Martin Luther And The Radical Reform Essay

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A hundred years ago, mixing races was almost the ultimate crime. The minorities like African Americans, Mexican, etc. were completely separate from the Caucasians before a young man named Martin Luther King Jr. decided to make a change in 1955, and unify the country no matter what race. Ironically enough four centuries before that another young man named Martin Luther decided to make a splash in history as well. During the 16th Century, Martin Luther started the Radical Reformation. Before the reforming began, there were no Protestant churches, only one united Church, The Catholic Church. Martin Luther did not like the ways and traditions of the Church and just wanted to reform the Church, but in the end he ended up reforming Christianity for what I believe for the better. In “The Reformation Discovery” it stated, “the (reformation) discovery was a biblical and theological insight that solved a religious and an exegetical problem.”(42) These findings and discoveries made it possible for my thesis to even almost be true. Salvation exists outside of church, man-made regulations and indulgences but not outside of Christ and His Word.
For one to truly understand Martin Luther and his actions through out the Reformation, they would have to have an understanding of his past and his way of thinking. Luther decided to completely turn his life over to God and become a monk after a near life experience. While in the monastery, he was not content just by doing "good works" too get approval from. Because he felt like all his good works were to just please God, he was not content or happy at the monastery which led from the superior of monastery to go broaden his life and faith by going to study the sacred Scriptures. (PSR 45) In the sixth-C...

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... they are of what kind of soda (faith) they are putting in the cup with it. In this case pushes people away from “church”. It is great for fellow Christians to fellowship together, but it does not say in the Bible that that fellowship has to be within the four walls of a known church. In the Bible, it actually states in Matthew 18:20, “For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.” The same Jesus is among two Christians sitting in a diner talking about His word and testifying how good He is and the church that is filled with a hundred people each Sunday. If people strictly just based Christianity and Church off of belief in God and not try to segregate between each religious belief and structure, there would be more unity. Even with that being said, people cannot attach salvation to an organized relationship or religion.

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