The fool-killer. [volume] (Boomer, N.C.) 1919-1922, 1920-01-01
Luther Was a
"Heretic." "

plmp OF a Protestant preacher
calling yourself a Protestant,
but galloping around preaching
the blasphemous lies of the pope
and the DEVIL want to ask you
one question:
Do you know anything about
where your Professionalism
started from?
Do you know who started it?
If you know anything at all
you certainly know that the re-
ligious movement known as
Professionalism" was stalte:1 in
Germany by a little hereto
named Martin Luther. It was a
revolt against the fo2lisn and
nonsensical beliefs and teach
ings of the Roman Catholic
church.
And all you little pimps that
go galloping around and boast
ing of being 'Protestants" are
followers of Martin Luther.
Then why in the name of all that
is reasonable don't you believe
and teach what Luther believed
and taught? Why have you
turned back from the teachings
of Luther and gone to peddling
secondhand slobber for the
pope?
I'll bet dollar there amt one
in five hundred Of you that has
any idea what Luther taught,
nohow. I'll bet a dollar you
think he taught the Immortality
of the Soul, Eternal Torment,
and all the rest of your nonsense.
But right there is where you
have got the wrong SOW by the
ear, as I will now proceed to
show you.
Bayle's Historical and Critical
Dictionary, in it's article on Lu-
ther, quotes the great reformer
as follows: ssThe dead are .insen-f
sible. They lie, not reckoning
days or years, but when awaken
ed, will seem to have slept scarce
ly a moment"
Archdeacon Blackburn, in the
'Historical View Of the Contro-
versy Concerning an Intermedi-
ate State," edition of 1772, page
Is, says: Luther espoused the
doctrine Of the sleep Of the soul
upon a Scriptural foundation
and then he made use of it as a
confutation of purgatory and
saint worship, and continued in
that belief to the last moment
of his life. Luther was clearly
and indisputably on the side Of
those who maintain the sleep of
the SOUL" The same book goes
on to say that ':in this opinion
he followed many fathers of the
ancient church," and that "the
doctrine was held by the first re-
formers.
In Volume Two of 'Luther's
Works." published at Witten-
burg in 1862, Luther himself
says: II permit the Pope to
make articles of faith for him
self and his faithful, such as x !!
the Pope is the emperor Of the
world and king of heaven, and
God upon earth, the soul is i'm
mortal, with all those monstrus
opinions to be found in the Ro-
man dunghill of credentials"
Thomas More, one Of the old
time Pappycrats, objected tC
Luther because he held "that al
souls lie and sleep till doom's
day."
Archdeacon Blackburn, in his
work, "Historical View," from
which I have already quoted
says on page "a: Luther, by
consigning all the dead to state
of rest and sleep, left no pre-
tence for the appearance of hui
man souls after DEATH" And or
page 369 of the same book the
author says: "Luther retained
to his dying moment the idea OF
a total suspension of thought
and consciousness during the in
terval between death and the
resurrection"
Bayle's Historical and Criti.
cal Dictionary, Volume 3; page
2O67, quotes Luther as follows
Cali that is said concerning the
Immortality of the soul is moth.
ing else but an invention of Anti.