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1. Write your name, number, and the theses you were assigned in the title section.

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1. Write your name, number, and the theses you were assigned in the title section.

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2. Write your interpretation of the theses in the section below.
3. Like and comment on two theses from one of your peers. (One that is not commented on yet). In your comment 1. Revise your peers' interpretation if needed and comment on how this thesis relates to yours.

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21: Thus those indulgence preachers are in error who say that a man is absolved from every penalty and saved by papal indulgences.

I think that it means that the people who are beiliving what the chruch is saying is looking at the wrong path

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"Christians should be taught that the pope does not at
all intend that the purchase of indulgences should be
understood as at all comparable with works of mercy."

Christians are taught that the pope satisfaction can only help them if they fully trust him but can get scared if they lose there trust in god. The pop can either save you or cause a life of hardships due to your sins for your family. Trying to show the church's unhappy indulgences. The points that are trying to be made are faith in jesus and the bible is the main truth about god

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Thus those indulgence preachers are in error who say that a man is absolved from every penalty and saved by papal indulgences.
I think it speaks about how people who ask for forgiveness in church are in error and that they haven't really been saved and forgive.

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Theses#43- "Christians should be taught that one who gives to the poor, or lends to the needy, does a better action than if he purchases indulgences;" I think that it means that Christians should be taught to feel content by helping the less fortunate instead of enjoying one's luxuries.

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`What is this new piety of God and the pope that for a consideration of money they permit a man who is impious and their enemy to buy out of purgatory the pious soul of a friend of God and do not rather, because of the need of that pious and beloved soul, free it for pure love's sake?''
- What is the new sort of rule of God and ghd pope that for a certain amount of money they will permit a man who is sinful and their enemy to pay for their forgiveness.

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"When our Lord and Master, Jesus Christ, said “Repent,”1 He called for the entire life of believers to be one of penitence."

Repentance is a life-long project for all believers, and it must take place throughout one's life span. Jesus wants believers to turn away from sin and to turn to God through him in faith, and feel remorse about their wrongdoings.

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14-Imperfect piety or love on the part of the dying person necessarily brings with it great fear; and the smaller the love, the greater the fear.

My understanding- The little love showed by a individual throughout his life pathway to the catholic church will subsequent into the dying person living with fear of the afterlife due to the sins committed, the less loved showed the more existing fear. And urge to find away to save themselves from perdition which ties back into the ideas of an individual having to financially provide the church for it to forget the persons sins.

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Thesis #89 – “Since the pope seeks the salvation of souls rather than money by his indulgences, why does he suspend the indulgences and pardons previously granted when they have equal efficacy?”

In this thesis he is combating the claim that these indulgences are for the greater good and not for the popes bank account. The rich and the higher class people profit the most from these indulgences because they are the few that can keep paying them. If all it takes is money to be forgiven no matter the sin then the rich will sin even more. This is why martin luther asks rhetorically why the pope is charing people when he could just bless them. Why allow people to may for their sins in material then on spirit? If the pope is truly saving people why does he have to get paid to do so? If the pope is a pious person then why does he have to charge people? These indulgences do not cater to all the people aka working class and poor when god supposedly cares about everyone

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28." It is certainly possible that when the money clinks in  the bottom of the chest avarice and greed increase;  but when the church offers intercession, all depends  on the will of God. "

MLK feels as if people dont treat god as they treat money. People want more and more money as they find it, but once they find god, they dont want more of it, they actually go in the opposite direction and not focus on that topic anymore. Some of the time people would take the time and worship god and actually want more and more of him. But for those that dont, just dont have appreciate god as money. MLK wants people to respect god as they respect money, and believe that they should want to worship god more and more everyday other than push him away. MLK believes once you find god your greed should increase and want to attract him more and more.

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Thesis #53 "Those are enemies of Christ and the pope who forbid the word of God to be preached at all in some
churches, in order that indulgences may be preached
in others."

This means to me that people who aren't willing to accept the word of god turn it down in church so forgiveness can be exclaimed in it's place.

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"There is no divine authority for preaching that the soul flies out of purgatory immediately the money clinks in the bottom of the chest."
To me this means there is no way to buy yourself into heaven. People believed that God will forgive them for their sins by paying the church but that was not true. Buying indulgences was only something Tetzel was doing for money. This was what Martin Luther was trying to make people realize, money will not take you to heaven, only God.

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"Moreover, it does not seem proved, on any grounds of reason or Scripture, that these souls are outside the state of merit, or unable to grow in grace;"

Luther is saying that there is no proof of people not being able to grow in the afterlife, saying that something like purgatory exists.

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"Moreover, it does not seem proved, on any grounds of reason or Scripture, that these souls are outside the state of merit, or unable to grow in grace;"

This means that people are proved to become greater in the holy sense. These people are allowed to become greater souls or something more than they already are. This indicates that they can grow.

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"The treasures of the indulgences are the nets today which they use to fish for men of wealth."

I believe this means that Martin Luther thinks religion isn't about helping people find faith in a god but to take the wealth of others.

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"Death puts an end to all the claims of the church; even the dying are already dead to the canon laws, and are no longer bound by them."

To me, this means that death is no longer to follow the law of the church as they are no longer of use to the church. If someone is on their deathbed, they will probably worry about ascending to heaven and how they need to have done no sin to be allowed to enter. Some people during their life used indulgences to "erase" their sins for them to ascend to heaven but an indulgence could not promise them to enter heaven. At the end of the day though the church really can't promise that they will go to heaven even if they live a life free of sin because nobody really knows if there really is a thing such as heaven or the afterlife.

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#41 "Papal indulgences should only be preached with caution; lest people gain a wrong understanding, and think that they are preferable to other works: those of love."
Papal indulgences were when priests would sell free tickets to heaven by erasing a sin someone had done. I believe this is giving the people a warning for the people to not do wrong things just because they can pay their way into heaven.

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“Any Christian whatsoever, who is truly repentant,enjoys plenary remission from penalty and guilt and this is given him without letters of indulgence.” I think this means that people that are christian and they do a sin or do something bad that they that have to take a punishment.

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45. “Christians should be taught that he who sees a needy person, but passes him by although he gives money for indulgences, gains no benefit from the pope’s pardon, but only incurs the wrath of God.”

This quote is simply saying, people who ignore somebody in need but use their money for partial remission of the punishment of their sin, will not actually be excused and will face the anger of God.

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If plenary remission could be granted to anyone at all, it would be only in the cases of the most perfect, i.e., to very few.

I think it means if there can be a punishment for a sin granted to anyone it would be in the most perfect case.

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"It must therefore be the case that the major part of the people are deceived by that indiscriminate and high-sounding promise of relief from penalty."

This just means that people were tricked into thinking that they were not receiving a punishment. Martin Luther is also calling the church fraudulent.

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Those who believe that they can be certain of their salvation because they have indulgence letters will be eternally damned, together with their teachers.

I think this means People who think the indulgence letters will save them from their sins are wrong and will both go to hell with the ones who told them that and give them the letters.

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BASITH - #6                                                                   The pope cannot remit any guilt, except by declaring and showing that it has been remitted by God; or, to be sure, by remitting guilt in cases reserved to his judgment. If his right to grant remission in these cases were disregarded, the guilt would certainly remain unforgiven.               

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BASITH - #6                                                                   The pope cannot remit any guilt, except by declaring and showing that it has been remitted by God; or, to be sure, by remitting guilt in cases reserved to his judgment. If his right to grant remission in these cases were disregarded, the guilt would certainly remain unforgiven.               