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Apostasy was too widespread Romanism was too corrupt.īible-believing Christians existed throughout church history, but organized religion ( Roman Catholicism!) persecuted and suppressed them. A spiritually-dead church abounding with spiritually-dead people doing spiritually-dead works could not be improved. Luther, whose original intention was to reform the Roman Catholic Church, actually started a revolution. Church tradition had replaced Sacred Scripture, the written Word of God. When Roman Catholic priest Martin Luther nailed his “95 Theses” to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, he systematically outlined and protested ecclesiastical excesses and abuses (particularly the practice of selling indulgences-paying the pope to receive forgiveness of sins!). On October 31, 2017, we Bible believers celebrate the 500 th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation! “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works” (2 Timothy 3:16,17).
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