Martin Luther’s Views

Martin Luther was so angry at the church because of his belief that the people shouldn’t pay the church for forgiveness of their sins. He believed that it was wrong that the Pope was raising money in this way and he then decided to write down his views on the church. There are known as the 95 Theses and he, after writing them, nailed the papers to the church door. I believe that Martin Luther was also not very happy because of the idea of the church being so rich while its parishioners were very poor. This also was a big deal to him because the parishioners still had to pay the church, in both the tithe and penance.

Martin Luther’s view on Christian Liberty is that he wanted justification for what the church was doing and that he wanted grace, faith, and scripture alone to justify what happened in the church. If the church couldn’t justify their decisions based off those three factors, then he believed that the church should have changed their ways. However, although the church was not able to justify their actions in this way, they excommunicate Martin Luther and the church was split into two, Catholicism and Protestantism.

I agree with Martin Luther in his views that the people should not have to pay for the forgiveness of their sins to get into Heaven. A church does need some money to run properly, but the amount of money that the church was taking from the parishioners was an absurd amount since these people were already poor enough.