte Natur“ (WA 56, 361, 18-21) „Da also die Menschen Fleisch sind, wie Gott selber bezeugt, können sie nur fleischlich gesinnt sein, deswegen ist ‚der freie Wille‘ zu nichts geeignet außer zum Sündigen.“ (WA 18, 735) (Die Menschen sind) „Sünder und Gerechte zugleich.“ „Es ist wahrlich ein fein Ding. Reim da, wer reinem kann. Zwei entgegengesetzte Ding in demselben Subjekt zum gleichen Zeitpunkt.“ (WA 39 I, 507, 13 - 21; 508, 1-2) „Die Vergebung ist umsonst, sie geschieht allein durch den Sohn Gottes, ohne jede Würdigkeit, Verdienst und Reue unsererseits.“ (WA 44, 473, 36 - 38) „Die tropologische Rechtfertigung des Menschen haben wir uns als Wechsel, ,als fröhliche Wirtschaft‘ vorzustellen, dass Christi Gerechtigkeit mein und meine Sünde Christi wird.“ (WA Br 1, 35, 24 - 26) „Ein und derselbe Mensch ist geistlich und fleischlich, Gerechter und Sünder, gut und böse.“ (WA 56, 343, 18-19) (Für Luther ist die Reue) „Donner und Blitz des göttlichen Zornes vom Himmel her in meinem Gewissen. Ich bin wahrhaftig das Material, des göttlichen Handelns, wodurch er mich unterwirft, zermalmt und zur Unterwelt führt.“ (WA 39 I, 104, 26-28) (Im fröhlichen Wechsel) „ist er (Christus) der allergrößte Sünder und der einzige Sünder und sonst keiner mehr.“ (WA 40 III, 745, 1-2) (I choose orginal statements by Luther in German laguage, please use Google translation ;-)
Thank you. I don’t know if Luther was just a just a bad man, mentally ill or influenced by demons. What he did to split Christendom was wrong. May God have mercy on him.
I would rather not hear about poor Luther. He married a nun even though he was supposed to be celibate. I believe he did have a fair complaint about some clergymen charging for Masses, and it is easy to see why Catholics were convinced to apostatise to avoid being told they needed to pay for salvation. Money is the root of all evil.
There were certainly sinful abuses perpetrated by Catholic clergy. However, Martin Luther perpetrated the same abuses and worse. He expected Lutherans to tithe. He supported the German Princes and Dukes against the Peasants who were then massacred. The problem, with the Catholic clergy, was that they were NOT living up to Catholic doctrines and morals. In other words, their behaviors were the problem. But Martin Luther did not address behaviors. He changed doctrines, which were perfect and God-given. Luther approved of adultery, polygamy, drunkenness, etc.
@@francikoen Exactly! He was a perfect example of "throwing the baby out with the bathwater". Plenty of men and women in Church history have fought corruption and later became saints. If he had simply done that and remained true to the faith he could have been one of them. But his PRIDE had him strike out on his own with HIS version of Christianity, to the detriment of European and world history.
True. Luther raised some legitimate concerns, but the response was never about correcting abuses rather it was silencing dissent. Add to that politics and desire for power of the emerging modern nation states in Europe out of the feudal system and its a bad formula. The bitterness and hatred that we still have 500 years later is the product of a situation that could have been diffused even if a separation may have still occurred.
@@wojo9732 I just started reading Woodheads book "Considerations..." Amazing! To show you how the influence continues I recently met a woman who told me her none Christian husband hates Catholicism and Catholic Christians six months after joining an Evangelical church. Whatever guided Luther is still guiding them.
@@wojo9732 Maybe. Even though you claim to be one step or a hundred steps removed from Luther you are still influenced by him or his followers. Jesus established one church.
You're one of the brighter Catholic commentators on other things so I just have cringe and say: You Christians can't keep doing this. You can't keep saying that everyone is possessed. This game doesn't work after a point. Yes, I know it works on women and the Gullible but it doesn't work forever......and not in a social economic situation where you can't bribe young men with a wife and family to be STUPID and repeat religious superstitious talking points. Sometimes.....sometimes....just maybe ....just maybe.....a MAN...can just be "bad" of his own accord? I know. That's too much to handle.
