#Philip Melanchthon

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League of Confessors - Video 10

League of Confessors – Video 10

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#augsburg #augsburg confession #melanchthon #philip #saxony #video 10 #Youtube

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LUKAS CRANACH EL VIEJO (Kronach 1472-Weimar 1553) Retratos de Martín Lutero y Philip Melanchton 1543 Óleo sobre tabla Inv. 1890 núms. 512, 472

El retrato representa a Martín Lutero, el monje agustino que, en 1517, al colgar sus 95 tesis en la puerta de la iglesia del castillo de Wittenberg, inició la Reforma protestante; cerca de él Cranach retrató a Philip Melanchthon, un profesor de lenguas antiguas que en 1519 se sumó al movimiento de reforma de la Iglesia iniciado por Lutero, buscando un punto de encuentro con el Papado y mediando entre las distintas posiciones nacidas dentro del protestantismo. En los Uffizi desde 1773 de la villa Medici de Poggio Imperiale.

Información de la Gallerie degli Uffizi, imagen/es de mi autoría.

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It Happened Today in Christian History

April 19, 1560: Death of German reformer Philip Melanchthon. He had composed the Augsburg Confession of 1530. More of a peacemaker than Luther, he called for Lutherans and Zwinglians to put aside their differences for the sake of the reformation of the church. In addition, he led extensive efforts to develop the German educational system. The universities at Marburg, Koenigsberg, and Jena arose under his advice and Leipzig was reorganized.

[vague-humanoid]

The FOX & Friends opened their Wednesday talking about Gov. Ron DeSantis and his Twitter announcement with owner Elon Musk.

"What the heck is Twitter Spaces?" a clueless Steve Doocy asked, according to RealClearPolitics.

He wasn't the only one with questions, as the reporter explained.

"Do most GOP primary voters know how to log onto Twitter to watch Musk's interview of Ron DeSantis? Will the networks carry the stream live?" asked Capitol Hill reporter Philip Melanchthon Wegmann.

[buggie-hagen]

"The law indicates the sickness, the gospel the remedy"

~Philip Melanchthon

[metmuseum]

Philip Melanchthon. 1540. Credit line: Gift of Felix M. Warburg and his family, 1941 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/428761

#aesthetic #art #abstract art #art museum #art history #The Metropolitan Museum of Art #museum #museum photography #museum aesthetic #dark academia

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Super Tuesday Beatdown: Trump Stomped All Over Nikki Haley Last Night

Donald Trump rode a wave that drowned what was left of Nikki Haley’s campaign. The former UN ambassador’s team knew they would lose badly. Trump swept virtually all the contests on Super Tuesday, giving him an insurmountable delegate advantage for the struggling Haley. 

Steve Kornacki: "Nikki Haley is going to get buried in a delegate avalanche on Super Tuesday." pic.twitter.com/dLmerGkZjy— Bad Hombre (@joma_gc) March 3, 2024

The former South Carolina’s beating was so complete that she didn’t even address her supporters last night. No speeches were given because she couldn’t spin a brutal beatdown that she suffered. Around the time the polls in the West were closing, Trump had won 430 delegates. Haley had three. Her campaign was already lowering expectations over the weekend, saying they were hoping for a competitive result.  

We’re at a point where Trump doesn’t even need to mention Haley by name in his victory speeches. It goes beyond her dead candidacy—she’s doing more damage to herself the longer she stays in the race.  

Trump has won over 92 percent of the Republican delegates since this non-primary began with the Iowa Caucuses. After tonight, he only needs to win 30 percent of the remaining delegates to clinch the Republican nomination. When everything is tabulated, Trump could have over 1,000 delegates. Nikki Haley isn’t even going to break 100 after Super Tuesday. The delegate count and the margins of victory Trump had over Haley are why these statements from her communications shop sound insane. 

