In the beginning of Luther’s writing he starts off with a letter to Pope Leo X and this letter is about what was wrong with the Catholic Church and how he viewed Leo as a person. The letter is written a pastoral form showing what he thinks of Leo with the criticizing of the papacy. Luther pleads with Leo to form a council to talk about the wrongdoings of the church and to bring him to the truth of over faith. Luther mentions that Eck is a man of lies and cannot be trusted in the church. Lastly, the letter concludes with a prayer for Leo and advising him that he has the power to end this conflict in a peaceful manner. In the intro, Luther makes this statement “A Christian is lord of all, completely free of everything. A Christian is a servant, completely attentive to the needs of all” (50). This paradox Luther states he begins to …show more content…
Luther uses multiple verses from the letter to the Romans written by Paul. Throughout the writing he defends this position of Faith alone and Christ alone save you from your sins and not by your works. Luther than explains how faith can only be in the “inner” of the person and not in the “outer” of a person. “It is only possible for this faith to rule the inner person” (55). With talking about how faith alone saves, Luther explains the differences between what a command is and what a promise is how we read God’s Word. This showing of differences people would call the distinction between Law and Gospel. The Law commands us to do this but we can’t because we are sinful humans, but the Gospel is the promise of Jesus Christ died on the cross and took that sin for us so that we will be saved from our sins. So that faith in Jesus Christ saves us from the commands we cannot fulfill because of our sinful human nature. Faith also creates us to do good works, but these good works do not save us because only faith alone saves us from eternal