Martin Luther Blog Post

In October of 1517, a man named Martin Luther was enraged with the ways of the of the Catholic Church. He studied the bible diligently and overtime came to disagree with many of the teachings of the Catholic Church. His anger culminated with his 95 theses. He objected to the sale of indulgences, which were documents written by the church releasing individuals from their sins. He nailed his 95 theses to the churches front door, and copies were also distributed across across Germany and then throughout Europe.

Christian Liberty was the “summary of the Christian life”, and at the time the church was teaching that one gains salvation only from observations of the church rather than by faith alone. Luther wrote to refute that idea. He felt that non-essentials were taking up too much space in peoples lives and more time should have been spent giving back. Essentially, Luther felt that people were not being generous enough for the amount of non-essentials that were in their lives.

I believe in Luther’s ideas. He did not want faith to be forced onto people, or the church to be too authoritative. As a man of faith, war was definitely not his goal. While his ideas were challenged and met with conflict, he was a good man who was sent from God to carry out his will.