"Martin Luther was probably POSSESSED" Response: I doubt it, so here are a few points: 1. During a severe thunderstorm when a young Martin Luther was outdoors and became terrified, he made an impulsive vow to St. Anne that if he survived, he would become a monk. 2. Such a private vow made under duress was not in any way binding, so when he took his actual monastic vows they were made under compulsion and of which, upon the examination of his abbott, Luther could have been easily released from when his monastic vocation did fail. 3. However, after first professing these vows, Martin Luther was later ordained to the Catholic priesthood. 4. When on his own impulses Luther abandoned his monastic vocation and lost his Catholic understanding of the priesthood, he was not canonically released from either the religious or priestly vows, and therefore he incurred a double sacrilege. His sacrilege involving the priesthood was far greater, since that involved a permanent sacred character imprinted on his soul similar to the sacraments of baptism and confirmation. 5. His excommunication was intended by the Church to show him his error, but his subsequent irregular union to Katherine von Bora, herself a professed nun and not canonically released from her own vows, incurred another sacrilege, this time of marriage. 6. Embodying two baseball analogies, "three strikes and you're out" + "you're ejected from the game", Martin Luther became (A) a slave to his own unruly passions while at the same time (B) leading a revolutionary religious movement that would harm others. Examples of the latter were (A) his pamphlet demanding that the German princes unmercifully crush the peasant's revolt, (B) conducting a secret sacrilegious wedding ceremony for Phillip of Hesse granting this prince a second living wife and (C) approving the life imprisonment of Thuringian farmer Fritz Erbe in the dungeon of Wartburg Castle for the Lutheran crime of refusing to have his children baptized, itself the ironic result of Erbe reading Luther's own German translation of the New Testament and becoming convinced of adult baptism only. 7. After decades of vituperative writing in which he attained a spectacularly nefarious perfection in the art of inflicting insults upon others, Martin Luther's final years culminated in the authorship of two works that I consider the products of a demented mind caused by a continual and excessive abuse of alcohol. A. His 1543 Against The Jews And Their Lies that included accusations of blood libel and recommendations of synagogue burnings and forced exile: This book percolated for centuries in Protestant provinces until Germany became united in the 19th century when antisemitism became a national phenomenon. In the 20th century, the Nazi Third Reich referenced this book as justification for the eradication of European Jewry leading up to the 'final solution', i.e., the Holocaust during World War II. Since then Lutheran church bodies worldwide have repeatedly apologized for Martin Luther's antisemitism and distanced themselves from his writings. B. His final work, the 1545 Against The Papacy, An Institution Of The Devil, published one year before his death, can be considered the summit of his gift for invective where he personally addressed the pope, the Catholic Bishop of Rome, in these words: "I would not dream of judging or punishing you, except to say that you were born from the behind of the devil, are full of devils, lies, blasphemy, and idolatry; are the instigator of these things, God’s enemy, Antichrist, desolater of Christendom, and steward of Sodom." [From Against the Roman Papacy, an Institution of the Devil, pg. 363 of Luther’s Works, Vol. 41] Previously, Luther had taught that the Pope was the Antichrist in his 1537 Smalcald Articles which became authoritative in Lutheranism when added to the Book of Concord in 1580. 8. Gauging from his last spoken words on his deathbed "we are all beggars", it appears Luther was aware of the gravity of his sins and truly repentant of them. If that's good enough for God, then that's good enough for me. 9. One other example of Martin Luther's incapacity in his final years was the irregularity of his will that could not be executed in Saxony, thereby leaving his widow Katherine homeless, impoverished and destitute. If he truly had been in his right mind, he would have made a proper provision for her after his death. The story of her life after his death is one of tragic but also heroic proportions, culminating in a cart accident that resulted in her slow and agonizing death. 10. But the starting point for what happened to Martin Luther began with his refusal to submit to the canonical authority of the Catholic Church. "Et tu, SSPX?" (paraphrasing a line from the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare)
Your right. Not only does Francis have a statue of Martin Luther at the Vatican, but both JP II and Benedict XVI had great admiration for Luther too. (Look it up - it's easy to find) Those freaks that don't go along with the church of the "New Pentecost" (that's what they call themselves) better get with the program. And that includes blessing homosexual unions.
Luther likely died by hanging after a night of binge drinking in a bout of profound depression His followers covered it up. A pathologist (the 16th century kind) noted marks on his neck and typical findings in his face. He died at 3am, the exact opposite of Christ.
#8. Martin Luther's deathbed words, "we are all beggars" *does NOT signify true repentance.* And there is zero evidence that Luther's words made him "good enough for God" after he led millions into heresy and schism and wars. You made two false claims. #10. Refusal to submit to papal authority *would be schism only IF* that particular papal directive was valid, licit and in accordance with Catholic faith and morals. You manipulate and distort Catholic doctrines as badly as Martin Luther did.
1. As Senior Base Officer Ramsey replied to Lieutenant Hendley near the end of the 1963 film The Great Escape, "It depends on your point of view." 2. Since 1 Timothy 2:3-4 states, "This is good and pleasing to God our savior, who wills everyone to be saved and to come to knowledge of the truth", then it seems to me that Catholics should hope for the salvation of everyone and give them the benefit of the doubt. Therefore, it is my hope that Martin Luther was truly repentant for his sins on his deathbed, even if it may turn out this was not the case. 3. It appears that you are your own pope in determining what papal directives you should or should not obey, so may I address you as Pope Franciking? 4. My local bishop is in communion with the Pope, the Bishop of Rome, the successor to St. Peter and head of the Apostolic See. And yours? Oh, I forgot, please forgive me, you are Pope Franciking.
@@annakimborahpa You deliberately ignored my reply to your #8) because you are WRONG. In reply to your #3) here, saints and scholars have stated *Catholics should resist a pope who tries to harm the church, just as we would resist a pope, who tries to harm the body.* (Cardinal Saint Robert Bellarmine SJ) *No Catholic is obligated to obey an immoral, unethical or anti-Catholic papal directive.* A British Bishop refused to install a reigning pope's 12-year-old nephew to an important position in a British church. And he was right to do so. #4) I will address to a *papolator.* 5) You are an arrogant, smug idolator.
I am an European traditional and orthodox Evancelical Lutherian. Martin was religious genius! He was not perfect but VERY smart theologian. And the most important thing he had courage to object that depraved pope Leo X. Practically Luther saved whole Christianity! 👍✝️😎
We Catholics will pray for your soul, and for your conversion to the ine true faith, The Holy, Catholic Church which was instituted by Christ before He ascended into Heaven, not by Luther, an afflicted soul. May God have mercy.
@@ivanbuljan2350 ask Siri who founded Catholic Church … then ask Siri who founded the other denominations… crazy that there is over 50,000…Satan is really working hard… my opinion only
Luther’s having doubts about the truth of the Eucharist while saying Mass, from Satan, reminds me of the conversion story of the late Dr. William Oddie. He was a very traditional Anglican priest, who was moving towards Catholicism in every way, except for actually “swimming the Tiber.” He believed in the Catholic sacramental economy, including the Eucharist. One day, while celebrating Anglican “mass,” while elevating the host, he received an inspiration along the lines of, “I agree with the Pope on practically everything; what if he is right that what I am now doing is a complete sham?” He converted forthwith, I believe never seeking ordination. He was a very good man.
