Luther's Sixty-Five Theses Analysis

Examining Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses

Let Christians be more confident of entering heaven when they’ve gone through the many hard times they will face. Instead many Christians have the frame of mind that everything is going to be fine when indeed it is not. Therefore, they have engaged in a false assurance of peace because of their not realizing that they need to endure the many trials yet to come before they can rejoice in knowing that their place is waiting for them in heaven. Catholic’s believed that if they had given a certain amount of money to the church they would be absolved from their sins, however, Luther wrote that preaching that the soul flies out of purgatory immediately the money chinks in the bottom of the chest was wrong. Reason being why Luther thought this practice was wrong was because from a biblical stand point, the bible says that Jesus Christ paid our penance once and for all on the cross. Luther believed there is nothing that we can do as sinners to add or subtract from that payment accept believe in Jesus to be saved from our sins. Luther, being the founder of the Protestant religion wanted to reform the Catholic Church. His stance in the
Luther was so terrified of the possibility of his own damnation that he sought two passages from the bible that spoke directly to him, and they are: Romans 1:17, and Romans 3:24. Romans 1:17 says; For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith as it is written, “He who through faith is righteous shall live.” Romans 3:24 says They are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption which is in Christ, Jesus. Luther understood that salvation was by God’s grace through faith that it is not of him self or of works, that it is a gift of God, so that no one could