Our Associate Pastor, Bryan Robbins posted a humorous blog about the influence of Martin Luther upon the Christian Church. While Luther's rediscovery of the biblical teaching of justification by grace through faith in the finished work of Jesus, and his boldness in calling the church to return to a pure Christian faith are invaluable, his latter life views on the Jewish people left a stain on his influence and upon the Christian Church. Many scholars attribute Luther as a fuel to the Nazi's anti-Semitic worldview and subsequent horrific actions of the Holocaust. His writing, On the Jews and Their Lies, spews God-less sentiments toward the Jewish people advocating stripping their monies, possessions, and even their lives.
While we are indebted to the wonderful truths that Martin Luther rediscovered after the Medieval corruption in the Roman Church, we must distance ourselves from his views on the Jewish people.
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