Martin Luther on the Koran

Martin Luther was not much impressed with the Koran. He read it. He studied it. He understood what it meant in light of the Gospel of Jesus.

His conclusion: It's a text filled with half truths and false doctrine. I agree with Luther. Islam will in my opinion will be the fount of the last Anti-Christ. Luther expounded on this. You can read a much more comprehensive review of his writing and some comments on this at a European blogsite I read: Gates of Vienna.

Take special note of the last paragraph of the excerpt I pasted below. It tells of the miracle DENYING facet of Islam. "We don't need the supernatural. We have the sword".

That is part of the problem of the Church in America and Europe. They no longer believe (for the most part) in the miracle power of God. Luther did. I do. You should.

Here are some excerpts from what Luther had to say about Islam, and the necessity for a robust military defense of Christendom, from
Vom Kriege wider die Türken (On War Against the Turk):

ON THE KORAN:
......every man may see what a foul and shameful book it is. In the first place, he praises Christ and Mary very much as those who alone were without sin, and yet he believes nothing more of Christ than that he is a holy prophet, like Jeremiah or Jonah, and denies that he is God’s Son and true God. Besides, he does not believe that Christ is the Savior of the world, Who died for our sins, but that He preached to His own time, and completed His work before His death, just like any other prophet.

On the other hand, he praises and exalts himself highly and boasts that he has talked with God and the angels, and that since Christ’s office of prophet is now complete, it has been commanded to him to bring the world to his faith and if the world is not willing, to compel it or punish it with the sword; and there is much glorification of the sword in it. Therefore, the Turks think their Mohammed much higher and greater than Christ, for the office of Christ has ended and Mohammed’s office is still in force.

From this anyone can easily observe that Mohammed is a destroyer of our Lord Christ and His kingdom, and if anyone denies concerning Christ, that He is God’s Son and has died for us, and still lives and reigns at the right hand of God, what has he left of Christ? Father, Son, Holy Ghost, Baptism, the Sacrament, Gospel, Faith and all Christian doctrine and life are gone, and there is left, instead of Christ, nothing more than Mohammed with his doctrine of works and especially of the sword. That is the chief doctrine of the Turkish faith in which all abominations, all errors, all devils are piled up in one heap.

ON ISLAM'S DENIAL OF THE MIRACLE POWER OF GOD
Mohammed treats the Gospel lightly; he declares that it is indeed true, but has long since served its purpose; also that it is too hard to keep, especially on the points where Christ says that one is to leave all for His sake, love God with the whole heart, and the like.

Therefore God has had to give another new law, one that is not so hard and that the world can keep, and this law is the Koran. But if anyone asks why he does no miracles to confirm this new law, he says that that is unnecessary and of no use, for people had many miracles before, when Moses’ law and the Gospel arose, and did not believe. Therefore his Koran did not need to be confirmed by wasted miracles, but by the sword, which is more effective than miracles. Thus it has been, and still is the case among the Turks, that everything is done with the sword, instead of with miracles.

Last, a comment you will see at the bottom of the Blog, Gates of Vienna. I wish ol Martin could come back for a few years and redeem his namesake Church. Much of the fruit of the reformation has fallen very far from the tree.