Having listened to the behaviour modification of the Novus Ordo renewal, I can attest that every word written is spot on. Amazingly now I see, that what I could not perceive. Spending several decades listening to Luther’s lies in the Protestant church, after the conditioning of the Renewal, all I can say as I do penance, thank God for Archbishop Lefebvre. I pray that the eyes of many hearts will be enlightened to know the truth of authentic Traditional Catholicism. Thank you for this amazing report Kennedy. 🙏
Do you believe that people who attend mass in English are going to hell? I go to the new mass because I can understand it and I find it hard to follow along during the Latin mass. I enjoy both. I just here some Catholics say I’m going to hell now
@@nathanoppy Fr what are you supposed to do if there literally aren't any Latin Masses where you live? :/ I'm pretty sure not going at all is worse
It sounds like Luther and Teilhard Chardin both had the same Thing as a friend...
Thank you for reading this article. I used to be a convinced "orthodox" Lutheran pastor but, thanks be to God, became Catholic with my wife and kids in 2005, and was guided into traditional Catholicism by the FSSP and now the ICKSP. It's funny but for the 40 odd years that I was Lutheran, I couldn't (or wouldn't) see it's many errors, but thanks be to God, I've been Catholic for nearly 20 years now and the errors of Luther are obvious. Good article!
Luther's only claim to any authority was " he was a Catholic priest".
Fun Fact _
St. Ignatius provides the details of his conversion from the Battle of Pamplona (1521) onward, but he specifically mentions that he was 26 years old when his life "given to the vanities of the world" began to change. That was the year 1517.
Regarding Luther's talks with the devil, contrast them with St. Ignatius' recommended response to the enemy: "I did not begin this for your sake and I will not stop because you object."
OMNIA AD MAIOREM DEI GLORIAM!
This history explains the founding charism of the Society of Jesus-- precisely to defend our holy faith! And why it is so important to pray for restoration of the Jesuit order today.
SAINT FAUSTINA'S PRAYER
FOR THE HOLY CHURCH AND PRIESTS
O my Jesus, I beg Thee on behalf of the whole Church: Grant it love and the light of Thy Spirit, and give power to the words of priests so that hardened hearts might be brought to repentance and return to Thee, O Lord. Lord, give us holy priests; Thou Thyself maintain them in holiness. O Divine and Great High Priest, may the power of Thy mercy accompany them everywhere and protect them from the devil's traps and snares which are continually being set for the souls of priests. May the power of Thy mercy, O Lord, shatter and bring to naught all that might tarnish the sanctity of priests, for Thou canst do all things. (Diary 1052)
This was excellent Kennedy! I was raised Protestant and converted (Thanks be to God) after I married a Catholic. Even so, I never heard of “Reformation Day” or ever really heard anyone talk about Martin Luther in the positive way that seems to be trending now amidst Protestants. In fact I imagine my still Protestant mother has never considered any of this, she just clings to sola scriptura (though she doesn’t call it that) because that’s how she was raised from Bible Belt Baptists. I pray for her conversion and hope that someday she will take the time to investigate Church history and what Martin Luther actually believed, it’s what brought me around. She never wants to talk about any of it, but I pray God works on heart, mind, and soul. This may be a video I share with her. God bless you and yours! Happy All Saints Day!
And lets not forget how pope Francis had a statue made of Luther and a Vat. stamp! He praises the heretic. That is very telling, eh?
I was raised Methodist and am now 68. I came wholeheartedly into the CC at age 49, Dec. 2004. Never looked back and no desire to ever leave the Church Jesus founded and gave us! I pray for my evangelical friends that they might at least acquire a 'holy curiosity' about the CC and seek the fullness of Truth. I don't remember any talk or celebration of Reformation Day either. That must have come about the last 20 years or so.
Angela-- Kennedy is reading from this article:
"Martin Luther Admitted to Conversations with the Devil". On website: acatholiclife.blogspot...
(Oct 13, 2016)
@@susiefromomahamocking Protestants who say Catholics worship statues
Wow.. I'm going to bring this up in RCIA tomorrow!
Is that like CCD for adults?
Were you baptized & confirmed last night?!
@revelation20232 I was baptized in a Church of Christ 23 years ago, but my niece was baptized last night, and then we were both confirmed!
God bless you Kennedy and your family ✝️
DANG….. I’m going to look up the source material not because I doubt you but because this is good information to fight against those deceived who rail against our Beautiful Catholic faith.
How often the comments sections of videos that promote Catholic truth, are bombarded by Protestants posting the same accusations that the devil made to Luther. But by now these false beliefs are so deeply ingrained that the Protestants who post them have no understanding of their true origin.
Your beautiful woke catholic church and your «holy» woke pope?
Luther started out a very nervous and anxious man. He became scrupulous and was not corrected. So, he died a very nervous and anxious heretic.
He was gently corrected and ultimately fell anyway. His severe childhood traumas and pride contributed.
I trust you have read Pre Vatican 2 anti Lutheran pamphlets & books.
He committed suicide from that nervous, anxious state.
@@michaelciccone2194wow, you *still* support Luther!?
@@reginab722I didn't know he committed suicide.
Marty was straight up wacked.
Thank you Kennedy.... I am a former Catholic, a former Baptist, now back into the HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH, .... , The Eucharist and The Mother of God, The Queen of Heaven, brought me back.... Martin Luther the greatest gift to the masons and to those who want to build and/or applaud the building of the Third Temple...
