The Death Mask of Luther*
There is a push towards
a rehabilitation of the grand heretic Martin Luther! The Novus Ordo Religion at
the Vatican approves of Luther’s heresies and teaches their seminarians about
the man’s works. No wonder the average Novus Ordo priest is an apostate! They
are so muddled up that they profess no religion! Their so-called priesthood is
a means of livelihood full stop.
You remember that Francis
calls Luther a reformer! What exactly Luther is reforming is known only to
Francis and his religion! The arch heretic, Josef Ratzinger, who pretended to
be Pope Benedict XVI adores Luther and quoted him widely!
Now Francis is going to
celebrate Martin Luther come next year 2017. Next year will mark the 500th
anniversary of Luther’s apostasy from the church!
A new movies is even out
with the Masonic forces seeking to rehabilitate Luther casting him a new and
good light!
But we know the truth!
Martin Luther was a heretic and an apostate who establish a false religion from
here thousands of sects spring from!
All non-Catholic
religions that claim to be Christian emanated from Luther and so all of them
are heretical religion having originated from the heretic!
Let us see the
anti-Christ himself, who Francis is celebrating. We will see how his many
deplorable teachings is Antichrist yet the Vatican plans to celebrate him while
at the same time pretending to be Catholic! But nothing could be further from
the truth!
It is best we speak
about Luther in his own words so that no one will accuse me of interpreting
Luther! After all, who will doubt that the best judge of Luther’s true
character than Luther himself?
And so from Luther’s own
words, with references, we shall see him for what he really was, that is a rebellious apostate, who abandoned the faith and led many into apostasy from
God under the guise of “reformation” in order to follow his perverse
inclinations.[1]
Keeping in mind that
none of the following statements of Luther, which I will quote, were ever
retracted by him, and so they may still be considered as part of his “religious
thought”. This should show the aspect of Martin Luther which Protestants
and all alike so conveniently overlooked in these days of false ecumenism and
intellectual dishonesty.
But surely Francis and
his Vatican know about Luther’s teachings and yet, they want to celebrate!
This shows us again that
the religion at the Vatican and which occupies Catholic parishes worldwide is
not the Catholic Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ!
Luther against God’s Commandments
Luther in speaking of
the commandments teaches:
"Their only purpose is to show man his impotence to do good and to teach
him to despair of himself"[3]
“Thou shalt not covet,’ is a commandment which proves us all to be sinners;
since it is not in man’s power not to covet, and the same is the drift of all
the commandments, for they are all equally impossible to us.” -
"Moses is an
executioner, a cruel lictor, a torturer a torturer who tears our flesh out with
pincers and makes us suffer martyrdom . . . Whoever, in the name of Christ,
terrifies and troubles consciences, is not the messenger of Christ, but of the
devil . . . Let us therefore send Moses packing and for
ever." [4]
“We must remove the Decalogue out of sight and heart” (De Wette 4, 188).
“If we allow them - the Commandments - any influence in our conscience, they
become the cloak of all evil, heresies and blasphemies” (Comm. ad Galat,
p.310).
What is more is that
scripture constantly declares the greatness of the commandments and the
importance of keeping them:
Ps. 19 :7 : “The law of
the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the decrees of the Lord are sure,
making wise the simple; the precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart;
the commandment of the Lord is clear, enlightening the eyes.”
