When I die I will be your bitter death."

Martin Luther began his life in Germany in a city called Eisleben in the year 1483. He was the son of a successful miner. His father wanted young Martin to become a lawyer, but God had another plan. One day Martin was walking outside during a violent storm. Luther hit the ground after being struck by lightning. He cried out to St. Ann for help and if he was spared, he said he would devote his life to serving God and become a monk. He lived and was a man to his word, hence becoming a monk.

He tried to have faith in god by believing, trusting, and obeying. He found a problem with his profession, though, and it was not that his parents disproved it. The problem was shared by many at the time, and now they had a leader in Martin Luther. The problem was the Catholic Church. The Church, Martin thought, was corrupt. The Church was taking money from sinners so that the sinners would have to spend less time in Pergitory. They also claimed you could buy dead relative's way out. There were other problems too.

Martin did something about his anger. He made a stand that would change the world forever. Martin Luther wrote t

Then in 1555, nine years after Martin Luther died, Charles V and the princes in Germany signed The Peace of Augsberg, where the princes decided what they and their people were. Catholic or Lutheran? The northern lands were Lutheran and the south were catholic.

One Man did what no other man had the nerves to do; he made a stand. He changed the way many people of the time think. Then he went beyond that. After his death, his ideas were still around and his hard work payed off. He became the founder of a great religion, a religion that sees God above all, and God, only God, calls the shots. Today there are over 70 million followers on all five continents of the world. If one man can influence that many people 456 years after his death, than that man is truly rich.

Martin Preached that the church could not tell you how to get into heaven, only the bible could. Having faith in God was enough to get into heaven. He believed that God alone decided who would get into heaven and how long it would take them to get there.

Martin was invited to Worms in 1521 by the empirer to try a last hope persuation for him to turn back to the church. The outcome was not what the empirer was expecting. He was a hero and everybody was overjoyed and celebrated him being there. He stayed for over two weeks preaching to the people. Martin said that he would have backed down from every one of his points if the Pope would affirm the gospel.

The church was outraged. They knew if he stuck to his beliefs, he could become powerful and have many followers. The church tried to convince Luther to give up his beliefs, but Martin would not hear of it. In 1520, Martin was excommunicated. Martin responded by burning a copy of

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