What do you think of Martin Luther? Do you think he 's correct when he challenged the pope?

Answer 1

Yes he was correct in challenging the Pope. The Catholic church at the time was actually selling salvation. This I hope we all know is wrong. So when he nailed his thesis on the door of the Whittenburg church they were mostly dealing with the way of salvation.

Answer 2

luther HAD to challenge the pope. at that time, nothing at all was being taught of christianity in the church. the catholic church was super-oppressive in those days. they didn't care whether people learned the doctrine, or whether or not the church members could even eat. all they cared about was money.

'' ...how pitiable, so help me God, were the things i saw: the common man, especially in the villages, knows practically nothing of christian doctrine, and many of the pastors are almost entirely incompetent and unable to teach. yet all the people are supposed to be christians, have been baptized, and recieve the Holy Sacrament even though they do not know the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, or the Ten Commandments and live like poor animals of the barnyard and pigpen. what these people have mastered, however, is the fine art of tearing all christian liberty to shreds.''

''oh, you bishops! how will you ever answer to Christ for letting the people carry on so disgracefully and not attending to the duties of your office even for a moment? one can only hope the judgment does not strike you! you command the Sacrament in one kind only, insist on the observance of your human ways, and yet are unconcerned whether the people know the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, the Ten Commandments, or indeed any of God's Word. woe, woe to you forever!'' martin luther

Answer 3

Someone had to visibly slap the Vatican in the face. People saw that he was not smotten down by some invisible entity either. Luther wanted to expose the flesh rot priests by translating the bible into the common german vernacular. This would break up the power of the Vatican who had control over prophetic interpretation or the springs of spiritual water. I think darkness was thrown over the throne of the beast then. With Protestantism, we see the birth of the Catholic churches first child. You can't get a perfect child from fatally flawed parents who are all male, but calls itself Mother, what blasphemy!
Did you know that when the god returns he is supposed to take the Pope as his Bride, like I say, fatally flawed . . . ha ha ha ha ha ha ha . . . the curse on mankind . . . ha ha ha ha ha . .

Answer 4

Partially.

If you read Martin Luther's theses they are mostly protests of practice not doctrine.

Most of the not so good practices have been cleaned up but whenever people are involved there is always room for improvement.

However I don't think Martin Luther was always right on, for example his first thesis already sounds like trouble:

"When our Lord and Master, Jesus Christ, said 'Repent', He called for the entire life of believers to be one of repentance."

The Catholic Church calls for repentance at certain times of our lives but we are also called to live in happiness and joy.

With love in Christ.

Answer 5

I like that he said:
- the pope was not a supreme authority
- priests can marry
- bread and wine don't magically turn into wine
- you can't buy forgiveness

I don't like that he said
- you should always obey your ruler in nonreligious issues
- the only thing that matters is what you believe not what you do

especially the last part is where protestantism becomes possibly weirder than catholicism.

Answer 6

Yes, Martin Luther was the father or may I say founder of the reformation.

Answer 7

Here is the document. . . . . .nothing new.


http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congre...


From Scripture, we can see that the Church:


is one, unified
Matthew 12:25, 16:18, John 10:16, John 17:20-23, Acts 4:32, Romans 12:5, Romans 16:17, 1 Corinthians 1:10-13, Corinthians 3:3-4, Corinthians 10:17, Corinthians 11:18-19, Corinthians 12:12-27, Corinthians 14:33, 2 Corinthians 12:20, Ephesians 4:3-6, Philippians 1:27, 2:2-3, 1 Timothy 6:3-5, Titus 3:9-10, James 3:16, 2 Peter 2:1

is holy, but not all who belong to it will be saved
Matthew 7:21–23, Ephesians 5:25–27, Revelation 19:7–8

is universal (ie, "katholikos" in Greek, or "Catholic")
Matthew 28:19–20, Revelation 5:9–10

is Apostolic
Matthew 16:18-19, Matthew 9:6-8, John 20:21-23, Acts 5:5, Ephesians 2:19–20

