Martin+Luther+Disagreements

=Luther Asks Erasmus to Join His Church=

Martin Luther asks Erasmus to join the Lutheran church, but Erasmus declines saying that he will do more for the reformation by being in a position of scholarly power. He said of the Reform Movement: "I know nothing of your church; at the very least it contains people who will, I fear, overturn the whole system and drive the princes into using force to restrain good men and bad alike. The gospel, the word of God, faith, Christ, and Holy Spirit – these words are always on their lips; look at their lives and they speak quite another language." Erasmus said to Martin Luther also: "You stipulate that we should not ask for or accept anything but Holy Scripture, but you do it in such a way as to require that we permit you to be its sole interpreter, renouncing all others. Thus the victory will be yours if we allow you to be not the steward but the lord of Holy Scripture." Erasmus disagreed with Lutheran about using other doctrines saying that the church should never change the scripture.