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Hey everyone!

Over Inktober, I created a 16 page comic on the life of Martin Luther up until he posted his 95 Theses to the doors of All Saint's Church in Wittenberg.

I've started a Kickstarter to collect the Luther comic and last year's cartoon theologian drawings into a book for print.

I would love your support by pledging to, or sharing the Kickstarter. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/127412588/post-tenebras-lux-after-darkness-light

You can see all of the pages and images here: http://www.paulcoxillustration.com/inktober/

Thanks so much!

Paul

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  • Yes! I would LOVE TO! Here’s my blog! Just type in Luther in the search bar and they should all come up for you! - James Lawson
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    Paul Cox said:

    There is a place here in Janesville that I have lined up if the Kickstarter is fully funded. Does your business have a website I can check out though?

    Thanks!

    Lance Rengel said:

    Hey Paul. Do you already have a printer for your T-shirts? I own a screenprinting business. I live in the IL/WI border in Antioch, IL. Not too far.

  • Martin Luther Changed and/or Discounted 18 Books of the Bible

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    Protestant Reformer Martin Luther 

    Although Protestants like to think positively about Martin Luther because of his supposed belief in sola Scriptura (the Bible alone), the truth is that Martin Luther changed parts of the Bible and discounted the value of many books.

    Notice a change he admitted to regarding Romans 3:28:

    You tell me what a great fuss the Papists are making because the word alone is not in the text of Paul…say right out to him: ‘Dr. Martin Luther will have it so,’…I will have it so, and I order it to be so, and my will is reason enough. I know very well that the word ‘alone’ is not in the Latin or the Greek text (Stoddard J. Rebuilding a Lost Faith. 1922, pp. 101-102; see also Luther M. Amic. Discussion, 1, 127).

    This passage strongly suggests that Martin Luther viewed his opinions, and not the actual Bible as the primary authority.

    Regarding the New Testament Book of Hebrews, Martin Luther stated,

    It need not surprise one to find here bits of wood, hay, and straw (O’HarePF. The Facts About Luther, 1916–1987 reprint ed., p. 203).

    He also wrote,

    St. James’ epistle is really an epistle of straw…for it has nothing of the nature of the gospel about it” (Luther, M. Preface to the New Testament, 1546).

    Perhaps none of Martin Luther’s writings on the Bible are as harsh as what he wrote about “The Revelation of Jesus Christ” (Revelation 1:1). Specifically he wrote,

    About this book of the Revelation of John…I miss more than one thing in this book, and it makes me consider it to be neither apostolic nor prophetic…I can in no way detect that the Holy Spirit produced it. Moreover he seems to me to be going much too far when he commends his own book so highly-indeed, more than any of the other sacred books do, though they are much more important-and threatens that if anyone takes away anything from it, God will take away from him, etc. Again, they are supposed to be blessed who keep what is written in this book; and yet no one knows what that is, to say nothing of keeping it. This is just the same as if we did not have the book at all. And there are many far better books available for us to keep…My spirit cannot accommodate itself to this book. For me this is reason enough not to think highly of it: Christ is neither taught nor known in it” (Luther, M. Preface to the Revelation of St. John, 1522).

    As the following quotes show, Martin Luther did not care for several books in the Old Testament either:

    “Job spoke not as it stands written in his book, but only had such thoughts. It is merely the argument of a fable. It is probable that Solomon wrote and made this book.”…

    “Ecclesiastes ought to have been more complete. There is too much incoherent matter in it…Solomon did not, therefore, write this book.”…

    “The book of Esther I toss into the Elbe. I am such an enemy to the book of Esther that I wish it did not exist, for it Judaizes too much…”

    “The history of Jonah is so monstrous that it is absolutely incredible.” (as quoted in O’Hare, p. 202).

    Furthermore, Martin Luther had little use for the first five books of the Old Testament (sometimes referred to as the Pentateuch):

    Of the Pentateuch he says: “We have no wish either to see or hear Moses” (Ibid, p. 202).

    Martin Luther hated the Jews, which may be why he was against Esther, the first five books of the Bible, and other parts of the Hebrew scriptures.

    Notice that Martin Luther advised his followers,

    …to burn down Jewish schools and synagogues, and to throw pitch and sulphur into the flames; to destroy their homes; to confiscate their ready money in gold and silver; to take from them their sacred books, even the whole Bible; and if that did not help matters, to hunt them of the country like mad dogs (Luther’s Works, vol. Xx, pp. 2230-2632 as quoted in Stoddard JL. Rebuilding a Lost Faith, 1922, p.99).

