Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My Lutheran faith is important to me.
At the heart of the Protestant faith is the conviction that there is nothing we contribute to our salvation but our sin, no merit we bring but Christ's, and nothing necessary for justification except faith alone.
You can latch onto theological ideas that are, in fact, not accurate, and refuse to let them go. I think we've seen this a few times in church history.
I have a strong Lutheran background, and my parents instilled in me strong morals.
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
I just got fed up with the Protestantism that I'd been brought up with being rubbed out, disregarded. There's an awful lot of frailty and doubt about it, which I understand and share, but there are certain things you just have to acknowledge.
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.
Perhaps it's a curse, but when you are a Lutheran, you have a sense of responsibility.
On the question of marriage, as in all other respects, Lutheranism is a compromise, a bridge between two logical views of the universe: the Catholic-Christian and the Individualistic Monist. And bridges are made to go over, not to stand upon.