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Full Super Tuesday statement from @NikkiHaley campaign: pic.twitter.com/UxRPdAaAcu— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) March 6, 2024

Are they taking hits of Hunter Biden’s crack pipe with this nonsense? When someone locks up the nomination this fast, it negates any concerns about a bloc of GOP voters still worried about Trump. The primaries Haley has done well in or won—as she did in Vermont last night, albeit barely—are because Democrats and independent voters can pad her numbers. The exits concerning ‘Haley supporters’ are grossly skewed since the networks ask Democratic voters. These aren’t Republicans.  

Lady, what the hell are you even doing anymore? 

UPDATE: She will suspend her campaign Wednesday morning, The Wall Street Journal reports. 

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LE THÉOLOGIEN

Les penseurs du monde antique cherchaient à sonder les profondeurs de la réalité ultime. Avec cette quête de la réalité ultime est née la discipline de la philosophie. Certains philosophes se sont concentrés sur un aspect particulier de la philosophie appelé métaphysique (être ultime). D’autres ont concentré leur attention sur l’épistémologie (la science de la connaissance). D'autres encore ont souligné dans leur enquête les principes et éléments de base de l'éthique (l'étude du bien et du juste). Et d’autres se sont concentrés sur les fondements ultimes de l’esthétique (l’étude du beau). Un philosophe s’est distingué par son implication profonde dans l’étude de toutes ces questions ainsi que d’autres. Son nom était Aristote. Parce que l’enquête philosophique d’Aristote était si complète qu’elle englobait toutes les préoccupations philosophiques ci-dessus, il s’est mérité l’épithète suprême, à savoir « le Philosophe ». Parmi les étudiants en philosophie, si l’on mentionne en passant le titre « le Philosophe », tout le monde comprend que ce titre ne peut faire référence qu’à une seule personne : Aristote.

De la même manière, l’étude de la théologie a historiquement fait émerger des penseurs et des érudits exceptionnels. Certains sont connus pour leur capacité spécifique à créer une synthèse entre théologie et philosophie laïque. Augustin, par exemple, était connu pour sa capacité à prendre des préceptes de la philosophie de Platon et à les mélanger à la théologie biblique. Une grande partie de la théologie d’Augustin était donc de nature philosophique. On pourrait en dire autant, dans une certaine mesure, de Thomas d'Aquin, qui nous a fait une synthèse similaire entre la philosophie aristotélicienne et la pensée chrétienne. Parmi les réformateurs magistraux du XVIe siècle, nous remarquons que Luther, brillant étudiant en langues, a apporté à la table théologique une étrange capacité à fournir des aperçus illustrant des questions particulières de vérité. Mais Luther n’était pas un systématicien par nature et il ne pouvait donc pas être le théologien des théologiens. Il n’a jamais développé une théologie systématique complète pour l’instruction de l’Église. Au XVIe siècle, cette tâche fut laissée au génie du théologien genevois Jean Calvin.

Calvin a apporté à l'étude de la théologie une passion pour la vérité biblique et une compréhension cohérente de la Parole de Dieu. De tous les penseurs du XVIe siècle, Calvin était le plus connu pour sa capacité à fournir une compréhension théologique systématique de la vérité chrétienne. Son œuvre magnum, Instituts de la religion chrétienne, reste à ce jour une œuvre titanesque dans le domaine de la théologie systématique. Luther n’a pas vécu assez longtemps pour reconnaître tout l’impact de l’œuvre de Calvin, même s’il a compris que Calvin deviendrait une figure imposante. Il appartenait à celui qui connaissait mieux Calvin et son œuvre, à savoir Philip Melanchthon, assistant de Luther et lui-même un érudit impressionnant, de donner à Calvin le surnom de « théologien ». Ainsi, si l’on mentionne « le Philosophe », nous entendons par là une référence à Aristote. En revanche, si l’on évoque « le Théologien », les héritiers de la Réforme pensent exclusivement à Jean Calvin.

