That was interesting! Thank you for the information. A lady I know from England was offended when I called one of the churches over there Luthern. She said it was Protestant, not Luthern. That's where I got the idea that Protestant was not relelated to Luthern. Angie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carol M. Duff" <duffc@redwing.net> To: <prussia-roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 9:47 AM Subject: Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Luther started the Protestant Reformation! > And Evangelisch is different from Lutheran, more like the Reformed > churches. I have a taped in record in one of my church records that said > a Lutheran pastor refused to baptise a child of Evangelisch parents > until they threatened to take the child back to their home community to > be baptised. Father was doing masonery repair on the Lutheran Church. Carol > > SV wrote: > > >Angie, sorry to correct you, but Martin Luther was the first Protestant and > >started the Protestant Reformation. Most churches that aren't Catholic are > >often called Protestant, but the Lutheran church was the first Protestant > >church. Martin Luther was the first to put the Bible into the language of > >the German people, and this also helped standardize the language, which > >often varied village to village. The Latin Bible was often chained to the > >pulpit at that time in the Catholic church. He didn't believe that we needed > >a priest to interpret the Bible for us, but that it should be in the hands > >of the people, and that the Holy Spirit would guide them. > > > > > > > >Luther is the one that is famous for saying Sola Fide, Sola Scriptura, and > >Sola Gratia. That means faith alone, Bible alone and God's grace alone. > >Methodists and other churches may also be Protestants, but they followed > >Lutherans in time. He knew we couldn't get to heaven by doing works, and he > >detested the selling of indulgences. You can read a lot that he wrote > >online. Galatians was his favorite book of the Bible (I used to think it was > >Romans), and he wrote a huge commentary on it. He also wrote hymns such as > >"A Mighty Fortress", or as it is called in German, "Ein Feste Burg ist Unser > >Gott". > > > > > > > >susan > > > > > >------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PRUSSIA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PRUSSIA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I think the simplest explanation is that "Protestant" is an umbrella term that encompasses Christian religions that are not Catholic or Orthodox. It's like saying all chairs have 4 legs, but not every thing with 4 legs is a chair. All Lutherans are Protestant, but not all Protestants are Lutheran. Just my .02. On 6/13/07, Angela Knutson <angie2@athena.net> wrote: > That was interesting! Thank you for the information. A lady I know from > England was offended when I called one of the churches over there Luthern. > She said it was Protestant, not Luthern. That's where I got the idea that > Protestant was not relelated to Luthern. > Angie

Luther didn't start the Luheran church. He was trying to change how the Catholic church was doing things, but never started a separate church himself. In his name, the Lutheran church was started in Germany. ----- Original Message ----- From: Angela Knutson To: prussia-roots@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 1:42 PM Subject: Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Luther started the Protestant Reformation! That was interesting! Thank you for the information. A lady I know from England was offended when I called one of the churches over there Luthern. She said it was Protestant, not Luthern. That's where I got the idea that Protestant was not relelated to Luthern. Angie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carol M. Duff" <duffc@redwing.net> To: <prussia-roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 9:47 AM Subject: Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Luther started the Protestant Reformation! > And Evangelisch is different from Lutheran, more like the Reformed > churches. I have a taped in record in one of my church records that said > a Lutheran pastor refused to baptise a child of Evangelisch parents > until they threatened to take the child back to their home community to > be baptised. Father was doing masonery repair on the Lutheran Church. Carol > > SV wrote: > > >Angie, sorry to correct you, but Martin Luther was the first Protestant and > >started the Protestant Reformation. Most churches that aren't Catholic are > >often called Protestant, but the Lutheran church was the first Protestant > >church. Martin Luther was the first to put the Bible into the language of > >the German people, and this also helped standardize the language, which > >often varied village to village. The Latin Bible was often chained to the > >pulpit at that time in the Catholic church. He didn't believe that we needed > >a priest to interpret the Bible for us, but that it should be in the hands > >of the people, and that the Holy Spirit would guide them. > > > > > > > >Luther is the one that is famous for saying Sola Fide, Sola Scriptura, and > >Sola Gratia. That means faith alone, Bible alone and God's grace alone. > >Methodists and other churches may also be Protestants, but they followed > >Lutherans in time. He knew we couldn't get to heaven by doing works, and he > >detested the selling of indulgences. You can read a lot that he wrote > >online. Galatians was his favorite book of the Bible (I used to think it was > >Romans), and he wrote a huge commentary on it. He also wrote hymns such as > >"A Mighty Fortress", or as it is called in German, "Ein Feste Burg ist Unser > >Gott". > > > > > > > >susan > > > > > >------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PRUSSIA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PRUSSIA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PRUSSIA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message