How did Martin Luther come to the conclusion that the current church structure was unnecessary?
What will be an ideal response?
Luther was particularly troubled about the nature of free will in conjunction with God's plans. He argued that while people could choose what to have for breakfast, they could not choose to do good works in the eyes of God, and therefore good works had no place in achieving grace. People, he believed, were always sinful and would choose to avoid righteousness, and therefore justification did not apply. Grace, he argued, simply was a gift from God and people had to accept this gift with the gift of faith alone. He based this idea on a piece of scripture from the Romans. As such, he rejected the concept of indulgences being able to bring a person to a state of righteousness, and posted his Ninety-Five Theses on a cathedral door in 1517 . He later expanded his philosophy beyond the idea of salvation through faith alone to include the idea that each individual was responsible for his or her salvation and that the sacraments, and therefore the church, were largely irrelevant. This brought him to trial in 1520
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The Texas annexation treaty presented by President John Tyler to the U.S. Senate in 1844 failed to win Senate ratification because
A) the overwhelming opposition in the U.S. Senate by northern Whigs and northern Democrats to extending slavery to such a large would-be state. B) Henry Clay's support for the treaty could not overcome the belief of many skeptical southern Whigs that the linking of Texas and slavery by Tyler and his secretary of state, John Calhoun, was just a political gimmick to advance their political ambitions. C) the political leaders of the independent Texas republic expressed public misgivings about annexation by the United States. D) the strong opposition of the Mexican government to the Texas annexation treaty.
It can be said of Safavid cultural achievements that
A. its pottery ignored eastern influences and duplicated ancient Persian designs. B. it was minimally involved with textile production. C. its seventeenth-century carpets epitomized the height of its artistic achievement. D. its painting was intensely affected by Western methods and subjects. E. its architecture was almost wholly imitative.
Manumission of slaves was most likely to occur in
a. Quebec b. Brazil c. South Carolina d. Louisiana e. Massachusetts
How can Jefferson's first term best be characterized?
A) It was a failure in that he lead the country to war, increased taxes, and lost land in the North and West. B) It was a success in that he united Republican politicians and eradicated their competition, the Federalists. C) It was a failure in that he lost important trade rights with Europe and lost western land to Native American tribes. D) It was a success in that he reduced taxes, maintained peace, and expanded the United States. E) It was a failure in that his judicial, educational, and economic reforms were not passed by Congress.