John

There are differences, but I think it actually starts with the differences between Martin Luther and Lutherans themselves.

For example, although I have not read parts of Martin Luther’s book ‘The Bondage of the Will’. The title speaks for itself, Luther believed the same as the other Reformers on this issue.

I have talked with many Lutherans over the years and to put it bluntly, I was shocked on how different they were from Luther and I am not talking about liberal Lutherans.

One in particular conversation I had with a Lutheran, he told me that Luther had obvious gone mad when he wrote the book ‘The Bondage of the Will’.

I had other conversations with other Lutherans.
They said that Reformed people are wrong to say: “..through faith alone, in Christ alone. But not by a faith that is alone.”

They said that by adding the last sentence, it makes a works based salvation.

Nothing I said after that changed their mind about what the Reformers meant.

Tom