God has the sole control of death and purgatory, and it is not for the Church profit from. The points twenty through thirty-one describes the lack of financial power that the pope has with God. A person cannot pay the pope for forgiveness to get into heaven or to get out of purgatory. According to Luther the pope is not capable of intercession between man and God. Points thirty-two through forty summarize to say that letters of pardon by the Church do not represent true forgiveness of God.
He taught that salvation was not earned by works, but was a gift of God’s grace received through faith in Jesus Christ. He brought Christians back to the bible, teaching that it is the only source of divine knowledge. His views shook the foundation of the theology of the Roman Catholic Church, which believed that freedom from punishment of sins could be purchased with money. In 1517 he wrote
We see an example of one of Luther’s critical writings in Document 8. In this Document we see Luther take a strong anti Catholic stance and even go so far as to condemn the Pope. Document 9 also serves as another example and shows Luther’s being critical of the Churches officials and the need for priests by clamming “every baptized Christian is a priest already.” This last point struck a major cord with the peasants in Europe. Luther was telling them they could gain their own salvation by studying the bible for themselves. No longer would they need to be dependent on the Church.
This made a bid difference in England. King Henry did not over sudden change his mined with the Catholic Church; there was different reason for him to change the religion. One of the reasons was that the Pope would not grant him a divorce with Katharine Of Aragon, second reason was that he ran out of money and all the people how had money needed to give 10% to the Church. But also a man called Martin Luther convents him, by “saying people are doing bad things and then they go and buy a paper that says you are forgiven”. But this does not do anything with religion.
This allowed Henry to eradicate any opposition that had potential to threaten Henry. The religious changes came to a halt in 1539, where Henry sends out a strong deterrent message by executing the architect of the religious changes, Cromwell. One of the groups who contributed disapproval was the clergy. This opposition had worrying potential to become serious because of the reputation of those who delivered it, for example More, who’s resistance was actually passive, did not actively deny the King’s title or offer any strong opposition to the regime, his trial was rigged and perjured evidence and the ruthlessness of his death meant that others refrained from open opposition to the King. In comparison, Fisher’s opposition was more vocal, he publicly condemned Henry getting an annulment from Catherine of Aragon, he was much more active in his opposition, delivering sermons and publishing books, an example of which being Sermon Against the Pernicious Doctrine of Martin Luther (1521).
This shows the importance of the Bible to Protestants compared to the Catholic woodcut in which there is no importance placed on the scripture. In the Catholic woodcut, is it very ornamental and the monk who is preaching does not have a Bible to read off of. This shows the contrast between Protestant and Catholic beliefs in doctrine. At the Diet of Worms in 1521, Luther responds to Eck saying that he will not recant his teachings unless he is “convinced by Scripture and plain reason” (Doc 5). During his speech, Luther advocates his belief in sola scriptura.
(1) Martin Luther, 95 Theses - How does Luther portray the role of the Pope in is 95 theses? Luther portrays the idea that the Pope is incapable of forgiving sins held within people. He states that the pope’s forgiveness should “by no means be disregarded” but his forgiveness is not the most important idea. As Christians should be taught not to rely on indulgence, Luther highlights that the pope should not forgive to those who are against him. This is reinforced by the idea that there is no “great blessing” that can be done if the pope continued to forgive “every believer a hundred times a day”.
The Puritan way of meetings involves a lengthy sermon, where the preacher persecutes its congregation’s sins. This way of meetings is not enjoyable or enlightening for the attendee. The people in the congregation would not feel enlightened if they were ridiculed for sins in front of their peers. In the Quaker religion, there is no higher authority like the priest to criticize you because you are the leader of your faith. Also, the lengthy sermon of a specific part of the bible would certainly be boring and a waste of time to the people of Puritan society.
If there were no government, there would be absolute chaos, and even more horrible things would go on because there would also be no consequences. Government keeps order and is a good thing to obey, but is there ever a time we should disobey? We should disobey the government when it goes against Gods law. God is the Almighty, and when someone goes against him, the Christians should not follow that example but should create their own.
He went through great pains to prove that Catholics were in fact subject to Rome and that the Pope would only influence them in spiritual matters. Although Carroll was against ‘ecclesiastical democracy’, Carroll urged that “Bishops may be elected, at this distance from Rome, by a select body of clergy constituting as it were a cathedral chapter. Otherwise we shall never be viewed kindly by our government here, and discontent, even amongst our own clergy, will break out”(2)-Theocracy is a form of government in which a God or deity is recognize as the state’s supreme civil ruler, or in higher sense, a form of government, in which a state is governed by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divine guided or is pursuant to the doctrine of a particular religion or religious group- An event occurred on April 30, 1789, that became of great benefit to Carroll after stressing over the future of American Catholics. In common with their fellow-citizens, the American Catholics hailed joy when George Washington was elected as first president. Bishop Carroll congratulated him on behalf of the Roman Catholics for his victory.