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Yes and no. He preferred the gospel of John over the synoptic gospels, under his somewhat unusual view of revelational clarity within the canonical books. i.e. some books are more clear and powerful then others. For example, many would agree that Romans is more useful than proverbs in terms of communicating the message of salvation, but Luther was much more ...
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I don't know about Luther, but modern scholarship proves that the gospel of Matthew is the gospel with most textual variants in the extant manuscripts.
Regarding the epistle of James, I believe it has verses that clearly contradict the teachings of Paul. Maybe it would be better to say that is Paul's writings the ones that present contradictions with respect ...
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According to a book by James Nestingen,
On Luther's "Gospel discovery," his "tower experience," I agree with Nestingen (and Lohse) that it probably coincided with his name change from Luder the Luther, "a small change based on the Greek word for freedom, elutherius. I see the similarity as too exceptional simply to explain Luther's name change as merely ...
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Perhaps because the German word "Luder" is really not a nice word. It refers to a female that is very obstinate at best and is frequently associated with very questionable morals and behaviors.
You can try google translate but the result are probably not suitable for repeating on this site.
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"Protestantism" is the name of a movement. "Protestants" are people who are part of that movement. It's the same relationship as between the words "Catholicism" and "Catholics". Catholics are the people who are part of Catholicism.
The problem is that your definition of Protestants is far too narrow. Protestants don't pray to Mary (mostly - there are a few ...
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The difference between Protestants and Protestantism isn't the same as the difference between an optician and an optometrist or the difference between a Pontiac and a Buick.
It's not a level of the same sort of thing with different priorities or anything.
It's the difference between Catholics and Catholicism or Communists and Communism or sadists and ...
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