can some1 please explain me how di this idea challenge the power of the popel and the catholic church?

Question

17. With souls in purgatory it seems necessary that horror
should grow less and love increase.
its the 95 theses by martin luther, 1517. its really hard. please thanks

Answer 1

Catholics believe that the horror of sin decreases and God's love increases during purgation.

"But if someone's work is burned up, that one will suffer loss; the person will be saved, but only as through fire." (1 Corinthians 3:15)

"So that the genuineness of your faith, more precious than gold that is perishable even though tested by fire, may prove to be for praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ." (1 Peter 1:7)

Are you perfect now? Most people would say no.

Will you be perfect in heaven? Most people believe yes.

Purgatory (or purgation) is the process of God's love changing our imperfect selves into perfect beings.

Depending on the amount of change needed by different people, this can be an easy or slightly harder process.

Everyone in purgatory is on his or her way to heaven.

I do not think Mother Teresa of Calcutta had a very hard time of it.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

This is only part of it.

Luther went up against the Pope which is Heresy.

Luther didn't back down.

Then the German Princes started to secretly back him and protect him in the hopes he would weaken the Church.

Luther then started to put forth his own views for a new Church and a New look at religion and people started to like this.

It was based on reading the Bible and making your own intepretations of things.

So Luther worked on it in secret and gained support with the people.

Soon his ideas becan to spread and people started to turn from the Catholic religion which was in Latin, forbid Priest to Marry, didn't allow for divorce, to the new Protetant (Reformsit) religion that Luther was starting (Lutheran).

At the same time in other areas the new Church of England (Anglican) was getting a foothold there.

In France Wycliffe and Calvary ideologies were getting a boost by this new Protestant movment.

Soon it was spreading Northward.

By 1600 most of England was Protestant or anglican. Part of France was protestant, most of Germany was Protestant, most of Sweden and Denamrk were protestant.

The Church in Rome basically lost a huge chunk of Europe in less than 200 years from 1400 to 1600.

All because it failed to appease King Henry VIII and MArtin Luther.

With the Colonization of Amercia Protestants got a big foothold and while no one Protestant religions rules, all the Protestant religions combined far outnumber Catholics.

People liked church services in their own language.

They liked to be able to read the bible and decide for themselves.

Ministers and Priests in Protestant religions liked the ability to marry.

Answer 3

Many non-Catholics prefer to live in a world of make believe, where certain facts are conveniently ignored, and others are used to attempt to justify faithless actions, for which no true justification exists.

Anyone who would choose to deliberately ignore the plain text of the Bible, as well as 1500 years of world history, ignore the sacrifices of the true martyrs and saints, fail to note that the Catholic church truly converted the world for Christ, long before the first Protestant ever existed, and saved countless millions of souls, in spite of the fact that almost no one could even read or write at that time, obviously has a serious problem dealing with reality.

It reminds me of the president of Iran, who insists that the Jewish holocaust never happened, and who, in spite of the identifiable remains and clear history, also claims the Hebrew Temple never stood on the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem.

This was predicted in God's Word:

2Ti 4:1 I charge thee, before God and Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead, by his coming and his kingdom:
2Ti 4:2 Preach the word: be instant in season, out of season: reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine.
2Ti 4:3 For there shall be a time when they will not endure sound doctrine but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers having itching ears:
2Ti 4:4 And will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth, but will be turned unto fables.

These same folks also fail to understand that the Catholic church honors the Blessed Virgin because Jesus does, and the way God rewards Mary in heaven today, is the very same way he plans to reward all the faithful in Christ, when their time comes.

For some 400 years now, Protestants have been cleverly crafting their faith tradition, a tradition of men, not of God, which is incomplete and erroneous, and which leaves anyone who practices it as such, at a very serious spiritual disadvantage.

In spite of all this, we Catholics can only continue to proclaim the truth, in charity:

Eph 4:29 Let no evil speech proceed from your mouth: but that which is good, to the edification of faith: that it may administer grace to the hearers.
Eph 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God: whereby you are sealed unto the day of redemption.
Eph 4:31 Let all bitterness and anger and indignation and clamour and blasphemy be put away from you, with all malice.
Eph 4:32 And be ye kind one to another: merciful, forgiving one another, even as God hath forgiven you in Christ.

Answer 4

Well purgatory doesn't exist, and i suppose Martin Luther knew that as he studied the Bible and believed in the infallibility of the Bible and not the Roman Church