HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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He did not think that Jesus was the Son of God
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He believed the Bible was a false authority
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He believed that salvation was based on faith alone
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He did not believe in an afterlife
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Detailed explanation-1: -He objected not only to the church’s greed but to the very idea of indulgences. He did not believe the Catholic Church had the power to pardon people sins. Rather, Luther thought that salvation could be achieved only through God’s mercy. No one needed to seek or buy salvation through the church.
Detailed explanation-2: -His central teachings, that the Bible is the central source of religious authority and that salvation is reached through faith and not deeds, shaped the core of Protestantism.
Detailed explanation-3: -It was the year 1517 when the German monk Martin Luther pinned his 95 Theses to the door of his Catholic church, denouncing the Catholic sale of indulgences-pardons for sins-and questioning papal authority. That led to his excommunication and the start of the Protestant Reformation.
Detailed explanation-4: -For the Lutheran tradition, the doctrine of salvation by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone is the material principle upon which all other teachings rest. Luther came to understand justification as being entirely the work of God.
Detailed explanation-5: -Martin Luther disagreed with the Catholic Church because they sold indulgences as a sign of greed, hypocrisy, and moral rot in the Catholic Church leading to the Protestant Reformation.