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Monday, November 2, 2009
Walther: Reformation is Nothing New
It is true that of all the church bodies which have left the papacy, it is precisely the Lutheran Church which is accused of retaining many papal abuses and of having been the least successful in cleansing itself. It is pointed out, for example, that in our church priestly clothing, church ornamentation, pictures, altar, crucifixes, candles, confession, the sign of the cross, and the like are still apparent. But, my friends, whoever regards these innocent things as vestiges of the papacy knows neither what the papacy is, nor what the Bible teaches. The very fact that the Lutheran Reformation was not aimed at indifferent adiaphora, but retained those things which were in harmony with God's Word, shows that it was not a disorderly revolution, but a Biblical reformation. -- C. F. W. Walther
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I often hear that said by baptisty friends--that Luther didn't go far enough, or they call us 'half-catholics.'
Though I haven't read the Walther quoted here, it's funny that I usually reply to such accusations that they are throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bath-water-revolutionary-iconoclasts.
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