Thank you, Kennedy.
Excellent video with facts that I needed to hear. I have Lutheran relatives when they go into our restroom. We have a shower curtain with the Blessed Mother on it that our daughter gave us Our Lady of Sorrows. He runs out of the house so fast and he's in his 80s that I can barely. Say goodbye to him, they still think there's something wrong with Catholics. We Catholics he has said, are most likely going to hell if we don't get out of this Church..
That Luther was great Holy man.
This was very insightful! God Bless You and your family. always, you're in my prayers🙏
I’m not sure that an ‘our Lady of Sorrows’ shower curtain is entirely appropriate….
@MsDormy It was a gift from my daughter who loves the Blessed Mother very much. Would I have bought it no? She is lapsed Catholic now. And so I'm glad it is there. It is our Lady of Sorrows. So if you want to put me down that's fine. I love the Blessed Mother.. I am sorry that you lack charity I will pray for you..
@@germain1947it made me laugh that she said it.
I was a bit perplexed myself, but if it’s from your daughter, let’s just pray she finds her way home.
We can rephrase it well like this , He was inspired by the devils from hell to revoke against Catholic church, simply he was brainwashed by devil from hell in charge of creating religions here on Earth, that's why the catastrophe caused Luther brought many religions till now
Why would the devil go against himself? (Catholic church)
Funny thing nowadays is 99% of Lutherans or protestants would reject Luther as being too Catholic
That’s their way to justify their 10,000 denominations
@@crusader333ad40 thousand denominations
@@emmap1159 - I stopped counting after 10,000’🙂
@@emmap1159 100.000 denominations and growing. Five or six new denominations each week. They'll end up having their own private denomination for each single one of them. So much for the Only and Blessed Real Church. Unless those nuts come back home at full speed to Our Holy Mother, Roman Catholic Church, they are doomed.
@@AsturGalicia 5 new denominations each week is so crazy. What else could they possibly eliminate from traditional worship?
Protestantism is mental gymnastics.
Imo also cultural appropriation as it’s a Middle Eastern religion that ignorant and worldly western mindsets have mutilated and made THEIR OWN, rather than asking and researching the ones who were given, then clarified and instituted the Faith.
He was a scrupulous monk who refused spiritual direction.
"From the beginning this thing stinks" - very true! This was very interesting and revelatory re the origins of the reformation - thanks very much
The disturbing part of all this information is that Martin Luther has been “lionized” in so many Protestant circles that most Protestants have very little real knowledge “who” Luther really was or the terrible things he said., much less the spiritual influences in his life. His teaching is falsely “assumed” to be the Gospel. It is truly a false gospel. 😊😊😊
And sadly our pope has had a statue made of him, in St Peter's and also a Vatican stamp of Luther. PF is also being talked to by the devil and worse, he's listening to the Enemy and going along with the father of lies. But it is our chastisement. We deserve PF and ilk, but we must keep close to the sacraments, fight the good fight and not give up or leave the CC!
It goes well with his two pictures of Judas
Listening to this is giving me a headache!
Awesome video thank you!
The people who followed Luther were probably possessed too.
I don’t know, I used to be a Protestant, now catholic and I’m not or never have been possessed
No, just mislead.
Great video. I just started reading Woodheads book “Considerations ….” Amazing! To show you how the influence continues I recently met a woman who told me her none Christian husband hates Catholicism and Catholic Christians six months after joining an Evangelical church. Whatever guided Luther is still guiding them.
Maybe Luther had major personal doubts that he had gone to far and perhaps thought the only way to lay off some of his guilt was to blame it all on the devil.
Im sure he didn't forsee the damage he would do with wars and lives lost etc..
Don't think we should let the monster off the hook by saying...the devil made him do it.😉 I think we can blame his arrogance, ambition , lust and greed.
Perfect possession. When both the devil's will and a man's will perfectly align. Being possessed in that way doesn't excuse anything.
Great video.
I also pity Luther.
It’s known that he suffered from religious OCD(scruples) and quite likely a form of bipolar disorder.
Mental illness is real and it’s a terrible cross to bear.
We really don’t know how the Good Lord judged Luther. I pray he repented.
The damage he caused was horrendous and it’s a terrible shame.
I just think that his mental disorders played a big part in the decisions he made.
Luther was a con man to the fullest. Adding words and taking out scripture as well.
A con man....Apt description....
Martin Luther had a difficult time studying philosophy and as a result he decided to hate it instead of admitting that he had a problem with it. Just google the words Luther and Reason.
2:46 Dryden's "The Hind and the Panther" is very good, yes. You should make a video on it.
Don't call it "reformation" day. It was a revolution. It would be like calling The American Revolution, The American Reformation.
For us dummies, can you provide a link ,to, the article. Thanks
Both JP II and Benedict XVI praised Martin Luther. The admiration of heretics didn't start with Francis.
Reference?
@@crusader333ad They never had statues or stamps made of Luther. I would like to know the sources, too, if you would. Thanks.
But why does Francis speak so well of him..🤔
Birds of a feather
@@XavierIsraelMatamorosflock together😅
Both JP II and Benedict XVI praised Martin Luther too. It's easy to find.
Because Francis is also a heretic!
Distorted Ecumenism, from Vatican II, is why popes praise the heretic Martin Luther. It is *wrong* to do so!
A video of the persecution of the Teutonic Knights and Brigidine Nuns who remained Catholic?
