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Martin Luther (Born 10 November 1483 – Died 18 February 1546) changed the course of Western civilization by initiating the Protestant Reformation. Luther was nearly struck by lightning and thrown to the ground. At this moment, he cried to Saint Ann to save him, vowing to become a monk if he escaped alive. Just over 2 weeks later, Martin Luther entered the Black Monastery on July 17 - much to his father's displeasure. Luther saw this as perhaps the surest path to his own soul's salvation. An examination of some of his
quotes give many an understanding that he did not base all that he said or did on the word of God. Here are some of his words. "God does not work salvation for fictitious sinners. Be a sinner and sin vigorously.... Do not for a moment imagine that this life is the abiding place of justice; sin must be committed." "Sin cannot tear you away from him [Christ], even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many murders."
"As to the common people, ... one has to be hard with them and see that they do their work and that under the threat of the sword and the law they comply with the
observance of piety, just as you chain up wild beasts."
"How often have not the demons called 'Nix,' drawn women and girls into the water, and there had commerce with them, with fearful consequences." "I almost feel like throwing Jimmy into the stove, as the priest in Kulenberg did."
"I maintain that some Jew wrote it [the Book of James] who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any."
"I myself saw and touched at Dessay, a child of this sort, which had no human parents, but had proceeded from the Devil. He was twelve years old, and, in outward form, exactly resembled ordinary children."
"I should have no compassion on these witches; I should burn them all." "Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads...."
"In many countries there are particular places to which devils more especially resort. In Prussia there is an infinite number of evil spirits." "The Devil fears the word of God, He can't bite it; it breaks his teeth." "The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to
carry away infants within the first six weeks after birth, and to substitute in their place imps...." Here is a quote from Luther that should wake you up: "They should be knocked to pieces, strangled and stabbed, secretly and openly, by everybody who can do it, just as one must kill a mad dog!" Are these the words of a Christian, a man of God, and a great reformer? You must decide for yourself. Luther was the man who urged the slaughter of the poor who had revolted. He first urged their defiance that is until his finances were in jeopardy of ruin. Then he demanded that the revolt be stopped by any means necessary. Over 100,000 German peasants were horribly slaughtered in that revolt. In closing, those who have lived in the ensuing five centuries of Luther's legacy see his failure to complete the Reformation he started. Luther had failed to throw off the shackles of Nicaea (325 A.D.) or the trinity, that was formally adopted there and then. He met with preachers and teachers of the truth in his time. Here is what Dr. M. Arnold writes about Luther. A.D. 1521 Luther rejected the Biblical teachings on Deuteronomy 6:4 and Acts 2:38. (Knox, "Enthusiasm", pg.134,135). A.D. 1531 Luther agreed to the death penalty in order to annihilate Anabaptist bodies and Jews. (Bainton, p. 279; p. Lapide, "Three Popes and the Jews, p. 25) It appears that Luther was not as sincere about Bible truth as historians and some Christian groups indicate. For instance Mr. Luther fully discussed the Acts 2 message with the Apostolics all around him. And he rejected it. (See: "Martin Luther," by J. Dillengerger, p. 279;
Knox , pp. 134-135).
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