As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter........
I have made a mistake out of ignorance and it has me completely baffled.
One assumes that a religion of olde, in being 500 years in age, and setting itself apart from the Universal or Catholic Vatican blasphemy and sacrilege, that the German Lutheran religion, specifically in the Missouri Synod Lutherans of Evangelicals, would not be producing a document with the name of Martin Luther on it which he apparently did not write in his Catechism of instruction.
I am aware of the "Walther League" which was passing in vogue in the Missouri Synod of Germans in the late 1960's to Confirmants, but do not know if this is the source or what really took place as the German Lutherans started revising in the 1970's the Luther Catechism of THOU SHALT NOT to You shall not...and as of the past few years a new "song book" arose in changing songs and the entire German worship service.....so there is a history of this.
I have been reading a synopsis of the Martin Luther Table Talk, which the English editor warns has in complete volume been hacked and edited by everyone who touched it, records a most interesting dichotomy of my assumptive ignorance.
See in the Martin Luther Catechism, there are listed 10 Commandments as the Bible lists 10. The problem is that in the Luther version, it has two THOU SHALT NOT COVET AT THE END, and leaves out the Commandment about THOU SHALT NOT MAKE ANY GRAVEN IMAGE.
As my Pastor from my youth stated, "The Missouri Synod Lutheran is the best religion and until a better one comes along, I will be a Lutheran".
That made my young Spirit fill with revulsion as a Christian has a duty to rectify wrongs as Martin Luther did, and to not allow flaws to be taught for the good of the Faithful.
So I was aware that the Luther Catechism was not correct and I have stated so here. I made a mistake though in assuming that Martin Luther was the source, as his name is on the book. To my surprise though as I was reading the Inspiration of Martin Luther, I was eagerly reading his answer on the 10 Commandments or Decalogues as he terms them, when I came across that Martin Luther was teaching the correct 10 Commandments, and had not left out the "graven images" forbiddence as I assued he had been swayed by the pretty crosses the Church has.
The evidence now points to that Martin Luther, the German Reformation Leader, did not teach the 10 Commandments incorrectly, but was in German vernacular, was a "stickler" on all 10 and never moved one word from them.
I post the Martin Luther quote below in the 10 Commandments explaining them, and they are a very good explanation, which is better than in the Catechism which has his name on it.
I have in my archives both the Luther Large and Small Catechism, but have not examined them. I memorized the Small Catechism, including most of the Bible verses as that was mandatory for me as a child, so I do know what is in that book front to back.
What I have not as of yet ascertained is who was it in the German Lutherans who changed the Luther teaching.
"Of the Virtues and Vices concerning the Ten Commandments.
The Decalogus, that is, the Ten Commandments of God, are a looking-glass, and a brief sum of all virtues and doctrines, both how we ought to behave towards God and also towards our neighbour, that is, towards all mankind. There never was at any time written a more excellent, complete, nor compendious book of virtues.
The duty of the First and Second Commandment is to fear God, to love and to trust in him; the contrary is sin and vice, an ungodly life, contemning of God, hatred, despair, etc.
The duty of the Third Commandment is to acknowledge and to preach the doctrine of God’s Word; the contrary is blaspheming of God, to be silent and not to confess the truth when need requireth.
The duty of the Fourth Commandment is the external service of God, as the preaching of God’s Word, hearing, reading, and meditating on the same, to the end we may make proof of our faith; the contrary is the despising of God’s Word and the outward service of God, as the Holy Sacraments.
The duty of the Fifth Commandment is obedience towards parents, tutors, and magistrates in those things which are not against God; the contrary is disobedience and rebellion.
The duty of the Sixth Commandment is meekness, not to be desirous of revenge, not to bear malice; against this is tyranny, rage, hatred, envy, etc.
The duty of the Seventh Commandment is continency and chastity; against the same is lasciviousness, immodest behaviour, adultery, etc.
The duty of the Eighth Commandment is to do good, to give and lend willingly, to be liberal; the contrary is covetousness, stealing, usury, fraud, and to wrong in trading and dealing.
The duty of the Ninth Commandment is to love the truth, not to backbite and slander, to speak well of all men; the contrary is lying, backbiting, and to speak evil of another.
The duty of the Tenth Commandment is righteousness, to let every one possess his own; the contrary is to be miserable and unjust.
The duty of this Commandment is to be without all covetous desires in the heart, to be content with that which one hath; against that are the lustings of the heart. St. Paul saith the end of the Commandment is charity, out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned."
Martin Luther. Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther
I place the King James Version of Scripture as a quote to compare, before continueing from Deuteronomy 5: 6-21
6 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
7 Thou shalt have none other gods before me.
8 Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:
9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,
10 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
11 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
12 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.
13 Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:
14 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
15 And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
16 Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
17 Thou shalt not kill.
18 Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
19 Neither shalt thou steal.
20 Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.
21 Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's.
This might sound as so much Lutheranism, but it is important for Luther is the foundation for all Protestant religions, and whether Calvinist or Huguenot, they were all Lutherans by name, and reformed to the Truth of Scripture.
While Christ summed up the 10 Commandments in Loving God and Loving others, the Holy Ghost Inspired my summation in the 10 Commandments are all Thou shalt not steal. That is what they are all about in stealing from God or others.
I contemplate now who and what group it was that apparently after Martin Luther died, took out the idolatry Commandment for their own satanic means of inflicting that on worshipers. Oddly the Lutherans never were statues, icons or any Catholic reversion. The Lutheran was well aware of idolatry, and only offered up portraits of Christ or crosses in or out of Churches. That is what baffling in this as I now wonder how the assembled works of Martin Luther in Table Talk, as assembled by one of his devout students, Johann Arbifaur, after Luther went to Heaven, so this was Martin Luther's teaching of the 10 Commandments to the time of his death.
That means someone in the Missouri Synod bastardized the teaching to the German Lutherans which is relevant.
I had complete rejection when the "editors" started hacking up songs in modernizing them in the Lutheran Hymnal. Those were Holy Ghost Inspired songs from thee greatest Christian Protestants in history, and some of them were named Johann Sebastian and Johann Christian Bach.
Who on this earth has thee audacity to start hacking up the prose of Shakespeare to the writings of Abraham Lincoln, thinking they can improve upon the original content, and that is exactly what took place in the modernization. It was criminal as no one has the right to alter any artists work, especially when that work was Inspired by God.
All of this matters as the Mockingbird intelligence program has taken over most of the religions in America, and instituted sodomy from the pulpit. There is a reality in this that someone and some group after Martin Luther died, deliberately changed what he was teaching directly out of the Bible and then placed his name upon it, and it came from the leadership who knew exactly what they were doing as the Bible was translated from Latin to German by Martin Luther, and one could still hear German Lutheran services in German as all the immigrants to America spoke German up to the 1940's.
So Dr. Luther was not the author of this and satan was. Sins have a way in God of being uncovered, no matter the amount of time passed. I would believe that Dr. Luther would be nailing this to the Missouri Synod wall as blasphemy.
No one is going to answer for any of this upon this earth, but before Christ in Judgment as the hierarchy is not ignorant of Bible nor of their modernization. The Truth though must be published as much as in Martin Luther's time as today, for Truth is Truth and all else is lies and those who are not of the Truth are liars.
nuff said
agtG
