On the Journey with Matt and Ken, Episode 95: Banishing Moses and the Law

[@joaquincapiro8919]

As a cradle Catholic , Luther’s views are 👍absolutely alien. It’s all negative and dreary. I wonder if he suffered from bipolar depression. Looks like it!

[@johnchacko1425]

he had bipolar depression poor me mentality Eeyore covert narsist and sadness deppression

[@MrsYasha1984]

This series is fascinating, I learn so much! Thank you! It would be really interesting to look into other reformators like Calvin or Zwingli or Hus too. I'm espescially interested in Zwingli because I live near Zurich. Also, the intro music is so beautiful! I love it!

[@Kitiwake]

"His exegesis was on the legal side". Luther trained as a lawyer. Thomas Aquinas was a canonical lawyer. He proposed reason from God as his foundation for all law Luther versus Aquinas. No contest.

[@markiangooley]

Luther was a better musician. Aquinas wrote better hymns, though the words and not the music.

[@markiangooley]

Luther was a better musician. Aquinas wrote better hymns, though the words and not the music.

[@PatrickSteil]

Faith is Trust. You cannot have Faith without doing a Work!

[@rc3088]

Thank you

[@mirianaelyse9903]

I totally fell into this deception of Luther for a while. Thinking it didn't matter if I followed the commands or not because my sin had been paid for.

[@mssixty3426]

Thank you both for your insights on such difficult subject matter - delivered with humorous highlights . . . . Thank you for the laughs . . . ". . you have so many hackles!" . . . and other funny remarks. Rock on guys - you do great work!

[@kofiadjei-frimpong9279]

Thank you Ken and Matt, please can you give us the titles of Luther's books that you read from.

[@joaquincapiro8919]

Was Luther capable of just being happy and a positive human being?

[@PInk77W1]

His parents hated the fact that he became a priest. That’s rough.

[@alhilford2345]

Go back to the previous talks describing Luther's childhood. He was physically and mentally abused by his parents and comes across as a very sad, unhappy, pitiful little boy. Much as I reject his heresies and the damage he caused, I feel very sorry for him.

[@joaquincapiro8919]

@@alhilford2345 I know. His father was a pipp!

[@PatrickSteil]

Faith and Works cannot be separated. If we do no works - how will future generations come to know the saving power of Jesus?

[@Sevenspent]

I always wondered that too...what the heck was paul even doing then, spreading the gospel was major work. No cars, planes, or trains back then.

[@PatrickSteil]

@@Sevenspent Amen... the Church's teachings are amazing!

[@adamnowak926]

👍

[@PatrickSteil]

If God does everything and we are in now way involved in our salvation, Then we are in no way responsible for our sin, Which means that we don’t need a savior. Whatever.

[@carolynmscotti827]

IT seems to me, Luther had problems with avoiding the Devil. Instead of him drawing closer to God by loving God, he seems to be allowing the Devil to control him. Did Luther repent at the end of his life?

[@briandonohue2502]

I am usually just listening but I looked at the video briefly and was SHOCKED!!! Matt...You have literally placed Barry Manilow ABOVE Christ!!! Please explain yourself! Inquiring minds want to know~

[@HarleyGirl75]

I have to confess that I almost get the impression that Ken is still team Luther from all these reformation talks. I know he’s not, but it comes across that way a lot of times. I know he’s playing devils advocate but he acts like he believes it too.

[@spinninginspace]

So frustrating. Need to remember there are holy Protestants (and lukewarm Catholics)... but boy does Protestantism begin the slide to secularism

[@fantasia55]

You're making an unwarranted assumption that Luther did not mean what he said about no need to be moral.

[@markiangooley]

A devil’s advocate is a blackener of the putatively good… I don’t think anyone uses the term in that way any more, though.

[@guypotvin6943]

While the law can seem harsh and judgmental. No, we can’t live up to it. But, isn’t it also true that falling in love with the law, because it is good and true, and would perfect the world, enables us to love God not only emotionally, which is unreliable, but through reason and intellect as well. Similar, to looking at your wife, seeing something she does or says, and falling in love with her all over again. Also noticing that the source of all misery in our world DOES come from not abiding in Gods law. This is not to say that we are capable of saving ourselves, we are not. But as we look around, it become obvious, that the law is perfect. I wonder sometimes if it’s how we perceive it. If we look at God as a loving parent, not as the angry judge, could it be more like, hey guys, if you don’t follow this you be miserable. More of a loving warning than a finger wagging lecture.

[@thomase.zimmermann1165]

Why was it for Luther necessary to have faith? If faith is the condition for justification, isn't it then meritorious? Or did Luther consider faith a fruit (and sign) of regeneration? Or was faith just a method to calm down a troubled consciene and to rest in the promise of salvation, but at the end of the day not even really nescessary?

[@patriciahutchenszimmerman9357]

Well said.

[@rolandovelasquez135]

It was when I became a Protestant that I began keeping the Old Testament law. In fact when I became a Protestant at about the age of 25 was when I first began reading and studying the Bible in the first place, Old Testament and New. I had grown up in a Roman Catholic home and I can remember wondering whether Jesus had been crucified in Rome or in Jerusalem. Such was my ignorance of Holy Writ. And it was the same with all my Catholic family, relatives and friends. None of us ever read the Bible. Not only that but, I was born in the American Southwest. Spanish surnamed. Had it not been for the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, by which the entire American Southwest became part of the United States of America, I would have been born in an idolatrous, poverty stricken, very corrupt Roman Catholic country called Mexico. Thank the Lord God Almighty for the Protestant Revolution.

[@reginapontes5672]

Had you paid attention during mass, you'd have also understood that you heard scripture proclaimed from the altar during the Liturgy of the word EVERY TIME you attended Mass. Your loss.

[@rolandovelasquez135]

@@reginapontes5672 to tell the truth the Mass absolutely bored me to death. Endured it for 18 years then I just quit going. I know there are readings in the Mass but when I became Protestant I began to actually read and study the Word for the first time in my life. The change was overwhelming.

[@rolandovelasquez135]

@Michelle Antao Speaking of the list of ex Protestant Roman Catholics that you mentioned, I could add many more. Doesn't it seem strange to you that the vast majority of Catholic men that actually know the Bible are ex Protestants? Think about it.

[@reginapontes5672]

@@rolandovelasquez135 Because you weren't paying attention and didn't know of it's invaluable sacramental nature. That's actually not your fault. It hasn't been taught about it's vital importance and instead has been watered down since Vatican II so badly some priests come out in hover boards with rock bands singing. So sad.

[@gkseeton]

@@rolandovelasquez135 yes because to know the Bible well will lead one who prefers truth to his own thoughts to the Catholic Church.