There is some dispute
about whether Martin Luther
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actually nailed his 95 Theses
to the door of the church,
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but what's not in
dispute is the fact that
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he wrote 95 Theses,
and it's very interesting
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to read through them.
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There are many
and varied 95 of them,
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but I see a common
thread on all of them.
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He is railing against
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the presumed authority
of a monolithic church,
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an assumed authority
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rather than the
authority of God,
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expressed
through his scriptures.
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We need to be careful today,
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no matter what documents
come out of what church,
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look at them in the light
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of the ultimate
authority of God,
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not human solutions projected
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on to a theological basis.
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We are in difficult times.
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Religion is being
reexamined on every front,
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but we need to
reexamine faith on every front.
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For Liberty Insider,
this is Lincoln Steed.
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