What were Martin Luther's views on religion?

Answer 1

• Salvation through Grace and Grace alone. Not by indulgence-sellers.
• No priest was needed to comminute with god everyone could.
• The religious authority was based on the bible not by the pope.

Answer 2

Martin Luther believed in salvation through faith alone, as opposed to good deeds or indulgences. He also emphasized the authority of The Bible over the teachings of the church. Luther's criticisms of the Catholic Church led to the Protestant Reformation.

Answer 3

Martin Luther was a monk who lived in the 16th Century. At that time the Western Church (what we now refer to as the Catholic Church) was gradually being seen as becoming more and more corrupt. The doctrine adopted by the Church (which is totally non-scriptural) was that when you die, rather than go to heaven, you entered a place of cleansing called 'Purgatory' and the time you spent there (say 1000, years, 2000 years etc) depended upon how you had lived your life previously. This was against Christ's teaching, and also against Paul's understanding of Christianity, as written in his letters in the New Testament. We are saved not by some 'cleansing' but by what Christ did for us on the Cross. However, in the Church, the selling of indulgences yielded a great deal of money for the Church. An indulgence was a 'certificate' that 'guaranteed' a certain time off purgatory - in payment for a large sum of money. This money was meant to be used for the priest to say mass for the soul of a deceased person, paid by his grieving relatives, so that he could have less time in purgatory. The more money paid, the less time. However. most priests simply pocketed the money and led debauched lives. Thus, the priests claimed that rich people could enter heaven quicker than poor people - something that is totally against all that Christ preached. One day Luther was reading paul's letter to the Romans where he stated that we are saved through God's grace and not by what we do. Luther regarded this as his 'conversion' moment, and so he nailed his 'theses' - lists of things wrong with the Church - to the church door at Wittenberg. The upshot was that the Catholic Church excommunicated him. nevertheless, Luther (along with Calvin and Zwingli - to more reformers) kick started the Reformation - the reforming of the church. Luther along with the others formed the Protestant Church - which was much more akin to what Christ himself instituted, where scripture was more important than tradition, and where the Pope, instead of having absolute power over the Church, had no jurisdiction at all. To be fair to the Catholic Church, they also then underwent their own reformation and indulgences were finally outlawed, but not before the church had split into the Protestant Churches and the Catholic Church (much in the same way as the Great Schism split the church into the Western - Catholic Church - and the Eastern Orthodox church.) So, regarding Luther's views on religion - they were biblical and much more akin to what Christ himself instituted. He became a much loved leader in the Protestant Church and the Lutheran Church is still very active today especially in Germany, Scandinavia, the US and in many other countries. Such was the influence of Martin Luther, than many people were named after him - the most famous probably being the Christian (Baptist) black civil right's campaigner of the 1960s, Martin Luther King.

Answer 4

The Bible is the sole authority for Christians, not the Pope. You can read his 95 theses that he nailed to the door in Wittenberg (in English translation) here: http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/luther/web/ninetyfive.html

Answer 5

Luther and others opposed what they perceived as false doctrines and ecclesiastic malpractice by the Roman Catholic Church, especially the sale of indulgences. The reformers saw this as evidence of the systemic corruption of the Roman Catholic Church's hierarchy, which included the Pope.

Answer 6

The results of Martin Luther's "beliefs" was the denial of the means of salvation that Our Blessed Lord had left the Church to countless thousands in various Lutheran and neighboring countries for generations; especially as his errors spread and were picked up by others. We cannot judge the state of his soul at death, but it would not bode well for his own salvation, as he steadfastly refused to acknowledge Our Blessed Lord in His Church. The results of Martin Luther's beliefs were total disaster for countless souls.

Answer 7

Martin Luther believed in catholic religion

Answer 8

He used to preach about how black people were treated at that time

Answer 9

Martin Luther didn't want to launch Protestantism. He wanted reforms within the Catholic Church.