what about Martin Luther's anti-semitic views? do Protestants agree with Martin Luther concerning that matter, or are Protestants even aware that Martin Luther was an anti-semite?
2007-10-20 19:05:21 · 11 answers · asked by Ťango 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He was the father of the HOLOCAUST !
Just read what he taught and wrote and you will have no doubt.
They may try to disown HITLER but they cant disown Martin Luther !!!!
LOL
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2007-10-20 19:17:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Just because a man makes a mistake doesn't mean he wasn't Heaven sent, so get off your high horse. Martin Luther did a great service for all Christians. Just as Moses, Not allowed into the promised land for his imperfections. If your looking for perfection in all heaven sent's, you will be greatly disappointed and lost in the end.
2007-10-20 19:17:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was raised Lutheran so I am fairly familiar with Luther and his teachings.
While I don't think he was heaven-sent, I do think he did the Lord's work in bringing Christians back to Biblical teachings, and I do think for much of his life he was a faithful servant of God and Christ.
That said, I find the anti-Semitic ramblings of his last days to be troubling, but possibly explainable by his frustration at being unable to convert Jews to Christianity and possibly by an onset of senility, brought on by old age, fatigue, and said frustration.
Luther believed that non-Christians were lost. I am not as certain as he was that they are. I also disagree with his teachings on infant baptism.
Luther was not always an anti-Semite. Through much of his ministry he wanted to bring all people, including Jews, to Christ. The unwillingness of Jews to embrace Christ was a source of angst to him and he never got over it.
2007-10-20 19:18:38 · answer #3 · answered by Warren D 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Few Protestants today would agree with anti-semitism, from Luther or anyone else.
2007-10-20 19:08:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
During Luther's time the Catholic Church was anti-semitic and had been for centuries.
Luther wanted the Jews to convert to Christianity and considered their rejection of Christ as evil. In his writing he was responding to alleged insults he had read from the Jews against Christ
Luther trashed all his opponents both Catholic and Jewish. He was a man of his time and could be vulgar and nasty .
Luther's sin was failing to see the Jew as a neighbor....as per Christ's instruction to "Love thy neighbor as thy self."
Today's Lutheran Churches have all issued statements rejecting anti-semitism and Luther's writing on it...
According to the LCMS "we personally and individually adopt Luther's final attitude toward the Jewish people, as evidenced in his last sermon: 'We want to treat them with Christian love and to pray for them, "(Luther's Works, Weimar edition, Vol. 51, p. 195)."
As for being the "Father of the Holocaust," anyone can use someone's writings to suit their purposes.
2007-10-20 19:45:37 · answer #5 · answered by martikat 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
because of the fact the son of a Catholic mom and Orthodox father, I unquestionably have heard many arguments between them on doctrine, traditions, and so on. i develop into baptized Catholic, and my mum and dad have been married interior the Orthodox Church. As an exceedingly traditionalist Catholic (Latin or bust!) there are a number of stuff I believe in Orthodoxy that i think of could be revisited or reemphasized in modern-day (positioned up Vatican II) Catholicism. As on your question, i understand that Protestants are considered besides Jews, in that the two profess some reality, yet ordinary are actually not "suitable".
2016-10-04 06:39:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marthin Luther was a man, not a saint or a prophet.
A man can be right about one thing and wrong about another, just like you have grade A in English and C in Math.
His criticism of Catholic church was right; his view on jews was wrong. I suspect his view was at least partially caused by Catholic church becoming as bigoted and hypocritic as Jewish elders that opposed Jesus.
2007-10-20 19:07:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
no, we don't view him as heaven-sent i being a lutheran. he stood against a corrupt catholic church where the masses where not allowed to read the bible to keep them ignorant. he is a good man though and his views on the jews where probably a little rough but in his and in my eyes if you don't believe that Jesus is your one true savior, lord etc. you won't go to heaven. He viewed them as a people fallen from God as we all are unless we back to the top accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior
2007-10-20 19:14:50 · answer #8 · answered by supdog 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If i remember correctly Marin Luther was against the catholic church not the jews... time rots the memory of humanity and the church commonly uses that to it's advantage to slander it's enemies.... that's after they burn them as heretics so as to destroy their credibility..
2007-10-20 19:10:14 · answer #9 · answered by Gyspy 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Christ was SENT from heaven NO one else!!!
2007-10-20 19:12:33 · answer #10 · answered by hamoh10 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