>>14644081> Luther preached a different gospel than the one the Galatians had accepted, which is the same gospel the Church Christ established had been preaching for 1500 years.How so? Doesn't seem different to me
> He wrote his own Bible and took 7 books out of its Old TestamentHe did not include the apocryphal books that were not used by the churches. The Masoretes did not keep those books, they are non-canonical.
Luther merely translated into German based on the work of Erasmus in creating the Textus Receptus. He did not 'write his own Bible'. If you translate someone else's work you are not the author.
> Christ gave us a Church, and only the Church has the authority to interpret the Bible, an infallible book that needs an infallible interpreter.Christ told us that those claiming the Kingdom of God is already manifest in its fulness are mistaken:
> Luke 17:21 - Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.Christ did not leave a Church. He left a witness for those who would hear, as God always has. The apostles left the New Testament and many independent churches as their legacy and that is the testimony of the risen Christ. The gospel is that account given by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. There is no other and no single authority is given to an individual man to rule over all the churches who worship the living God.
