Saturday, August 27, 2011

Evil Religions

I have always seen Luther's Reformation as a poisonous evil concocted by a man who voluntarily took upon himself life time vows of celibacy and then did not have the courage to "make your vows and keep them." He did not heed that one verse which says "better never to vow at all than to vow and not to pay." And now we have the likes of Joel Osteen with his television feel-good ministry who tells a few jokes and then tricks people into repeating a prayer and after they repeat it (like a magic spell) he informs them that they are "born again" and have the "eternal security of salvation," once saved, ALWAYS saved.  Augustine laid down the foundation for the Reformation but no one scrutinized this until the counter-Reformation. Pelagius made more sense to me saying that each person has within them all that is necessary to abstain from evil if only they exert their will. What do you say of the first seven ecumenical counsels who declared Arians and Monophysites as demonic and soul destroying and worshipping an angel of light (Lucifer) appearing as a false Christ.

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