tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19795707.post1606582012597599003..comments2024-03-22T16:09:48.895-04:00Comments on Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: Luther: I have greater confidence in my wife and my pupils than I have in ChristJames Swanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16136781934797867593noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19795707.post-6498427135266689032016-02-09T16:04:02.522-05:002016-02-09T16:04:02.522-05:00BTW, as you revised some older entries in Beggars ...<i>BTW, as you revised some older entries in Beggars All, your Resources: Martin Luther (A great place to start when looking for a reference source on Luther!) has a number of non-working links. However, some of the links can still be accessed through the Wayback Machine.</i><br /><br />thanks for all your support and kind words. Yes, I've been meaning to update many of my entries here for a long time. That resources one i'll get to eventually. <br /><br />That so many old sources are online now really is amazing. To actually find sources now that I've read about for over 10 years is really, well...fun. Just the other day I found "L.C.12.s.17." Ten years ago I wasn't quite sure what that reference meant, yet Rome's defenders put it out there to appear credible. I doubt any of them could've located the source "L.C.12.s.17" that they used as documentation. Now, I've found the entire volume. James Swanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16136781934797867593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19795707.post-90772038419721268482016-02-08T09:35:29.971-05:002016-02-08T09:35:29.971-05:00"Whatever liberties may have been taken with ...<i>"Whatever liberties may have been taken with the English rendering, the sentence even in a bald literal form presents a sentiment expressing the fact that it is wrong and sinful to put trust in anyone more than in Christ. This is much different than Wiener saying it means, 'Luther does not always see eye to eye with God or Christ.'"</i><br /><br />James, the numerous references and snapshots you provide for sources in the original language and various translations make it much easier for the studious reader to distinguish between sloppy excerpting and deliberately taking a quote of of context. <br /><br />Furthermore, as you noted, in the past few years there are so many more sources now available on the internet, including those dealing with Martin Luther, that targeting papists' misleading claims about Luther's views is getting to be like shooting fish in a barrel (on Friday ;-) ).<br /><br />It also means, especially in this period of quincentennial sermons, speeches, books and church articles, that Lutherans themselves have much less excuse for promulgating unreferenced quotes from Luther he neither wrote nor said.<br /><br />BTW, as you revised some older entries in <i>Beggars All</i>, your <a href="http://beggarsallreformation.blogspot.com/2007/07/resources-martin-luther.html" rel="nofollow">Resources: Martin Luther</a> (A great place to start when looking for a reference source on Luther!) has a number of non-working links. However, some of the links can still be accessed through the <a href="https://archive.org/" rel="nofollow">Wayback Machine</a>.Carl Vehsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00348831096001668813noreply@blogger.com