Added: Oct 12, 2008
From: thekingdomcomedotcom
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A fun ditty celebrating Martin Luther's contribution to the Protestant Reformation.For Lyrics & explanation: thekingdomcome.com/explaining_refpolka
Channel: Comedy
Tags: bible calvinism calvinist christian christianity history luther lutheran protestant reformation thekingdomcomedotcom
Rating: 4.57 (63 ratings) Views: 34406' favoriteCount='141 Comments: 64
brunanburh Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - The baptist pastors are not trying to change the bread into Christ's body- they believe it is a symbolic act to remember Christ and not literally true. Jesus also called himself a grapevine, door, shepard, temple etc. I don't think he literally meant he was any of those!
coventrygardens Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - to brunanburh the heretic. when christ said he was the vine or door or shepherd or temple, he didn't motion to a physical vine or door or shepherd or temple , and thus there was no physical vine or door or shepherd or temple that could have been transformed into christ's flesh. by contrast, in reference to the bread, christ went beyond saying that he was bread, and he went beyond saying that he was the bread of life. he motioned to a physical piece of bread, and identified it with his flesh.
brunanburh Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - I'm not sure where you get the authority to pronounce me a heretic! I just think that you need to look at verses around the eucharist and not one verse. Christ did identify the bread with his flesh, as you say, but John 6:63 says that it is the spirit that gives life, the flesh profits nothing!
coventrygardens Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - to brunanburh---- when christ said, "it is the spirit that gives life. the flesh profits nothing.", he must have meant that people should use their spiritual understanding, not their fleshly ( carnal ) understanding. he wanted people to think on a spiritual level. in that verse, christ couldn't have been referring to his own flesh when he said that the flesh profits nothing. obviously christ's flesh profits a great deal.these considerations helped me switch from baptist to catholic.
LCMS343 Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - I love it. I became a Lutheran last summer. I used to be Catholic. I am now an LCMS Lutheran and extremely proud of it. I love my new religion. Lutherans rule!
jesusfreakrkg Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - it's more like "the Reformation Drinking Song"... but i love it. :-)
JohnnyNW Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - very Tom Lehrer-esque! Reminds me of the "Vatican Rag" LOL!
kd5tmu Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - Actually, read about Justin Martyr's account of the Sunday celebrations. They look a lot like the Divine Liturgy as celebrated in Catholic and Orthodox Churches today. Unfortunately a renegade Rome decided to claim supremacy. But the Orthodox Church still exists as it has for 2000 years. Look it up, you'll like what you see.
kd5tmu Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - Except that the Word of God makes things so. Even Baptists will agree with this when they deny the True Presence. Christ is BODILY present in the Eucharist. 2000 years of the Church agree.
cromwellagain Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - Hello. You are worrying about the wring things. Since what date(s) did the Bible start tio exist? Since men started writing it and re-editing it.Don't worryBest wishes,J
coventrygardens Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - to lcms343--- evidence shows that the lutherans existed not till 1500s. by contrast, the true christian church had to exist ever since the apostolic era. even if the catholic church is not the true christian church, it wouldn't change the fact that no protestant sect is old enough to be the true christian church.
cromwellagain Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - ...and which "sect" dates from 33 AD before Paul started writing to people?Regards,cromwellagain
Casey2570 Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - Protestant reformers were idiots. A divided christendom left catholics alone to fight the turks. Budapest was seized by Muslims for 200 yrs 50 years or so into the reformation. Unless you were brain dead on sept 11th, you should be able to see the value of that. Art work throughout germany was destroyed because the dingbats interpreted the bible literally and called it idolatry. The reformation was right up there with the Holocaust of stupid ideas out of Germany.
MidwestMagnum Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - Glad someone said it.
LCMS343 Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - You're an idiot. I'm a Protestant and proud of it. People like you make me sick.
greatwhiteman88 Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - next time you have a thought....just let it pass
gatesofoak Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - hope you've got over the last 500 years in the last 2 weeks, brother.No woman would write like that.People neede to read the bible for themselves at all. It's the 1890s and since Fundamentalist who take it literally.Thank you for your comments on the Reformation.Regards.g
lutheranorthodoksi Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - Makes me proud to be Lutheran.Ecclesia Semper Reformanda Est!... But not too much. A good old Lutheran saying.
Fuglitroll Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - No prob... I tracked down Rev. Gebel through the internet before I recorded the words. Give him the credit for the writing... I'm just the middletroll.
Fuglitroll Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - hmmm... funny thing about that word "heretic." In the words of Inigo Montoya: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means ..." and in this case it doesn't. With a mind of my own, I am a heretic every day, as are we all. But go ahead as Luther would encourage, express your convictions and "Sin Boldly."
hankpin Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - Transubstanciation existed well before the Luther started the Reformation...Of course, later on we see how some Protestants (e.g Anglicans ordaining gays, Jesus-is-alien church, People's Temple)became when they are free to screw up the doctrine however they like.Greetings from a Catholic
zarnoffa Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - Eastern Orthodoxy... the Pope was the first Protestant when Rome left the rest of the Orthodox Patriarchs in 1054 which solidified the sect of Rome as a brand new sect. So, technically, the Roman Catholic Church started in 1054 when it branched off of the Orthodox Catholic Church.
cromwellagain Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - no pope was a protestant. Transssubtantion existed as a doctrine which people believed in, from whenever people first believed it, but it never existed in actual factual reality. Hence/therefore: the Reformation. Luther wasn't sure, but Zwingli was and he'e right
cromwellagain Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - read yr Bible and take note of commentaries e.g. by William Barclay, very interesting and sensible and not fundamentalist at all
Kat250tron Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - this is amazing! and a fun way to learn protestant history. it reminds me of a cute poem I wrote and dedicated to a confirmation class at my (lutheran) church.