De nos jours, il semble y avoir une bataille continue entre les partisans de la théologie systématique et ceux de la théologie biblique. Nous vivons à une époque d’antipathie sans précédent envers la rationalité et la logique. Là où la théologie systématique régnait autrefois en maître dans les séminaires théologiques, elle a pratiquement disparu, exilée dans le périmètre des études universitaires. Cette antipathie envers la rationalité et la logique trouve son point culminant dans l’allergie moderne contre la théologie systématique, sans rien pour la remplacer si ce n’est l’expansion de la théologie biblique. Il existe dans la théologie biblique une tendance possible à interpréter la Bible de manière atomiste, sans souci de cohérence et d’unité. Cette dichotomie entre théologie biblique et théologie systématique est un exemple classique de l’erreur du faux dilemme, parfois appelée l’erreur du « ou bien ». Si nous regardons Jean Calvin, nous voyons un érudit dont la maîtrise du contenu de l’Écriture était sans précédent. Calvin avait une passion pour la Bible, ainsi qu'une connaissance monumentale de la Bible, et pourtant il est connu comme un théologien systématique. Il n’était pas un théologien systématique dans le sens où il prenait un système philosophique extra-biblique et l’imposait à la Bible. Pour lui, un système n’était pas un lit procustéen préconçu auquel la Bible serait obligée de se conformer. Au contraire, le système de doctrine de Calvin était le résultat de sa tentative de trouver la substance cohérente de la Bible elle-même. Autrement dit, Calvin a élaboré le système qui est contenu dans les Écritures, et non un système imposé aux Écritures. Calvin était convaincu que la Parole de Dieu est cohérente et que Dieu ne parle pas de contradictions ou de déclarations illogiques. On a dit à maintes reprises que la cohérence était le gobelin des petits esprits. Si cela est effectivement vrai, alors il faudrait en conclure que l’esprit le plus petit de l’univers est l’esprit de Dieu, parce que Dieu dans sa pensée est tout à fait cohérent et cohérent. C’est dans cette appréciation de la nature de Dieu que Calvin a cherché avec passion à exposer l’unité de la Parole de Dieu. À cet égard, il a rendu un service magistral à l’histoire de la pensée chrétienne. Certains voient le calvinisme, portant le nom de Jean Calvin, comme une odieuse déformation de la Parole de Dieu. Ceux qui apprécient l’engagement de Calvin en faveur de la vérité biblique voient le calvinisme comme « un surnom du christianisme biblique », comme l’a dit Spurgeon.

Dans le débat, Calvin pouvait s'appuyer sur sa connaissance encyclopédique des passages bibliques, ainsi que sur sa capacité à citer longuement des penseurs anciens tels qu'Augustin et Cicéron. Mais par-dessus tout, Calvin cherchait à être fidèle à la Parole de Dieu. Il était le théologien biblique par excellence et en même temps un théologien systématique singulièrement doué.

Nous avons une grande dette envers cet homme. Il est le don de Dieu à l’Église, non seulement pour le XVIe siècle mais pour toujours. Nous nous joignons donc aux multitudes qui célèbrent le 500e anniversaire de Jean Calvin en 2009.

- R.C. Sproul

[cameron-nieman]

Reformation Monument, Worms, Germany

The Reformation monument in Worms Germany commemorates Martin Luther’s influence and work in Reformation history. I chose this monument because of the amount of Reformation history that it represents. There are 12 statues of different reformers and reformation locations. The reformers and important reformation locations include Martain Luther (the tallest statue and located in the center of the monument), Jon Hus, Peter Waldo, John Wycliffe, Philip Melanchthon, Girolamo Salvonarola, Johann Reuchlin, Philip I, Frederick III Elector of Saxony, Speyer, Augsburg, and Magdeburg. One thing that surprised me about this monument is its prominence around the world. The statue of Martain in the middle has been recreated and displayed in other places throughout Europe, and even America. 

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In honor of Reformation Day, I wanted to share about Philipp of Hesse for anyone who has never heard about him because his story will never not be wild to me.