    Martin Luther Changed and/or Discounted 18 Books of the Bible
  • There is a place here in Janesville that I have lined up if the Kickstarter is fully funded. Does your business have a website I can check out though?

    Thanks!

    Lance Rengel said:

    Hey Paul. Do you already have a printer for your T-shirts? I own a screenprinting business. I live in the IL/WI border in Antioch, IL. Not too far.

    Martin Luther Comic and Cartoon Theologians Kickstarter
    Hey everyone! Over Inktober, I created a 16 page comic on the life of Martin Luther up until he posted his 95 Theses to the doors of All Saint's Chu…
  • Hey Paul. Do you already have a printer for your T-shirts? I own a screenprinting business. I live in the IL/WI border in Antioch, IL. Not too far.

  • Further reading: Lutheran theological errors

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    Question: Thank you for your recent critique of Martin Luther’s The Bondage of the Will. This is an important step in the right direction of exposing…
  • That's a total cop-out, Paul.  Giving you the benefit of the doubt in a best-case scenario:  you didn't do your homework and wanted to honor someone who has been touted as a great man of God for centuries, but in fact Luther has been 'outed' for some time now.  Nevertheless you still want to solicit Kickstarter funds for a project that should be buried, but you're going ahead anyway. 

    The Reformation was a very dark time, and most people in it had very dirty hands.  Ulrich Zwingli, a famed Lutheran leader in the Reformation, starved people to death in a tower for disagreeing with his theology.  John Calvin had 32 people burned at the stake after his alleged conversion to Christ.  His theology (Calvinism) is just that of Roman Catholic theologian Augustine repackaged.  William Tyndale was one of the few famous leaders in that era to keep his hands clean.   

    Ya blew it, kiddo!  Luther was a wicked fellow, and inspired Adolf Hitler.  "Every seed bears after its own kind."  Much of the Lutheran denomination has come back to "Mother Rome" ---  just in time for the coming One World Religion of the Antichrist.  Who knows?  He might like your Luther comic. 

    I had this same discussion with Sherwin Schwartrock, artist of the LUTHER graphic novel .   He was quite interested in these facts, and wanted to speak to the publisher about them.  Furthermore, Martin Luther's theology was terrible.  He believed that the epistle of James was a "gospel of straw" (his words).  Not recognizing God's voice in holy writ, the Bible - that is spiritual blindness of the first order.  He's no leader in my book.  That he withstood the Romish religion in a dark day with those 95 theses, bravo!  But beyond that I give him no applause. 

  • Wow, thanks Brien, I couldn't have said it better myself!

    Martin Luther was theologically opposed to Judaism, and rightly so, but his opposition to their theology turned into terrible feelings toward the people of that religion. He said and wrote some terrible things, and I do not condone what he said about the Jews. However, God truly does use crooked sticks to make straight paths. Whether you like it or hate it, this is our church history.

    @Calvary Comics I take issue with your last statement as well. Surely you don't believe that a true follower of Christ would never do what Luther has done. Have you looked into your own heart recently? I know mine is filthy (Jer. 17:9). Would you say Peter was not a truly regenerate when he denied Christ 3 times in one night?

    Until we reach glory, we are all just like Luther; inconsistent in our actions and beliefs.

  • Cal,  Thanks for this bit of research and insight.  I will take issue however with your last paragraph. Wishful thinking aside, we can not say who will be accepted or rejected as a born-again believer on the "Judgement day of Christ"(1 Cor 4:5-5, 1 Cor 3:12-15). 

         Martin was born in a time of plagues and violent death, was under a perpetual death sentence himself(Edict of Worms 1521) and saw his beloved country ripped by massacres and warfare. He saw himself and true believers locked in battle with the kingdom of hell and the Catholic antichrist that would lead to the final return of Christ.   I condemn his hatred of the Jewish people and I am disgusted with his antisemitic vitriol;  but I will also sing "A mighty Fortress is our God" with gusto and toast Martin as a hero who yanked the Christian world out of senseless obedience to church authority and kicked our collective butts back toward the word of God. 

        I will be standing before the Judgement Seat of Christ(2 Cor 5:10) and will have to give an account for my actions and words, verbal and digital. I certainly will be among those who cry for God's mercy over fairness.

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