Kennedy, there's no space for rectification. The lies of Luther are so deeply engrained that no amount of prayer, penance and sacrifice can suffice reparation. Let's only trust in the Divine Mercy✝️
Don't speculate fact not fiction
The truth about Luther was segregation of the people
Known as divide an conquer
A house divided easy to manipulate
A house United solid as a ROCK🙌
Forget Luther!!! Paul says "Now a righteousness apart from the law has been made known" Romans 3:21 YOU have a righteousness that is not connected to your obedience to the law in any way. You have been justified by what Jesus has done on the cross for you. rejoice!!!
To forget Luther is to cease being a Protestant.
Very good thank you 🔥👏😎. God bless 🙏⛪⚓👑.
Hi Kennedy,
Thank you for another great post on Luther.
I would suggest to all subscribers and none to read ( The Devils Bagpipe) by James Laing it will open your eyes to this poor misinformed and disturbed man.
Yes, I’ve heard this.
Probably? This probably has value. Praying for Martin and the church.
So explain why is there a statute of Martin Luther at the Vatican? Recent RCC scholars have spoken fondly of Martin Luther including a number of recent Popes.
Exactly. The Church after the Council has been in a really bad crisis
Explain why Peter denied Christ three times and if you come up with an answer share it with us.
SEDE VACANTE SINCE 1958.
LOL you're saying this like it's a good thing... Learn the Christian faith and retrace your steps. You'll see the church was corrupt in many respects and emboldened the "reformation" but the true faith was there in the church (the fact Luther said he could reject a "1000 St Augustines" really says it all...). 2nd, modernism and acceptance of worldliness in a modern sense today has been helped along by protestantism - it really has been the fall of the West. That corruption in modern times in the Catholic church has been a result of the influence of protestantism, not because prelates in the Church have been "too catholic."
They've been listening to the same entity 👹
SAINT FAUSTINA'S PRAYER
FOR THE HOLY CHURCH AND PRIESTS
O my Jesus, I beg Thee on behalf of the whole Church: Grant it love and the light of Thy Spirit, and give power to the words of priests so that hardened hearts might be brought to repentance and return to Thee, O Lord. Lord, give us holy priests; Thou Thyself maintain them in holiness. O Divine and Great High Priest, may the power of Thy mercy accompany them everywhere and protect them from the devil's traps and snares which are continually being set for the souls of priests. May the power of Thy mercy, O Lord, shatter and bring to naught all that might tarnish the sanctity of priests, for Thou canst do all things. (Diary 1052)
What’s scary is these are the exact new arguments that the protestants use against us. Especially when the devil told Luther . Show me where is that in scripture
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SAINT PIOS X ORA PRÓ NOBIS.....
AVE MARIA, GRATIA PLENA, ORA PRÓ NOBIS...
I think Martin luther was was the fallen star in the book of revelation chapter 9.
Have you seen Trent Horn's take on you Mr. Kennedy?
Don't like him or his goofy wife.
Bad take and very arrogant. He's an OK apologist but somewhat weak and very willing to turn a blind eye, and abandon his principles, logic and sound reason to defend heresy within the church; pretend there is no modernist crisis. Of course Christ told us the gates of hell shall not prevail against it and we have no ultimate reason to worry, but we still cannot fiddle while Rome burns before our eyes.
@@Pax_Christi_Tecum Amen!
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26 Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. 28 God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things-and the things that are not-to nullify the things that are, 29 so that no one may boast before him. 30 It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God-that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. 31 Therefore, as it is written: “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.
Luther left the Catholic Church because satan convinced him that the Church was in error and that the Mass was idolatry. Francis has honored Luther in multiple ways including with a statue of Luther in the Vatican. In fact, Imbroglio loves all things Lutheran; and anyone who has followed events knows this. Will someone please tell Frankenpope and his explainers that the faithful have been on to his (Jorge's) heretical beliefs for at least seven years. Jorge wants the world to believe that tradtional Catholics are in schism; yet he and his followers are actually the ones in schism. The modernists are ushering in the church of satan under Imbroglio, and they are the ones who have left the one true Church.
Wow, he must have been a follower of Pope Stephen.
So why did Panchamamma Incan idols allowed at the Vatican Amazon Synod OCTOBER 2019
Because Novus Ordo is a “failed experiment”, as @thekennedyreport posits.
Heavy crisis in the Church, not of the Church, of course.
Where the hell have you been the last 50 years? Under a rock prolly.
satan was the first protesent
Having studied Martin Luther for 20 years from ORIGINAL SOURCES I can state from your video's title that YOU ARE NUTS.🤪😝😵💫
Jesus established one church.
Protestants will hail Luther for SS and SF but they dare not mention his psychotic dark side that spurred on such novel doctrines.
The information was excellent. It might have been more effective had you not tried to rush through it, speaking so quickly that you overrun yourself; more or less like trying to put 10 lbs. into a 5 lbs bag. Slow down! Enjoy the words. Speed reading is fine for self-consumption, but not for presentation. So what if your video is three minutes longer?
"If you are not with us you are with the devil" - sounds familiar. 🙄
If you believe that conclusion applies to the Catholic Church post V2, if i held that belief i would get a far away from the Catholic Church as possible.
Why would any sane person remain affiliated with something they believe is the product of the devil's influence?
That's not how Catholic Church works. First, remaining in the Catholic Church is the only way of salvation (dogma - you have to believe it yes or yes), because it's the Church founded by Our Savior and assisted by the Holy Ghost (if not, how did She manage to survive among so many storms for 20 centuries?). Second, our Holy Mother the Catholic Church is suffering Her Passion by hands of Her consecrated priests. You don't run away from your Mother when She is being tortured. You don't want to be like the Apostles abandoning Christ during His Passion. Third, you don't wish to commit Luther's sin, that is, disobedience to the Pope and the deposit of Faith. Obedience to the Papacy is another catholic dogma (but you don't need to obey if the Pope defends herecies, keep firm on Catholic Tradition and Sacred Scriptures, and you will be fine inside Peter's boat). Fourth, Catholic Church was built around Peter as the foundation stone. Its structure is similar to that of a traditional Family. There is a Father (the Pope), a Mother (the Church), and us as the children. Again, you don't run away from your Mother just because your Father is a scroundel at a particular moment. Even more, your father is still your father, even if he goes nuts or evil. You just don't listen to him. So, time to stick with the Church. Buckle your seatbelts! It's going to be a bumpy ride!
