"Salvation Through Faith Alone"

Author Bio: (Speaker) Martin Luther was a German monk, in which he strongly debated the claim of freedom from God's punishment for sin. Luther taught that salvation was not acquired through good deeds, but only received as a free gift from God's grace through faith.

Date/Context: The is document was written in the year of the mid 15 hundreds. This  speech helps understand the way that people stood alone if they didn't have someone there to support them with the decisions that they thought to be right. Luther wanted to get the fact across that you don't earn salvation just for doing the things people may ask you to do, you receive it as a gift from above.

Summary: This speech was written and spoken to give the people the correct understanding of salvation and how it just doesn't easily come to ones below. Also while Luther was a monk he wasn't willing to omit to any of the prayers and would often take Saturdays off and not eat or drink anything for about 3 days. He had come to the conclusion that if righteousness men live from faith then let it be, but God should contribute to those who believe.

Key Quotations: "Whoever questions what the Roman Church says and does is heretical."

"God led us away from all this in a wonderful way; without my quite being aware of it he took me away from that game more than twenty years ago."