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7/27/09 at 9:44am
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Originally Posted by lilyka View Post
I didn't express that very well. i butchered it quite badly actually. what I meant is that when he said people could interpret scripture he did not intend for everyone to come up with their own doctrine or interpret droctrine. but was counting on people using solid doctrine to interpret the scriptures. I mean when you consider all the church doctrine in his back ground to only make 95 points... he wasn't changing much at all. and when you read the old Lutheran liturgies and service books the similarities are striking. clearly he had a strong doctrinal basis and had no intention of breaking completely away to make his own little thing.

however as things have trickled down people have started making random doctrines with their personal interpretations of scriptures and since people are free to interpret scripture they are free to make their own doctrines based on those scriptural interpretations. this is what I think Luther did not have in mind when he said that.

is that any more clear (probably less.....sorry.)
Yes, much more clear - it seems I thought you meant the opposite of what you actually meant! Luther of course didn't really picture himself as forming a new church, but wanted to reform the Catholic Church, and really only founded a new type of church when he say the hierarchy wasn't going to co-operate in any way. (I wonder what would have happened if he had been able to see the counter-reformation?)

But I agree, his beliefs were not really that divorced from what Catholicism taught - in some ways, he was likely closer to many modern Catholics than modern Protestants.
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