LUTHER ON FREE WILL
Christ taught: “Not every one who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,'
shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my
Father who is in heaven.” [6]
Luther teaches: "...with regard to God, and in all that
bears on salvation or damnation, (man) has no 'free-will', but is a captive,
prisoner and bond slave, either to the will of God, or to the will of
Satan."[7]
"...we do everything of necessity and nothing by 'free-will'; for the
power of 'free-will' is nil..."[8]
"Man is like a
horse. Does God leap into the saddle? The horse is obedient and
accommodates itself to every movement of the rider and goes whither he wills
it. Does God throw down the reins? Then Satan leaps upon the back
of the animal, which bends, goes and submits to the spurs and caprices of its
new rider... Therefore, necessity, not free will, is the controlling
principle of our conduct. God is the author of what is evil as well as of
what is good, and, as He bestows happiness on those who merit it not, so also
does He damn others who deserve not their fate." [9]
“His (Judas) will was
the work of God; God by His almighty power moved his will as He does all that
is in this world.”[10]
Luther on Faith and Reason
“You know then how to
discern the face of the sky: and can you not know the
signs of the times?”[12]
Luther teaches: “No good work happens as the result of one’s
own wisdom; but everything must happen in a stupor . . . Reason must be
left behind for it is the enemy of faith.” [13]
“Reason is
the devils handmaid and does nothing but blaspheme and dishonor all that God
says or does.” [14]
“Reason is directly
opposed to faith, and one ought to let it be; in believers it should be killed
and buried.”[15]
“One should learn
Philosophy only as one learns witchcraft, that is to destroy it; as one finds
out about errors, in order to refute them”[16]
Luther on Sin
Christ taught: “He that commits sin is of the devil: for the
devil sinned from the beginning. For this purpose, the Son of God appeared that
He might destroy the works of the devil.” - 1 John 3:8
Luther teaches: “A person that is baptized cannot, thou he
would, lose his salvation by any sins however grievous, unless he refuses to
believe. For no sins can damn him but unbelief alone.”[17]
"Be a sinner, and
let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice
in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world. We will
commit sins while we are here, for this life is not a place where justice
resides... No sin can separate us from Him, even if we were to kill or
commit adultery thousands of times each day."[18]
"Do not ask
anything of your conscience; and if it speaks, do not listen to it; if it
insists, stifle it, amuse yourself; if necessary, commit some good big sin, in
order to drive it away. Conscience is the voice of Satan, and it is necessary
always to do just the contrary of what Satan wishes." [19]
Luther on Faith and Good works
Christ taught, “Let your light shine before men, that
they may see your good works and glorify your father who is in
heaven.”[20]
Christ taught (in the words of St. James) “What
shall it profit, my brethren, if a he has faith, but has not works? Shall faith
be able to save him? So faith also, if it have not works is dead in itself.”[21]
Luther teaches: “For we account a man to be
justified by faith alone, without the works of the law.” – On Translation and
on the Intercession of the Saints
“There is no scandal
greater, more dangerous, more venomous, than a good outward life, manifested by
good works and a pious mode of life. That is the grand portal, the highway that
leads to damnation."[24]
Luther on Social Justice
Christ taught: “Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after
justice: for they shall have their fill.”[26]
Luther teaches[27]:
“Peasants are no better than straw. They will not hear the word and they are
without sense; therefore they must be compelled to hear the crack of the whip
and the whiz of bullets and it is only what they deserve.” [28]
“To kill a peasant is not murder; it is helping to extinguish the
conflagration. Let there be no half measures! Crush them! Cut their throats!
Transfix them. Leave no stone unturned! To kill a peasant is to destroy a mad
dog!” – “If they say that I am very hard and merciless, mercy be damned. Let
whoever can stab, strangle, and kill them like mad dogs”[29]
“I, Martin Luther, have
during the rebellion slain al the peasants, for it was I who ordered them to be
struck dead. All their blood is upon my head. But I put it all on our Lord God:
for he commanded me to speak thus.”[30]
“God has given the law,
and nobody observes it. He has in addition instituted rod masters, drivers and
urgers; so then are rulers to drive, beat, choke, hang, burn, behead, and break
upon the well of the vulgar masses.”[31]
“Like the drivers of
donkeys, who have to belabor the donkeys incessantly with rods and whips, or
they will not obey, so must the ruler do with the people; they must drive, beat
throttle, hang, burn, behead and torture, so as to make themselves feared and
to keep the people in check”[32]
“Wherever the princes
take their power from, it does not regard us. It is the will of God,
irrespective whether they have stolen their power or assumed it by robbery”[33]
The Jews in Luther’s
teachings
Christ taught: “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.”-Matt 22:39
Luther teaches: "My advice, as I said earlier, is: First, that their
synagogues be burned down, and that all who are able toss sulphur and pitch; it
would be good if someone could also throw in some hellfire... Second, that all
their books-- their prayer books, their Talmudic writings, also the entire
Bible-- be taken from them, not leaving them one leaf, and that these be
preserved for those who may be converted...Third, that they be forbidden on
pain of death to praise God, to give thanks, to pray, and to teach publicly
among us and in our country...Fourth, that they be forbidden to utter the name
of God within our hearing. For we cannot with a good conscience listen to this
or tolerate it...
