03-04-2004, 12:27 AM
This was taken from the Live Journal of someone I know, so I can't vouch 100% for the accuracy of the quote, but since it's related to the topic I thought you'd be interested:
"Not only is the sacramental character of matrimony without foundation in Scripture; but the very traditions, which claim such sacredness for it, are a mere jest... Marriage may therefore be a figure of Christ and the Church; it is, however, no Divinely instituted sacrament, but the invention of men in the Church, arising from ignorance of the subject." ( Martin Luther, cf. "Von den Ehensachen," "De captivitate Babylonica")
"Not only is the sacramental character of matrimony without foundation in Scripture; but the very traditions, which claim such sacredness for it, are a mere jest... Marriage may therefore be a figure of Christ and the Church; it is, however, no Divinely instituted sacrament, but the invention of men in the Church, arising from ignorance of the subject." ( Martin Luther, cf. "Von den Ehensachen," "De captivitate Babylonica")
Why can't we all just get along
--Pete
--Pete