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Originally Posted by SAM
Luther was a DUNCE.
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lol... context
Luther was a intelligent man but he made huge mistakes in areas that are flat out pathetic when it came to interpretation and many believe on purpose. Beign smart does not dictate whether one chooses to be a dunce.
Dunce
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A dunce is a person incapable of learning.
The word is derived from the name of the great Scholastic theologian and philosopher John Duns Scotus, whose works on logic, theology and philosophy were accepted textbooks in the universities from the 14th century. Duns or Dunsman was a name applied by early opponents to the followers of Duns Scotus, who were less disparagingly called the Scotists. Hence the term came to refer to anyone devoted to sophistry in their argumentation. When, in the 16th century, the Scotists obstinately opposed the new learning, the term duns or dunce became, in the mouths of the humanists and reformers,
a term of abuse, a synonym for one incapable of scholarship. Dunces are often comedically shown wearing paper cone hats, known as dunce caps, with the word "dunce" or "dumb", or simply a capitalized "D" on them. Schoolchildren were sometimes compelled to wear a dunce cap and to sit in a stool in the corner as a form of humiliating punishment for misbehaving or for
failing to demonstrate that they had properly performed their studies.
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Thus the term that was used was someone incapable of scholarship. WHY do many say that in reality of DUNCE when it comes to LUTHER... Pretty simple anyone that knows the mentality of him was that his Linguistic mentality was to force his belief upon the text and the meaning of the words. Thus for example and well known. "Faith alone" which was not in the text but has forever been used. His usage of "pistis" was tranferred into the German language as not a parallel meaning. Thus his personal opinion dictated and impeded his ability to give good scholarship.
Luther rendered "pistis" and "fides" with a German word "glaube." But in German, "glaube" only means a
faith of intellectual assent. It has no comparable dualism as pistis and fides which can mean either faithfulness or faith. The word Glaube means in German: “belief, credence, estimation, faith.” Unfortunately no possibility exists that this means "faithfulness" (obedient living). In German, faithfulness would have been the word "Pflichtgefuhl." Hence, by the single step of a mistranslation by Luther, we end up with hundreds of years, and reams of books full of error which was most likely due to bias!
My context and what I said!
...."believe"(pistis) in the proper context and Greek language. Which most scholars have now realized how big a dunce Luther was and how his translation to a failed word in the German language skewed its meaning for a very long time."
Thus scholars seeing Luther did not like James and said it was not apart of the canon of scripture because it went against his "faith alone" mentality thus he biased the text and the mentality of the people and we still are seeing this wave of error ever since!
Thus Luther is a dunce in scholarship!
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