14. THE QUESTION WAS:  Which book of the Bible did Luther call “an epistle of straw.”

a. James

b. Philemon

c. Acts 

THE ANSWER IS….A…. Luther called the Book of James “an epistle of straw.”

The comment appeared in Luther's 1522 preface to the New Testament, but not appear in his later prefaces.

Referring to the book of Revelations, Luther said “Christ is not taught or known in it."

Luther also said he wanted to toss the book of Esther into the Elbe River.  “The book of Esther I toss into the Elbe. I am such an enemy to the book of Esther that I wish it did not exist . . . "

 

Resources on this topic:

www.canapologetics.net/html/luther.html (The Myth of Martin Luther)

www.canapologetics.net/html/deuterocanicals__part_ii.html (The Deuterocanonicals Part II)

http://matt1618.freeyellow.com/deutero.html (Why Protestants don’t have 7 books in Our Old Testament)

http://matt1618.freeyellow.com/cloud.html (Why the Deuterocanonicals should not be thrown out of the Bible)

 

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

 

"The chief issue of the Protestant Reformation was never better expressed than by Charles V when he said of Luther' 'It is preposterous that a single monk should be right in his opinion and that the whole of Christianity should be in error a thousand years or more."  

Quoted in Bard Thompson, Humanists and Reformers: A History of the Renaissance and Reformation (Eerdmans, 1996), pp. 403-404. 

Quote and reference came from the book Triumph by H.W. Crocker III

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quick Links: Reformation, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Calvinism, Ulrich Zwingli, Henry VIII, Gnosticism, Justification, Grace, the Catholic Church, Suppression of Monasteries, Celibacy of the Clergy, On Nature and Grace, Methodism, John Wesley, Church of England, Anglican Church, Summa Theologica, Council of Trent, Fathers of the Church, Life of St. Augustine,  Clement of Rome, Pope Leo the Great, Pope Gregory the Great, Apostolic Succession, Still Catholic.