He who hears this name
[God] from a Jew must inform the authorities, or else throw sow dung at him
when he sees him and chase him away".[34]
"Burn their
synagogues. Forbid them all that I have mentioned above. Force them to
work and treat them with every kind of severity, as Moses did in the desert and
slew three thousand... If that is no use, we must drive them away like mad
dogs, in order that we may not be partakers of their abominable blasphemy and
of all their vices, and in order that we may not deserve the anger of God and
be damned with them. I have done my duty. Let everyone see how he
does his. I am excused."[35]
“ If I had to baptize a
Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone round his neck
and push him over with the words I baptize thee in the name of Abraham”[36]
Luther on Marriage and Women
Christ taught: “For this reason shall a man leave father and
mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be in one flesh. Therefore
now they are not two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together,
let no man put asunder. . . Moses by reason of the hardness of your heart
permitted you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. And
I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for
fornication, and shall marry another, commits adultery: and he that shall marry
her that is put away, commits adultery.”[38]
Luther teaches: “If the husband is unwilling, there is
another who is; if the wife is unwilling, then let the maid come.”[39]
“Suppose I should counsel the wife of an impotent man, with his consent, to
giver herself to another, say her husband’s brother, but to keep this marriage
secret and to ascribe the children to the so-called putative father. The
question is: Is such a women in a saved state? I answer, certainly.”[40]
“It is not in opposition to the Holy Scriptures for a man to have several
wives.”[41]
“Know that Marriage is an outward material thing like any other secular business.
The body has nothing to do with God. In this respect one can never sin against
God, but only against one’s neighbour.”[42]
“As to divorce, it is
still a debatable question whether it is allowable. For my part I prefer bigamy
to it.”[43]
“The word and
work of God is quite clear, viz., that women are made to be either wives or
prostitutes.”[44]
“In spite of all the
good I say of married life, I will not grant so much to nature as to admit that
there is no sin in it. .. no conjugal due is ever rendered without sin. The
matrimonial duty is never performed without sin.”[45]
Luther on Virtues and Vices
On Lying:
Christ taught: “You are of your father the devil: and the
desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning: and
he stood not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When
he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.”[46]
Luther teaches: “What harm could it do if a man told a good
lusty lie in a worthy cause and for the sake of the Christian Churches?”[47]
“To lie in a case of necessity or for convenience or in excuse – such lying
would not be against God; He was ready to take such lies on Himself”[48]
On God
Christ taught: “You shall love the Lord your God with your
whole heart and with your whole soul and with your whole mind. This is the
greatest and the first commandment.”[49]
Luther teaches: “I look upon God no better than a scoundrel”[50]
On Drunkenness
Christ Taught (in the words of St. Paul): “Know
you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err:
Neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers: Nor the effeminate nor liars
with mankind nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards”[51]
Luther teaches: “We eat and drink to kill ourselves, we
eat and rink up to our last farthing.”[52]
On Pride
Christ taught: “And whosoever shall exalt himself shall
be humbled” [53]
Luther teaches: “St. Augustine or St. Ambrosius cannot be
compared with me.”[54]
“What I teach and write remains true even though the whole world should fall to
pieces over it”[55]
On the Person of Christ
Christ taught, “Which of you shall convince Me of sin? If
I say the truth to you, why do not believe Me? He that is of God, hears the
words of God. Therefore you hear them not, because you are not of God.”[56]
Luther teaches: “Christ committed adultery first
of all with the women at the well about whom St. John tell’s us. Was not
everybody about Him saying: ‘Whatever has He been doing with her?’ Secondly,
with Mary Magdalen, and thirdly with the women taken in adultery whom He
dismissed so lightly. Thus even, Christ who was so righteous, must have been
guilty of fornication before He died.”[57]
“I have greater
confidence in my wife and my pupils than I have in Christ”[58]
“It does not matter how Christ behaved – what He taught is all that matters”[59]
Luther on the Sacred Scripture
Christ taught: " For I testify to every one that
hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If any man shall add to these
things, God shall add unto him the plagues written in this book. And if any man
shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take
away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from these
things that are written in this book.”[60]
Luther teaches: "To my mind it (the book of the Apocalypse)
bears upon it no marks of an apostolic or prophetic character... Everyone
may form his own judgment of this book; as for myself, I feel an aversion to
it, and to me this is sufficient reason for rejecting it."[61]
"If your Papist
annoys you with the word ('alone' - Rom. 3:28), tell him straightway, Dr.
Martin Luther will have it so: Papist and ass are one and the same
thing. Whoever will not have my translation, let him give it the go-by:
the devil's thanks to him who censures it without my will and knowledge.
Luther will have it so, and he is a doctor above all the doctors in
Popedom."[62]
Luther had a perverse
habit of freely falsifying scripture to justify his purposes.
