Martin Luther video

• The Church was in charge and could sometimes be corrupt and act like tyrants
• Martin Luther grew up in Northern Germany as a child he worked in the church which he found as an escape from his home. His parents beat him and his father wanted him to be a lawyer but they were lower than that on the chain.
• Luther went to the best schools and enrolled at the university of Erfert.
• In 1505 the plague hit Erfert and three of his friends died of it. He began to greatly fear and revere God. One night he was stuck outside in a storm and almost died and he took a vow to become a monk.
• He became a monk and the monastery which he lived in was quite nice because it was very business like. The Church got taxes from the people who gave them this willingly for fear of being cut off from God. This eventually drew Luther away. The Monks would go threw a lot of self mutilation like whipping and even Luther slept out in the snow until he was pulled inside.
• Luther eventually went on a pilgrimage to the Holy City if Rome, when the Renaisance was reaching its peak. When the shine wore off Luther noticed the Church was more about money. He began to notice that the priests were only good business men and did not care at all about God.
• Luther started to question the teachings of the Church. Luther began to confess many times over because everytime he confessed his inner conscience would tell him how not sorry he really was.
• He ended up going to work with another monk who made him work with the spiritually uncertain
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