Martin Luther Trial

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Ahmed Khazaal
04/18/2014
The Trial of Martin Luther
Martin Luther, reformer and founder of the Lutheran Church, was born on November 10 1483 at Eisleben, Germany, and died there on February 18 1546. Martin was a very well accomplished person. He attended the University of Erfurt where he planned to become a lawyer according to his father wishes. July 2, 1505 a strike of lightning shocks Luther while he was still a student at the University of Erfurt and Luther translated this as a signal from God that he should be a monk. After Two weeks, he takes his monastic pledges at an Augustinian cloister. A trip to Rome in 1510 triggered Luther to begin to really question certain Catholic practices. Luther's understanding of Paul's theology led him to view doubtfully the Catholic Church's trust on the practice of selling indulgences as its major source of income. Matters began to come to a head the next year when Pope Leo X launched an indulgence-driven campaign to raise capitals for construction of a grand basilica of St. Peter's in Rome. Those who classify with these, and all of Luther's broader teachings, are called Lutherans however Luther asserted on Christian as the only suitable name for individuals who acknowledged Christ. He strongly opposed absolute power corruption , and position abuse of the popes. He disputed the claim that freedom from God's penalty for sin could be purchased with financial values, or granted solely by a pope, because forgiveness comes only from God. He did all he could to cease the violence and revolutionary uprising that he thought it could have been connected directly to him through misinterpretations of his writings.
I totally believe that Martin Luther was innocent for the following three reasons:
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...did not write his 95 Theses as a way to begin a whole new reformation: he just wanted to provide the ignite for a discussion. I believe he is not guilty of the fact that others interpreted his writings completely different than what he wanted them to. In fact, he sacrificed a lot in order to prevent the violence that might have been possibly caused by his writings misinterpretation. In addition, he lost his friend, Andreas Karlstadt, because he thought he was wrong and never sided with him just because he is his friend, and the peasants grew to hate him because he did not support them in their violence revolts. Martin Luther did not want people to rebel violently against the Church.

Finally, if Luther was deemed to be revolutionary, why was he only excluded from the Empire after Worms? If he was so obviously a Revolutionary, why was he not burned as a heretic?

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