"The history of
Jonah is so monstrous that it is absolutely incredible."[63]
"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, for it Judaizes too much and has in it a great deal of
heathenish foolishness."[64]
"Of very little
worth is the Book of Baruch, whoever the worthy Baruch might be."[65]
"...the epistle of
St. James is an epistle full of straw, because it contains nothing
evangelical."[66]
It is worth noting that
while Luther claimed for himself the right to interpret scripture according to
his own view, and claimed that he was intelligent enough to judge anyone and
everything by scripture alone yet he openly affirms that "We cannot claim
to fathom completely the meaning of a single verse of Scripture; we succeed in
apprehending only the A B C of it, and even that imperfectly." - Luther,
Table-talk, trans. Gustave Brunet, Paris, Garnier, 1844, pg. 288.
And again he states:
"Let no one believe himself competent to understand Holy Scripture, unless
he has, for a hundred years, governed the Church with the Prophets, with
Elijiah and Elisha, St. John the Baptist, Jesus Christ and the Apostles."
-Luther, Table-talk, trans. Gustave Brunet, Paris, Garnier, 1844, pg. 290.
Conclusion:
While I leave to the
reader to draw his own conclusions, it suffices to say that what Luther really
was; and the picture that is presented of him today by Francis and his Vatican,
modern scholars, Lutherans and Protestants alike is far from the truth.
Given this fact, it’s
not difficult to see how a nation like Germany was able to blindly follow a
person like Hitler if it had previously so readily embrace a person like
Luther.[67] Adolf
Hitler himself was indeed no doubt a true (spiritual) son of Luther and in many
ways was only being logical to the principles set forth by Luther in his
approach to things[68].
Hitler himself declared the reality of this point in one of his speeches
saying: “I do insist on the certainty that sooner or later – once we hold power
– Christianity will be overcome and the German Church established. Yes, the
German church, without a Pope and without the bible, and Luther, if he could be
with us, would give us his blessing.”[69]
What is more is that
from Luther’s own words (which I have stated above) we are able to grasp the
origin of the inversion of orders in modern society, which we see has prevailed
in the modern world. Luther ushered in this new era of apostasy from God in his
attempt to rationalize his own perversity and make of it the foundations for
civil society. The erroneous principles upon which the modern world is based
undeniably come from Luther himself and can never be reconciled to the
teachings of the Gospel no matter what Luther might have thought.
* The death mask as
depicted above is the same as found in the book by the well known philosopher
Jacques Maritain in his book "Three Reformers: Luther, Descartes,
Rousseau" London: Sheed and Ward, 1950.
[1] As Luther himself stated “I am but a man
prone to let himself be swept off his feet by Society, Drunkenness, the
torments of the flesh.” – Weimar, Vol. 9, Pg. 215, Pg. 13. On another occasion,
he states: “I burn with all the desires of my unconquered flesh” – Enders Vol.
3, Pg. 189.
[3] Denifle’s
Luther et Lutheranisme, Etude Faite d’apres les sources. Translation by J.
Paquier (Paris, A. Picard, 1912-13), Volume III, p. 364.
[4] D.
Martini Lutheri Exegetica Opera Latina, published by Elsperger (Erlangen,
Heyder, 1829-84), Vol. 18 pg. 146
[7] From
the essay, 'Bondage of the Will,' 'Martin Luther: Selections From His Writings,
ed. by Dillenberger, Anchor Books, 1962 p. 190.
[9] 'De
Servo Arbitrio', 7, 113 seq., quoted by O'Hare, in 'The Facts About Luther, TAN
Books, 1987, pp. 266-267.
[15] Erlangen, Vol. 44, Pg. 156-157. For more quotes
in this regard see: “Three Reformers”, By Jacques Maritan, Pg. 34 ; Cf. also Jean Janssen,
L’Allemagne et la Reforme. (Trans. E. Paris, Plon, 1887-1911), Vol VII, pg 427.
[16] Commentary
on the Epistle to the Romans, Fol. (1516). Ficker, II, 198. Cf. Three
Reformers, By Jacques Maritan, Pg. 31
[17] The
Babylonian Captivity. It’s worth mentioning on this point that Luther himself
had early written “Pray for me I am falling into the abyss of Sin” – Enders,
Vol. 3, Pg. 193.
[18]
'Let Your Sins Be Strong, from 'The Wittenberg Project;' 'The Wartburg
Segment', translated by Erika Flores, from Dr. Martin Luther's Saemmtliche
Schriften, Letter No. 99, 1 Aug. 1521. - Cf. Also Denifle’s Luther et
Lutheranisme, Etude Faite d’apres les sources. Translation by J. Paquier
(Paris, A. Picard, 1912-13), VOl. II, pg. 404).
