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In the Freedom of Christians Luther states: “The Word of God cannot be received and cherished by any works whatever but only by faith” (page 10 line 16). The term “works,” according to Luther is any type of action a person performs in their life. The type of action can be a spectrum from being a robber to being a volunteer for helping the poor. The work a person performs in their life, will not determine whether they will be saved or not. The only way a person receives faith is through their internal

Don’t make promises you don’t intend to keep. This is a phrase that is not unfamiliar in our daily lives. A promise is a commitment of one party to another that if a situation occurs, the party will take responsibility to act according to the terms of the promise it has given. An act of making a promise indicates an intention to keep it. basically, it’s a way of knowing the foreseeable future based on something said in the past. One of the simplest example would be a mother promising to buy her child

The battle for liberty has been fought on different scales with the beginning of thousands of revolutions in the history. The ideal liberty is an ultimate goal that inflames the minds of many people who yearn for individual freedom. In all these struggles, the definition of liberty is not the same for different people. According to the text, “the idea of liberty has played a powerful role in the history of Western society and culture, but the meaning and understanding of liberty has undergone continual

The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan tells the story of Christian, a deeply religious man whose self-imposed pilgrimage takes him through a variety of locations in his quest to reach Celestial City. However, to better understand Bunyan's perspective on Christianity as given in his novel, we must examine the life experiences of the author. Born in 1628, Bunyan lived in a time period that was undoubtedly heavily influenced by the Reformation movement incited by Martin Luther only a century earlier

When a man is justified before God, he is declared not guilty with reference to the sins he has committed against God. Amazingly, God's "not guilty" verdict does not relate to just one crime, but to every sin the justified man has ever committed or will commit. Paul declares that we have no penalty to pay for sin, which includes past, present or future sins that we may commit. Those who have been justified by faith, “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” (Rom

The view that salvation can be attained through faith alone was one largely responsible for the theological shift that was observed across Europe during the Reformation, and was the ideology that created the rift that still exists between the Catholic and Protestant church. Whilst the English Reformation is said to have begun with the Act of Supremacy and the break from Rome, Henry VIII’s Church of England remained doctrinally conservative and did not accept the Protestant affirmation that salvation

Faith is a very complex subject on how it can be obtained and what can be done after it has been achieved. The treasures of having faith brings a person to be saved from any evil. In the last chapter of Mark, it explains “therefore true faith in Christ is a treasure beyond comparison which brings with it complete salvation and saves man from every evil” (Mark [16:16]). When faith is within the person it also brings them righteousness, which gives the ability to break the chains within the person

Divine grace was a particularly prominent concern in sixteenth century Europe, it prompted the splintering of Christendom and was therefore responsible in large part for the subsequent violence. With the extensive conflict motivated by debates over the delivery of divine grace, it comes as no surprise that leading figures of the era harbored vastly differing opinions on the subject. Martin Luther, John Fisher, and Hans Staden, drawing from the exact same source material, came to drastically different

Martin Luther’s On Christian Liberty was written as a way to explain his theology of justification by faith. His work was written for many different people. His followers, people who disbelieved him and people who were also confused by his theology. In order to make the way smoother for the unlearned, Luther sets down two propositions. The first is “A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none,” and the second proposition is “A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject

Marie Kashpaw/Lazarre transitions successfully from not knowing who she is to being proud of who she has become. She is able to come out of bad experiences and use them to improve and guide her. She learns from her mistakes is able to look at her own flaws which help her grow as a person. She is not too ashamed to be able to say that she was naive, ignorant, or made the wrong decision. She thinks before she acts with a plan in mind. In Saint Marie (1934) Marie is only fourteen years old and is trying