(May 11, 2011 at 3:44 pm)Minimalist Wrote: IF it weren't for Luther you protestant shits would still be catholic shits.Err...so nothing then. I am not a "Protestant Shit" (or a "Catholic Shit") in any case. If you want to use Luther as one of your witnesses, why don't you tell us about his views about whether we should be interested in the original languages? Oh yeah, because he says things like this:
That's what it has to do with it!
"If I were younger I would want to learn this language [i.e. Hebrew], for without it one can never properly understand the Holy Scripture…. For that reason they have said correctly:
'The Jews drink out of the original spring, The Greeks drink out of the stream flowing out of the stream, The Latins, however, out of the puddle.'"
Oops.