Philipp was a German ruler during the Reformation, and a good friend of Philip Melanchthon (another powerhouse theologian who collaborated with Luther)

So: Philipp came to power in the state of Hessen at 13 years old, resolving a decade of unrest that had been going on since his father died when Philipp was a toddler. In the first week of his rule, he immediately went to settle the custody dispute over his teenage cousin that involved the freaking emperor of Austria-Hungary. His cousin and her mom had been approached about hanging out in the emperor's household, causing a power struggle between them and Philipp's mom because 1) the imperial lifestyle is expensive and would drain Hesse's coffers and 2) Philipp's mom didn't want her sister-in-law gaining more power

So 13-year-old Philipp took a group of men and rolled up to where his cousin was staying and told her she could either come with him right now, or he would never help her in any way for the rest of their lives. (His cousin agreed to go, and that was the end of that.)

At age 17 he attended the Diet of Worms and got to meet with Luther one-on-one because he wanted to ask a question - about polygamy. Nothing else. (This will come up again).

He encountered Melanchthon on the way home from the Diet and the two began correspondence. Years later he quietly converted to Protestantism on a hunting trip, then returned home and abruptly started closing monasteries and making immediate church reforms, in regular communication with Melanchthon.

In 1525 there was a big meeting of leaders in Augsburg that Austrian Archduke Ferdinand was attending. His presence was expected to cow the rebellious states that supported Luther - might of the Holy Roman Empire against them and all that. This did give some leaders pause and it's possible the tide would have turned here - except Philipp said 'nah, we're not gonna be bullied'

The FIRST thing he did upon arrival to the city that Thursday was have a cow slaughtered to be eaten the next day, Friday, when Catholics would abstain from meat. The SECOND thing he did was to set up his court preacher to give sermons from the balcony of his residence, breaking the 'no preaching' rule that was in place. This boldness inspired the other leaders and they did not back down.

A few years later in 1529, Philipp facilitated a meeting in his city, Marburg, between Luther and Zwingli. This was the first and only time the two EVER met face-to-face. They were debating the meaning and purpose of the Eucharist, and weren't able to find any common ground, but it was a big moment.

So this man has been a champion of the Protestant cause, a powerhouse - and THEN.

Remember how he was interested in polygamy as a teenager? Yeah he never got over that. There's a series of letters between him and Melanchthon and Luther, essentially going like:

P: Hey polygamy is a thing in the Old Testament is it cool if I take a second wife?

M/L: I mean I'd recommend against it because it's not called a good thing and most people are gonna consider it unbiblical. But like...it's also NOT explicitly condemned...

P: Okay cool I it should be fine right?

Luther: I guess but just keep it on the down-low, you don't want to spread this around, and definitely keep my name out of this please

P: Awesome, letting you know I just married this woman the other week!

L: Congrats dude, I'm happy you're happy - but again, please keep this quiet and DON'T tell anyone that I gave you tacit approval

Philipp, literally like 2 weeks later: So uh, the cat's out of the bag about my second marriage. I told my sister and she told...everyone.

And this was basically the end of Philipp's influence and overall reputation. He still tried to do his thing and tried to work for peace between Catholics and Protestants, but he lost a lot of credibility, and now he's mainly remembered for bigamy!

#this is kinda late but oh well #forget about studying fictional characters under a microscope - WHAT was this man thinking #history #reformation day #Philipp von Hessen

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When I was young, Dürer told his friend Philip Melanchthon, a melancholic automaton, I craved variety and novelty. Now, in my old age, I have begun to see the native countenance of nature and come to understand that this simplicity is the ultimate goal of art.

— Philip Hoare, Albert and the Whale: Albrecht Dürer and How Art Imagines Our World

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Remember Eminem? If you are at least in your mid-30s, you probably do. In a move that would be called cultural appropriation in today's political climate, the white-boy rapper rose to the top of the game in the early 2000s with his hit Lose Yourself.

Times change, though, and instead of garnering international attention, Eminem is now sending cease and desist letters to people who rap his songs in public. From the real Slim Shady to a complete dork in just a few short decades.

Eminem tells Ramaswamy to stop rapping his music on the campaign trail https://t.co/1hBjqUTi8u via @MailOnline

— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) August 28, 2023

The real Slim Shady has stood up - and has told 2024 Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy to stand down, and stop rapping to his tunes on the campaign trail.

The rapper Eminem reached out to the music licenser BMI and asked that the Ramaswamy campaign's license to use his music be revoked, according to a letter obtained by DailyMail.com.

