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During the Age of reformation: What where the main problems of the church that led to the Protestant Revelution?
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practices in the church that didn’t coincide with the teaches of the Bible (like indulgences, namely)
Simony- buying and selling positions in the church
Church believed in Purgatory, which doesn’t exist in the Bible
Devotion to the Virgin Mary
Praying to the saints to ask them to intervene for a person
sacraments
authority of the pope
idea that people receive judgement immediately after death instead of on Judgement Day
Penance (i.e. confessing sins, then having a priest tell you how many ‘hail marys’ or ‘our fathers’ to say)
absolution being found by paying for it instead of by faith
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The biggest problem, as Martin Luther saw it, was the practice of the Catholic Church to grant “indulgences” These were pieces of paper which were sold to people and supposedly granted them a passage into heaven, bypassing an area called purgatory. Purgatory was a place midway between earth and heaven where souls would suffer until they had rid themselves of all sins, then they could enter heaven.
Luther was also very upset at a practice called ‘simony’ which involved the selling of church positions up to and including the position of pope.
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