>I guess if you want a crowd of mindless followers who don't think for themselves and give you different points of view to consider and learn from then it is totally awesome. Bingo
Absolutely fucking nuts that none of the israeli civilian casualties have been confirmed (and several have been proven to be outright falsehoods) while israel has openly used White phosphorous
Imagine clutching pearls because some nigger loving retard got beaten to death by a nigger (he died doing what he loved) and people who he loathed and despised and gladly would have killed without a second thought or regret have the GALL, the AUDACITY, to point and laugh.
That's fair, but I'm pretty sure (again, not an expert, superlutheran is probably the guy for this) that the protestant position was always that good works necessarily came from saving faith, but if the works themselves were weighed as what saved us, we would fall short, bottom line. I absolutely agree that the lines and definitions can get very fuzzy or way too semantic, and that definitely does not make these discussions easy.
Setting aside all of the examples snelfriend posted, why do you think that at no point when any of this stuff was being thought through, any of the reformers stepped back for a second and said "hey wait, this don't mesh together" if there wasn't something there? People were literally willing to die on this hill, unless you want to assert the reformation was nothing more than sepcific and maliciously anti-catholic meddling to... some end, which is certainly an interesting take