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If someone had been selling indulgences for money then Martin Luther might have had a good case as indulgences can not be purchased, although they have always been issued for any of the three works of penance which include prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. On the latter, indulgences had always been granted for almsgiving, but from the latest information we have about the time period, although there were some abuses, it would appear that most of the problem was of Martin Luther's own making. I personally suspect that he was just looking for any reason to throw over the Church, his 95 Theses which included his objections to indulgences really make no sense given even a cursory (unbiased) knowledge of Catholic history and belief. Click on link attached below.Catholic Encyclopedia on Martin Luther
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∙ 9y agoMartin Luther saw the sale of indulgences as a form of simony, which was supposedly foreign to Catholic teaching. He also recognised the potential and fact of their sale leading to widespread corruption in the Church.
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The initial aim of Martin Luther, professor of biblical studies and Augustine monk, was not to abolish indulgences, but to reform their use. He saw them as symbolic of the corruption that had taken over the Catholic Church at the highest levels. Part of the income the pope received from indulgences was to be used for rebuilding St Peter's Basilica in Rome, to which Luther wrote: "Since the pope's income today is larger than that of the wealthiest of wealthy men, why does he not build this Church of St. Peter with his own money rather than with the money of indigent believers?"
Martin Luther came to realise that corruption would exist as long as indulgences were sold by the Church, and so campaigned for their abolition.
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∙ 9y agoIf someone had been selling indulgences for money then Martin Luther might have had a good case as indulgences can not be purchased, although they have always been issued for any of the three works of penance which include prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. On the latter, indulgences had always been granted for almsgiving, but from the latest information we have about the time period, although there were some abuses, it would appear that most of the problem was of Martin Luther's own making. I personally suspect that he was just looking for any reason to throw over the Church, his 95 Theses which included his objections to indulgences really make no sense given even a cursory (unbiased) knowledge of Catholic history and belief. Click on link attached below.Catholic Encyclopedia on Martin Luther
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∙ 9y agoMartin Luther objected to the selling of indulgences because he believed it was a corrupt system. He believed that it was way to permit sin and buy a way out.
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What policy did Martin Luther object of the Catholic Church which prompted him to write and post his Ninety-Five Theses?
His cause of posting the 95 theses was because of the selling of indulgences. Indulgences was a thing that would take you directly to heaven even though you did a bad thing. Did this help:D
What were the indulgences and why did Martin Luther object to them?
Indulgences were what the church was selling, it was forgiveness.. people had to pay the church to be forgiven. Martin Luther objected to them because he belived that the church was wrong and that the bible had the last word, because it was the word of god. He belived that if someone was really sorry they would be forgiven.
Why did some Catholics not like the idea of indulgences?
Actually, it never bothered Catholics because it never happened. Indulgences were available for any of the corporal works of mercy, the three primary ones being prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. It bothered the heretics, beginning with Martin Luther, because they did not understand indulgences, nor did they understand almsgiving.
Did many people object to this which was why was the Catholic Church selling indulgence?
Your question, as asked, doesn't make sense, but I can tell you this. There have always been indulgences issued for the the three penitential practices in which we are told to follow Our Blessed Lord; they are: fasting, prayer, and almsgiving. It was because of almsgiving that the original cry came up in the sixteenth century that the Church was "selling" indulgences. They were not, they were giving indulgences for people who contributed money for various worthwhile causes. That fact that all theses centuries later, people are still asking why the church was selling indulgences just goes to show the ignorance caused by history books written by protestants and seculars who have an ax to grind against the Catholic Church.
What were the 3 main problems Martin Luther had with Catholicism Be able to explain them?
