Initially it was the "sale" of indulgences, and "justification by faith"
The 95 Thesis contained questions which were no different than questions posed by scholars in previous years, decades.
Luther was a Catholic monk .
Luther was an academic, he studied theology, philosophy and law. When he was about 25 he became a priest.
His grievances centered around the sale of "indulgences," luxuries which had been used by the Church to raise money since the early Middle Ages. In essence, a wealthy individual could donate a substantial tithe of money in order to have sins forgiven.
Martin Luther opposed the Church because he felt he wasn't going to get saved by them. he thought the Catholic way of things was not going to get him into heaven. He said that you needed faith in the risen lord to get there and that good deeds alone will get you there. So Luther started the protestant reformation.Catholic AnswerMartin Luther protested the Catholic Church because the Church insisted on proclaiming the teaching of Our Blessed Lord and Savior, and Martin Luther was unable to abide with either the moral teaching of the Church or with his vows - which he had taken voluntarily after years of careful reflection. When the Church wouldn't change its teaching to accommodate Luther's lifestyle, he rewrote and edited the Bible, and started his own "church". John Calvin was a generation later, and was a French scholar in contrast to Martin Luther, who was a German peasant. I am putting links for both of them below:
No he preferred Martin Luther's works but revised it to make his own form of religion, Calvinism
They believe that they should make decisions for themselves. This happened when Martin Luther broke away from the Catholic church
In his criticisms of the Catholic Church, Martin Luther argues that buying pardons (indulgences) is wrong and goes against the teachings of the Bible. He believes that salvation cannot be bought with money and that true repentance and faith are what lead to forgiveness from God. Luther condemns the practice of selling indulgences as a corrupt and exploitative way for the Church to make money.
Martin Luther, the German cleric, did not invent any thing in a physical sense. He openly criticized the Catholic church, and began the Protestant branch of Christianity.
Another answer from our community:Actually, Martin Luther, as an Augustinian Friar, doubly under vows both to his bishop, and to his Order, was in no position to pass judgment on the Body of Christ, which is what the Catholic Church is. Our Blessed Lord, Jesus Christ, guaranteed the Catholic Church until the end of the world, and set St. Peter (and his successors) over it, sending the Holy Spirit to guide it always. Any such judgment on Martin Luther's part would be presumption of the worst kind of sin.However, I am sure there are those who would say that his being a priest and a religious gave him the position to make judgment on the Catholic Church, but they would all be protestants anyway.
Martin Luther didn't determine people got to heaven, but the Catholic Church was the entity that determined who got into heaven. If they excommunicated a person that was taken away. People were in great fear of being excommunicated by the church.
Martin Luther was against the pope's idea of selling indulgences. He was not against the catholic faith. There are no mistakes in the catholic church.Further informationIndeed, Martin Luther was not looking for mistakes: he had been brought up and trained in the Catholic church, and sought earnestly for the Truth as taught by Christ. No one denomination is infallible, for the simple reason that the people who organise and lead the various denominations are not infallible, and Luther died still regarding himself as a Catholic. He did not leave the church because of any perceived "mistakes", but he was excommunicated for his later actions.One of Luther's biggest struggles was with the Church's demands of the time that one could only earn favour with God through good works. Through his in-depth study of the Scriptures, he reached the conclusion that salvation is a gift of God's grace, received by faith alone and by trust in Christ's death on the cross as the only means to that salvation. It was this and his objection to the sale of indulgences that led him to question the teachings of the Roman Catholic church: in particular, the nature of penance, the authority of the pope and the usefulness of indulgences.Luther was not looking for mistakes.
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