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Translator's Note

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One of the most important people was a man
by the name of Andreas Bodenstein.

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And he came from a town which was called
Karlstadt.

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And so he became known as Andreas
Bodenstein von Karlstadt.

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Have you heard of him?

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Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt,
later on he just became known as

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Karlstadt.

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So when you speak about Karlstadt,
that's not his given name, that's the town

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that he came from.

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Now, he was a contemporary of Martin
Luther and his history is fascinating.

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So while Luther and his friends were
uncovering the great truths of the

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Reformation, there were nevertheless
differences of opinion with regard to the

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pace of reform and the issues of reform.

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So besides the great Sola, Scriptura,
Fides and Christos, there were other

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things.

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What about the other truths?

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What about these other precious pearls in
the Bible?

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Weren't they to be gathered as well?

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So Karlstadt was the dean of the
University of Wittenberg.

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He was the one who conferred the doctorate
on Martin Luther.

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So he was Martin Luther's superior.

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In the beginning, Karlstadt didn't want to
go along with the Reformation,

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but once he embraced it, he was
enthusiastic.

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And he was a fighter together with Martin
Luther and in the beginning, he was the

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main spokesperson, besides Luther.

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So he was born in the same year as Luther
and was only a few months older than him.

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And he first opposed Luther, but by 1517,
he was one with Luther on the question of

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justification by faith alone.

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And Karlstadt was ahead of Luther on the
question of Sola Scriptura.

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He was the first one to say, the Bible and
the Bible alone should be our criterion.

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Regarding faith and works, he was also
ahead of the Reformation, because the

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Reformation, having uncovered this
beautiful truth of justification by faith,

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was a little bit slow in terms of
sanctification.

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And so Karlstadt said that the moral law
was extremely important.

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So he regarded the model law as binding,
stating that far from abrogating the law,

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it makes us lovers and doers of the law.

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And he also introduced the communion in
both kinds.

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This Huss had done before, but Martin
Luther hadn't studied Huss in any shape or

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form.

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He had started the Reformation on the
basis of indulgences.

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And he also said it was idolatry to
elevate the host.

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And while Martin Luther was incarcerated
in Wittenberg, or in the Wartburg at

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least, Karlstadt was associated with what
they called the Bildersturm, the storming

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of the statues.

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Because Karlstadt realized that the
veneration of statues and images was

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contrary to the law of God.

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Remember he said that the law of God was
not to be abrogated.

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And so he started introducing what they
called the Bildersturm, storming of the

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images.

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And he had the images of Mary and the
symbols in the Marian shrines removed and

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some of the shrines on the roads he had
removed.

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And the pace of reform was a little bit
too fast for the general German.

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And Luther eventually became involved and
said, whoa, whoa, whoa, we have to slow

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this down.

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So Karlstadt was too progressive.

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If you go to the story of Protestantism by
Holderstein-Gayle, he tells the story of

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Andrew Bordenstein.

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And he said, John Eck, this was the
Catholic prelate who argued against Martin

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Luther, the chancellor of the University
of Ingolstadt had attacked Luther's

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opinion in a work entitled The Obelisks.

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And to this counterpart had been issued by
Andreas Bordenstein, better known as

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Karlstadt, who was now challenged by Eck
to one of those public disputations which

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played no mean part in the controversy in
the days when there was no newspaper

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press.

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But before the day was fixed for the
disputation, arrived Eck must needs

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publish 13 theses in which he plainly
attacked Luther and thus the professor's

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self-tied bonds were loosed and Luther
himself was drawn into the war of words

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with Eck.

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And both of them were involved in this
early conflict.

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The disputation is important for it marks
a distinct stage in the drawing of the

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line between Rome and the reformers.

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Free will was first debated, Eck and his
friends maintained that man, note this,

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without the aid of the Holy Spirit and
simply of himself has the power to choose

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what is spiritually good and to obey God.

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That is exactly what Rome believes to this
very day.

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That man has the capacity to decide for
himself what is right and what is wrong.

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And that is exactly what the serpent said
in the Garden of Eden.

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That you will know good and evil.

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You will be able to distinguish.

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You don't need God to tell you.

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So Luther and Calstat first contended on
this issue.

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And Eck began by claiming that the
supremacy of a divine appointment,

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basing his argument on Christ's work,
thou art Peter and the rock, and on this

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rock will I build my church.

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And Luther replied, as do Protestants
today, that it is an unnatural

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interpretation to make Peter the rock.

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And then, interestingly, Eck said that
they were patrons of the heresies of

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Wycliffe and Hus.

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And Martin Luther remembered those words.

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And when he got home, he thought to
himself, I must find out what these people

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had said.

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And this is Eck's reference to Hus and
Wycliffe made Luther study the writings of

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Hus.

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In quietness and confidence, Luther and
his growing band of friends pursued their

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way at Wittenberg.

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At Leipzig, as we have seen, Eck had
taunted Luther with being a patron of the

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heresies of Wycliffe and Hus.

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Once back in his university, Luther set to
work to study the writings of Hus and

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found in him to his delight an exposition
of that same doctrine which he had himself

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learned from St. Paul, the doctrine of
justification by faith.

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And he exclaimed, we have all,
he exclaimed in his joy, Paul,

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Augustine, and myself been Hussites
without knowing it.

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It's interesting how something that is
against something can make you interested

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in something.

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And it happened in my own life.

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In my own life, I was once confronted on
the telephone by someone who had nothing

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good to say about an author that we
consider very enlightened.

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And screamed at me for being in an
organization that embraces the writings.

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And that made me study them.

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I thought to myself, such animosity,
there must be something interesting.

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And so I had a look, just like Martin
Luther did.

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But the problem was, Karlstadt was too
progressive for Luther.

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These are the history sources.

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And in order to accommodate the elector,
actually reversed some of the reforms,

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thus creating tension between himself and
Karlstadt.

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Karlstadt was going too fast for Luther.

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And Karlstadt even recognized the Sabbath.

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He didn't distinguish it as the seventh
day being Saturday at that stage.

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But he wrote enough about it that Martin
Luther eventually wrote, if Karlstadt were

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to write further about the Sabbath,
Sunday would have to give way,

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and the Sabbath, that is Saturday,
must be kept holy.

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So these truths were being set aside and
not embraced.

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But the thoughts were put into the public
mind.