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MARTIN LUTHER: THE RELUCTANT REVOLUTIONARY PROF. M. M. NINAN A. Luther's Marian theology CHAPTER SEVEN REFORMATION WITHIN ROMAN CATHOLICISM STARTED BY MARTIN LUTHER Luther adhered to the Marian decrees of the ecumenical councils and dogmas of the church. He held fast to the belief that Immaculate conception of Mary. Mary was "free from all sin, original or personal". Some three-hundred years before the dogmatization of the Immaculate Conception by Pope Pius IX in 1854, Luther was a firm adherent of that view. Others maintain that Luther in later years changed his position on the Immaculate Conception, which at that time was undefined in the Church. Mary was indeed Theotokos, the Mother of God. ”She became the Mother of God, in which work so many and such great good things are bestowed on her as pass man's understanding. For on this there follows all honor, all blessedness, and her unique place in the whole of mankind, among which she has no equal, 96
MARTIN LUTHER: THE RELUCTANT REVOLUTIONARY PROF. M. M. NINAN namely, that she had a child by the Father in heaven, and such a Child.... Hence men have crowded all her glory into a single word, calling her the Mother of God.... None can say of her nor announce to her greater things, even though he had as many tongues as the earth possesses flowers and blades of grass: the sky, stars; and the sea, grains of sand. It needs to be pondered in the heart what it means to be the Mother of God." Perpetual Virginity – Luther along with the Roman Catholich Church asserted that Mary remained a virgin and had no further children. The doctrine is part of the teaching of Catholicism and Anglo-Catholics, as well as Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy, as expressed in their liturgies, in which they repeatedly refer to Mary as "ever virgin" ( aeiparthenos) . Later Protestants did not believe in this doctrine. Lutherans still uphold it. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (http://www.the-gospel-truth.info/perpetual-virginity-of-mary-disproved-by-the-bible/) gives the following scriptures against this doctrine which Luther held Mary had other sons apart from Jesus “…And she brought forth her firstborn son…” Luke 2 v.7 The term “firstborn” implies that there was more to come. Otherwise it would surely say “her one and only son”. There were indeed other sons and daughters which Mary had. These were the literal brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ: “Is not this the carpenter’s son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things?” Matthew 13:55-56 “These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.” Acts 1:14 So then – Jesus had brothers and sisters. If we read the word of God then at face value we can see the error in believing in the “Perpectual virginity” of Mary. Some argue that these passages refer to the cousins of Jesus or half siblings through another marriage of Joseph. These are flimsy arguments and can readily be disproved beyond any shadow of a doubt. “I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children. For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.” Psalm 69:8-9 This Psalm is prophetic of Jesus. We know this because it is quoted as such in John 2:17 after Jesus overturned the tables of the money changers in the temple we read: “And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.” John 2:17 The “me” then in Psalm 69:8-9 pointed to Jesus Christ. The one who would be alien to his “mothers children”. Its absolutely clear then that his mother, Mary, had children. A normal married life Mary and Joseph lived a normal married life as husband and wife. We can see this clearly by looking at this verse: “And (Joseph) knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.” Matthew 1:25 So after Jesus was born then Joseph did indeed know Mary his wife – proving that the Bible teaches that Mary was not a “perpetual” virgin. 97
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