@AsturGalicia your second point trumps every other point you assert. If you believe a church (any church) is suffering under the intentional mishandling by its leadership you have three choices, 1. change the leadership, 2. leave, or 3. face reality and admit you accept what is being done by which your continued presence is silent approval regardless as to how strongly you try to convince yourself otherwise.
Not my place to tell you what to believe or what to do in light of your assessment of the situation. But there is a term in the military called "cut sling load" and when you cannot accept such things which are being done, when you have no say in any decision to correct the condition, and when you see no remedy to end this or prevent it from occurring again; it becomes time to man up and make a decision. And believing you can't leave coming from the same people you regard as the source of corruption - wrong answer.
These posts are priceless
Let's not forget Luther's anti-Semitic treatise "On the Jews and their Lies" where he recommended Jewish synagogues and schools to be set on fire. The man was clearly evil. On a side note, Paul (Saul) never called himself a Christian, but referred to himself as a Jew (Acts 22:3). I'm guessing Luther hated Paul and his writings for being a Jew; perhaps even Jesus who was also a Jew.
Are you jewish?
How about sharing your links?
acatholiclife.blogspot.com/2016/10/martin-luther-admitted-to-conversations.html?m=1
Zitate Martin Luthers
Über Gott
„Ein solcher lebendiger und wahrer Gott aber liegt in seiner Freiheit und Notwendigkeit auf.“ (WA 18, 618 f.)
„Tyrannisch handelt Gott, kein Vater ist er, sondern Gegner.“ (WA 56, 368, 26.29)
„… dass der freie Wille des Menschen durch die Allmacht und Praescietiae Gottes wie ein Blitzschlag niedergestreckt sei.“ (WA 18, 618 f.)
„So widersinnig mächtig,“ „dass er (Gott) das Gute und das Böse, zwei unvereinbare Dinge, auf die Einheit seiner ewigen Natur zurückführt.“ (WA 18, 618 f.)
„Nicht der arme Mensch, sondern der ungerechte Gott ist schuldig.“ (WA 18, 785)
„Wie Christus wahrhaft Fels genannt wird, der Fels aber war Christus, so ist Christus wahrhaft Sünde.“ (WA 3, 156, 12)
„Christus selbst ist wahrhaft Sünde“ (WA 8, 87, 13 f)
„Die Propheten haben das schon vorausgesehen, dass der kommende Christus der allergrößte Räuber, Gotteslästerer, Tempelschänder, Dieb sein werde, weil er nicht mehr in seiner eigenen Person wandelt.“ (WA 40 I, 433, 7 f)
(Darum ist Christus) „des Teufels Sohne und verlassen.“ (WA 45, 371, 5-10)
“ Christus ist nicht meine Liebe“, „da er mich verzehrt.“ (WA 40 I, 240)
“ Darum, mein lieber Bruder, lerne zu sagen, du, Herr Jesu, bist meine Gerechtigkeit, ich aber bin deine Sünde.“ (WA Br 1, 35)
„Die Ratio folgt nur den sichtbaren Dingen“ “ Diese aber muss hier getötet werden, damit das Wort und der Glaube Platz haben. Die Ratio aber kann nicht anders getötet werden als durch Verzweiflung, Misstrauen, Hass und Murren gegen Gott.“ (WA 43, 395)
„Sowohl das Licht der Natur wie das Licht der Gnade lehren, dass nicht der arme Mensch, sondern der ungerechte Gott schuldig ist an der Verurteilung und Verdammung des Menschen.“ (WA 18, 785)
„Summa, Gott kann nicht Gott sein, er muss zuvor ein Teufel werden.“ (WA 31 I, 249)
„Unser einziger Name aber ist Sünde, Lüge.“ (WA 2, 490, 13-15)
(Die Sache selbst, um die es Luther geht, ist der Nachweis), „dass der freie Wille eine reine Lüge sei.“ (De servo arbitrio, WA 18, 786)
„Weil ja Gott alles in allem schafft und wirkt, schafft er notwendiger Weise auch im Satan und im Gottlosen.“ (WA 18, 709)
„Wenn dir gefällt, dass Gott die, welche kein Verdienst haben, krönt, so darf dir auch nicht mißfallen, dass er die, welche es nicht verdient haben, verdammt.“ (WA 18, 731)
„Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt menschlich Natur und Wesen.“ (Es ist eine) „tiefe Verkrümmtheit und Verderbtheit und Bosheit in unserer Natur, ja sie ist selbst eine verwundete und von der Bosheit ganz durchsäuerte Natur“ (WA 56, 361, 18-21)
„Da also die Menschen Fleisch sind, wie Gott selber bezeugt, können sie nur fleischlich gesinnt sein, deswegen ist ‚der freie Wille‘ zu nichts geeignet außer zum Sündigen.“ (WA 18, 735)
(Die Menschen sind) „Sünder und Gerechte zugleich.“ „Es ist wahrlich ein fein Ding. Reim da, wer reinem kann. Zwei entgegengesetzte Ding in demselben Subjekt zum gleichen Zeitpunkt.“ (WA 39 I, 507, 13 - 21; 508, 1-2)
„Die Vergebung ist umsonst, sie geschieht allein durch den Sohn Gottes, ohne jede Würdigkeit, Verdienst und Reue unsererseits.“ (WA 44, 473, 36 - 38)
„Die tropologische Rechtfertigung des Menschen haben wir uns als Wechsel, ,als fröhliche Wirtschaft‘ vorzustellen, dass Christi Gerechtigkeit mein und meine Sünde Christi wird.“ (WA Br 1, 35, 24 - 26)
„Ein und derselbe Mensch ist geistlich und fleischlich, Gerechter und Sünder, gut und böse.“ (WA 56, 343, 18-19)
(Für Luther ist die Reue) „Donner und Blitz des göttlichen Zornes vom Himmel her in meinem Gewissen. Ich bin wahrhaftig das Material, des göttlichen Handelns, wodurch er mich unterwirft, zermalmt und zur Unterwelt führt.“ (WA 39 I, 104, 26-28)
(Im fröhlichen Wechsel) „ist er (Christus) der allergrößte Sünder und der einzige Sünder und sonst keiner mehr.“ (WA 40 III, 745, 1-2) (I choose orginal statements by Luther in German laguage, please use Google translation ;-)
Thank you. I don’t know if Luther was just a just a bad man, mentally ill or influenced by demons. What he did to split Christendom was wrong. May God have mercy on him.
