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Why We Left Lutheranism-- Foundation Human not Divine

Jul 6, 2001 - © Claude A. Guild & John L. Hoh, Jr.

First, may I say, I gave up Lutheranism because I learned it had a human foundation. The student of the Bible and history never read or heard of a Lutheran church before the days of a man by the name of Martin Luther. In fact, the Lutheran church dates back to the eve of "All Saints Day, Oct. 31, 1517, when Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses on the cathedral door of the Wittenberg church and fled for his life. The blow he struck the Catholic church that day led to the beginning of the reformation movement and the origin of another church, the Lutheran church. This institution, contrary to the wishes of Martin Luther, wears his name. It is a known fact he is the founder of the church. Since he founded it and it wears his name, he being a human being makes the foundation of the Lutheran church human.

I looked at the Bible! There I read Ephesians 1:22,23, "...And he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all." I learned that Christ is the head of the New Testament church. Jesus declared He was the founder of it. "Upon this rock I will build my church." (Matthew 16:18). Paul, the Apostle, says Christ is the foundation of the church. "For other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ." (I Corinthians 3:11).

If, 1500 years before Lutheranism, Jesus said He would build His church, and Paul said He was head and foundation of the church, what right does Luther or his followers have to build a church and stake its claim on Divinity? The truth about it is, Christ is still head and foundation of the church and not Luther.

Historically, Lutheranism dates back to All Saints Eve, October 31, 1517. Does that mean the teachings of Lutheranism date back to only All Saints Eve, October 31, 1517?

Let me ask you this. Do you date the Christian religion back to Jesus’ life? Or back to the protevangelon of Genesis 3:16?

Luther's influence extended back to Saint Augustine, the bishop of Hippo just before the final fall of the Roman empire. He was an Augustinian monk and Augustine wrote greatly on original sin and grace that covers that sin.

Luther’s influence also goes back to Saint Paul. It was reading the Pharisee/legalist turned Christian saved by grace that the Augustinian/legalist Luther saw the truth of "the righteous [one] will be saved by faith." Even that Scripture, quoted three times by Paul, was first written by Habakkuk before the Babylonian Captivity of Judah!

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