is hierarchical and has bishops (episkopos), priests (presbyteros or "elders"), and deacons (diakonos)
Acts 1:20, Acts 15:2-6, Acts 20:28, Acts 21:18, Philippians 1:1, 1 Timothy 3:1-2, 1 Timothy 5:17, Titus 1:7, Hebrews 11:2, 1 Peter 5:1, 1 Peter 2:25,

is the Pillar and Ground of Truth
1 Timothy 3:15

is the "light of the world", visible, cannot be hid
Matthew 5:14

was founded by Christ through Peter, whom He made the Church's earthly father, and the Gates of Hell cannot prevail against it
Matthew 16:18-19 (see also page on Peter as "The Rock" for evidence of Peter's authority among the Apostles)

While Scripture is evidence enough for the marks of Christ's Church, we can see in the writings of Ignatius -- written in the first century, within 67 years of Christ's resurrection, by a close friend and appointee of the Apostle Peter and friend of Polycarp -- that the early Church had a very Catholic interpretation of Scripture:


the Church was Divinely established as a visible society, the salvation of souls is its end, and those who separate themselves from it cut themselves off from God (Epistle to the Philadelphians)
the hierarchy of the Church was instituted by Christ (Epistles to the Philadelphians and the Ephesians)
the threefold character of the hierarchy (Epistle to the Magnesians)
the order of the episcopacy superior by Divine authority to that of the priesthood (Epistles to the Magnesians, Smyraenians, and the Trallians)
the importance of unity of the Church (Epistles to the Trallians, Philadelphians, and the Magnesians)
emphasis on the holiness of the Church (Epistles to the Smyraeans, Ephesians, Magnesians, Trallians, and Romans)

the catholicity of the Church (Letter to the Smyraeans)

the infallibility of the Church (Epistles to the Philadelphians and the Ephesians)
the doctrine of the Eucharist -- i.e., belief in Transsubstantiation or the Real Presence of Christ in Communion (Epistle to the Smyraeans)
the Incarnation (Epistle to the Ephesians)
the supernatural virtue of virgnity (Epistle to Polycarp)
the religious character of matrimony (Epistle to Polycarp)
the value of united prayer (Epistle to the Ephesians)
the primacy of the Chair of Peter (Epistle to the Romans, introduction)
a dencouncing of the (later Protestant) doctrine of private judgement in matters of religion (Epistle to the Philadelphians)1




Read the writings of St. Ignatius of Antioch, Clement of Rome, Cyril of Jerusalem, Irenaeus, Polycarp, St. Augustine, etc... They are rich with Catholic doctrine -- and the earliest evidence we have for what the Church was like in its earliest days!



FYI:


In the 16th c., Luther, reacting to serious abuses and clerical corruption in the Latin Church, to his own heretical theological vision (see articles on sola scriptura and sola fide), and, frankly, to his own inner demons, removed those books from the canon that lent support to orthodox doctrine, relegating them to an appendix. Removed in this way were books that supported such things as prayers for the dead (Tobit 12:12; 2 Maccabees 12:39-45), Purgatory (Wisdom 3:1-7), intercession of dead saints (2 Maccabees 15:14), and intercession of angels as intermediaries (Tobit 12:12-15)


Luther wanted to remove the Epistle of James, Esther, Hebrews, Jude and Revelation. Calvin and Zwingli also both had problems with the Book of Revelation, the former calling it "unintelligible" and forbidding the pastors in Geneva to interpret it, the latter calling it "unbiblical". The Syrian (Nestorian) Church has only 22 books in the New Testament while the Ethiopian Church has 8 "extra." The first edition of the King James Version of the Bible included the "Apocryphal" (ie, Deuterocanonical) Books.

Answer 8

He was only half right when he challenged the pope. The part he got wrong was splintering off another branch of religion, instead of just crushing the big lie.

Answer 9

Yes, absolutely. The pope was twisting the truth.

Answer 10

Yes,I believe he was correct in challenging the Roman Catholic Church.