How Did Martin Luther Impact The World

Martin Luther was born in a lower class family on November 10th, 1483 in Eisleben in the Roman Empire (eastern Germany today). His father was a miner and smelter, and because his father knew the instability of his own occupation, he wanted his son to receive proper education, and eventually become a lawyer – which was known for being a secure career. After studying at the University of Erfurt in 1505, his father’s career plan for Luther was about to become a reality, until the July of 1505, when he was caught in a dreadful thunderstorm. Petrified during the storm, Luther yelled, “Save me, St. Anna, and I shall become a monk.” Although letting his parents down, he kept the vow he had made to God and entered the Augustinian Monastery. He became an Augustinian Friar, or a member of any of the religious orders of men, who lived by the instructions on the religious life written by “the great Western theologian”, St. Augustine. In 1507, he was ordained, and in 1512, he became a doctor of Theology at the University of Wittenberg. However, what had the biggest impact on his life was his visit to Rome in 1510. There, he saw the dismaying …show more content…
The Pope and Cardinals often lived like kings and focused on political affairs rather than religious matters. Instead of Luther believed in the theology of salvation; Christian souls are saved from sin and its consequences through faith in God, rather than by human works. “God accepts the sinner in spite of the sin” (Whitford). This acceptance is based on who the sinner is, rather than the works the sinner does. “Justification is bestowed rather than achieved. Justification is not based on human righteousness, but on God’s righteousness – revealed and confirmed in Christ” (Whitford). Therefore, Luther’s belief of God and the Bible was that salvation is gifted by God, rather than