Martin Luther Quotes
We must make a great difference between God's Word and the word of man. A man's word is a little sound, that flies into the air, and soon vanishes; but the Word of God is greater than heaven and earth, yea, greater than death and hell, for it forms part of the power of God, and endures everlastingly.
Luther, Martin. The Table Talk of Martin Luther. Translated by William Hazlitt, H.G. Bohn, 1857.
The Creation Museum makes the Christian Fundamentalist Case for their alternative view of the creation of the earth and man. In the process, they make claims that are proven incorrect every day in science, like the earth is only about 6000 years old {641849} , and all the species on earth were then separately created in their immutable form with no evolutionary process. There are many deeply religious Christians who do not take the Bible literally and have no problem with evolution as the mechanism which God selected to create and develop life. The Roman Catholic Church, for example, does not maintain that the Bible is literally true and Evolution did not account for the development of life on earth. The major difference between most modern scientists, philosophers, and theologians, is that some believe that God of other Supreme Being had nothing to do with the evolution and development of life forms and those who believe that Evolution was the mechanism that God created and used. See {641848} for an example of the former.
Huckabee, a fundamentalist Christian Minister in addition to being a politician, had been very tolerant of other religions and their rights. However, on the abortion question he seemed to be calling for a Constitutional amendment to make abortion illegal. The likelihood of passing such a Constitutional Amendment given the supermajority requirement was very low given the national division on this polarizing issue. A very careful reading of the candidate’s statement shows that he never literally advocated an amendment. He just stated that is would be easier to change the Constitution than to change the world of God which to believers was immutable. Thus his statement was true, yet some interpreted it as a very clever way of making a moral statement without committing to a course of action that would deny women the right to make decisions over the use and risks to their own bodies, souls, and lives.
Martin Luther, O.S.A. was a German professor of theology, priest, author, composer, Augustinian monk, and a seminal figure in the Reformation. Luther was ordained to the priesthood in 1507. He came to reject several teachings and practices of the Roman Catholic Church; in particular, he disputed the view on indulgences. Luther proposed an academic discussion of the practice and efficacy of indulgences in his Ninety-five Theses of 1517. His refusal to renounce all of his writings at the demand of Pope Leo X in 1520 and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms in 1521 resulted in his excommunication by the pope and condemnation as an outlaw by the Holy Roman Emperor.
