The movie Luther starts off by Martin Luther is going back home and he is in a thunderstorm. Luther starts to freak out and then he prays to God and tells him, if he spares his life he will become a monk and spread His Word through out the world. Then Luther gets saved and he becomes a monk. Luther believes God is a God of hate and vengeance and tries to destroy everyone who rebukes God's Word. So then a older monk by the name of Staupitz, who helps mentor Luther in his walk and his life of monk-hood. Staupitz encourages Luther to talk to Christ instead of talking to him and having him talk to God for him. After that Luther goes to a school and learns more about God's word. Then he writes the Ninety-Five Theses and it protests against clerical abuses, especially the sale of indulgences. Indulgences are the full or partial punishment due for sins in which they have been forgive. So the Catholic Church, and only the Catholic Church sold papers that you could buy that could either set a family member free or let them get out early of PURGATORY. That's the main purpose why Martin Luther initiated the Protestant Reformation. After Luther does all theses things, he goes back to Germany and begins to start teaching that he was wrong about God. That God is a God of love, not a God of hate. He tries to emphasise the love of God instead of his judgment. Luther was then outlawed by the Emperor Charles the Fifth. Luther then had to go into hiding. He had a lot of powerful friends in Germany who hide him for around a year, so he wouldnt be killed. He then translated the Bible into German for all the people in Germany could read it and interpret it for themselves.
I think Martin Luther was braver than most people because he stood out and told that the Catholic Church was wrong in what they were doing, by tricking the common people to buy indulgences that said they could save friends or family members. He had a strong belief in God and he stood up for what he believed in when everyone was against him or were on his side but went kinda crazy when they thought he had died. His downfalls were when he started an up rise because everyone started following what he was saying and people were fighting over the beliefs that the Catholic Church was the true religion or that Luther's teachings were the true religion. Many people were killed because they "believed the wrong faith" but both of them had great points to them and also had their defaults. I also thought that the movie portrayed Martin Luther rather well since he supposable talked to the Devil and had incounters with the Devil. He seemed a little insane but a great spiritual leader.
Martin Luther in the movie had a monk father who supported him in his beginning, but towards the end of the movie it seemed like he was trying to make Luther stop what he was doing because in his eyes, what Luther was doing (tearring the Catholic Church apart) was not the thing to do. Luther also had many more people turn against for starting the seperation of the Catholic Church.
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