Martin Luther (1483-1546) was a German Theologian

Martin Luther (1483-1546) was a German theologian and a major leader of the Protestant Reformation. Luther had bouts of disabling depression and anger and had to suspend his pastoral ministry for long periods of time. He also struggled with intrusive, unwanted “blasphemous” thoughts and images that left him confused and disturbed and was tormented by urges to use vulgarities and curse God and Jesus. He readily admitted he had periods when he hated God. If we look at Luther's prayer life, we will see that it was extremely demonic, at least at certain times of his life. He is recorded as saying that he could not pray without cursing. He would be considered verbally abusive today; someone in dire need of deliverance.
The following quote by Luther is well document in Protestant-approved sources: “Christ committed adultery first of all with the woman at the well about whom St. John tells us. Was not everybody about Him saying, "Whatever has he been doing with her?" Secondly, with Mary Magdalene and thirdly with the woman taken in adultery whom he dismissed so lightly. Thus, even Christ who was so righteous must have been guilty of fornication before He died.” [recorded in what historians refer to as his “Table Talks.”]
It is difficult to fathom why these blasphemous statements fail to change the opinion of the man. He has been praised by enthusiastically by both Catholics, Protestants, and Reformers, and his defenders relegate his comments to ‘hyperbole.
Luther was a man who was so arrogantly convinced of his rightness that anyone who disagreed with him was either stupid fools, grossly ignorant or wretchedly evil. For further confirmation of Luther’s dark side, one has only to read some of the shockingly evil things he advocated in a work entitled “The Jews and their Lies” in which he urged that synagogues and Jewish schools should be burned to the ground, Jewish people run out of their homes, their prayer books and Talmudic writings burned and the rabbis forbidden to preach or teach on penalty of death. The following are a few excerpts from Luther’s writings:
"What shall we Christians do with this rejected and condemned people, the Jews? ... I shall give you my sincere advice:"
"First to set fire to their synagogues or schools and to bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them. This is to be done in honor of our Lord and of Christendom, so that God might see that we are Christians, and do not condone or knowingly tolerate such public lying, cursing, and blaspheming of his Son and of his Christians. For whatever we tolerated in the past unknowingly ­ and I myself was unaware of it ­ will be pardoned by God. But if we, now that we are informed, were to protect and shield such a house for the Jews, existing right before our very nose, in which they lie about, blaspheme, curse, vilify, and defame Christ and us (as was heard above), it would be the same as if we were doing all this and even worse ourselves, as we very well know."
"Second, I advise that their houses also be razed and destroyed. For they pursue in them the same aims as in their synagogues. Instead, they might be lodged under a roof or in a barn, like the gypsies. This will bring home to them that they are not masters in our country, as they boast, but that they are living in exile and in captivity, as they incessantly wail and lament about us before God." Luther told Christians to “set fire to their synagogues or schools and to bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn. The Nazis executed his plan on the night of Kristallnacht, also called the “Night of Broken Glass,” when they torched synagogues and destroyed Jewish homes, schools and businesses.
Undoubtedly Hitler’s virulent hatred of Jews and his desire to annihilate them was satanically inspired by Martin Luther who Hitler himself called one of history’s greatest reformers in his autobiography, Mein Kampf. Undoubtedly his praise was due to the fact that Luther’s theological writings so resembled his own racial antisemitism and political policies.
It cannot be denied that God mightily used Martin Luther as the catalyst for the denunciation of papal authority and the Protestant Reformation. His vitriol was of equal vehemence towards his theological enemies, including the pope and the Catholic church, as it was towards the Jews with words that are unfit to write.
Sadly, the Protestant churches that came out of the reformation were daughters of the Great Whore of Babylon, the Roman Catholic Church, called the ‘mother of harlots’ because she was the first to commit spiritual adultery by corrupting the simplicity of the New Testament Christianity. Since the Mother of Harlots is a church, then her daughters are also churches. These daughters were inspired by the writings of Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Henry VIII to break away from Catholicism and establish Protestant denominations retaining much of their mother’s paganized traditions of men.
While Luther was an opponent of many of the false doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church, he initiated and promoted a false doctrine of his own of such significant proportion that it persists to this very day. He taught that we can receive forgiveness simply by belief in Jesus without obedience or works of any kind. This doctrine was not part of Christian belief for the first 1,500 years of Christianity. Luther erroneously came to the conclusion that we are saved by faith ALONE, rather than saved by an OBEDIENT faith. Luther added the word “alone” to Romans 3:28 which at the time caused an outcry among theologians. Many passages of Scripture say we are saved by faith, but no passage says we are saved by faith ALONE. How can anyone believe in salvation by faith alone when the only occurrence of ‘faith alone’ in the Bible is James 2:24 and it says that salvation is NOT by faith alone. The Holy Spirit says PLAINLY that Jesus saves those who obey: "And having been made perfect he became unto all THEM THAT OBEY HIM the author of eternal salvation" (Hebrews 5:9).
At the end of his life, Luther advocated for murder and mass expulsion of Jews from the empire and condoned polygamy based on Old Testament practices. He died of a stroke at the age of 62.

​-By Lynette Hughes