Martin Luther On Mary’s Immaculate Conception

Q. What is the Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception?
A. It is the Dogma of the Catholic Church that Mary was conceived without sin and remained sinless throughout her whole life.

The Catholic Church has always believed that Mary, just like Adam and Eve, was conceived without a fallen nature and unlike our first parents, she resisted [...]

Why Do You Refer to Christians as “Protestants?”

Q. I consider myself a Christian but you seem to refer to non Catholics as Protestants. Why?
A. Well, because Christian refers to followers of Jesus Christ. There are three major groups of Christians:

Catholic Christians-Founded by Jesus Christ
Eastern Orthodox Christians-Break away the result of schism 1000’s
Protestant Christians-Break away the result of the Luther’s Reformation [...]

Sola Scriptura / Scripture Alone???

Q.Why doesn’t the Catholic Church base its theology on Scripture alone?
A. For several reasons:
1. For 400 years after the birth of Christ, the New Testament, as we know it today, was non-existent. The books of our present New Testament were in existence, of course, but, so were hundreds of other writings, both Gospels, epistles, [...]

Martin Luther On the Real Presence

Q. What did Martin Luther believe about the Body and Blood of Christ in the bread and wine?
A. Martin Luther believed in the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. He became indignant when groups, who had followed him out of the Catholic Church, rejected the presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. He deplored the [...]

Martin Luther on Scripture

“We are obliged to yield many things to the Papists (Catholics)–that they possess the Word of God which we received from them, otherwise we should have known nothing at all about it.” Martin Luther–Commentary on St. John, ch. 16
Historically, the Catholic Church used the authority given to her by Christ to infallibly determine which books [...]

Who Decided Which Books Should be in the Bible?

Q. Who Decided Which Books Should be in the Bible?
A. The Sacred Scriptures used by the Jews at the time of Christ were simply adopted by the Church and became what is known as the Old Testament. The books of the New Testament were not finalized until the fourth century by Catholic Councils and Catholic [...]

Luther on the Perpetual Virginity of Mary?

Q. What did Luther and the other reformers think about the perpetual virginity of Mary?
A. All three of the first reformers, Luther, Calvin, and Zwingli, accepted and defended this doctrine completely. So, if the Catholic Church believes in this doctrine and the reformers believed in this doctrine–by whose authority and when was this doctrine [...]

The Reformers on Mary the Mother of God

Q. If the Catholic Church has such good reasons for calling Mary the Mother of God then why did the Protestants stop using this title?
A. It is not known when the Protestant churches dropped this title for Mary or by what authority they did so since all of the principle reformers vigorously affirmed and defended [...]

Did Catholic Church Add Books to the Bible?

Q. When did Catholics add books to the Bible?

A. They never did. The Jews and the Protestants removed books from the OT. The Catholic Church simply received the Septuagint version of the Hebrew scriptures, from the Jews, at the time of Christ. This became known as the Old Testament. 70 years later, the Jews [...]