Bishop Barron on Martin Luther

[ethanjsc]

enjoyed listening to this bishop. I still identify as protestant but im starting to enjoy the process of growing and learning about the many aspects to our faith in Jesus.

[chriscas]

Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?

[richardrosebealprestonjohn]

My father was Norwegian Lutheran!
My mother was Irish Catholic!
Interesting upbringing.
Went to Catholic Church but had father questioning RC church?!! Had lots of conversations and laughs I may say!! Thank goodness for Irish humour in our family!! 😂

[markpeter]

James also says in this passage, "Faith without works is useless" (2:20), "Faith is completed by works" (2:22) and "Faith without works is dead" (2:26). James also says, "See how a person is justified by works and not by faith alone" (2:24). This is actually the only place in the Bible where the words faith and alone are found together, and it is saying that a person is not justified by faith alone.

Martin Luther knew that the Bible did not support his theory of sola fide, so he actually tried to take the book of James out of the New Testament, as well as the books of Hebrews, Jude, and Revelations. He later added them back after receiving heat from his peers, but referred to the book of James as an "epistle of straw." He also added the word alone to Romans 3:28 in his translation of the Bible so that it would read that we are justified by our faith alone.

[jerryuallera]

I would like to know what is the goal of modern Ecumenism.
Return protestants back to the Church, or search for a compromise between the two?(something political)
I'm also concerned about some of the statements made by the Holy Father, in the "ecumenical dialogue" He seems to emphasize more common social action rather than search for the Truth.. doing exactly the contrary of what Pope Benedict did.
Could you explain the actual position of the Holy See? thank you

[nietzschesghost]

Bishop Barron offers a very fair and nuanced perspective of Luther here. It speaks to Barron's scholarship and integrity that he presents this objective picture of a man whom many other Catholics would be quick to simply dismiss without consideration.

[jackolantern]

Hey Bishop Barron, did you receive the silver play button yet from YouTube?

[deneentorkelson]

I’m Lutheran and I enjoy watching your videos. I have understood that faith and works are sort of hand and hand. If you truly have faith in Jesus as your Lord and Savior, then good works can’t help but glow out of you. If you have no good works, then one must seriously question your faith in God. As Jesus said you can judge a tree by the fruit it bears.

[catbach]

More "flowery words"....running circles, dancing around the

[titob.yotokojr.]

Sorry but Martin Luther was both a schismatic and a heretic. That he was a schismatic is obvious because he separated from the Church. And among his many heretical teachings, two stand out: 1. Faith alone which is not scriptural, in support of which he even tampered with scripture by adding the word "alone" to Paul's teaching on faith so that it became 'faith "alone'"; and 2. Sola Scriptura, a teaching which is nowhere found in the very Bible he idolized.

[AuroraFenzl]

I found the video very informative As a convert from Evangelical to Catholic church I have been trying to study the histories and mindset of the different theologies. Can you recommend any media or literature that can help break it down so I can have a hope of mentally digesting?

[johnsteila]

Luther hated Jews and advocated for their destruction. He also altered the words of Holy Scripture to suit his new theology which was inspired by his extreme scrupulousness.

[johnsteila]

Excuse me Your Excellency, how can you defend Luther and claim to follow the teachings of Our Lord??

[joelchristi]

É dolorido vê um bispo tecendo elogios ao maior destruidor da história da Igreja...

[LaFedelaIglesia]

Bishop Robert Barron It is with respect that I make my next comment, how can we call an "experience of grace" to something that led Fr. Martin Luther to reject the Church as a sacrament of salvation?

[Jonathan-sind]

Luther was a biblical scholar. And he read the Fathers.

From the Fathers....

Ambrose (340?-396),  “How can we use those things which we do not find in the Holy Scriptures?” (Ambr. Offic., 1:23).

Athanasius (300?-375),
“The Holy Scriptures, given by inspiration of God, are of themselves sufficient toward the discovery of truth. (Orat. adv. Gent., ad cap.) The Catholic Christians will neither speak nor endure to hear anything in religion that is a stranger to Scripture; it being an evil heart of immodesty to speak those things which are not written, ” (Athanasius, Exhort. ad Monachas).

“Vainly then do they run about with the pretext that they have demanded Councils for the faith’s sake; for divine Scripture is sufficient above all things; but if a Council be needed on the point, there are the proceedings of the Fathers, for the Nicene Bishops did not neglect this matter, but stated the doctrine so exactly, that persons reading their words honestly, cannot but be reminded by them of the religion towards Christ announced in divine Scripture.” (Athanasius, De Synodis, 6).

We ought not to deliver even the most casual remark without the Holy Scriptures: nor be drawn aside by mere probabilities and the artifices of argument. Do not then believe me because I tell thee these things, unless thou receive from the Holy Scriptures the proof of what is set forth: for this salvation, which is of our faith, is not by ingenious reasonings, but by proof from the Holy Scriptures...Let us then speak nothing concerning the Holy Ghost but what is written; and if anything be not written, let us not busy ourselves about it. The Holy Ghost Himself spoke the Scriptures; He has also spoken concerning Himself as much as He pleased, or as much as we could receive. Be those things therefore spoken, which He has said; for whatsoever He has not said, we dare not say. (Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures, 4.17ff)

What then is our reply? We do not think that it is right to make their prevailing custom the law and rule of sound doctrine. For if custom is to avail for proof of soundness, we too, surely, may advance our prevailing custom; and if they reject this, we are surely not bound to follow theirs. Let the inspired Scripture, then, be our umpire, and the vote of truth will surely be given to those whose dogmas are found to agree with the Divine words. (Gregory of Nyssa, Dogmatic Treatises, Book 12. On the Trinity, To Eustathius.)

Let us not therefore carry about the notions of the many, but examine into the facts. For how is it not absurd that in respect to money, indeed, we do not trust to others, but refer this to figures and calculation; but in calculating upon facts we are lightly drawn aside by the notions of others; and that too, though we possess an exact balance, and square and rule for all things, the declaration of the divine laws? Wherefore I exhort and entreat you all, disregard what this man and that man thinks about these things, and inquire from the Scriptures all these things; and having learnt what are the true riches, let us pursue after them that we may obtain also the eternal good things; which may we all obtain, through the grace and love towards men of our Lord Jesus Christ, with Whom, to the Father and the Holy Spirit, be glory, might, and honor, now and ever, and world without end. Amen.” (John Chrysostom, Homily on 2 Corinthians, 13.4)

For the reasonings of any men whatsoever, even though they be [true Christians], and of high reputation, are not to be treated by us in the same way as the canonical Scriptures are treated. We are at liberty, without doing any violence to the respect which these men deserve, to condemn and reject anything in their writings, if perchance we shall find that they have entertained opinions differing from that which others or we ourselves have, by the divine help, discovered to be the truth. I deal thus with the writings of others, and I wish my intelligent readers to deal thus with mine. (St Augustine, Letters, 148.15)

[jtblaw]

As our people lose faith in so many earthly institutions, the cause of Christian unity is more important than ever. Keep up the good work!

[Cobe]

. Justification by faith alone, the core tenet of Protestantism, is refuted by nearly every book of the New Testament.

[beastsniper]

MARTIN was a heretic. May Lord have mercy on him and us for our sins.

[johnsteila]

You say Luther was “Antisemetic”, like it was a good thing..