Bollix
Based on??
Bollix glad I could help @@byonnoyb
yes, Luther's writing certainly was.
Kennedy, good information but you talk too fast. Hence the ideas you’re bringing across are hard to follow at times
I would rather not hear about poor Luther. He married a nun even though he was supposed to be celibate. I believe he did have a fair complaint about some clergymen charging for Masses, and it is easy to see why Catholics were convinced to apostatise to avoid being told they needed to pay for salvation. Money is the root of all evil.
There were certainly sinful abuses perpetrated by Catholic clergy. However, Martin Luther perpetrated the same abuses and worse. He expected Lutherans to tithe. He supported the German Princes and Dukes against the Peasants who were then massacred. The problem, with the Catholic clergy, was that they were NOT living up to Catholic doctrines and morals. In other words, their behaviors were the problem. But Martin Luther did not address behaviors. He changed doctrines, which were perfect and God-given. Luther approved of adultery, polygamy, drunkenness, etc.
@@francikoen Exactly! He was a perfect example of "throwing the baby out with the bathwater". Plenty of men and women in Church history have fought corruption and later became saints. If he had simply done that and remained true to the faith he could have been one of them. But his PRIDE had him strike out on his own with HIS version of Christianity, to the detriment of European and world history.
What is money if not stored labor? What is penance if not some form of labor?
True. Luther raised some legitimate concerns, but the response was never about correcting abuses rather it was silencing dissent.
Add to that politics and desire for power of the emerging modern nation states in Europe out of the feudal system and its a bad formula.
The bitterness and hatred that we still have 500 years later is the product of a situation that could have been diffused even if a separation may have still occurred.
THE LOVE of money is the root of all evil, not the $$ itself.
Biased catholics, conflict of interest.
Jesus established one church.
@Spiritof76Catholic Yeah. And it has nothing to do with the Vatican or buildings made by men.
@@wojo9732 I just started reading Woodheads book "Considerations..." Amazing! To show you how the influence continues I recently met a woman who told me her none Christian husband hates Catholicism and Catholic Christians six months after joining an Evangelical church. Whatever guided Luther is still guiding them.
@Spiritof76Catholic I'm part of no sect or denomination, just born again through the Holy Ghost from the NT in the book of acts. Now I live in peace.
@@wojo9732 Maybe. Even though you claim to be one step or a hundred steps removed from Luther you are still influenced by him or his followers. Jesus established one church.
You're one of the brighter Catholic commentators on other things so I just have cringe and say:
You Christians can't keep doing this. You can't keep saying that everyone is possessed. This game doesn't work after a point.
Yes, I know it works on women and the Gullible but it doesn't work forever......and not in a social economic situation where you can't bribe young men with a wife and family to be STUPID and repeat religious superstitious talking points.
Sometimes.....sometimes....just maybe ....just maybe.....a MAN...can just be "bad" of his own accord?
I know. That's too much to handle.
"Martin Luther was probably POSSESSED"
Response: I doubt it, so here are a few points:
1. During a severe thunderstorm when a young Martin Luther was outdoors and became terrified, he made an impulsive vow to St. Anne that if he survived, he would become a monk.
2. Such a private vow made under duress was not in any way binding, so when he took his actual monastic vows they were made under compulsion and of which, upon the examination of his abbott, Luther could have been easily released from when his monastic vocation did fail.
3. However, after first professing these vows, Martin Luther was later ordained to the Catholic priesthood.
4. When on his own impulses Luther abandoned his monastic vocation and lost his Catholic understanding of the priesthood, he was not canonically released from either the religious or priestly vows, and therefore he incurred a double sacrilege. His sacrilege involving the priesthood was far greater, since that involved a permanent sacred character imprinted on his soul similar to the sacraments of baptism and confirmation.
5. His excommunication was intended by the Church to show him his error, but his subsequent irregular union to Katherine von Bora, herself a professed nun and not canonically released from her own vows, incurred another sacrilege, this time of marriage.
6. Embodying two baseball analogies, "three strikes and you're out" + "you're ejected from the game", Martin Luther became (A) a slave to his own unruly passions while at the same time (B) leading a revolutionary religious movement that would harm others. Examples of the latter were (A) his pamphlet demanding that the German princes unmercifully crush the peasant's revolt, (B) conducting a secret sacrilegious wedding ceremony for Phillip of Hesse granting this prince a second living wife and (C) approving the life imprisonment of Thuringian farmer Fritz Erbe in the dungeon of Wartburg Castle for the Lutheran crime of refusing to have his children baptized, itself the ironic result of Erbe reading Luther's own German translation of the New Testament and becoming convinced of adult baptism only.
