October Thirty-First is...


Well, maybe it didn't happen like that, but video games are always more exciting that real life, right? (and no, it's not real video game, haha) But anyway, the following is the Reformation Day thing I wrote last year:

Aside from that weird commercialized druid holiday thing we have going on today (Oct. 31), today is also the day upon which in 1517 Martin Luther posted his 95 theses upon a church door in Wittenberg, Germany (apparently beside everybody's else's theses which were also posted on the door, since they had to do things manually because apparently Steve Jobs and Al Gore hadn't invented the internet yet). This ended up hacking a lot of people off, because he placed the authority of scripture above the authority of the people running the church, and so much yelling (no doubt in Latin and German) and excitement ensued and the Protestant Reformation happened. Luther had intensely struggled with his own sinfulness in the sight of a holy God, until he realized that as it says in the Book of Romans, "the righteous shall live by faith" and that this faith was a gift from God, and so he was much happier after that. And so we too have a reason to celebrate, for we can be reconciled to God through Christ.

And so, while the following cannot possibly compare to that, this also means we can have cake, since this is a joyous occasion. German chocolate would seem appropriate, although I really don't like coconut, but I can scrape the icing off. No problem there. You can actually have my icing if you want it, I can scrape it off before I put the fork in my mouth.

ps. - for further reading...
http://www.desiringgod.org/library/biographies/96luther.html

pps. - One might also wonder how coconuts ended up in Germany to be put on cakes in the first place, since coconuts are tropical and Germany is a temperate zone - unless of course, you're suggesting that coconuts are migratory...

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