In a letter dated August 23, a representative for BMI informed the campaign's lawyer that the label had 'received communications from Marshall B. Mathers, III, professionally known as Eminem, objecting to the Vivek Ramaswamy campaign's use of Eminem's musical compositions (the "Eminem Works") and requesting that BMI remove all Eminem Works from the Agreement.'

The background here is that 2024 GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy decided to rap Lose Yourself while at the Iowa State Fair in early August. Was it hilariously cringe and ill-advised? Sure. But it was a harmless showing from a candidate who was trying to garner attention. Eminem getting chapped over it is worse than saying nothing, and it's also hilarious.

[carolap53]

Two by Two TGIF Today God Is First Volume 1 by Os Hillman

08/05/2023

"Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work."

Ecclesiastes 4:9

Have you discovered yet that you are incomplete by yourself? During my "warrior" stage of life you would have been hard-pressed to convince me that I needed you or anyone else. I know few people willing to admit their need for others, but many who live according to this principle. However, sooner or later we discover God's truth regarding our need for others.

God made us to need others. We may not discover this until we fail - fail in a business, a marriage, a close friendship, or in a client relationship. We are incomplete without the ongoing input from others into our lives. An independent spirit is one of the most detestable sins from God's viewpoint. It is the highest form of pride. "Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is found in those who take advice" (Prov. 13:10).

God has made each of us so that we have only so many gifts. He did not give any of us all the available gifts. Hence, we learn to depend on others and to humbly trust others to complete us where we are deficient.

David had Jonathan. Paul had Silas. John Wesley had George Whitefield. Martin Luther had Philip Melanchthon, who was 14 years younger. Martin Luther learned that he needed someone in his life to complete the work God called him to do. Luther had the greatest respect for this friend who helped him reform the Church of their day, and the Church as we know it at present. Luther learned a great deal from Melanchthon, who was a great scholar at a young age. He could speak several languages, and he became Professor of Greek at the new University of Wittenberg at 21 years of age. This was ten months after Luther posted his famous theses on the church door in Wittenberg. Melanchthon helped shape the Protestant movement of the sixteenth century through his research, writings, moral purpose, and religious conscience. Luther and Melanchthon became inseparable, and when they died, they were buried next to each other.

Who has God placed in your life to complete you? Perhaps it is a mate. Perhaps it is a close friend. Perhaps it is a business partner. If you lack this in your life, I encourage you to seek someone out who can speak into your life. If you have someone like this, tell him or her how much you appreciate the role he or she plays in your life.

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Augsburg Confession 1530 Annotated on almost every page!

714G Melanchthon, Philip (1497-1560), Luther, Martin . (1483-1546) Confessio fidei exhibita invictiss. Imp. Carolo V. Caefari Aug. in Comiciis Auguftae. Anno M.D.XXX. Addita est Apologia Co(n)fessionis Psalm. 119 Et loquebar de te stimonijs tuis in conspectu Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1531.                           $22,000 Octavo, 5.25 x 3.5. This edition is an impression of the “editio princeps”…

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Midweek Lenten Homily V - The Creed - The Very Voice of the Gospel (3/30/23)

Primary Text | Romans 3:21-22

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Dear People of God,

          In the early days of the Reformation, the reformers had to defend their faith. The Augsburg Confession was rejected by the Emperor and the Roman Confutators. Philip Melanchthon would write the Apology of the Augsburg Confession in response. That is, the Defense of it. The Reformers fervently believed they were consistent with the catholic church of all time and were introducing nothing new. Ultimately, the Lutherans would not be accepted in spite of their efforts for church unity. And in the Apology they make clear why they were not willing to put aside their differences as they strove for this unity; the voice of the gospel was at stake! The role of penance was a major sticking point in the discussions between the Roman and Lutheran camps. Was confession going to be especially about showing one’s sorrow and then walking the way of penance to make satisfaction for one’s sins or was it going to be about believing the word of forgiveness on account of Christ?

