so Martin Luther's theological beliefs were a bit inconsistent too?

[alreadyGone]

 

Reading the Wikipedia article on Martin Luther I noticed for the first time that he was rabidly anti-semitic:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_and_antisemitism

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Jews_and_Their_Lies

 

I never heard this about Martin Luther before now, and I wonder who here may have been aware of it.

 

To my mind this is a curious thing...

Contemporary Protestant Christian believers I've known are very adamant about "the chosen people", and their own supposed relationship as Christians with the Jewish people.

 

I've never been able to get a clear understanding from most Christians of their belief about the Jewish people being "God's chosen".

Most Christians seem to be in some never-never sorta in-between belief that anyone who would crucify their savoir must be "bad people" but that at the same time the Bible tells them that the Jewish people are "the chosen".

 

It confuses me.

 

I've no interest in an anti-Semitic "who really runs the world" discussion personally, but when you pull your dog out of the fight (lose your own belief in a supreme being) the array of various religions in contention for God's favor can sometimes seize your attention all over again.

 

 

 

[Tsathoggua9]

1 hour ago, alreadyGone said:

 

Reading the Wikipedia article on Martin Luther I noticed for the first time that he was rabidly anti-semitic:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_and_antisemitism

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Jews_and_Their_Lies

 

I never heard this about Martin Luther before now, and I wonder who here may have been aware of it.

 

To my mind this is a curious thing...

Contemporary Protestant Christian believers I've known are very adamant about "the chosen people", and their own supposed relationship as Christians with the Jewish people.

 

I've never been able to get a clear understanding from most Christians of their belief about the Jewish people being "God's chosen".

Most Christians seem to be in some never-never sorta in-between belief that anyone who would crucify their savoir must be "bad people" but that at the same time the Bible tells them that the Jewish people are "the chosen".

 

It confuses me.

 

I've no interest in an anti-Semitic "who really runs the world" discussion personally, but when you pull your dog out of the fight (lose your own belief in a supreme being) the array of various religions in contention for God's favor can sometimes seize your attention all over again.

 

 

 

 

Oh yeah, I've known about his antisemitism since reading about it in the late 1970s or early 1980s. Of course, most Europeans during the sixteenth century shared his views, at least to some extent. The Jews have had it bad for a long time!

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WHAT?  You mean there is inconsistency in religion?