7. After decades of vituperative writing in which he attained a spectacularly nefarious perfection in the art of inflicting insults upon others, Martin Luther's final years culminated in the authorship of two works that I consider the products of a demented mind caused by a continual and excessive abuse of alcohol.
A. His 1543 Against The Jews And Their Lies that included accusations of blood libel and recommendations of synagogue burnings and forced exile: This book percolated for centuries in Protestant provinces until Germany became united in the 19th century when antisemitism became a national phenomenon. In the 20th century, the Nazi Third Reich referenced this book as justification for the eradication of European Jewry leading up to the 'final solution', i.e., the Holocaust during World War II. Since then Lutheran church bodies worldwide have repeatedly apologized for Martin Luther's antisemitism and distanced themselves from his writings.
B. His final work, the 1545 Against The Papacy, An Institution Of The Devil, published one year before his death, can be considered the summit of his gift for invective where he personally addressed the pope, the Catholic Bishop of Rome, in these words: "I would not dream of judging or punishing you, except to say that you were born from the behind of the devil, are full of devils, lies, blasphemy, and idolatry; are the instigator of these things, God’s enemy, Antichrist, desolater of Christendom, and steward of Sodom." [From Against the Roman Papacy, an Institution of the Devil, pg. 363 of Luther’s Works, Vol. 41] Previously, Luther had taught that the Pope was the Antichrist in his 1537 Smalcald Articles which became authoritative in Lutheranism when added to the Book of Concord in 1580.
8. Gauging from his last spoken words on his deathbed "we are all beggars", it appears Luther was aware of the gravity of his sins and truly repentant of them. If that's good enough for God, then that's good enough for me.
9. One other example of Martin Luther's incapacity in his final years was the irregularity of his will that could not be executed in Saxony, thereby leaving his widow Katherine homeless, impoverished and destitute. If he truly had been in his right mind, he would have made a proper provision for her after his death. The story of her life after his death is one of tragic but also heroic proportions, culminating in a cart accident that resulted in her slow and agonizing death.
10. But the starting point for what happened to Martin Luther began with his refusal to submit to the canonical authority of the Catholic Church. "Et tu, SSPX?" (paraphrasing a line from the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare)
Your right. Not only does Francis have a statue of Martin Luther at the Vatican, but both JP II and Benedict XVI had great admiration for Luther too. (Look it up - it's easy to find)
Those freaks that don't go along with the church of the "New Pentecost" (that's what they call themselves) better get with the program. And that includes blessing homosexual unions.
Luther likely died by hanging after a night of binge drinking in a bout of profound depression His followers covered it up. A pathologist (the 16th century kind) noted marks on his neck and typical findings in his face. He died at 3am, the exact opposite of Christ.
#8. Martin Luther's deathbed words, "we are all beggars" *does NOT signify true repentance.* And there is zero evidence that Luther's words made him "good enough for God" after he led millions into heresy and schism and wars. You made two false claims. #10. Refusal to submit to papal authority *would be schism only IF* that particular papal directive was valid, licit and in accordance with Catholic faith and morals. You manipulate and distort Catholic doctrines as badly as Martin Luther did.
1. As Senior Base Officer Ramsey replied to Lieutenant Hendley near the end of the 1963 film The Great Escape, "It depends on your point of view."
2. Since 1 Timothy 2:3-4 states, "This is good and pleasing to God our savior, who wills everyone to be saved and to come to knowledge of the truth", then it seems to me that Catholics should hope for the salvation of everyone and give them the benefit of the doubt. Therefore, it is my hope that Martin Luther was truly repentant for his sins on his deathbed, even if it may turn out this was not the case.
3. It appears that you are your own pope in determining what papal directives you should or should not obey, so may I address you as Pope Franciking?
4. My local bishop is in communion with the Pope, the Bishop of Rome, the successor to St. Peter and head of the Apostolic See. And yours? Oh, I forgot, please forgive me, you are Pope Franciking.
@@annakimborahpa You deliberately ignored my reply to your #8) because you are WRONG. In reply to your #3) here, saints and scholars have stated *Catholics should resist a pope who tries to harm the church, just as we would resist a pope, who tries to harm the body.* (Cardinal Saint Robert Bellarmine SJ) *No Catholic is obligated to obey an immoral, unethical or anti-Catholic papal directive.* A British Bishop refused to install a reigning pope's 12-year-old nephew to an important position in a British church. And he was right to do so. #4) I will address to a *papolator.* 5) You are an arrogant, smug idolator.
I am an European traditional and orthodox Evancelical Lutherian. Martin was religious genius! He was not perfect but VERY smart theologian. And the most important thing he had courage to object that depraved pope Leo X. Practically Luther saved whole Christianity! 👍✝️😎
Luther cursed like a sailor, edited the gospel in his translation, and defiled a nun. There are a lot of intelligent frauds in the world.
yp, by his geniuses today protestants have over 50.000 different so called "churches ".
pure geniuS
We Catholics will pray for your soul, and for your conversion to the ine true faith, The Holy, Catholic Church which was instituted by Christ before He ascended into Heaven, not by Luther, an afflicted soul. May God have mercy.
@@ivanbuljan2350 ask Siri who founded Catholic Church … then ask Siri who founded the other denominations… crazy that there is over 50,000…Satan is really working hard… my opinion only
Oh my.... WIll pray for your soul. Please open your eyes to History and the the True Faith.
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