Throughout history, God has chosen unlikely and unsuspecting people to do his work. Martin Luther is one such hero: God has used him to restore Biblical Christianity to Europe at a time when the Church is in a very bad condition. His teachings have changed the world, but that has not been his original intention! Through simply reading the Bible and applying what it says, Luther has turned the world upside down. At the age …
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…springs.' ". This is the "marketing strategy" used by Johann Tetzel's. The famous figure is often represented as excessive, foolish, and evil in the Catholic Tradition. Luther said of Tetzel in a 1541 pamphlet: "He sold grace for money at the highest price." Tetzel's teachings are erroneous in all respects, according to Catholic dogma. Martin Luther has inadvertently chosen unavoidable conflict with what is the most powerful and corrupt institution of the day, the Catholic Church.