Despite the report that Martin Luther was a theology professor, it would seem that his main problem with Catholicism was that he didn't understand it - at all. At the link below are the "95 Theses" that he posted for discussion: his "problems with the Catholic Church" at that time. If you read through them you will quickly realize that Marti Luther did not have a good grasp of Catholic theology. Many of the things which protestants object to these days were not even on Luther's radar, so to speak. The other thing that is outstanding about the 95 Theses is that the author is obviously a Catholic who is trying to correct what he sees as errors in his Church. Later in life Martin Luther left the Church and started his own Church. At that time, he had far more problems with the Church than he listed in his 95 Theses. One of the more famous was his issue over the sale of indulgences. And yet, modern research has been unable to determine that there ever was any sale of indulgences. Indulgences could always be gained by any of the three works of penance: prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. Because of the stink that Martin Luther raised, and his misunderstanding of what was going on, we can no longer obtain an indulgence for almsgiving, only for prayer and fasting. Finally, Martin Luther was an Augustianian Friar, as such he had made life-long solemn vows to chastity, poverty, and obedience. He definitely had problems with all of these. He left his Order without even attempting to obtain permission, and proceeded to violate every single one of his solemn vows with abandon. I can certainly explain all of these actions: they boil down to one simple fact: sin. Martin Luther was unable to deal with his sin (if you read his history, it becomes crystal clear where his problems came from in his childhood) and instead of turning to Christ and depending on His grace, Martin Luther made up his own Church where it was not necessary to try and not sin. He himself wrote that he could get drunk, complete adultery numerous times, sin and sin greatly and God would save him. His problems finally come down to dealing with reality and with God's call to holiness.
What change to Christian Church practice was suggested by Martin Luther?
The changes that Martin Luther "suggested" were contained in the 95 Theses, a collection of 95 complaints that Martin Luther had about the Church which he wished to debate on, they are at the link below. A quick perusal of them suggests that Martin Luther, despite being an Augustinian Friar and a reputed doctor of Theology knew little of his Catholic faith as most of these Theses are and were already the common teaching of the Church, while a few of them were totally off the wall, so to speak. One explanation might be that the changes he was actually suggesting were to better educate the laity, although one can only speculate. For instance in # 16 Luther suggests that "There seems to be the same difference between hell, purgatory, and heaven as between despair, uncertainty, and assurance. These is manifest heresy as anyone in purgatory is certain of heaven and joyful as they are being purged solely for the purpose of entering heaven. One wonders, while reading the theses exactly what Luther was really suggesting, that people didn't understand, that he didn't understand; it seems beyond credibility that he could suggest that the Church was teaching manifest heresy. And then in 52 he suggests "It is vain to rely on salvation by letters of indulgence, even if the commissary, or indeed the pope himself, were to pledge his own soul for their validity." Again, one wonders what Luther was suggesting here, as a priest he would know better than anyone that indulgences have nothing whatsoever to do with salvation, and only apply to penance for already forgiven sin.
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Why did Martin Luther object to the state of the Catholic Church?
A:There were few periods in the long history of the Catholic Church when corruption was more openly present than during the Renaissance period. The sale of indulgences was becoming a prime source of personal income for popes, cardinals and bishops, as were the sale of ecclesiastical offices and the imposition of many corrupt fees and charges.In 1514, Albrecht of Brandenburg had been raised to the archdiocese of Mainz, but since he intended not to surrender his previous diocese of Magdeburg, and was also under the canonical age to be a bishop, the pope was able to insist on a considerable fee. He agreed in return that 50 per cent of the monies raised from the preaching of the indulgence in Albrecht's two dioceses could be set against this sum. This shoddy deal, made more offensive by the vigour and lack of sophistication with which the indulgence was preached around Magdeburg by the Dominican friar Tetzel, spurred Luther to action.Catholic AnswerMartin Luther objections to the state of the Catholic Church were primarily through ignorance. Attached at the link below is a list of Martin Luther's 95 Theses. A casual glance through all 95 Theses reveals a startling ignorance in Martin Luther. Many of his requests are actually (and were at that time) perfectly valid Catholic theology. Others were totally off the wall, and made no sense. Martin Luther, unbeknownst to himself, was a primary illustration of the problem in the Church at that time - abysmal education of the clergy. This was the first problem that the Council of Trent addressed. At the second link is a list of the 95 Theses to which the Pope objected. Reading through the entire 95 Theses is quite enlightening as the theses to which the Pope did NOT object are actually quite offensive to modern protestants!
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