/lit/ - Literature

>>20003338
It's wonderful to see that you have come to the point in your life where you're willing to repent and believe on Christ, fren. It seems to me that you're overintellectualising the whole thing though, it's not about arguments and reason really. Faith is not something that you think yourself into, there's more to human beings than thought after all. I'd recommend that you find yourself a church near you which preaches from the scriptures as they are and follows God dutifully. Overintellectualising can lead you to soul - and mind - destroying heresies like gnosticism for example. So, read your Bible and attend church that you might grow stronger in the faith. If you haven't already, you should get baptised.

Here are a few good bible translations in different languages that I can think of
>English: ESV, KJV, NKJV, NASB(1995)
>French: Louis Segond's Bible
>Polish Gdánsk Bible
>German: Luther Bible (a bit archaic but it works)
>Swedish: 1912 Bibel, Svenska Folkbibeln (1998/2015 either is good)

No clue what your native tongue is so I'm just shooting buckshot here from what I've heard is good and from what I know is good. The ESV and NASB can be a little wooden, because they're more literal translations from the original texts. Whatever the case they should work. If you have any questions on scripture, a study bible written by someone who wasn't a flaming heretic would be good for you to read from, either that or just talk to the priest from the aformentioned (as of now hypothetical) church.

Good luck, fren, God bless you and God be with you.

Is there a good collection of the writings of Martin Luther?

>What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
>If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
>And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
>Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
>Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
>Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
>But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
>Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
>Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
>And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
>Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
>Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
>For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

> YOU WILL WORSHIP ANGELS!
> YOU WILL WORSHIP MARY!
> YOU WILL WORSHIP SAINTS!
> YOU WILL WORSHIP GRAVEN IMAGES!
> YOU WILL WORSHIP THE POPE!
> YOU WILL BUY INDULGENCES!
> YOU WILL BELIEVE IN PURGATORY!
> DON'T READ YOUR BIBLE—YOU'RE TOO STUPID TO UNDERSTAND IT!
> DON'T ASK QUESTIONS, JUST BELIEVE!
> THE POPE IS GOD, DON'T QUESTION HIM!
> IGNORE THE GLORIES OF THE REFORMATION!
> EMBRACE SLAVERY TO THE CHURCH IN ROME!
NO. Seethe, cope, and transubstantiate.

>>19112600
>Catholic
>Hasn't read the Bible
Many such cases

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The quote it taken out of context. Luther was referring to anabaptists as well as the Zwinglians who denied any mystery or grace in the sacraments:

"But since we are still confined to this miserable carcass—which in time the worms will devour, though it deserves something worse, to burn in hell eternally—it is necessary constantly to resist and put off the old man and his works and put on the new man, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him. Usury, gluttony, adultery, manslaughter, murder, etc., these can be seen and the world understands that these are sins. But the devil’s bride, reason, the lovely whore comes in and wants to be wise, and what she says, she thinks, is the Holy Spirit. Who can be of any help then? Neither jurist, physician, nor king, nor emperor; for she is the foremost whore the devil has. The other gross sins can be seen, but nobody can control reason. It walks about, cooks up fanaticism [Schwärmerei] with baptism and the Lord’s Supper, and claims that everything that pops into its head and the devil puts into its heart is the Holy Spirit. Therefore Paul says: 'As I am an apostle and God has given me the Spirit, so I appeal to you.'" - LW 51: 373-374

>>12503385
>>12503419
>>12503634
It went okay lads, talked a lot but listened enough also; hard to tell with these things, cheers for the support

All that knowledge and you're still unhappy

>>10880346
>>10880393
>still being catholic after 1500s

>>10873961
Of course it is. Catholics don't read.

>>10153825

There are so many pagans and crypto-papists on /lit/ that spend all day on character assassinations of protestants. Ignore papists and focus on literature. There is simply no way to have a constructive conversation with these people. And even if you try to keep things secular they will find a way to virtue signal their papist ideology.

>>10148194
/thread

>>9399975
I guess the Protestant redpill is just too much for some people to handle.