How come Martin Luther became a priest if he couldn't keep it in his pants? No priest jokes please...?

Question

he was a catholic priest and at that time for about 500 years the vows of celibacy and chasity were instituted he seduced a nun and married her... and ye i know everyone sins but then he goes and makes his own religion..

Answer 1

We are all human and sometimes we think that we have discerned God's will, but we tricked ourselves--we are really doing what we what and calling it God's will. You are right, Martin Luther was not called to become a priest. His reformation could have taken place from the position of any layman. Also, most of the things he supposedly found so wrong, were later adopted by the Church I've heard, so he must have some valid points. But does that give him the right to break up God's Church? The body of Christ (Ephesians 5)? Of course not! So many people disagree (and have disagreed in the past) within the Church and recognized that it was not worth breaking with Rome--that's why there are Jesuits, Domincans, Franciscans...etc and even something like 22 other recognized rites outside of the Latin Rite (the rite of Rome and the Pope)!
And look how far Lutherans have fallen from their "founder!" Did you know that Martin Luther had a great devotion to Mary? He called her the "highest woman and the noblest gem in Christianity after Christ." Have you heard that he was against contraception? He called it a sin "worse than adultery or incest!" (Links below if you find this hard to believe.)
I feel sure that if Luther's intents were honest (and I really do think that they were), he must in Heaven looking down at all the turmoil and division he brought into Christianity which has lasted well after his death and just be shaking his head. Surely this is not what he thought he was starting!
Thanks for reading! God Bless!

Answer 2

I'm not familiar with this aspect of Martin Luther; however, priests were not required to be celibate for centuries after Christianity became an established religion. If he did marry he may have considered it another form of protest against the Catholic church. In addition, it may not originally have been his choice to become a priest. In that time, families sent their children to the priesthood very early; chances are he hadn't even hit puberty yet. He would have had no idea what he was giving up when he took his vows, nor would he have been given much of a choice once he reached the monastery. Lastly, everyone sins. No one is perfect and we all do things that we regret.

Answer 3

I think he was a protestant, they could marry and have children.

Not sure I understand your question.

Martin Luther was one of the main reformers of the Church and helped to bring about the protestant religion. He stood against the Catholic Church and the idea that priest could not marry.

Answer 4

Martin Luther (November 10, 1483 – February 18, 1546) grew to become right into a German monk, theologian, college professor, Father of Protestantism,and church reformer whose ideas prompted the Protestant Reformation and altered the path of Western civilization. Luther's theology challenged the authority of the papacy by making use of protecting that the Bible is the only infallible source of non secular authority and that each and every person baptized Christians below Jesus are a familiar priesthood. in accordance to Luther, salvation is a loose present of God, won via making use of actual repentance and faith in Jesus by way of fact the Messiah, a faith given by making use of God and unmediated by making use of the church. on the nutrition plan of Worms assembly over freedom of sense of right and incorrect in 1521, Luther's war of words with the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and his refusal to undergo the authority of the Emperor led to his being excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church and being declared an outlaw of the state as a result. His translation of the Bible into the vernacular of the folk made the Scriptures extra attainable to them, and had an mind-blowing political impact on the church and on German subculture. It furthered the form of a usual version of the German language, further quite a few concepts to the paintings of translation, and prompted the interpretation of the English King James Bible. His hymns inspired the form of congregational making a song interior Christianity. His marriage to Katharina von Bora set a form for the practice of clerical marriage interior Protestantism. lots scholarly debate has concentrated on Luther's writings with reference to the Jews. His statements that Jews' residences could be destroyed, their synagogues burned, funds confiscated and liberty curtailed have been revived and utilized in propaganda by making use of the Nazis in 1933–40 5. as a results of this and his resourceful theological perspectives, his legacy maintains to be debatable.

Answer 5

Early popes had mistresses. Follow the leader.

Answer 6

I thought all priests were perverts?

Answer 7

Well ,look what he did later. Don't you know ?