Dr. Downer Does Reformation Day, and Lots More
Alpha and Omega Ministries
Dr. James White
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🗓️ 31 October 2023
⏱️ 126 minutes
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| 0:30.0 | Well, great. Welcome to the dividing line. It is Reformation Day. Well, for some of us, |
| 0:41.7 | it's always interesting every year on Twitter. I do follow some Roman Catholics and it can |
| 0:49.3 | get really weird on Reformation Day. There's one fellow Taylor Marshall that's posted |
| 0:57.1 | some really wild stuff. You got to understand that at the time of the Reformation and then |
| 1:05.2 | thereafter, you know, I've mentioned before, maybe I mentioned it, I don't know, but for |
| 1:15.5 | example, Sir Thomas Moore and Martin Luther exhausted every possible Latin term for excrement |
| 1:27.8 | and describing each other in their voluminous writings against one another in Latin. There |
| 1:36.0 | were no more Latin words that could be that anyone ever thought of that they used of each |
| 1:40.7 | other. So, you know, we think things are bad now, but let me tell you, things could get really |
| 1:49.9 | pretty crazy, even at the time of the Reformation. So, at the time of the Reformation, you know, |
| 1:56.5 | the woodcuts, the art that was used, you know, by Protestants to describe Rome and the Pope, |
| 2:07.8 | you've seen, well, maybe haven't, but most people who've done any reading at all in Reformation |
| 2:14.1 | history, you've seen the woodcuts of, you know, the Pope made out to be a seven-headed serpent, |
| 2:21.5 | and you know, demons dancing around his head and stuff like that. And the Catholics did the same |
| 2:28.5 | thing in reverse. And so, some of the stuff, and there's still some Catholics that are pretty |
| 2:38.1 | much on the same crusade they're on back then. I saw quotes attributed Luther day, and I'm like, |
| 2:48.5 | yeah, I don't think so. And look, we attribute stuff to Luther that you can't find in any of the |
| 2:58.5 | many volumes of Luther's works. You can search, but you won't find it. And so, it happens going both |
| 3:05.6 | directions. But on Sunday, I took a few minutes during the service since it was Reformation |
| 3:17.2 | Dave service to make a comment, similar to what I had posted on Twitter. And when Jeff took the |
| 3:29.0 | pulpit, he said, well, thank you, Dr. Downer. And it's all because I, you know, I teach church history, |
| 3:44.1 | and so I have to tell you the truth. And I did see one meme so far today on my feed. That was |
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