The Augsburg Confession, along with the Apology and the other confessions of the Lutheran church, would become “symbols for our time.” Essentially, creeds. But they made sure to emphasize their unity with the church of all time and places by putting the three ecumenical creeds as the first part of their book of confessions—the Book of Concord. The Lutheran church recognized these three creeds in particular confess the faith of the apostles and of the church—they could not be dispensed with. The faith of Paul who says the righteousness of God is through faith in Christ for all who believe. The ecumenical creeds take us back to the voice of the gospel.

This season of Lent I have been focusing on the Creed, particularly the most simple and basic one—the Apostles’ Creed. There are many people and churches, even our own ELCA churches, that would say that I am wasting your time. They would say that I could be preaching to you things that actually matter. Some think the Creed is silly, or outdated, or even oppressive. That we in the 21st century have no need of these things anymore, that we have moved on to bigger and better things. The suppression of the Creed is clear even in our hymnal where it is downplayed as an optional thing. Suppressing the creed is evident in synod gatherings where if they bother to have a creed at all, it is not one of the creeds that are reliable and time-tested—I mean the three ecumenical creeds (the Apostles’, the Nicene, and the Athanasian)—they use some strange one that really doesn’t reflect our common, Christian faith. The newfangled creeds almost inevitably are focused on putting the law on our shoulders. But in doing so, they deprive you of what is necessary—the very voice of the gospel.

The proper function of the Creed—especially as we have it in the Apostles’ Creed—is not to be a law. You know you have the law when something focuses on all the stuff we should emulate and all the ways Jesus was an example. Now the Law is good, it comes from God, but the creed is something different. The point of the creed is to give us Jesus not as an example but as our precious gift. The Creed is pure gospel, pure good news. It teaches us how to know God perfectly and in his own words. It is meant to invoke faith. And that is necessary, because faith is what receives the promises of God. The Creed is what makes us Christians. It is different than all other teachings on earth, even the Ten Commandments. The Ten Commandments tell us what we are to do. The Creed tells us what God does for us and gives us…[it] brings pure grace and makes us righteous and acceptable to God” (LC 2:67, 68). So again, it has a direct connection to the gospel itself. So this is why the Creed, as has been handed down to us through the centuries, is so necessary and must not be forgotten or left by the wayside (pause)—“we receive the forgiveness of sins by faith” (Ap. 12:2). Who is our faith in? What kind of God is he? What does he say about himself? What do we believe in? It all comes down to Jesus, the Son of God. We understand God from the ground up. That is to say, in the person of Jesus Christ—the word made flesh—the one who on the cross suffered and died, in him we see who God truly is and how God truly sees us. And that is only with a warm, gentle, heart of love. Jesus is the mirror of the Father’s heart. And the Spirit is the one who goes around using the word to teach us that we have a gracious God in the Christ. The Spirit uses that word to create faith, and it is this faith that God reckons as righteousness. God’s wrath is not stymied by our own works, the things we do, or even who we are. God’s wrath comes to an end only in Christ. Christ suffered under Pontius Pilate, which is literally to suffer under the law—so that we may no longer be under the law. It is by faith, and faith alone, that we are given all God’s gifts. Here is the very voice of the gospel--You are justified apart from the law. Christ has already fulfilled the law in his death. Paul tells us today that this is the way the righteousness of God is disclosed—the very voice of the gospel. And nothing is to matter more than that. Not our works; not our penance; not the latest fad in pop theology; not the unity of the church itself. When we confess the Creed, we’re putting God’s work (centered in Christ) front and center in our faith. That way we know what it is to hear a word of absolution: it’s the best and most important part of confession, the part we could never compromise, the very voice of the gospel itself.

Therefore, by the authority of Jesus Christ, I forgive you all your sins. And Christ, your LORD, does that every day, every moment, even before you think to confess. And he has even appointed people, like your pastor and friends, to be his mouth—so that you can hear him speaking for himself to you. So you can hear the gospel’s voice and confess your faith according to its promise. A promise that goes back to your baptism. He has chosen you in your baptism—he is at work, even now, daily, to remove guilt and shame from your shoulders, so that it does not belong to you, but belongs to him. In exchange he gives you his righteousness, redeems you from all darkness and death, and keeps you in this, our one, common, and true faith. When already at your baptism this voice begins to speak, is it any wonder that the Creed began as a baptismal creed? And just as that voice is repeated often, even daily, through things like the words of absolution so we continue to confess “I believe” with a daily frequency and put this gospel voice to our very lips.

