Five Hundred Seventeen Years on November, Tenth.
Don’t let Peter get all the cake.
Today is the birthday of the great reformer Martin Luther. Born in 1483 and died in 1546 Luther is known to be the driver behind the Protestant reformation. His name is on the protestant Lutheran church however he never left the Catholic discipline.
Popular Culture
The popular culture of his life is that he had a conscience about being a priest and was resisting it when a companion was struck by lightning when they were out walking together, the companion was killed and Luther took the experience as a motivation to be a priest.
Troubled Person
Luther was troubled over the gospels effect on the way people lived under its control until he had a revelation of “the just will live by faith” the scripture by Paul in the book of Romans was the authority that gave Luther the reason to challenge the power of the Church.
We can believe that the antithesis of faith is fear something relived in other gospel directions but still used as a tool of control. The effect was for him to publish his 95 theses to begin the reformation. It included as well the doctrine of personal empowerment toward faith by there being only one mediator between God and man, that is the Lord and man; Christ. The thesis was published on October 31st, 1517 by nailing it to the door of the church.
Kevin Griffiths
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