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My husband planted a seed in my head that won't go away, and I would not yet describe me as being in a place where that seed has fully bloomed,

but it is a question that I am struggling with as somebody with Protestant beliefs.

What he essentially said to me, he was also a formerly Protestant, and now he's a Catholic.

Was, do I believe that in the 1500 years following Jesus Christ, leading up to Martin Luther stapling his theses, that nobody went to heaven?

So essentially, Jesus saved us, and then for about 1500 years nobody went to heaven until Martin Luther stapled his theses and corrected things.

I don't believe that. I struggle with that question, and it has been something that I have been sitting with for a very long time, of course,

because that would almost imply in my mind that Martin Luther is the Savior and not Jesus.

That's conservative commentator Candace Owen speaking recently on her podcast.

So where did this idea come from, that for 1500 years after death of the Apostles, there were no Christians,

and then along comes Martin Luther, restores the gospel, and then people can be saved again.

I don't know of a Lutheran that believes that. I'm pretty sure Martin Luther himself didn't even believe that,

but we'll be responding to that argument in our series, responding Roman Catholic proof texts with Dr. Stephen Parks on that very subject.

Greetings and welcome to issues, etc. coming to you live from the studios of Lutheran Public Radio in Collinsville, Illinois.

I'm Todd Wilkin, thanks for tuning us in. Stephen Parks joins us for that very question.

We're there Christians for 1500 years from the Apostles to Martin Luther.

We'll spend some time going through listener email and the issues, etc. comment line.

And then it's an encore on the religious views of Adolf Hitler, Dr. Richard White card professor of history at California State University in author of the book,

Hitler is religion, the twisted beliefs that drove the third Reich.

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