[leftistfeminista]

Early Bourgeois Revolution and Luther’s Hidden God

Karl Marx spoke to Luther, with wisdom bold, "You are but an instrument, so I have told, Of the Hegelian spirit, a dialectic force, Leading to democracy's triumph, of course."

But Luther shook his head, with a mournful air, "You are mistaken, my friend, I cannot compare To a mere pawn in this game, of history's play, For I see the Hidden God, in a different way."

The Hidden God, a cosmic monster divine, Whose ways cannot be understood by man's mind, So strange and so different, from all we know, That we see it as evil, and shiver with woe.

The morality of God, beyond our reach, Seems like a sinister evil, out of our reach, So different from our own, it's hard to love, This Hidden God, shrouded in darkness above.

And yet Luther still believes, in his troubled soul, That the withdrawn and wrathful is the Hidden God's role, Though hidden under the guise, of the worst devil's form, Luther still prays, in the midst of the storm.

In a melancholic voice, he pleads and he cries, To a God who seems distant, with silent replies, And in his despair, he murmers against fate, Hoping to find comfort, before it's too late.

This God is strange, beyond our wisdom's reach, With a morality beyond our simple breach, A system of justice, a cosmic plan, That to us mere mortals, seems so strange.

The Hidden God looks like the worst evil, A wrathful monster, a cosmic devil, A withdrawn deity, beyond our sight, That fills our souls with the darkest night.

In these times, Luther still believes, That the monster he sees, is what he perceives, But God is hidden, under a guise, Of the worst devil, with frightening eyes.

With a morality, so different from ours, The Hidden God's justice, seems so flawed, A sinister evil, beyond our reach, That fills our hearts with fear and each.

God's ways are grand, beyond our scope, With a wisdom so vast, it's like a rope, That ties us to the infinite, beyond time, With a morality that's so divine.

So hard to love, the Hidden God, With a wisdom so strange, like a clod, That smashes our hearts, with a single blow, Leaving us in the dark, to suffer and grow.

In the darkness, Luther’s soul did quake, As the shadow of a monster did take The form of a deity divine, Whose ways and thoughts forever did incline Towards terror, destruction and pain, Leaving mortals with naught but disdain.

The Hidden God, a cosmic beast, With a roar so loud, it could not be ceased, Lurked within the corners of his mind, Filling him with fears he could not unbind.

No flight, no comfort, not within nor without, Only accusations, fears and doubts, Luther’s heart was filled with such a woe, As he realized, he was all alone.

Prayers echoed in the void, unheard, By a deity that now seemed absurd, A wall of silence, cold and still, Blocked all hope, like a icy chill.

Despised by his conscience, Luther sighed, As he murmured against his God, defied, His soul filled with dread, trembling and sorrow, In the grasp of terror, until tomorrow.

Like a prisoner of a nightmare dream, Luther’s fears, by no one could redeem, His friend watched as he’d retreat to his room, Terrified of the deity, in his tomb.

In the depths of Luther's soul, A terror crept and took control. A fear so great, it felt like hell, With every breath, a constant yell.

The universe was void and still, And all creation was filled with chill. No comfort to be found within, Accusation of all things, sin after sin.

The soul did groan with deep desire, A call for help, a blazing fire. But no where to turn, no one to hear, The depths of fear, so real and near.

Bitterness and dread, trembling and sorrow, Every corner filled with hopeless horror. Luther's conscience condemned, he fell, Despised himself, and God as well.

Prayers that echoed through the night, Penetrate the wall of silence with fright. The withdrawn, wrathful deity, Hidden now, in devilish majesty.

And so, Philip Melanchthon did see, His friend retreat, in terror of deity. A fear so great, at death's own door, God now hidden, under the form of a horror.

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