[19] J.
Dollinger, La Reforme et les resultants qu’elle a produits. (Trans. E. Perrot,
Paris, Gaume, 1848-49), Vol III, pg. 248
[20] Matt
5:16, Cf. Apoc 20:12, Gal 6:2, 1 Jn
3:18, Jas 4:17, I Cor 13:2, II Peter 1:10, Gal 6:9. There
are also many warnings in scripture that warn against falling away from
salvation (Gal 4:9, Col 1:23, 1 Tim 1:19, 4:1, Heb 3:12-14, 12:14-15, 2 Pet
2:20-21, Apoc 2:4-5).
[23] Denifle’s
Luther et Lutheranisme, Etude Faite d’apres les sources. Translation by J.
Paquier (Paris, A. Picard, 1912-13), VOl. III, pg. 47.
[24] Denifle’s
Luther et Lutheranisme, Etude Faite d’apres les sources. Translation by J.
Paquier (Paris, A. Picard, 1912-13), VOl. II, pg. 128.
[27] It
is important to keep in mind that these peasants were actually Protestants who
favoured Luther and his views, yet in order to please the German princes Luther
and gain influence Luther did not hesitate to have even his own followers put
to death! As one writer put it “I know of no example in history ( with the
exception of Hitler’s famous, or rather infamous, June 30, 1934) where a man
turned in such an inhuman, brutal, low way against his own followers – merely
in order to establish his own position, without any reason.” – Peter F. Winer,
Martin Luther, Hitler’s Spiritual Ancestor, Pg. 57
[34] Martin
Luther; On the Jews and Their Lies, translated by Martin
H. Bertram, Fortress Press, 1955
[35] About
the Jews and Their Lies,' quoted by O'Hare, in 'The Facts About Luther, TAN
Books, 1987, p. 290.
[45] Weimar, Vol 8. Pg. 654. In other words for
Luther the matrimonial act is “a sin differing in nothing from adultery and
fornication.” ibid. What then is the purpose of marriage for Luther you may
ask? Luther affirms that it’s simply to satisfy one’s sexual cravings “The body
asks for a women and must have it” or again “To marry is a remedy for
fornication” – Grisar, “Luther”, vol. iv, pg. 145.
[52] Weimar, Vo. 9. pg. 215. We can also note on this
point that the opinion of Luther’s contemporaries on the subject is
unmistakable. They all agree that Luther “was addicted to over-drinking.” - Th.
Brieger: “Aleander and Luther”, pg. 170, 307.
[57] Trishreden,
Weimer Edition, Vol. 2, Pg. 107. - What a great blasphemy from a man
who is regarded as “great reformer”!
[62] Amic.
Discussion, 1, 127,'The Facts About Luther,' O'Hare, TAN Books, 1987, p. 201. Cf. Also J. Dollinger, La Reforme
et les resultants qu’elle a produits. (Trans. E. Perrot, Paris, Gaume,
1848-49), Vol III, pg. 138.
[66] 'Preface
to the New Testament,' ed. Dillenberger, p. 19. - Cf. Also Jean
Janssen, L’Allemagne et la Reforme. (Trans. E. Paris, Plon, 1887-1911). Vol II,
Pg. 218.
[67] Anyone
who contends this point needs simply to read views of Luther concerning the
state, civil authority and war. In his writings, we find that he openly states
for example “Even if the authorities are wicked and unjust, nobody is entitled
to oppose them, or to riot against them.” Or again “The ass must have blows and
the People must be ruled by force. God knew this well, for it was not a fox’s
brush He gave to rulers, but a sword.” - Weimar, Vol 30, Pg. 1. This
point is dealt with in more detail by Peter F. Wiener in his work “Martin
Luther, Hitler’s Spiritual Ancestor”, Published by Marian House, Powers Lake, N.D. 58773.
[68] This
was undeniably recognized by the Lutherans who welcomed and supported the
regime of Hitler. A point worth mentioning in this regard is that this fact is
so blatantly ignored by Protestants and the Liberal media who at the same time
do not hesitate to unjustly put forward attacks against Pope Pius XII and
his efforts against the Nazis.
Presented by Malachy Mary Igwilo, Feast of St. Alexis, 17th July 2016
Malachy is this your own work or taken from elsewhere?
ReplyDeleteIt's a very good job.