馬丁路德衹是一個神學家,最多是路徱宗一家之言。請更正,他根本不昰什麼新教的創造者!基督新教是信仰反思改革思潮,沒有所謂的"教主"。馬丁路德衹是在 Tipping Point 而已。
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All denomination of protestants believe man are save by faith in death and ressurection of Christ alone, this is what Martin Luther say, so he is the father of protestant.
While Mr. Chui's analysis sounded reasonable unfortunately they also left out some very important factors. Yes, there are many critics against Martin Luther including established historians. They all failed to take into account the culture, language and technologies for recording. The first fact is that the Catholic church was first to discriminate against Jews early on due to some using wrongful interpretation of the Bible (the New Testament in particular). 1. The first Christians are Jews. 2. The technology for producing documents is manual copying thus the term manuscript for the product. This is a very neglected factor that produces antisemitism. 3. Because of point 2. the New Testament often used 'the Jews' to describe the Jewish leaders against Jesus. The incurious easily took that to describe all the Jews. **An example of this is how many people are trying to distinguish China from Communist China. It is easy to do it in Chinese because both can be written in 2 characters. It's different when using a Chinese versus an alphabetical writing including Hebrew if you have to keep writing 'the Jews against Jesus'. Anyway, I shall stop here or I will have to write a thesis on this. .
buddhism stresses on self, self improvement, self attainment, mindfulness, mindful of one’s action etc…One has to make great efforts to work on it!! Redemption, enlightenment does not come automatically like 信就得救.
You discussed about Martin’s view in Jews by citing some passages from his book. Can you provide some insight as to how he developed his view point? Not letting certain group of people to do certain jobs should not materialize into racial hated. And there were so many different ethics groups back in the time. Why such strong hatred to Jews and not to other groups?
Not just his antisemitism, Luther's solifidianism should be re-examined by Protestants, because both are unbiblical. The problem of Luther's theology is that by neglecting the emphasis of ethnicity by the Bible, he read the Bible through his Western Platonist lens, especially through the 'spirit vs body' dualism of Platonism. He misconstrued the Apostle Paul's gospel as justification is by the MIND/spirit having FAITH, regardless of the BODY doing WORKS or observing laws; hence he when he translated the Bible from Greek to German, he added the word 'alone' in Romans 3:28 and rendered it 'a person is justified by faith ALONE apart from works of the law', this way Paul's 'apart from the works of the law' meaning 'apart from observing the Mosaic written code to become Jews', Luther interprets it as 'apart from works done and apart from laws observed by the BODY'. The biggest problem in neglecting the anti-ethnic discrimination of the Christian gospel, not only led to his antisemitism, it also caused Luther to be blindsided by his Platonist presupposition which stems from his own Western ethnical mindset. The blindspot of Protestant has been the removal of the historical context when reading the Bible, as in reading Jesus as if Jesus was not a Jew, reading Paul as if Paul was not a Jew, but assuming Paul was a Western Platonist like them. This continues until in 1975 when historian E. P. Sander wrote about the Historical Jesus. Some theologians since then have been critiquing the mainstream Protestant hermeneutic, such as James Dunn and N. T. Wright, trying to retrace the fundamental Jewish belief in the Apostles' theology, especially Paul's.